Brighton Memorial Library Book Discussion Group

Join us on the third Wednesday of each month at 7:00 pm

(unless otherwise listed)

Books are available through the Monroe County Library System.

Adults and teens are welcome to read the books and join the discussions.

This program is sponsored by the Friends of Brighton Memorial Library.

 

F = Fiction; MYS = Mystery; SF = Science Fiction; NF = Non-Fiction; BIO = Biography/Autobiography

 

2010:                                                                                                                                                                                        Jan..               The Call of The Wild Jack London  (The Big Read Selection) F
Feb.                People of the Book Geraldine Brooks F
Mar.               Bel Canto Ann Patchett  F ("If All of Rochester Read the Same Book...")
Apr.                Out Stealing Horses  Per Petterson F
May                A Person of Interest  Susan Choi F
June           The Beautiful Things that Heaven Bears Dinaw Mingestu F
July            My Antonia  Willa Cather F
 
2009:                                                                                                                                                                                        Jan..               Skinner's Drift  Lisa Fugard  F
Feb.                America America Ethan Canin F
Mar.               Jim the Boy Tony Early F (Writers & Books' The Big Read)
Apr.                Theft Peter Carey F
May                Last Night at the Lobster  Stewart O’Nan F
June              The Outcast Sadie Jones F
July                Unaccustomed Earth Jhumpa Lahiri F (short stories)
Aug                The Plague of Doves  Louise Erdrich F
Sept               The Emperor's Children Claire Messud F
Oct                 Prose and Poetry of Edgar Allan Poe (Writers & Books' THE BIG READ)
Nov            The Poe Shadow Matthew Pearl F
Dec            Crow Lake Mary Lawson F

 

2008:                                                                                                                                                                                        Jan..               The Dive From Clausen’s Pier Ann Packer F
Feb.                 Suite Francaise Irene Nemirovsky F
Mar.                Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits Laila Lalami F (If All of Rochester Read the Same Book...)
Apr.                 Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury F (Monroe County Library System: The Big Read)
May                 Fahrenheit 451  movie and discussion
June               The Sea John Banville F
July                 The Memory Keeper’s Daughter Kim Edwards F
Aug.                Divisadero Michael Ondaatje F
Sept.               The Inheritance of Loss Kiran Desai F
Oct.                 The Shawl Cynthia Ozick F (Writers & Books' The Big Read)
Nov.                Water for Elephants Sara Gruen F
Dec.                My Sister’s Keeper Jodi Picoult F
2007:
Jan.                 Digging to America Anne Tyler F
Feb.                 Runaway Ann Munro F/Short Stories
Mar.                Arthur & George Julian Barnes F
Apr.                 Terrorist John Updike F
May                 Black Swan Green David Mitchell F
June               The Photograph Penelope Lively F
July                 Talk Talk T. C. Boyle F
Aug.                Montana 1948 Larry Watson F
Sept.               Rise and Shine Anna Quindlen F
Oct.                 Amsterdam Ian McEwan F
Nov.                Ethan Frome Edith Wharton F
Dec.                The Accidental Ali Smith F
2006:
Jan.                 Reading Lolita in Tehran Azar Nafisi NF
Feb.                 Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Mark Haddon F
Mar.                Never Let Me Go Kazuo Ishiguro F
Apr.                 The Devil in the White City Erik Larson NF
May                 The Kite Runner  Khaled Hosseini F
June               Saturday Ian McEwan F
July                 Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close Jonathan Safran Foer F
Aug.                The Plot Against America Philip Roth F
Sept.               The Screwtape Letters C. S. Lewis NF
Oct.                 Intuition Allegra Goodman F
Nov.                Annie John Jamaica Kincaid F
Dec.                On Beauty Zadie Smith F
2005:
Jan.                 The Secret Life of Bees Sue Monk Kidd F
Feb.                The Piano Tuner Daniel Mason F
Mar.                The Optimist’s Daughter Eudora Welty F
Apr.                 The Five People You Meet in Heaven Mitch Albom F
May                 A Map of the World Jane Hamilton F
June               The Orchid Thief Susan Orlean NF
July                 Blindness Jose Saramago F
Aug.                The Namesake Jhumpa Lahiri F
Sept.               The Color of Water by James McBride NF/MEMOIR
Oct.                 Travels with Charley John Steinbeck NF
Nov.                Bee Season Myla Goldberg F
Dec.                Pigs in Heaven Barbara Kingsolver F
 
