Book Selections / Reading the Book / Requesting the Book
Book Club meetings are generally held the first Thursday of each month at 7:00pm at Mt Laurel Library. Please contact the library at 991-1660 or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. for more information.
READING THE BOOK
The primary purpose of the book club is to have an exchange of ideas, which means you need to attempt to read the book. So, please give the book a try and read as much of it as possible. If you aren’t able to finish the entire book, you will still be able to participate and be a welcome addition to the group based on how much you read. Hopefully, at the end of the discussion you will be able to answer the question: “Did what you hear make you want to finish the book?”
REQUESTING THE BOOK:
The library will do its best to supply books to all members of the book club through print copies, ebook downloads, and audiobooks. Due to the increasing number of the group and popularity of certain books, we may not always have enough books available in the system at one time. It is strongly encouraged that you read ahead or plan to get the book independently of the library if none are available.
BOOK CLUB SELECTIONS
Here are the upcoming Mt Laurel book club books:
November 1: The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah
December 6: Love by the Glass by Dorothy Gaiter & John Brecher
January 3: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
February 7: A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
March 7: Loving Frank by Nancy Horan
April 4: The Good Neighbor: The Life & Works of Fred Rogers by Maxwell King
May 2: Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
June 6: Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
Previous Selections
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| An Unnecessary Woman by Rabih Alameddine | The Dovekeepers by Alice Hoffman | The Hours by Michael Cunningham |
| Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee | Elephant Company by Vicki Croke | The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt |
| Keeping the Faith by Wayne Flynt | Circling the Sun by Paula McLain | The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins |
| As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner | This is the Story of a Happy Marriage by Ann Padgett | The Wright Brothers by David McCullough |
| In Manchuria by Michael Meyer | The Hare with Amber Eyes by Edmund De Waal | Cold Winter Rain by Steven P. Gregory |
| The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah | The Husband's Secret by Laine Moriarty | The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri |
| Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman | Audubon's Elephant by Duff Hart-Davis | The Art of Hearing Heartbeats by Jan-Philipp Sendker |
| Lucky Us by Amy Bloom | And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini | The Love of a Good Woman by Alice Munro |
| The Book Thief by Markus Zusak | Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel | Defending Jacob by William Landay |
| The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson | A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens | The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery |
| Rules of Civility by Amor Towles | Great House by Nicole Krauss | Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn |
| Whistling Past the Graveyard by Susan Crandall | The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown | The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett |
| The Japanese Lover by Isabel Allende | All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr | The Painted Girls by Cathy Marie Buchanan |
| The Secret Keeper by Kate Morton | The Crossing by Howard Fast | Nobody's Fool by Richard Russo |
| Commonwealth by Ann Patchett | The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot | Our Souls at Night by Kent Haruf |
| My Life in France by Julia Child | Strapless by Deborah Davis | Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance |
| A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman | The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey | The Genius of Birds by Jennifer Ackerman |
| The Woman on the Orient Express by Lindsay Jayne Ashford | The Master Butchers Singing Club by Louise Erdrich | The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood |
| The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh | Love, Life and Elephants by Daphne Sheldrick | El Paso by Winston Groom |
| Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz | Last Bus to Wisdom by Ivan Doig | Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate |
| The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane by Lisa See | The Boston Girl by Anita Diamant | The Bettencourt Affair by Tom Sancton |
| The Moviegoer by Walker Percy |