Book clubs are free and open to the public.
Meeting Time: Fourth Monday of every month at 7 p.m.Meeting Location: Gowland Meeting Room at the Dove Lane Library
Please contact Leila Dooley at 760-434-2881 or e-mail leila.dooley@carlsbadca.gov for more information.
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)
Meeting Time: First Tuesday of every month at 7 p.m.Meeting Location: Cole Community Room at the Georgina Cole Library
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.
Meeting Time: First Wednesday of every month at 2 p.m.Meeting Location: Gowland Meeting Room at the Dove Lane Library
Please contact Heidi Wyner at 760-602-2044 or e-mail heidi.wyner@carlsbadca.gov for more information.
Meeting Time: First Thursday of every month at 7 p.m.Meeting Location: Gowland Meeting Room at the Dove Lane Library
Please contact Dione Sobin at 760-602-2041 or e-mail dione.sobin@carlsbadca.gov for more information.
Meeting Time: Second Thursday of every month at 2 p.m.Meeting Location: Cole Community Room at the Georgina Cole Library
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.
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