Tuesday Book Club

Next date: Tuesday, August 12, 2025 | 02:00 PM to 03:00 PM

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Talk books with us at our Tuesday Book Club.  We meet every second Tuesday of the month, 2:00-3:00 p.m.  No registration needed; just come on in!  This book club is open to all adults.

Would you like us to request a copy of the book for you? Or do you have questions about the Tuesday Book Club? Please contact us at the phone number in the Contact section to the right.  

August 12, 2025: Lizzie & Dante by Mary Bly

How invested in life and relationships should one be when you are not sure how long you will live? What would be fair to the other people?

 

 

 

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September 9, 2025:  The September House by Carissa Orlando

A woman is determined to stay in her dream home even after it becomes haunted, no matter the cost...

 

 

 

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October 14, 2025: The Candy House: A Novel by Jennifer Egan

A new technology called “Own Your Unconscious” allows people to share and access each others' memories. The power to share inner lives is seductive - but what is the self when all are connected?

 

 

 

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November 18, 2025: The Choir by Joanna Trollope (third Tuesday due to holiday closure on second Tuesday)

The venerable Aldminster Cathedral badly needs expensive repairs, and to pay for them the cathedral's dean plans to abolish the boys' choir. Bitter conflict between the the dean and the choir school's headmaster ensues. Into the mix wades Sally Ashworth, "just" a housewife, whose talented son is in the choir.

 

 

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December 9, 2025: North Woods by Daniel Mason

When a pair of young lovers abscond from a Puritan colony, little do they know that their humble cabin in the woods will become home to an extraordinary succession of inhabitants.

 

 

 

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Previous books we've read:

• Jaws by Peter Benchley
• The Great River : The Making and Unmaking of the Mississippi by Boyce Upholt
• The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
• The Measure by Nikki Erlick
• The Chelsea Girls by Fiona Davis
• Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
• The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth by Zoë Schlanger
• The House Is on Fire by Rachel Beanland
• Gilgamesh translated by Stephen Mitchell
• The Reformatory by Tanarive Due
• Mistress of the Art of Death by Ariana Franklin
• The Underworld: Journeys to the Depths of the Ocean by Susan Casey
• Travels with Charley: In Search of America by John Steinbeck
• Siren Queen by Nghi Vo
• The Woman in the Window by A.J. Finn
• This Woven Kingdom by Tahereh Mafi
• The Country Guesthouse by Robyn Carr
• Hyperion by Dan Simmons

 

 

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Public Meeting Room, Whippany, 07981