Suggestions From Around the Circle...
April 2016

The Taxidermist's Daughter by Kate Mosse

A Strangeness in my Mind by Orhan Pamuk

1920: the year that made the decade roar by Eric Burns

Loving Eleanor by Susan Wittig Albert

Elizabeth is Missing by Emma Healey

Felicity by Mary Oliver

Blue Horses by Mary Oliver

The Madwoman Upstairs by Catherine Lowell

Remembering the Music, Forgetting the Words: travels with Mom in the land of dementia 

by Kate Whouley

Suggestions From Around the Circle...March 2016

Life Among the Savages by Shirley Jackson

The Lake House by Kate Morton

My Name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout

A Full Life by Jimmy Carter

Blood Salt Water by Denise Mina

Find Her by Lisa Gardner

The Life of Henry Kissinger by Niall Ferguson

The Lost Landscape by Joyce Carol Oates

Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel

Suggestions From Around the Circle...

February 2016 

The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry

The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend by Katarina Bivald

Kayak Morning: reflections on love, grief, and small boats by Roger Rosenblatt

Making Toast: a family story by Roger Rosenblatt

The Witches: Salem, 1692 by Stacy Schiff

Lady Bird and Lyndon: the hidden story of a marriage that made a president

by Betty Boyd Caroli

Elephant Company: the inspiring story of an unlikely hero and the animals who helped him save lives in World War II by Vicki Croke

Ministers at War: Winston Churchill and his ministers by Jonathan Schneer

1944: FDR and the year that changed history by Jay Winik

Summer Queen: a novel of Eleanor of Aquitaine by Elizabeth Chadwick 

Book of Ages: the life and opinions of Jane Franklin by Jill Lepore

In Bitter Chill by Sarah Ward

The Lost Landscape: a writer’s coming of age by Joyce Carol Oates

Suggestions From Around the Circle..

January 2016

Making Toast: a family story by Roger Rosenblatt

Kayak Morning: reflections on love, grief and small boats by Roger Rosenblatt

Let Me Finish by Roger Angell

This Old Man: all in pieces by Roger Angell

Terrorist by John Updike

In the Kingdom of Ice: the grand and terrible polar voyage of the U.S.S. Jeannette 

by Hampton Sides

The House of Owls by Tony Angell

Girl Waits with a Gun by Amy Stewart

Pretty Girls by Karin Slaughter

Luckiest Girl Alive by Jessica Knoll

Brooklyn by Colm Toibin

Destiny and Power: the American odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush 

by Jon Meacham

A Free State by Tom Piazza

Thirteen Ways of Looking by Colum McCann

After the Storm by Linda Castillo

Suggestions From Around the Circle...

December, 2015

Career of Evil (Cormorant Strike series #3) by Robert Galbraith

The Boston Girl by Anita Diamant

A Memory of Violets: a novel of London's flower sellers by Hazel Gaynor

The Good Girl by Mary Kubica

Dead Wake: the last crossing of the Lusitania by Erik Larson

Henry Clay: America's greatest statesman by Harlow Giles Unger

Becoming Nicole: the transformation of an American family by Amy Ellis Nutt

Our Souls at Night by Kent Haruf

The Lifeboat by Charlotte Rogan

Portobello by Ruth Rendell

The Honey Thief by Elizabeth Graver

Suggestions From Around the Circle...

November 2, 2015

George Washington's Secret Six: the spy ring that saved the American Revolution
by Brian Kilmeade

The Hummingbird by Stephen Kiernan

The Murderer's Daughter by Jonathan Kellerman

The Taming of the Queen by Philippa Gregory

House of Thieves by Charles Belfoure

The Road to Character by David Brooks

Founding Mothers: the women who raised our nation by Cokie Roberts  

The Theft of Memory: losing my father, one day at a time by Jonathan Kozol 

The Wright Brothers by David McCullough

All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

The Girl With No Shadow by Joanne Harris

The Marvels by Brian Selznick

The Rumor by Elin Hilderbrand

Pacific: Silicon Chips and Surfboards, Coral Reefs and Atom Bombs, Brutal Dictators, Fading Empires, and the Coming Collision of the World's Superpowers 

by Simon Winchester 

Suggestions From Around the Circle...

October 5, 2015

Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline

The Book of Aron by Jim Shepard

Hannah Colter by Wendell Berry

Kissinger: a biography by Walter Isaacson

The Negotiator: a memoir by George J. Mitchell

Becoming Steve Jobs: the evolution of a reckless upstart into a visionary leader
by Brent Schlender 

The Girl in the Spider's Web: a Lisbeth Salandar novel by David Lagercrantz

And the Dark Sacred Night by Julia Glass

Blueprints by Barbara Delinsky

Pretty Baby by Mary Kubica

Orhan's Inheritance by Aline Ohanesian

Dorothy Parker in her own words by Dorothy Parker

Aunt Dimity & the Summer King by Nancy Atherton

Come Rain or Come Shine by Jan Karon

H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald

Counselor: a life at the edge of history by Ted Sorensen

Eisenhower by Stephen E. Ambrose

Suggestions From Around the Circle...

