The Whitingham Library book discussion group meets the 2nd Wednesday of the month at 5 pm.

January:          Table for Two by Amor Towles
                       A New York Times Bestseller“This may be Towles’ best book yet. Each tale is as satisfying as a master chef’s main course, filled with drama, wit,
                        erudition and, most of all, heart.” —Los Angeles Times“The book spans the 20th century, bringing characters into tableaus of deceit and desire.

February:        West With Giraffes by Linda Rutledge
                       "'Few true friends have I known and two were giraffes . . . ' Woodrow Wilson Nickel, age 105, feels his life ebbing away.
                         But when he learns giraffes are going extinct, he finds himself recalling an unforgettable experience he cannot take to his grave.
                         It's 1938. The Great Depression lingers.

March:            The Woman by Kristin Hannah
                       The Women is a historical fiction novel by American author Kristin Hannah published by St. Martin's Press in 2024.
                        The book tells the story of Frances "Frankie" McGrath, a young nurse who serves in the United States Army Nurse Corps during the Vietnam War.

April:               The Scapegoat by Daphne du Maurier:
                        A 1957 novel. In a bar in France, a lonely English academic on holiday meets his double who gets him drunk swaps identities & disappears….

May:                The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store by James McBride.
                       Set in the 1920’s and 30’s it follows the fortunes of a group of Jewish immigrants and African Americans who live together
                       on Chicken Hill in Pottsdam, PA.

June:               The Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Post by Allison Pataki.
                       New money heiress, M. Post, remakes herself into a savvy entrepreneur, a visionary & a presidential hostess at mar-a-lago. It is a fictionalized life of M. Post.

July:                 The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkei.
                        The novel alternates between stories of a group of friends, most of them gay men diagnosed with AIDS---
                        in Chicago during the mid 80’s and early 90’s---and the story of a woman searching for her estranged daughter in Paris, 30 years later.

August:           Golden Hill by Francis Spufford.
                       New York, 1746. A handsome young stranger naned Mr. Smith arrives at a counting house doorstep on Golden Hill Street.
                       He has a huge sum of money, unexplained. The NY merchants are wondering If they should trust him, risk their credit, befriend him, seduce him, arrest                                   him or maybe even kill him.

September:     James by Percival Everett.
                      A re-imagining of Huckleberry Finn (Twain) but told from the perspective of Huck’s friend, Jim, who is an escaped slave.

October:         Tell Me Everything by Elizabeth Strout.
                      It is autumn in Maine and the town lawyer has become enmeshed in an unfolding murder investigation defending a lonely,
                      isolated man accused of killing his mother. The lawyer has fallen into a deep friendship with Lucy Barton, who lives nearby….

November:      The Night We Lost Him by Linda Dave.
                       A mystery. Estranged siblings discover their father has kept a secret for 50 years, one which may have been fatal.

December:      Intermezzo by Sally Rooney.
                      A moving story about love, grief and family, but especially love.