Do you like reading or think you should read for fun more often? Then get together with others for informal, friendly Zoom book discussions. During the first meeting, participants vote on a book for the semester then everyone will pick up a free copy of the book from the library.

 

We will be voting to select a book for the semester during the first Leisure Reading Group meeting on Sept. 1st. Thursday, from 3:00 to 4:00 pm.

Try to click on the links to the books. You can also right click then copy the hyperlink and paste it into a webpage URL bar. Decide which books are your top choices before Sept. 1st so you can vote! 😊

From Barack Obama’s book lists:

Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson

Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert (Non-fiction)

 

New York Times Bestsellers

The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides

Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens (recently a movie, although the book is supposed to be better)

The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towle

The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller (author of Circe)

Miscellaneous Award Winners

Lost Children Archive: A novel by Valeria Luiselli

The Beekeeper of Aleppo by Christy Lefteri

All You Can Ever Know: A Memoir by Nicole Chung

 

Please contact me if you have any questions or if you’d like the zoom link to attend meetings. I hope you can join!

 

Jane Ishibashi

Circulation Librarian/OER Liaison

jishibashi@fullcoll.edu