03 Aug Bookish Events
Great Books Discussion Group (Virtual)
Fridays @ 10AM on Zoom
December 1 through April 26
Read and discuss classic short works with fellow intellectuals from around the country. Registration required. The Zoom ID/password will be sent via email with your registration confirmation.
The selections to be discussed are widely available from three sources:
The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Short Stories, Edited by Tobias Wolff, referenced as VB.
Great Short Stories of the Masters, Charles Neider, Editor, referenced as GSS.
Found on the Internet are referenced as INT.
2023 Reading List:
Dec.1,2023
“Mendel the Bookdealer,” Stefan Zweig, Prospero’s Isle, INT
“Every Thing That Rises Must Converge,” Flannery O’Connor, P.538,GSS
“Honeydew,” Edith Pearlman, Library Market, INT
Dec 8, 2023
“Jonny’s Blues,” James Baldwin, North Dakota State Univ. INT
“Cody’s Story,” Robert Olmstead, P.399, VB
“The Passover Guest,” Sholom Aleichem, P.1,GSS
Dec 15, 2023
“Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” Joyce Carol Oates, P.347,VB
“Those Are As Brothers,” Nancy Hale, Library of America, Story of the Week, INT
“Po Sandy,” Charles W. Chestnut Archive. org INT
Dec 22,2023
“The Eighty Yard Run,” Irwin Shaw, Univ. of Western Ontario, INT
“A White Horse,” Thom Jones, P.291, VB
“The Heavenly Christmas Tree,” Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky, P.51, GSS
Dec 29, 2023
“Love in the Night,” F. Scott Fitzgerald, Project Gutenberg Australia, INT
“Talk of Heroes,” Carol Bly, P. 48, VB
“An Evening in Spring,” Ivan Bunin, P20, GSS
Monday Afternoon Book Group
Stay connected and engaged with other avid readers at our Monday Afternoon Book Group. We read and discuss a variety of current and popular fiction. Participants are asked to supply their own reading copies. We meet at 1 pm on the 4th Monday of the month in the Delray Beach Public Library meeting rooms.
2023 Reading List
January 23: The Sentence by Louise Erdrich
February 27: Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
March 27: The Netanyahus by Joshua Cohen (Pulitzer Prize winner)
April 24: The Last White Man by Mohsin Hamid
May 22: Afterlives by Abdulrazak Gurnah (Nobel Prize 2021 winner)
June 26: On Juneteenth by Annette Gordon-Reed (non-fiction)
July: NO MEETING
August 28: Bitter Orange Tree by Jokha Alharthi
September 25: Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
October 23: Horse by Geraldine Brooks
November 27: A Down Home Meal for These Difficult Times: Stories by Meron Hadero
December: NO MEETING
2024 Reading List:
January 22: Trust by Herman Diaz (Co-Winner Pulitzer Prize)
February 26: South to America: A Journey below the Mason Dixon Line by Imani Perry (Winner National Book Award for Nonfiction)
March 25: Lucy by the Sea by Elizabeth Strout
April 22: Zero Sum: Stories Joyce Carol Oates
*May 20: The Hero of this Book Elizabeth McCracken (*The third Monday due to holiday)
June 24: The Covenant of Water by Abraham Vergese
August 26: Go Went Gone by Jenny Erpenbeck
September 23: Let us Descend by Jesmyn Ward
October 28: Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver (Co-Winner Pulitzer Prize)
November 25: If I Survive You by Jonayjam Escoffey
Free; Registration required.
Tuesday Book Group
Meets at 6 pm the 2nd Tuesday of the Month in the Small Meeting Room on the first floor of the Library. Registration is required for social distancing. Participants are asked to supply their own reading copy of the book.
2023 Reading List
January 10: Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu
February 14: The Space Between Us by Thirty Umrigar
March 14: Build Your House Around My Body by Violet Kupersmith
April 11: The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak
May 9: Less by Andrew Sean Greer
June 13: Elena Knows by Claudia Pineiro
July 11: The Colony by Audrey Magee
August 8: Fifty Words for Rain by Asha Lemmie
September 12: Hell of a Book by Jason Mott
October 10: A Long Petal of the Sea by Isabel Allende
November 14: Dust by Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor
December 12: Nightcrawling by Leila Mottley
2024 Reading List:
January 9: The Lying Life of Adults by Elena Ferrante
February 13: Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
March 12: Book of the Unknown Americans by Cristina Henríquez
April 9: The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich
May 14: River Sing Me Home by Eleanor Shearer
June 11: Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese
July 9: Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
August 13: Sankofa by Chibundu Onuzo
September 10: The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store by James McBride
October 8: The Fraud by Zadie Smith
November 12: Bitter Orange Tree by Jokha Alharthi
December 10: The Leavers by Lisa Ko
Free; Registration required.