September 14, 2015

The Nature of the Beast by Louise Penny

All Our Names by Dinaw Mengestu

Circling the Sun: a novel by Paula McLain

Madame Picasso by Anne Girard

Bunker Hill: a city, a siege, a revolution by Nathaniel Philbrick

The Rescue of the Bounty: disaster and survival in Superstorm Sandy by Michael Tougias

The Black Box by Michael Connelly

In the Kingdom of Ice: the grand and terrible polar voyage of the USS Jeannette by Hampton Sides

Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name by Vendela Vida

The Seven Good Years: a memoir by Etger Keret

American Sphinx: the character of Thomas Jefferson by Joseph J. Ellis

His Excellency: George Washington by Joseph J. Ellis

First Family: Abigail and John by Joseph J. Ellis

Suggestions from around the circle...
August 3rd

Nora Webster by Colm Toibin

The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin

First Family by Joseph J. Ellis

The Quartet:orchestrating the second American Revolution, 1783-1789 by Joseph J. Ellis 

Founding Mothers by Cokie Roberts

Takedown Twenty: a Stephanie Plum novel by Janet Evanovich

The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters

Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee

The Mockingbird Next Door: life with Harper Lee by Marja Mills

The Distant Hours by Kate Morton

White Dog Fell From the Sky by Eleanor Morse

Mrs.Pargeter's Principle by Simon Brett

The 100-year-old man who climbed out the window and disappeared by Jonas Jonasson

Fives and Twenty-Fives by Michael Pitre

Suggestions From Around the Circle

Monday, July 13th

Scout, Atticus, and Boo : a celebration of fifty years of To kill a mockingbird by Mary McDonagh Murphy

Eight Hundred Grapes by Laura Dave

At the Water's Edge by Sara Gruen

Last Night at Twisted River by John Irving

The Story: a reporter's journey by Judith Miller

One Man Against the World: the tragedy of Richard Nixon by Tim Weiner

Last Night by James Salter

Jonas Salk: a life by Charlotte DeCroes Jacobs

Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant? by Roz Chast

The Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twan Eng

Suggestions from around the circle...

June 1, 2015

Killers of the King: the men who dared to execute Charles I by Charles Spencer

Cursed Victory: a history of Israel and the Occupied Territories by Ahron Bregman

The First Tycoon: the epic life of Cornelius Vanderbilt by T.J. Stiles

Inside the O'Briens by Lisa Genova

The Ghost Fields by Elly Griffiths

The House of Hawthorne by Erika Robuck

The Kind Worth Killing by Peter Swanson

We Are Not Ourselves by Matthew Thomas

Some Luck by Jane Smiley

Torch by Cheryl Strayed

Murder at Rocky Point Park by Kelly Sullivan Pezza

Rhode Island's Mill Villages by Joe Fuoco

First Monday Morning of the Month Book Club

Suggestions From Around the Circle

May 4, 2015

Higher Education: Marijuana at the Mansion by Constance Bumgarner Gee

George Marshall by Debi and Irwin Unger with Stanley Hirshson

The Georgetown Set: Friends and Rivals in Cold War Washington by Gregg Herken

Lucky Us by Amy Bloom

The Heart of a Woman by Maya Angelou

At the Water's Edge by Sara Gruen

Dead Wake: the last crossing of the Lusitania by Erik Larson

Wild Unrest: Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the Making of "The Yellow Wall-Paper" by Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz

The Greatest Game Ever Played by Mark Frost

Fiercombe Manor by Kate Riordan

Mrs. Lincoln's Rival by Jennifer Chiaverini

Mrs. Grant and Madame Jule by Jennifer Chiaverini

The Rosie Project by Graeme C. Simsion

First Monday Morning of the Month Book Club

Suggestions from around the circle

April 6, 2015

A Nice Little Place on the North Side: Wrigley Field at 100 by George F. Will

The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins

The Giver by Lois Lowry

Dead Wake: the last crossing of the Lusitania

An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

Pay Any Price: greed, power and endless war by James Risen

A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the great betrayal by Ben Macintyre

Colonel House: a biography of Woodrow Wilson's silent partner by Charles E. Neu

Still Alice by Lisa Genova

The Marquis: Lafayette Remembered by Laura Auricchio

Left Neglected by Lisa Genova

H is for Hawk by Helen MacDonald

The Nightingale by Kristen Hannah

Leaving Time by Jodi PIcoult

The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessey by Rachel Joyce

The Trouble With Poetry by Billy Collins

Revolution by Jennifer Donnelly

Amherst by William Nicholson

Paying Guests by Sarah Waters

Crash and Burn by Lisa Gardner

First Monday of the Month Book Chat

Suggestions from around the circle

March 2, 2015

The Telling Error - Sophie Hannah

Norwegian by Night - Derek B. Miller

Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President - Candice Millard

Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War - Robert Gates

Worthy Fights: A Memoir of Leadership in War and Peace - Leon Panetta

A Look Over My Shoulder: A Life in the Central Intelligence Agency - Richard Helms

