Book Club Recommendations
Looking for a book to read with your book club? The Library has several resources to help you make your selection:
BookLetters, a free email newsletter service available through the Library’s web page, offers a special edition for book groups.The current edition recommends The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood and This is Where I Leave You by Jonathan Tropper, among others.
Each issue of Bookmarks, a magazine published bimonthly, provides reading suggestions for new and favorite titles. The current copy is in the Library’s Reading Room. Back issues are available to check out on the Lower Level. The September/October issue gives 3.5 stars to Half-Broke Horses by Jeannette Walls, and four stars to The Cookbook Collector by Allegra Goodman and Spies of the Balkans by Alan Furst.
BookBrowse ( http://www.bookbrowse.com/bookclubs/) a website for book lovers, has a section especially for book clubs. It features reading guides and book club advice. This week the spotlight is on Half the Sky by Nicholas Kristof and What is Left the Daughter by Howard Norman.
Also check out Reading Group Guides (http://www.readinggroupguides.com/content/index.asp), the self-proclaimed “website for Book Groups”. Current postings recommend the upcoming titles Leaving Before It’s Over by Jean Reynolds Page and His Last Letter: Elizabeth I and the Earl of Leicester by Jeane Westin.
Each issue of Bookmarks, a magazine published bimonthly, provides reading suggestions for new and favorite titles. The current copy is in the Library’s Reading Room. Back issues are available to check out on the Lower Level. The September/October issue gives 3.5 stars to Half-Broke Horses by Jeannette Walls, and four stars to The Cookbook Collector by Allegra Goodman and Spies of the Balkans by Alan Furst.
BookBrowse ( http://www.bookbrowse.com/bookclubs/) a website for book lovers, has a section especially for book clubs. It features reading guides and book club advice. This week the spotlight is on Half the Sky by Nicholas Kristof and What is Left the Daughter by Howard Norman.
Also check out Reading Group Guides (http://www.readinggroupguides.com/content/index.asp), the self-proclaimed “website for Book Groups”. Current postings recommend the upcoming titles Leaving Before It’s Over by Jean Reynolds Page and His Last Letter: Elizabeth I and the Earl of Leicester by Jeane Westin.
Or stop by the Reference Desk for a one-on-one consultation. 
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