Our book group meets the 2nd Wednesday of the month at 5 pm.
 

The Whitingham  Library Book Group Reading List for 2023

 

January 11                   The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles
The bestselling author of A Gentleman in Moscow and Rules of Civility and master of absorbing, sophisticated fiction returns with a stylish and propulsive novel set in 1950s America In June, 1954, eighteen-year-old Emmett Watson is driven home to Nebraska by the warden of the juvenile work farm where he has just served fifteen months for involuntary manslaughter. His mother long gone, his father recently deceased, and the family farm foreclosed upon by the bank, Emmett's intention is to pick up his eight-year-old brother, Billy, and head to California where they can start their lives anew. But when the warden drives away, Emmett discovers that two friends from the work farm have hidden themselves in the trunk of the warden's car. Together, they have hatched an altogether different plan for Emmett's future, one that will take them all on a fateful journey in the opposite direction-to the City of New York. Spanning just ten days and told from multiple points of view, Towles's third novel will satisfy fans of his multi-layered literary styling while providing them an array of new and richly imagined settings, characters, and themes

February 8                   Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr

 

March 8                       The Authenticity Project: A Novel by Clair Pooley

 

April 12                       Caste—The Origins of our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson

 

May 10            .           Joseph Anton: A memoir by Salman Rushdie

 

June 14                        Lucy by the Sea: A Novel by Elizabeth Strout

 

July 12                         Totable Magic…A History of Books and Their Readers by Emma Smith

 

August 9                      This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger

 

September 13             Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus

 

October 11                  The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson

 

November 8                You Are the Best Thing by Tarana Burke and Brene Brown

 

December 13              Iona Iverson’s Rules for Commuting: A novel by Clare Pooley