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The Little Free Library Book Club Location: 1016B PA Route 41, Cochranville, 19330 Upcoming - 2021 The Little Free Library's Book Club – No Homework Required! will resume on Zoom the third Saturday of January, at 2pm and will continue every other month throughout 2021. Simply email us to join or for more information. Next Book Club: July 17, 2021 (2pm ET) To join the Book Club click on Zoom link below: |
The Little Free Library's Book Club is the place to come together to share your current, past, and future reading with others. Rather than focusing on one book, we gather to discuss and compare notes on our own reading, and often find fellow travelers while discovering new suggestions.
Currently, we are meeting over Zoom Throughout 2021, will meet online the third Saturday every other month: January 16, March 20, May 15, July 17, September 18, and November 20 As/when social distancing recommendations relax we may move back to meeting in person at the LFL in Cochranville, but our sessions will continue to have a way to connect with the group online, as we have discovered that people near and far enjoy joining in. Email us to join the group. Email us if you would like receive our Little Free Library mailing list for this and related events. Connect on our Facebook Page to discuss books, and to make recommendations. If you are interested but unable to make a meeting, we'd love for you to email a couple lines about your current recommended book(s), and we will share. Suggested books from our book club participants, arranged in no particular order but grouped by meeting date.
Note: Support independent booksellers! Links here connect you to bookshop.org, which is a great place to purchase books online, if you are not shopping at your local independent bookstore: ten percent of profits are distributed among independent bookstores that are part of the collective. May 15, 2021 Whereabouts by Jhumpa Lahiri Island Zombie: Iceland Writings by Roni Horn The Museum of Whales You Will Never See: And Other Excursions to Iceland's Most Unusual Museums by A. Kendra Green Une Saison Au Congo by Cesaire Aime A Season in the Congo (English translation of Une Saison Au Congo) by Cesaire Aime Le chercher d'Afriques by Henri Lopes Xala by Sembene Ousmane La saison d’ombre by Léonore Miano The Season of the Shadow (English translation of La saison d'ombre) by Léonore Miano Une rose seule by Muriel Barbery A Single Rose (English translation of Une rose seule) by Muriel Barbery March 20, 2021 The People’s History of the US by Howard Zinn Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell Land by Simon Winchester Essays of Wendell Berry Listening to the Wind by Tim Robinson Annals of the Former World by John McPhee The Evolution of God by Robert Wright The Midnight Library by Matt Haig Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro Year Zero by Ian Buruma Movies Suggestions: The Professor and the Madman - Netflix The Gardener - Amazon video Audrey - Netflix January 16, 2021 A Rip in Heaven by Jeanine Cummins The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal About Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power by Deirdre Mask Disappearing Earth by Julia Phillips Metazoa: Animal Life and the Birth of the Mind by Peter Godfrey-Smith The Cost of Living by Deborah Levy Nox by Ann Carson Inside Story by Martin Amis How To Be An Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi The Sound of the Wild Snail Eating by Elisabeth Tova Bailey Belonging by Nora Krug Not A Novel by Jenny Erpenbeck Berlin Diary by William L. Shirer Fights by Joel Christian Gill Braiding Sweetgrass and Gathering Moss by Robin Wall Kimmerer The Evolution of God by Robert Wright Coming into the Country by John McPhee Erasure. A zine by Laura Florence & Working Title writers group. August 9, 2020 The Ruins by Scott Smith The Sun Is A Compass by Caroline Van Hemert Walking To Listen by Andrew Forsthoefel July 12, 2020 Harriet The Spy by Louise Fitzhugh The Girl Beneath The Sea by Andrew Mayne When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi Dr. Penumbra's 24-hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan In The Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado May 30, 2020 Waking Up White, and Finding Myself in the Story of Race by Debby Irving The Transit of Empire by Jodi A. Byrd The Abundance by Annie Dillard The Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard Dawn To The West by Donald Keene Travels with a Writing Brush: Classical Japanese Travel Writing from Manyosho to Basho translated by Meredith McKinney Kenko and Chomei: Essays in Idleness by Kenko and Chomei translated by Meredith McKinney The Pillow Book by Sei Shonagon translated by Meredith McKinney Kusamakura by Natsume Soseki Kokomo by Natsume Soseki The Chronicles of Lord Asunaro by Kanji Hanawa Farewell, My Orange by Iwaki Kei Green Mountain Club Burlington Section May 16, 2020 – focus on streaming, and its relationship to reading The Innocence Files (TV series) The People’s Paper Co-Op Wesley Stace Our Planet (TV series) Fifth Business Robertson Davies (Book) Gattaca Screenplay by Andrew M. Niccol Gomorrah (TV series) Shtisel (TV series) Alex Ross on the musician Igor Levit, and his online performances during quarantine, New Yorker, Article A Night of Serious Drinking by Rene Daumal May 2, 2020 Mr Penumbra’s 24 Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan Terrorist by John Updike Girl, Woman, Other by Bernadine Evaristo Americanah by Chimimanda Ngozi Adichie The True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey French Provincial Cooking Elizabeth David The Divided Ground, Indians, Settlers and the Northern Borderland of the American Revolution by Alan Taylor Friends and Enemies in Penn’s Woods, Indians, Colonists, and the Racial Construction of Pennsylvania edited by William A. Pencak and Daniel K. Richter William Cooper’s Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic by Alan Taylor The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony That Shaped America by Russel Shorto Nation to Nation: Treaties Between the United States and American Indian Nations by Susan Shown Harjo Conquest of New Spain by Bernal Diaz My Lovely Wife by Samantha Downing Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie (you can’t guess this ending!) An American Marriage by Tayari Jones April 18, 2020 Soulcraft: Crossing into the Mysteries of Nature and Psyche by Bill Plotkin The Woman in the Window by A.J. Finn House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski Grandma Gatewood's Walk: The Inspiring Story of the Woman Who Saved the Appalachian Trail by Ben Montgomery Disappearing Earth by Julia Phillips The Splendid and The Vile: a Story of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz by Erik Larson The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde The Haunted by Bentley Little Angela Carter and The Fairy Tales Danielle M. Roemer, Editor Essays One, by Lydia Davis The Overstory by Richard Powers Risking Everything: 110 Poems of Love and Revelation by Roger Housden Death Comes to Pemberley by P.D. James The Knowledge Illusion by Stephen Sloman and Philip Fernbach The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson Printemps et Autres Saisons by Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust The Yellow House by Sarah Broom On Earth We Are Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James April 4, 2020 I Know this Much is True by Wally Lamb Mary Toft: or, The Rabbit Queen by Dexter Palmer The Overstory, Richard Powers Butterfly - documentary from 2000 by Julia Butterfly Hill Teaching the Trees: Lessons from the Forest by Joan Maloof The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work by Alain de Botton Consolations of Philosophy by Alain de Botton The Dressmaker of Khair Khana: Five Sisters, One Remarkable Family, and the Woman Who Risked Everything To Keep Them Safe by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon The Idiot’s Guide to Tarot French for Cats - All the French Your Cat Will Ever Need by Henri de la Barbe (Henri Beard) American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins. |