2004:
Jan.                 Empire Falls Richard Russo F
Feb.                The Honk and Holler Opening Soon Billie Letts F
Mar.                Bel Canto Ann Patchett F
Apr.                 Jazz Toni Morrison F
May                 The Fig Eater by Jody Shields F
June               Patchwork Planet Anne Tyler
July                 To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee F
Aug.                Three Junes Julia Glass F
Sept.               Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress Dai Sijie F
Oct.                 The Lovely Bones Alice Sebold F
Nov.                Life of Pi Yann Martel F
Dec.                Larry’s Party Carol Shields F
2003:
Jan.                 Theophilus North, Thornton Wilder F
Feb.                The Catcher in the Rye, J. D. Salinger F
Mar.                On The Road, Jack Kerouac F
Apr                  1984 George Orwell, F
May                 The Underpainter Jane Urquhart F
June               A Brief History of Time-Stephen Hawking NF
July                 Girl with the Pearl Earring Tracy Chevalier F
August            Charming Billy Alice McDermott F
Sept.               Unless Carol Shields F
Oct.                 Atonement Ian McEwan F
Nov.                Plainsong Kent Haruf F
Dec.                Waiting Ha Jin F
2002:
Jan.                 Mr. Phillips, John Lancaster F
Feb.                A Conspiracy of Paper, David Liss F
Mar.                Anil’s Ghost, Michael Ondaatje F
Apr.                 House of Mirth, Edith Wharton F
May                 Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert F
June               Snow Falling On Cedars, David Guterson F
July                 Lying Awake, Mark Salzman F
Aug.                The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway F
Sept.               The Human Stain, Philip Roth F
Oct.                 White Teeth Zadie Smith F
Nov.                Make Believe, Joanna Scott F
Dec.                American Appetites, Joyce Carol Oates F
 
2001
Jan.                 To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf F
Feb.                 The Old Gringo, Carlos Fuentes F
Mar.                Breath, Eyes, Memory, Edwidge Danticat F
Apr.                 Consider This, Senora, Harriet Doerr F
May                 Mama Day, Gloria Naylor F
June               Lives of Girls and Women, Alice Munro F
July                 Middle Kingdom, Andrea Barrett F
Aug.                The Pull of the Moon, Elizabeth Berg F
Sept.               An Equal Music, Vikram Seth F
Oct.                 While I Was Gone, Sue Miller F
Nov.                White Oleander, Janet Fitch F
Dec.                Longitude, Dava Sobel NF
2000:

Jan:                Death in Summer, by William Trevor F

Feb.:               House of Splendid Isolation, by Edna O’Brien F

Mar.:              The God of Small Things, by Ayrundahti Roy F

April:              The Reader, by Bernhard Schlink F

May:               House of Sand and Fog, by Andre Dubus III, F

June:              The Shipping News, by E. Annie Proulx F

July:                The Winter of Our Discontent, by John Steinbeck F

Aug.:               Disgrace, J. M. Coetzee F

Sept.:             The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald, F

