New participants are welcome to join one, some, or all of the discussions.

Meetings are held the first Tuesday of each month, September-June, at 10 a.m.

If attending virtually, registration is required for access to the Zoom link.

Tuesday, September 3, 2024, at 10 a.m.

The Librarianist

by Patrick deWitt

A reclusive, retired librarian volunteers at a senior center where the details of his not-so-ordinary life are gradually revealed. (fiction, 2023)

Tuesday, October 1, 2024, at 10 a.m.

The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder

by David Grann

In 1740, His Majesty’s Ship the Wager set out on a secret, ill-fated mission that would devolve into chaos after wrecking off the coast of Cape Horn. (nonfiction, 2023)

Tuesday, November 5, 2024, at 10 a.m.

The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store

by James McBride

In a dilapidated neighborhood, immigrant Jews and African Americans live and work together on the margins of white, Christian America. (fiction, 2023)

Tuesday, December 3, 2024, at 10 a.m.

Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History

by S. C. Gwynne

The forty-year battle between Comanche Indians and white settlers for control of the American West is recounted. (nonfiction, 2010)

Tuesday, January 7, 2025, at 10 a.m.

Lessons in Chemistry

by Bonnie Garmus

Elizabeth Zott, a scientist in the 1960s facing sexism in her field, becomes the star of America's beloved cooking show, Supper at Six, and uses the platform to inspire women to change the status quo. (fiction, 2022)

Tuesday, February 4, 2025, at 10 a.m.

The Dictionary of Lost Words

by Pip Williams

After Esme discovers that the men compiling the first Oxford English Dictionary are omitting words relating to women’s and common folks’ experiences, she ventures out to meet the people whose words will fill the dictionary she plans to create. (fiction, 2021)

Tuesday, March 4, 2025, at 10 a.m.

Brave the Wild River: The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon

by Melissa L. Sevigny

In 1938, two pioneering botanists become the first women to run the treacherous Colorado River through the Grand Canyon as they survey the plant life of the area. (nonfiction, 2023)

Tuesday, April 1, 2025, at 10 a.m.

The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections

by Eva Jurczyk

An employee in a university’s rare books department must investigate the disappearance of both the library's most prized manuscript and one of the librarians. (fiction, 2022)

Tuesday, May 6, 2025, at 10 a.m.

The Diamond Eye

by Kate Quinn

In 1937, when Hitler invades Ukraine and Russia, history student Mila is given a rifle and sent to join the fight, becoming a deadly sniper known as Lady Death. (fiction, 2022)

Tuesday, June 3, 2025, at 10 a.m.

The Masterpiece

by Fiona Davis

In the glamorous lost art school within Grand Central Terminal, two very different women, fifty years apart, strive to make their mark on a world set against them. (fiction, 2018)