Meeting of the Minds – Book Club – “2021 SCHEDULE”
Facilitated by Charlotte McNaughton
Hosted by the Milton Public Library on the 2nd Thursday of Each Month – 5:30 PM via Zoom (Zoom provided via patron provided email closer to scheduled date)
ZOOM Video or Call-In – Sign-up here
- January 14, 2021 – “The Library Book” by Susan Orlean
- February 11, 2021 – “The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared” by Jonas Jonasson
- March 11, 2021 – “Dear Life” by Alice Munro
- April 8, 2021 – “The Only Woman in the Room” by Marie Benedict
- May 13, 2021 –“A Woman is No Man” by Etaf Rum
- June 10, 2021 – “Home Fire” by Kamila Shamsie
- July 8, 2021- “Hum If You Don’t Know the Words” by Bianca Marais
- August 12, 2021 – “Afterlife” by Julia Alvarez
- September 9, 2021 – “The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone And How We Can Prosper Together” by Heather McGhee
- October 14, 2021 – “Nickel Boys” by Colson Whitehead
- November 11, 2021 –
- December 9, 2021 –
“Limited Copies Can Be Picked Up at the Library by Appointment Only or Download from Hoopla or Overdrive”
2020 Meeting of the Minds – Book Club Reads
- The Moment of Lift: how empowering women changes the world by Melinda Gates
- The Confessions of Frannie Langton by Sara Collins
- Bleak House by Charles Dickens
- Various Titles from Home Libraries due to COVID – Zoom
- Various Titles from Home Libraries due to COVID – Zoom
- The Keeper of Lost Things by Ruth Hogan – Zoom
- Resistant by Michael Palmer – Zoom
- The Other Einstein by Marie Benedict – Zoom
- The Feather Thief by Kirk Wallace Johnson – Zoom
- Five Days: The Fiery Reckoning of an American City by Wes Moore – Zoom
- Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult – Zoom
- Big Friendship: How We Keep Each Other Close by Aminatou Sow & Ann Friedman – Zoom
2019 Meeting of the Minds – Book Club Reads
- The Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy
- The Silver Star by Jeannette Walls
- The Light Between Oceans by M. L. Stedman
- The Husband’s Secret by Liane Moriarty
- The Daughter of Mars by Thomas Keneally
- Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
- The Pioneer Woman Cooks by Ree Drummond
- & Other titles from Ree (Pick a Recipe to Cook & Share in July)
- Commonwealth by Ann Patchett
- Seven Days of Us by Francesca Hornak
- Our Towns: A 100,000-Mile Journey Into the Heart of America by James & Deborah Fallows
- Blind Date With A Book (unwrap and read a mystery title)
- Recipe in a Book – various Titles/Authors (read the story & cook the recipe to share with the group)
2018 Meeting of the Minds – Book Club Reads
- News of the World by Paulette Jiles
- Doc by Mary Doria Russell
- The Couple Next Door by Shari Lapena
- Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown
- A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
- The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
- Chesapeake by James Michener
- Everything Here is Beautiful by Mira T. Lee
- The Stranger in the Woods: the extraordinary story of the last true hermit by Michael Finkel
- The Ice Cream Queen of Orchard Street by Susan Jane Gilman
- The Circle by Dave Eggers
- Blindness by Jose Saramago