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Currently Scheduled Books

(F) = Fiction    Numerical Value is Goodreads.com rating on a scale of 1 to 5

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February 18th  Empire Falls by Richard Russo 483 pages $ 3.91

March 11th In the Midst of Winter by Isabelle Allende 352 pages $ 3.68

April 1st English Creek by Ivan Doig 352 pages $ 4.11

April 22 Digging to America" by Anne Tyler 291 pages $ 3.56

Book Suggestions

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A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II by Sonia Purnell 368 pages $$$ 1 in Library 4.26

An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic by Daniel Mendelsohn 302 pages $$ 1 in Library 4.26

(F) Before We Were Yours: A Novel by Lisa Wingate 352 pages $ 7 in Library 4.37

 416 pages $$$ 4 in Library 4.01

Good Neighbor: The Life and Work of Fred Rogers 320 pages $$ 4 in Library  3.95

(F) The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah 435 pages  $ 14 in library  4.33

The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone by Olivia Laing 336 pages $$ 1 in Library 3.90

(F)  On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong 246 pages $$$$  5 in Library 4.10

The Unwomanly Face of War: An Oral History of Women in World War II by Svetlana Alexievich 247 pages $$ 2 in Library 4.53

Volume Control: Hearing in a Deafening World by David Owen 304 pages $$$$ 1 in Library 4.32

Previously Suggested (and Rejected) Books

1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann 541 pages (October 10, 2006)  4 in Library $$ Video 4.03

(F) 1984 by George Orwell 328 pages (July 1, 1950) $$ 9 in Library 4.25

A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous Fourteenth Century by Barbara Tuchman 4.08

(F) A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry 603 pages (2001)  3 in Library 4.33

(F) A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories by Flannery O'Connor  276 pages (August 23, 1977) 2 in Library$ Audio 4.27

(F) A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara 720 pages $$ 4 in Library 4.28

(F) A Place on Earth by Wendell Berry 336 pages (November 30, 1966) $$ 2 in Library 4.32

(F) A Room With a View by E. M. Forster 240 pages (January 2, 2005) $$   4 in Library 3.91

(F) The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler 352 pages $ 3 in Library 3.89

(F) Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle by Vladimir Nabokov 604 pages (February 19, 1990) $$ 2 in Library 4.19

The Age of Reform by Richard Hofstadter 352 pages (February 1960) $$ 0 in Library 3.90

Alan Turing: The Enigma by Andrew Hodges 608 pages (2000) $$$ 1 in Library 3.95

(F) The Alice Network by Kate Quinn 505 pages $$$ 3 in Library 4.26

(F) All Our Worldly Goods by Irene Nemirovsky 272 pages (September 6, 2011) 1 in Library $ Video 3.82

Previously Read in the Book Group

109 East Palace by Jennet Conant 3.87

1215: The Year of Magna Carta by Danny Danziger, John Gillingham 3.70

9 Stories by J D Salinger 4.19

A Coin in Nine Hands by Marguerite Yourcenar 3.63

A Crack in the Edge of the World by Simon Winchester 3.76

A Dangerous Place by Marc Reisner 3.64

A Dish Taken Cold by Anne Perry 3.31

A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles 4.37

A Moveable Feast, by Ernest Hemingway 3.98

A Short History of Financial Euphoria by John Kenneth Galbraith 3.91

A Slave No More by David W. Blight 3.75

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens 3.71