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 always welcome.

Selections for the coming year:

• September, 2008: The Innocent Man by John Grisham
• October, 2008: The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
• November, 2008: Four Queens by Nancy Goldstone
• December, 2008: Death at the Priory by James Ruddick
• January, 2009: Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
• February, 2009: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
• March, 2009: The Septembers of Shiraz: a Novel by Dalia Sofer
• April, 2009: The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon
• May, 2009: Ladies of Liberty: The Women Who Shaped our Nation by Cokie Roberts
• June, 2009: People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks

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 the coming year:

• September, 2008: The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon
• October, 2008: The Madonnas of Leningrad by Debra Dean
• November, 2008: The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
• December, 2008: Girl from the South by Joanna Trollope
• January & February, 2009: John Adams by David McCullough
• March, 2009: The Mermaid Chair by sue Monk Kidd
• April, 2009: Beatrix Potter: a Life in Nature by Linda Lear
• May, 2009: Girl sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her by Melanie Rehak