The Best Reads Book Club meets on the third Thursday of each month at 1:00 pm. Meetings are usually held in the Meeting Room of the Main Library in Franklin. New readers are welcome.



Selections for 2012:

• January 19: Being Polite to Hitler by Robb Forman Dew
• February 16: Little Princes by Conor Grennan
• March 15: No Ordinary Time by Doris Kearns Goodwin
• April 19: No Ordinary Time by Doris Kearns Goodwin
• May 17: Aunt Julia and the Screenwriter by Mario Vargas Llosa
• June 21: Unbroken: a World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand
• July 19: Replay by Ken Grimwood
• August 16: In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larsen
• September 20: State of Wonder by Ann Patchett
• October 18: Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
• November 15: The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell

Selections for 2011:

• January: So Brave, Young, and Handsome by Leif Enger
• February: Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson
• March: Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
• April: Emma by Jane Austen
• May: The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell
• June: Strength in What Remains by Tracy Kidder
• July: The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
• August: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
• September: The Heretic's Wife by Brenda Rickman Vantrease
• October: The Lonely Polygamist by Brady Udall
• November: The Imperfectionists by Tom Rachman
• December: My Antonia by Willa Cather

The Evening Book Group meets on the second Tuesday of each month at 6:00 pm in the Meeting Room of the Main Library in Franklin, and welcomes new members.

Selections for 2012:

• January 10 – Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
• February 14 – Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
• March 13 – 47th Samurai by Stephen Hunter
• April 10 – My Antonia by Willa Cather
• May 8 – The Life of Pi by Yan Martel
• June 12 – Swann in Love by Marcel Proust (story 2 in Remembrance of Things Past)
• July – No Meeting
• August 14 – A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle and Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card (2 YA novels.)
• September 11 – The Paris Wife by Paula McLain

Selections for 2011:

• January: Mark Twain: a Life by Ron Powers
• February: Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford
• March: A Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrick
• April: The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
• June: A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
• July: NO MEETING
• August 8: The Zookeeper's Wife by Diane Ackerman
• September 13: The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
• October 11: Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
• November 8: The Lace Reader by Brunonia Berry
• December 13: The Guernsey Literary and Pototo Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer