Crozet-Monday Evening Book Club ( adult )
ALL THE KINGS MEN by Robert Penn Warren
Date: November 03, 2008
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
This landmark book is a loosely fictionalized account of Governor Huey Long of Louisiana, one of the nation's most astounding politicians. The award-winning book (Pulitzer Prize, 1947) is a play of politics, society and personal affairs, all wrapped in the cloak of history.
Check the Catalog 
Crozet-Monday Evening Book Club ( adult )
SUITE FRANCAISE by Irene Nemirovsky
Date: December 01, 2008
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
A best-selling author in France prior to WWII, Nemirovsky, a Russian-born Jew, was deported to Auschwitz in 1942, cutting short her plans to write a quintet of novels about life in France under the Nazis. The two novellas she managed to complete are featured in Suite Francaise, a book that has been hailed as a masterpiece and a milestone of WWII literature.
Check the Catalog
Crozet-Monday Evening Book Club ( adult )
LAST NIGHT AT THE LOBSTER by Stewart O’Nan
Date: January 05, 2009
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
The story follows manager Manny DeLeon as he juggles disgruntled cooks, a waitress he’s recently and reluctantly ended an affair with, and unreasonable patrons over one last shift before the restaurant is closed down.
Check the Catalog
Crozet-Monday Evening Book Club ( adult )
THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING GOD by Zora Neale Hurston
(THE BIG READ)
Date: February 02, 2009
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
An enduring Southern love story sparkling with wit, beauty, and heartfelt wisdom. Told in the captivating voice of a woman who refuses to live in sorrow, bitterness, fear, or foolish romantic dreams.
Check the Catalog
Crozet-Monday Evening Book Club ( adult )
HOWARDS END by E.M. Forster
Date: March 02, 2009
7:00 pm - 8:45 pm
In Edwardian England, two well educated sisters, full of life, each find different ways to deal with the constraints of society.
Check the Catalog
Crozet-Monday Evening Book Club ( adult )
THE GOOD EARTH by Pearl Buck
Date: April 06, 2009
7:00 pm - 8:45 pm
A Chinese peasant overcomes the forces of nature and the frailties of human nature to become a wealthy landowner.
Check the Catalog
Crozet-Monday Evening Book Club ( adult )
THE WORLD WITHOUT US by Alan Weisman
Date: May 04, 2009
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
A study of what would happen to Earth if the human presence was removed examines our legacy for the planet, from the objects that would vanish without human intervention to those that would become long-lasting remnants of humankind. Check the Catalog
Crozet-Monday Evening Book Club ( adult )
STONE DIARIES by Carol Shields
Date: June 01, 2009
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
From her birth in rural Manitoba, to her journey with her father to southern Indiana, to her years as a wife, mother, and widow, to her old age, Daisy Stone Goodwill struggles to find a place for herself in her own life.
Check the Catalog
Crozet-Monday Evening Book Club ( adult )
THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE THUNDERBOLT KID: A MEMOIR by Bill Bryson
Date: July 06, 2009
7:00 pm - 8:45 pm
The best-selling author of A Walk in the Woods describes his all-American childhood growing up as a member of the baby boom generation in the heart of Iowa, detailing his rich fantasy life as a superhero known as the Thunderbolt Kid and his his remarkably normal 1950's family life. Check the Catalog
Crozet-Monday Evening Book Club ( adult )
CHESAPEAKE by James Michener
Date: September 14, 2009
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
A panoramic narrative of human and animal life on Maryland's Eastern Shore focuses on a ten-square-mile area at the mouth of the Choptank River and the families that settle there, from the early seventeenth century to the present day.Check the Catalog
Crozet-Monday Evening Book Club ( adult )
FRANKENSTEIN by Mary Shelley
Date: October 05, 2009
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
The classic gothic novel presents the story of young Dr. Victor Frankenstein and his obsessive experiment that leads to the creation of a monstrous and deadly creature and unleashes a terrible series of events that destroys everything he loves. Check the Catalog
Crozet-Monday Evening Book Club ( adult )
AMERICAN LION: ANDREW JACKSON IN THE WHITE HOUSE by Jon Meacham
Date: November 02, 2009
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Chronicles the life and career of Andrew Jackson, a self-made man who went on to become a military hero and seventh president of the United States, analyzing Jackson's seminal role during a turbulent era in history. Check the Catalog
