The Avid Readers Book Club will meet on fourth Wednesday each month at 1:00 pm to discuss the books that individual members have read during the past month. New members are always welcome to all groups. See Fairview's home page to confirm the date and meeting time. Call 224-6087 or email the Library for more information.
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 2013:
- January 17: The Space Between Us by Thrity Umrigar
- February 21: Stolen Lives: 20 Years in a Desert Jail by Malika Oufkir
- March 21: The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom
- April 18: The Good Daughter by Jasmin Darznik
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: The Dressmaker of Khair Khana by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
- November 15: A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
- December 20: The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell
Book Group @ Bethesda
The Bethesda Book Group for adults meets on the first Thursday each month at 6:30 pm. New members are always welcome. See Bethesda's home page for the current title and confirm the date and meeting time.
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 2013:
Selections for 2012:
- January 8: Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follet
- February 12: Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follet
- March: Little Bee by Chris Cleave
- April: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
- May: The Paris Wife by Paula McClain
- June: Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein
- July: NO MEETING
- August: Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
- September: A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
- October: The Tiger's Wife by Tea Obreht
- November: Swerve: How the World Became Modern by Stephen Greenblatt
- December: Cookbook Collector by Allegra Goodman
- 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
- November 13 – The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
- December 11 – The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
The FiftyForward College Grove Book Discussion Group is a joint venture between the College Grove Community Library & FiftyForward senior organization. The group meets on the third Tuesday each month at 9:00 am.
