Meeting of the Minds – Book Club – “2023 SCHEDULE”
Facilitated by Charlotte McNaughton
Hosted by the Milton Public Library on the 2nd Thursday of Each Month – 4:30 PM via Zoom (Zoom provided via patron provided email closer to scheduled date)
ZOOM Video, Call-In or In-person – Sign-up here
2023 SCHEDULE
- January 12, 2023 – “The Violin Conspiracy” by Brendan Slocumb
- February 9, 2023 – “Born a Crime” by Trevor Noah
- March 9, 2023 – “The Lincoln Highway” by Amor Towles
- April 13, 2023 –
- May 11, 2023 –
- June 8, 2023 –
- July 13, 2023 –
- August 10, 2023 –
- September 14, 2023 –
- October 12, 2023 –
- November 9, 2023 –
- December 14, 2023 –
2022 SCHEDULE
- January 13, 2022 – “While Justice Sleeps” by Stacey Abrams
- February 10, 2022 – “The Fire Next Time” by James Baldwin
- March 10, 2022 – “The Four Winds” by Kristin Hannah
- April 7, 2022 – “Killers of Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI” by David Grann
- May 12, 2022 – “Hamnet” by Maggie O’Farrell
- June 9, 2022 – “Let’s Say Jack Kennedy Killed the Girl” by William F. Crandell & “Black Water” by Joyce Carol Oates
- July 14, 2022 – “Beartown” by Frederik Bachman
- August 11, 2022 – “A Long Petal of the Sea” by Isabel Allende
- September 8, 2022 – “A Handmaid’s Tale” by Margaret Atwood
- October 13, 2022 – “I Never Thought of It That Way: How to Have Fearlessly Curious Conversations in Dangerously Divided Times” by Mónica Guzmán
- November 10, 2022 – “Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents” by Isabel Wilkerson
- December 8, 2022 – “Holiday Book Exchange and Celebration”
“Limited Copies Can Be Picked Up at the Library by Appointment Only or Download from Hoopla or Overdrive”
2021 Meeting of the Minds – Book Club Reads
- The Library Book by Susan Orlean
- The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson
- Dear Life by Alice Munro
- The Only Woman in the Room by Marie Benedict
- A Woman is No Man by Etaf Rum
- Home Fire” by Kamila Shamsie
- Hum If You Don’t Know the Words by Bianca Marais
- Afterlife by Julia Alvarez
- The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone And How We Can Prosper Together by Heather McGhee
- Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
- The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
- This Is How It Always Is by Laurie Frankel
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