At Tredyffrin Public Library
Panels of Pages • Open Minds • Read It & Steep
Science Book Discussion Group • History Book Club • Great Books Discussion Group
At Paoli Library
The Next Big Thing Book Club • Mystery Book Club • Art Book Club
Book Groups at Tredyffrin Public Library
New for 2019! Pages of Panels Graphic Novel Book Group
Meets on the first Monday of every month at 7 pm. New members are always welcome. Any questions, contact Zoey Mills at zmills@ccls.org or 610.688.7092 x 220
Pages of Panels 2019 Selections:
- January 7:
- Bring in your favorite graphic novel reads of 2018, celebrate the founding of the club & help pick our reads for 2019!
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February 4:
by John Lewis & Andrew Aydin illustrated by Nate Powell |
March 4:
by Art Spiegalman |
March: Book One
Maus I: A Survivor’s Tale|
April 1:
by Alison Bechdel |
May 6:
by Aminder Dhaliwal |
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
Woman World|
Special Date! June 17:
by Brian K. Vaughan |
July 1:
by G. Willow Wilson |
Runaways
Ms. Marvel Vol 1: No Normal|
August 5:
by Noelle Stevenson |
Special Date! September 9:
by Laurie Halse Anderson & Emily Carroll |
Nimona
Speak: The Graphic Novel|
October 7:
by Mariko Tamaki |
November 4:
by Brenna Thummler |
Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me
Sheets|
December 2:
by Jason Latour |
Spider-Gwen Vol 0: Most WantedOpen Minds Book Group
Meets on the third Tuesday of every month at 2 pm. New members are always welcome. Any questions, contact Gretchen Chamberlin at gchamberlin@ccls.org or 610.688.7092 x 203
Open Minds 2019 Selections:
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January 15:
Still Life by Louise Penny Physical Book |
February 19:
Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng Physical Book |
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March 19:
An American Marriage by Tayari Jones Physical Book |
April 16:
The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai |
| May 21:
Washington Black by Esi Edugyan Physical Book |
June 18:
The Power by Naomi Alderman Physical Book |
| July 16:
Asymmetry by Lisa Halliday |
August 20:
Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe |
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September 17:
A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories by Lucia Berlin |
October 15:
The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See Physical Book |
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November 19:
Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie |
December 17:
Searching for Sylvie Lee by Jean Kwok Physical Book |
Open Minds Book Group Selections since 2015
Read It & Steep Book Group
Read It & Steep welcomes readers with a love of non-traditional titles, scrumptious treats & spirited conversation. Read It & Steep meets on the third Tuesday of each month from 7-8:30 pm. New members are always welcome. Any questions, contact Kate Boyle at cboyle@ccls.org or 610.688.7092 x 217
Read It & Steep 2019 Selections:
| January 15:
Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear Physical Book |
February 19:
by Dara Horn |
Eternal Life|
Special Date March 26:
by David Baron |
April 16:
Different Seasons by Stephen King Physical Book |
American Eclipse
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May 21:
by Madeline Miller Physical Book |
June 18:
The Geography of Bliss by Eric Weiner Physical Book |
Circe
| July 16:
Persuasion by Jane Austen |
Special Date: August 27:
The Invisible Library by Genevieve Cogman |
| September 17:
Musicophilia by Oliver Sacks |
October 15:
Mistress of the Art of Death by Ariana Franklin Physical Book |
| November 19:
Good Omens by Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman Physical Book |
December 17:
Holidays on Ice by David Sedaris |
Read It & Steep Selections since 2012
Science Books Discussion Group
Meets on the third Thursday of every month at 7:30 pm. New members are always welcome. Any questions, contact Valerie Green at vgreen@ccls.org or 610.688.7092 x 213
Science Book Group 2019 Selections:
| January 17:
The Weather Detective by Peter Wohlleben
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February 21:
The Rise & Fall of the Dinosaurs by Steve Brusatte |
| March 21:
When Einstein Walked with Godel by Jim Holt |
April 18:
Caesar’s Last Breath by Sam Kean |
| May 16:
Brief Answers to the Big Questions by Stephen Hawking Physical Book |
June 20:
The Tangled Tree by David Quammen |
| CANCELED: July 18:
Once a Wolf by Bryan Sykes |
August 15:
Accessory to War by Neil deGrasse Tyson |
| September 19:
Never Home Alone by Rob Dunn |
October 17:
Liquid Rules by Mark Miodownik |
| November 21:
Infinite Powers by Steve Strogatz |
December 19:
Mama’s Last Hug by Fans de Waal Physical Book |
Complete List of Science Book Group Selections 2000 – 2018
History Book Group
History buffs are invited to join this bimonthly book group at Tredyffrin Public Library. Members select the topic for each meeting and are free to read titles of their choosing and to participate in discussion of the topic at the next meeting. The group meets at 7 pm.
