Books We're Reading

These are books we've discussed lately, or will be reading soon in the book groups. Each of the book pages listed below contains links to other web sites, such as the book publisher's site, with information about the book or the author. There may be many other books or web sites on topics related to the book you're reading. Check with your reference librarian for pointers!

New titles for 2012:

• Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya
• The Bridge of San Luis Rey  by Thornton Wilder
• Cane River by Lalita Tademy
• A Comrade Lost and Found by Jan Wong
• A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers by Xiaolu Guo
• The Gift of Rain by Tan Twan Eng
• The Glassblower of Murano by Marina Fiorato
• The History of Love by Nicole Krauss
• Homer & Langley by E. L. Doctorow
• Nemesis by Philip Roth
• Secret Daughter by Shilpi Somaya Gowda
• This Cold Heaven by Gretel Ehrlich
• The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell
• The Typist by Michael Knight

Titles selected in 2010-2011:

• Baker Towers by Jennifer Haigh
• Blackbird House by Alice Hoffman
• Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
• The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
• The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa
• In the Sanctuary of Outcasts by Neil White
• A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby
• Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick
• A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka
• The Silver Linings Playbook by Matthew Quick
• The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi

Mystery Book Discussion Group titles

The Canon titles (classic literature discussion group)

Books for Book Clubs: titles available to local book clubs

Books We Were Reading: archive of titles selected in previous years

Find out more: Book lists, discussion guides, articles, author interviews and biographies

• NoveList (reviews, discussion guides, and recommended reads for fiction and non-fiction)
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• Literature Resource Center (biographies, essays, reviews, and criticism for fiction and literature)
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• New & Noteworthy (lists of new audiobooks and award-winners you can check out of the library)
  
  
• The Big Read (past titles from our annual county-wide reading program)