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Book Clubs @ the Library
Williamson County Public Library
1314 Columbia Ave., Franklin, TN

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: Being Polite to Hitler by Robb Forman Dew
  • February: Little Princes by Conor Grennan
  • March: No Ordinary Time by Doris Kearns Goodwin
  • April: Aunt Julia and the Screenwriter by Mario Vargas Llosa
  • May: A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens


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
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