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Library Book Clubs

Book clubs are free and open to the public.

Monday Night Classics Book Club

Meeting Time: Fourth Monday of every month at 7 p.m.
Meeting Location: Gowland Meeting Room at the Dove Lane Library

Sep. 27 Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
Oct. 25 The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Nov. 22 Mr. Midshipman Hornblower by C.S. Forester
Dec. no meeting in December

Please contact Leila Dooley at 760-434-2881 or e-mail leila.dooley@carlsbadca.gov for more information.

 

Past book club selections (from all book clubs)

Blue Highways by William Least Heat Moon

Breakfast at Tiffany’s by Truman Capote

The Road from Coorain by Jill Conway

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie

The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch

Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout

Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs

My Father’s Tears and Other Stories by John Updike (reviews)

The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein

Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert

The World is Flat: a Brief History of the Twenty-first Century by Thomas Friedman (updated edition)

Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome

The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yuko Ogawa (reviews)

The Gathering by Anne Enright (reviews)

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (reviews)

Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez (reviews)

The Rim of the Pit by Hake Talbot

Portrait in Sepia by Isabel Allende (reviews)

The Color of Water by James McBride (reviews)

China Underground by Zachary Mexico (reviews)

Travels with Charley by John Steinbeck (Carlsbad Reads Together)

The Awakening by Kate Chopin

The Botany of Desire: a Plant’s Eye View of the World by Michael Pollan (reviews)

The Forever War by Dexter Filkins

The Zookeeper’s Wife: A War Story by Diane Ackerman

Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne

Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett (reviews)

The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan (reviews)

Moral Disorder: Stories by Margaret Atwood (reviews)

The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien

The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher by Kate Summerscale (reviews

A Mercy by Toni Morrison (reviews)

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer (reviews)

Run by Ann Patchett (reviews)

The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells (reviews)

Dreams From My Father by Barack Obama (reviews)

Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali (reviews)

Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain by Oliver Sacks (reviews)

The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe (reviews)

Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin (reviews)

The Space Between Us by Thrity Umrigar (reviews)

The Madonnas of Leningrad by Debra Dean (reviews)

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte (reviews)

Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford (reviews)

The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga (reviews)

Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri (reviews)

A Thread of Grace by Mary Doria Russell (reviews)

Tuesday Evening Book Club

Meeting Time: First Tuesday of every month at 7 p.m.
Meeting Location: Cole Community Room at the Georgina Cole Library

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Sep. 7

Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris

Listen to Joshua Ferris discuss this satirical novel in a 2007 NPR Fresh Air piece 

Read an interview with the publisher, Penguin Books

Please contact Elyse Roy at 760-434-2866 or e-mail elyse.roy@carlsbadca.gov for more information.

Oct. 5 Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford (reviews)
Nov. 2 Washington’s Crossing by David Fischer
Dec. 7 Molokai by Alan Brennert

First Wednesday Book Club

Meeting Time: First Wednesday of every month at 2 p.m.
Meeting Location: Gowland Meeting Room at the Dove Lane Library

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Oct. 6

Blue Highways by William Least Heat Moon

Please contact Heidi Wyner at 760-602-2044 or e-mail heidi.wyner@carlsbadca.gov for more information.

Nov. 3 The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit by Lucette Lagnado
Dec. 1 The Ayatollah Begs to Differ by Hooman Majd

First Thursday Book Club

Meeting Time: First Thursday of every month at 7 p.m.
Meeting Location: Gowland Meeting Room at the Dove Lane Library

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Sep. 2

Shop Class as Soulcraft by Matthew B. Crawford

Please contact Dione Sobin at 760-602-2041 or e-mail dione.sobin@carlsbadca.gov for more information.

Oct. 7 Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann
Nov. 4 Master and Commander by Patrick O’Brian
Dec. 2 Lit: a Memoir by Mary Karr

Thursday Afternoon Book Club

Meeting Time: Second Thursday of every month at 2 p.m.
Meeting Location: Cole Community Room at the Georgina Cole Library 

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Sep. 9

Freakonomics by Steven Levitt

Visit the authors' website to learn more about the "hidden side of everything" 

Read Steven Levitt's New York Times blog

View the movie trailer (movie release is in October)

Please contact Kimiko Morita at 760-434-2913 or e-mail kimiko.morita@carlsbadca.gov for more information.

Oct. 14 The Lost City of Z by David Grann
Nov. 18 The Help by Kathryn Stockett
Dec. no meeting in December

Contact Information

Dove Library
librarian@carlsbadca.gov
760-602-2038
1775 Dove Lane
Carlsbad, CA 92011
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Cole Library
librarian@carlsbadca.gov
760-434-2871
1250 Carlsbad Village Drive
Carlsbad, CA 92008
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