Oct.:                My Son’s Story, Nadine Gordimer, F

Nov.:               The Hours, Michael Cunningham F

Dec.:              The Gift of Stones, Jim Crace F

 
1999: 
Jan.:               A Virtuous Woman, Kaye Gibbons F
Feb.:                The Book Shop, Penelope Fitzgerald F
Mar.:               The Education of Harriet Hatfield, May Sarton F
April:               The Liars’ Club, by Mary Karr, NF
May:                Nice Work and Small World, David Lodge F
June:               Bessie’s Violin, by Irene Flum Galvin F/SH. ST. & Bud, ONE ACT PLAY by Tom Galvin
local authors attended and read their works
July:                 A Lesson Before Dying, by Ernest J. Gaines F
Aug.:                no mtg.; Library closed for renovation
Sept.:              no mtg.; Library closed for renovation
Oct.:                The Awakening, by Kate Chopin F (met in Town Courts!
Nov.:                no meeting; Learning Center not ready (no Town room available)
Dec.:               The Manikin, by Joanna Scott F
1998
Jan.:               Nobody’s Fool, Richard Russo F
Feb.:               The Old Patagonian Express, Paul Theroux NF
Mar.:              Original Sin, P. D. James F/MYS
April:              Snake’s Daughter: Gail Hosking Gilberg BIO local author attended
May:               Temporary Shelter, Mary Gordon F/SHORT STORIES
June:              Alias Grace, Margaret Atwood F
July:                Oh! What a Paradise it Seems, John Cheever F
Aug.:               Celebration of 150 Years of Women’s Rights/Women Writers
Sept.:              Blood and Volts, Thom Metzger, NF local author attended
Oct.:                Tale of a Grandfather, Bruce Sweet F/SH ST local author attended
Nov.:               The Embrace, Steve Street F/SH ST local author attended
Dec.:               The Love Letter, Cathleen Schin, F
1997
Jan.:               The Stone Diaries, Carol Shields F
Feb.:               The Road From Coorain, Jill Ker Conway NF/BIO
Mar.:               Cold Sassy Tree, Olive Burns F
April:               Crossing to Safety, Wallace Stegner F
May:                Typical American, Gish Jen F
June:              In the Time of the Butterflies, Julia Alvarez F
July:                CivilWarLand in Bad Decline, George Saunders local author attended F          
Aug.:                Lies of Silence, Brian Moore F
Sept.:              The Giant’s House, Elizabeth McCracken F
Oct.:                The Tenth Man, Graham Greene F
Nov.:                Angle of Repose, Wallace Stegner F
Dec.:               Canticle for Leibowitz, Walter Miller, Jr. SF
1996
Jan.:               Painted Lady, Stephen Wilcox local author attended MYS
Feb.:  :             Beggars of Spain, Nancy Kress (local author attended SF
March:            Silent Witness, Mary Germano local author attended F/SUSP
April:               Ship Fever, Andrea Barrett local author attended F
May:                Ellen Foster, Kaye Gibbons F
June:              Blackwater Spirits, Miriam Grace Monfredo local author attended HIST. FICTION
July:                Smilla’s Sense of Snow, Peter F Hoeg F
Aug:                People of the Lie, M. Scott Peck NF
Sept:               The Cunning Man, Robinson Davies F
Oct:                 The Alienist, Caleb Carr F
Nov.::              Gold—The Final Science Fiction Collection, Isaac SF Asimov
Dec.:               All the Pretty Horses, Cormac McCarthy F
1995:
January:         Possession, A.S. Byatt F
February:       Yellow Raft in Blue Water, Michael Dorris F
March:            The English Patient, Michael Ondaatje F
April:               Winterdance: The Fine Madness of Running the Iditarod, Gary Paulsen NF/BIO
2 sled dogs and their 2 trainers/human companions attended
May:                Beloved, Toni Morrison F
June:              Mornings on Horseback, David McCullough F
July:                A Thousand Acres, Jane Smiley F
August:          Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston NF/BIO
Sept:               Love Medicine, Louise Erdrich F
Oct:                 A Cooler Climate, Zena Collier local author attended F
Nov.:               Breathing Water, Thomas Gavin local author attended F
Dec.:              All the Pretty Horses, Cormac McCarthy F

 
2007:
Jan.                 Digging to America Anne Tyler F
Feb.                 Runaway Ann Munro F/Short Stories
Mar.                Arthur & George Julian Barnes F
Apr.                 Terrorist John Updike F
May                 Black Swan Green David Mitchell F
June               The Photograph Penelope Lively F
July                 Talk Talk T. C. Boyle F
Aug.                Montana 1948 Larry Watson F
Sept.               Rise and Shine Anna Quindlen F
Oct.                 Amsterdam Ian McEwan F
Nov.                Ethan Frome Edith Wharton F
Dec.                TBA
 

 
 
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