Book Discussion Group

The Black Earth Public Library has an active book discussion group.  We meet almost monthly, but most typically every five or six weeks.  The library orders in copies of the titles that are selected by the members.  Members take turns leading the book discussion as well as selecting the titles to be read.

Wednesday, April 17 -- Fellowship Point by Alice Elliot Dark

Past Books Read and Discussed by Date

Wednesday, March 6 -- News of the World by Paulette Jiles

Wednesday, January 17 -- Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah

Wednesday, December 6 -- All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me by Patrick Bringley

Wednesday, October 25 -- Signal Fires by Dani Shapiro

Wednesday, September 20 -- The Sentence by Louise Erdrich

Wednesday, August 2 -- My Antonia by Willa Cather

Wednesday, June 28 -- The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See

Wednesday, May 10 -- The Bartender's Tale by Ivan Doig

Wednesday, March 29 -- The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz by Erik Larson

February 15 -- Carnegie's Maid by Marie Benedict

January 11, 2023 -- The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes

November 30, 2022 -- Early Morning Riser by Katherine Heiny

October 19, 2022 - How the Word is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America by Clint Smith

September 7, 2022 -- The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit by Michael Finkel

July 27, 2022 -- Virgil Wander by Leif Enger

June 8, 2022 -- The Chilbury Ladies Choir by Jennifer Ryan

May 4, 2022 -- The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey

April 6, 2022 -- If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin

March 2, 2022 -- The Dry by Jane Harper

January 19, 2022 -- Sold on a Monday by Kristina McMorris

December 8, 2021 -- This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger

October 30, 2021 -- Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi

September 8, 2021 -- Being Mortal by Atul Gawande

July 28, 2021 -- The Maltese Falcon by Dashniell Hammett

June 23, 2021 -- Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

May 19, 2021 -- Eventide by Kent Haruf

April 14, 2021 -- The Dog Stars by Peter Heller

March 3, 2021 -- There, There by Tommy Orange

January 13, 2021 -- The Black Box by Michael Connelly

October 28, 2020 -- Parkland: Birth of a Movement by Dave Cullen.

September 16, 2020 -- The Nest by Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney

August 5, 2020 -- Blood, Bones & Butter by Gabrielle Hamilton

June 24, 2020 -- The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah

April 18, 2020 -- The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah - CANCELED - to be rescheduled in May

March 21, 2020 -- A Love Tucked Away in the Attic by Heather Roberson & Up Harvey's Creek by Karl Stewart -- CANCELED

February 15, 2020 -- The Only Woman in the Room by Marie Benedict

January 11, 2020 -- The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu by Joshua Hammer

November 23, 2019 -- The Soloist by Steve Lopez

October 12, 2019 -- The Poison Squad by Deborah Blum

August 31, 2019 -- All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren

July 20, 2019 -- The Battle Hymn of the tiger Mother by Amy Chua

June 8, 2019 -- The Elephant Company by Vicki Constantine Croke

April 27, 2019 -- Nothing Daunted by Dorothy Wickenden

March 2, 2019 -- The Music Shop by Rachel Joyce

January 19, 2019 -- The Education of Will by Patricia McConnell

December 15, 2018 -- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon

November 3, 2018 -- The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben

September 29, 2018 -- The Death and Life of the Great Lakes by Dan Egan

August 25, 2018 --  The Spirit Woman by Margaret Coel

July 28, 2018 -- Beloved by Toni Morrison

June 16, 2018 -- Isaac's Storm by Erik Larson

May 12, 2018 - The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead

March 31, 2018 - Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner

February 24, 2018 - River of Doubt: Theodor Roosevelt's Darkest Journey by Candice Millard 

January 13, 2018 - Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

November 18, 2017 - Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance

October 21, 2017 - Everything You Wanted to Know About Indians But Were Afraid to Ask by Anton Treuer, and Warrior Nation by Anton Treuer

August 19, 2017 - The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson

June 2017 - Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight by Alexandra Fuller

May 13, 2017 - Breakfast with Buddha by Roland Merullo

April 1, 2017 - Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein

February 18, 2017 - The Last Days of Night by Graham Moore

January 7, 2017 - Loving Frank by Nancy Horan