History Book Group 2019 Topics
- Tuesday, January 22
- Topic: Climate Change in History: From the Ice Age to Global Warming
- Tuesday, March 26
- Topic: Disease in History; Epidemics, Pandemics and Plague
- Special Date: Tuesday, May 21
- Topic: US Supreme Court in History: Judges, Cases & Its Importance
- Tuesday, July 23
- Topic: Gilded Age America: From Grant to Teddy Roosevelt
- Tuesday, September 24
- Topic: America in the 1950s
Great Books Discussion Group
Meets on the second Tuesday of every month at 7 pm. New members are always welcome. Any questions, contact John Dalton at jd5258875@aol.com or 484.444.2435
2019 Selections:
- March 12: Montana 1948 by Larry Watson
- April 9: Selections from Edith Pearlman’s Honeydew, pages 87-127
- Puck
- Assisted Living
- What the Ax Forgets the Tree Remembers
- May 14: Chess Story by Stefan Zweig
- June 11: Selections from Edith Pearlman’s Honeydew, pages 128-173
- The Golden Swan
- Cul-de-sac
- Deliverance
- No meeting in July or August
- September 10: The Professor’s House by Willa Cather
- October 8: 100 Years of the Best American Short Stories Ed. by Lorrie Moore and Heidi Pitlor; pages 4 – 58
- ‘The Gay Old Dog’ by Edna Ferber
- ‘Brothers’ by Sherwood Anderson
- ‘My Old Man’ by Ernest Hemingway
- ‘Haircut’ by Ring Lardner
- November 12: Country of the Pointed Firs by Sarah Orne Jewett
2020 Selections:
- January 14: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
- February 11: 100 Years of the Best American Short Stories Ed. by Lorrie Moore and Heidi Pitlor; pages 62 – 141
- ‘Babylon Revistied’ by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- ‘The Cracked Looking-Glass’ by Katherine Anne Porter
- ‘That Will Be Fine’ by William Faulkner
- ‘Those are as Brothers’ by Nancy Hale
- March 10: 100 Years of the Best American Short Stories Ed. by Lorrie Moore and Heidi Pitlor; pages 142 – 210
- ‘The Whole World Knows’ by Eudora Welty
- ‘The Enormous Radio’ by John Cheever
- ‘I Stand Here Ironing’ by Tillie Olsen
- ‘Sonny’s Blues’ by James Baldwin
- April 14: The Fall by Albert Camus
- May 12: 100 Years of the Best American Short Stories Ed. by Lorrie Moore and Heidi Pitlor; pages 211 – 286
- ‘The Conversion of the Jews’ by Philip Roth
- ‘Everything that Rises Must Converge’ by Flannery O’Connor
- ‘Pigeon Feathers’ by John Updike
- ‘Will You Please be Quiet, Please?’ by Raymond Carver
- June 9: 100 Years of the Best American Short Stories Ed. by Lorrie Moore and Heidi Pitlor; pages 287 – 351
- ‘By the River’ by Joyce Carol Oates
- ‘The School’ by Donald Barthelme
- ‘The Conventional Wisdom’ by Stanley Elkin
- ‘Friends’ by Grace Paley
Book Groups at Paoli Library
New for 2019! The Next Big Thing Book Club
Starting in August 2019: Have you been stuck in a rut reading all the same authors? Let us introduce you to new voices! The Next Big Thing book club is an adult book club that reads debut titles by fresh, new authors.
