The reading group was organized the summer of 2005 and meets every six weeks at 6:30 p.m. at the Library. Books are chosen by the group and a variety of types are selected. New members are always welcome. If you’re interested in joining the discussions, contact library staff for details of the next meeting at 897-7173 or amanda@livermore.lib.me.us
We are excited to have Peggy L. DeBlois, a Maine author join us at our next book club meeting to discuss her debut novel The Toll Road North. We will meet Tuesday, May 9th at 6:00 pm.
Here is a list of past book club choices:
The Maine Woods by Henry David Thoreau.
- The Wilderness from Chamberlain Farm: A Story of Hope for the American Wild by Dean Bennett
- Fly Rod Crosby: the Woman Who Marketed Maine by A. Hunter
- Campfires Rekindled by George S. Kephart
- We Took to the Woods by Louise Dickinson Rich
- Defining Wilderness: Defining Maine, Collected Readings
- One Writer’s Beginnings by Eudora Welty
- Letters of a Woman Homesteader by Elinor Pruitt Stewart
- Dust Tracks on a Road by Zora Neale Hurston
- My Life by Isadora Duncan
- Blackberry Winter by Margaret Mead
- A New England Town: The First Hundred Years by Kenneth Lockridge
- A New England Girlhood by Lucy Larcom
- Amoskaeg: Life and Work In a New England Factory City by Tamara Hareven
- Happy Times in Mill City by Ann Sullivan
- Without a Farmhouse Near by Deborah Rawson
- The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows
- Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons by Lorna Landrick
- A Private Hotel for Gentle Ladies by Ellen Cooney
- My Sisters Keeper by Jodi Picoult
- I Feel Bad About My Neck by Nora Ephron
- Corpsman Legacy by Stephanie Caisse
- Animal Vegetable Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver
- Memory Keepers Daughter by Kim Edwards
- A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl’s Journal, 1830-1832 by Jean W. Blos
- The Shack by William P Young
- Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
- Love, Eat, Pray by Elizabeth Strout
- Icebound by Jerri Nielson
- Abide with Me by Elizabeth Strout
- Remarkable Americans: The Washburn Family by Kerck Kelsey
- The Help by Kathryn Stockett
- An Ex to Grind by Jane Heller
- Priestess and the Pope by Paul Dionne
- Fair Clear and Terrible by Shirley Nelson
- 1984 by George Orwell
- Mrs. Kennedy and Me by Clint Hill
- 11/22/63 by Stephen King
- A Soldiers Son by Jack Estes
- Eternal on the Water by Joseph Monninger
- These is My Words by Nancy Turner
- Sarah’s Quilt by Nancy Turner
- Sarah’s Key by Tatiana de Rosnay
- Secret Ingredient by Susan Bishop Crispell
- When we were the Kennedy’s by Monica Wood
- Home Front by Kristin Hannah (April 2013)
- A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson (June 2013)
- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot. (2013)
- Once Upon a Town by Bob Greene (2013)
- Orphan Train by Christina Baker (2013)
- Emmeline by Judith Rossner (2014)
- A Star for Mrs. Blake by April Smith (2014)
- Still Alice by Lisa Genova (2014)
- Big Girl Panties by Stephanie Evanovich
- Trespasser by Paul Doioron
- Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson
- The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A Memoir by Bill Bryson
- Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt
- Secret Lives of Bees by Sue monk Kidd
- The Red Tent by Anita Diamont
- Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd
- Here if You Need Me by Kate Braestrup
- The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
- Handle with Care by Jodi Picoult
- The Storied Life of A J Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin
- Three Weeks in December by Audrey Schulman
- In the Unlikely Event by Judy Blume
- Madam President by Nicolle Wallace
- The Nest by Cynthia d April Sweeney
- Northern Borders by Howard Frank Mosher
- The Stranger in the Woods by Michael l Finkel
- A Simple Murder by Eleanor Kuhns
- Circling the Sun by Paula McLain
- A One in a Million Boy by Monica Woods
- Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate
- At the Edge of the Orchard by Tracey Chevelier
- A Man called Ove by Fredrik Backman
- The Orphan Mother by Robert Hicks
- The Muse by Jessie Burton
- The Light Between Oceans by M L Stedman
- Where’d You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple
- Hotel on the corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford
- You Will Know Me by Megan Abbott
- The Paris Wife by Paula McLaine
- Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover
- Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks
- The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
- The Forgotten Road by Richard Paul Evans
- Chronicles of a Radical Hag by Lorna Landvik
- I Will Always Write by Martin Ganda & Caitlin Alifirenka
- Fever by Mary Beth Keene
- The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson
- The Girls in the Picture by Melanie Benjamin
- Summer of ’69 by Elin Hilderbrand
- Seed of Sarah: Memoirs of a survivor by Judith Magyar Isaacson.
- A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
- The Diary of Anne Frank
- The Lions of Fifth Avenue by Fiona Davis
- Mill Town: Reckoning With What Remains by Kerri Arsenault
- Golden Girl by Elin Hilderbrand
- Room by Emma Donoghue
- Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
- The Authenticity Project by Clare Pooley
- Finding Freedom, A Cook’s Story Remaking A Life From Scratch by Erin French
- Carnegie’s Maid by Marie Benedict
- Horse by Geraldine Brooks