Thirteen Days in September: Carter, Begin, and Sadat at Camp David - Lawrence Wright

The Girl on the Train - Paula Hawkins

We Are Anonymous - Parmy Olson

Sweetland - Michael Crummey

Dear Committee Members - Julie Schumacher

Trigger Warning - Neil Gaiman

Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War - Nathaniel Philbrick

Roger Williams and the Creation of the American Soul: Church, State, and the Birth of Liberty - John M. Barry

Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America - David Hackett Fischer

Join us for our next meeting on April 6, 2015!

First Monday of the Month Book Discussion Group

Suggestions from around the circle

January 5, 2015

Price of Fame: The Honorable Clare Boothe Luce - Sylvia Jukes Morris

The Sports Gene: Inside the Science of Extraordinary Athletic Performance - David Epstein

The Clash of Civilizations? The Debate - Gideon Rose

Delicious! - Ruth Reichl

Leaving Time - Jodi Picoult

Moriarty - Anthony Horowitz

The Paris Winter - Imogene Winter

The Beauty of Humanity Movement - Camilla Gibb

The Girls of August - Anne River Siddons

Lives in Ruins: Archaeologists and the Seductive Lure of Human Rubble - Marilyn Johnson

Revival - Stephen King

The Boston Girl - Anita Diamant

When Books Went to War: The Stories that Helped us Win World War II –

Molly Guptill Manning

Join us at the Barrington Public Library on February 2^nd at 10am for the next meeting of the
First Monday of the Month Book Discussion Group!

First Monday of the Month Book Discussion Group

Suggestions From Around the Circle
December 1, 2014

For Discrimination: race, affirmative actions and the law by Randall Kennedy 

Waiting for Wednesday by Nicci French

Wait Till Next Year: a memoir by Doris Kearns Goodwin

Leaving Time by Jodi Picoult

The Mockingbird Next Door: life with Harper Lee by Marja Mills

Missing You by Harlan Coben

All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

Yes Please by Amy Poehler

The House at Riverton by Kate Morton 

Then They Came For Me: a family's story of love, captivity and survival by Maziar Bahari and Aimee Molloy

Thunderstruck by Erik Larsen

An Italian Wife by Ann Hood

Just Kids by Patti Smith

Join us for our next meeting on January 5th, 2015 at 10am in the 2nd Floor Gallery. New members are always welcome!

First Monday Morning of the Month Book Club

Suggestions from around the circle -- November 3, 2014

Join us for our next meeting on December 1, 2014 at 10am in the 2nd Floor Gallery. New members are always welcome!

Through the Evil Days - Julia Spencer-Fleming

The Long Way Home - Louise Penny

The King's Curse - Philippa Gregory

Before I Go To Sleep - S.J. Watson

The Holiday - Erica James

John Quincy Adams: American Visionary - Fred Kaplan

To Dwell in Darkness - Deborah Crombie

The Boys in the Boat - Daniel J. Brown

Thunderstruck - Erik Larson

Rogue Island - Bruce DaSilva

The Moment of Everything - Shelly King

Love in a Nutshell - Janet Evanovich

Smoke Gets in Your Eyes - Caitlin Doughty

Big Little Lies - Liane Moriarty

This House is Haunted - John Boyle

 First Monday Monday Morning of the Month Book Club

Converse with friends about your favorite reads over a cup of coffee and pastry.  New members are always welcome.

Our next meeting will be Monday, November 3rd at 10am
in the 2nd floor Gallery.

The Martian by Andy Weir

The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles, and their secret World War by Stephen Kinzer

The King's Grave: the discovery of Richard III's lost burial place and the clues it holds by Philippa Langley and Michael Jones

The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd

Landline by Rainbow Rowell

Talk Before Sleep by Elizabeth Berg

Five Days Left by Julie Lawson Timmer

Somewhere Safe with Somebody Good by Jan Karon

And the Dark Sacred Night by Julia Glass

A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman

First Monday of the Month Book Discussion Group

Our next meeting will be Monday, November 3rd
at 10am in the 2nd Floor Gallery.

New Members Always Welcome!

Suggestions From Around The Circle
  October 6th

The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles, and Their Secret World War - Stephen Kinzer

The Martian - Andy Weir

The King's Grave: the discovery of Richard III's lost burial place and the clues it holds ~ Philippa Langley and Michael Jones

The Invention of Wings - Sue Monk Kidd

Landline - Rainbow Rowell

Talk Before Sleep - Elizabeth Berg

Five Days Left - Julie Lawson Timmer

Somewhere Safe With Somebody Good - Jan Karon

And the Dark Sacred Night - Julia Glass

A Man Called Ove - Fredrik Backman