Meets on the third Thursday of every month at 6 pm. Any questions, contact Taylor Baugher at tbaugher@ccls.org or 610.296.7996
The Next Big Thing 2019 Selections:
| August 15:
My Sister, The Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite Physical Book |
September 19:
There There by Tommy Orange |
| October 17:
Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi |
November 21:
The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin Physical Book |
| December 19:
The Incendiaries by R.O. Kwon Physical Book |
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Mystery Book Club
The Mystery Book Club will meet at 11 am at Paoli Library on the second Monday of each month. Join us as we discuss mysteries under the following themes:
Mystery Book Club 2019 Themes:
- January 14: Mysteries set in Philadelphia
- Suggested Titles:
- Damaged by Lisa Scottoline
- The Quaker City by George Lippard
- The Doctor Digs a Grave by Robin Hathaway
- Four to Midnight by Scott Flander
- Suggested Titles:
- February 11: Crimes of Passion
- Suggested Titles
- The House Gun by Nadine Gordimer
- The Murder of the Century by Paul Collins
- Fractured by Karin Slaughter
- Empty Promises by Ann Rule
- Suggested Titles
- March 11: Ann Cleeves Novels
- Suggested Titles
- April 8: Espionage
- Suggested Titles
- The Eye of the Needle by Ken Follett
- Mrs. Roosevelt’s Confidante by Susan Elia MacNeal
- The Age of Treachery by Gavin Scott
- Breaking Cover by Stella Rimington
- Suggested Titles
- May 13: Mysteries set in France
- Suggested Titles
- The Bookseller by Mark Pryor
- Death in Provence by Serena Kent
- The Vintage Caper by Peter Mayle
- The Missing Italian Girl by Barbara Corrado Pope
- Suggested Titles
- June 10: David Baldacci Novels
- Suggested Titles
- July: No Meeting
- August 12: Mysteries set in Vacation Spots
- Suggested Titles
- Murder on the Oceanic by Conrad Allen
- Murder with Puffins by Donna M. Andrews
- Aunt Dimity and the Deep Blue Sea by Nancy Atherton
- The Body on the Beach by Simon Brett
- Suggested Titles
- September 9: Back to School
- Suggested Titles
- The Secret Place by Tana French
- Black Chalk by Christopher Yates
- The Lying Game by Ruth Ware
- It’s Always the Husband by Michele Campbell
- Suggested Titles
- Now at 11 am & on Special Date: October 21: Legal Mysteries
- Starred Suggestion:
- Marcia Clark
- Starred Suggestion:
- November 11: New England Mysteries
- December 9: Alaskan Mysteries
Mystery Book Club 2020 Themes:
- January 13: Scandinavian Noir
- Starred Suggestion:
- The Island by Ragnar Jónasson
- Starred Suggestion:
For more information or to sign up, contact Beverly Michaels at 610.296.7996 or bmichaels@ccls.org.
Art Book Club
The Art Book Club will meet on the following Wednesdays at 6:30 pm at Paoli Library. For more information or to sign up, contact Victoria Skelly at victoriacskelly@gmail.com or call Paoli Library at 610.296.7996.
Art Book Club 2019 Dates and Selections:
| January 9:
Old in Art School: A Memoir of Starting Over by Nell Painter |
March 13:
The Blazing World by Siri Hustvedt |
| May 8:
The Glamour of Strangeness by Jamie James |
No meetings in June, July or August |
| September 11:
‘Swann in Love’ a novella in Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust |
November 13:
Proust was a Neuroscientist by Jonah Lehrer |
| December 11:
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce |
Art Book Club Selections since 2015