Crozet-Monday Evening Book Club ( adult )
MY FATHER'S TEARS AND OTHER STORIES by John Updike
Date: December 07, 2009
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
A collection of short fiction includes tales set in the author's native Pennsylvania, the New England suburbs, and foreign countries, all depicting different facets of the American experience from the Depression through the aftermath of 9/11. Check the Catalog
Crozet-Monday Evening Book Club ( adult )
THE GUERNSEY LITERARY AND POTATO PIE SOCIETY by Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows
Date: January 04, 2010
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
In 1946, writer Juliet Ashton finds inspiration for her next book in her correspondence with a native of Guernsey, who tells her about the Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, a book club born as an alibi during German occupation. Check the Catalog
Crozet-Monday Evening Book Club ( adult )
A LESSON BEFORE DYING by Ernest J. Gaines
THE BIG READ
Date: February 01, 2010
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
The story of two African American men struggling to attain manhood in a prejudiced society, the tale is set in Bayonne, La. in the late 1940s. It concerns Jefferson, a mentally slow, barely literate young man, who, though an innocent bystander to a shootout between a white store owner and two black robbers, is convicted of murder and sentenced to death, and the sophisticated, educated man who comes to his aid. Check the Catalog
Future Readings:
- Mar 1: THE ELEGANCE OF THE HEDGEHOG by Muriel Barbery (author) and Alison Anderson (translator)
- Apr 5: LITTLE BEE by Chris Cleave
Crozet-Monday Evening Book Club ( adult )
THE ELEGANCE OF THE HEDGEHOG by Muriel Barbery
Date: March 01, 2010
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
The lives of fifty-four-year-old concierge Rene Michel and extremely bright, suicidal twelve-year-old Paloma Josse are transformed by the arrival of a new tenant, Kakuro Ozu. Check the Catalog
Crozet-Monday Evening Book Club ( adult )
LITTLE BEE by Chris Cleave
Date: April 05, 2010
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
A haunting novel about the tenuous friendship that blooms between two disparate strangers--one an illegal Nigerian refugee, the other a recent widow from suburban London. Check the Catalog
Crozet-Monday Evening Book Club ( adult )
TIME AND AGAIN by Jack Finney
Date: May 03, 2010
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Simon Morley is selected by a secret government agency to test Einstein's theory of the past co-existing with the present and is transported back to 1880s New York. Check the catalog
Crozet-Monday Evening Book Club ( adult )
THE STORY OF EDGAR SAWTELLE by David Wroblewski
Date: June 07, 2010
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
A tale reminiscent of "Hamlet" that also celebrates the alliance between humans and dogs follows speech-disabled Wisconsin youth Edgar, who bonds with three yearling canines and struggles to prove that his sinister uncle is responsible for his father's death.
Check the catalog
Crozet-Monday Evening Book Club ( adult )
THE AGE OF AMERICAN UNREASON by Susan Jacoby
Date: July 12, 2010
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
An indictment of modern American culture examines the current disdain for logic and evidence fostered by the mass media, religious fundamentalism, poor public education, a lack of fair-minded intellectuals, and a lazy, credulous public. Check the catalog
Crozet-Monday Evening Book Club ( adult )
MIDDLEMARCH by George Eliot
Date: September 13, 2010
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
In nineteenth-century England, Dorthea Brooke's wishes to defy social conventions are inhibited by the strict nature of her surroundings.
Check the Catalog
Crozet-Monday Evening Book Club ( adult )
LET THE GREAT WORLD SPIN by Colum McCann
Date: October 04, 2010
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
In 1974 Manhattan, a radical young Irish monk struggles with personal demons while making his home among Bronx prostitutes, a group of mothers shares grief over their lost Vietnam soldier sons, and a young grandmother attempts to prove her worth. Check the Catalog
Crozet-Monday Evening Book Club ( adult )
MARCH by Geraldine Brooks
Date: November 01, 2010
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
In a story inspired by the father character in "Little Women" and drawn from the journals and letters of Louisa May Alcott's father, a man leaves behind his family to serve in the Civil War and finds his beliefs challenged by his experiences. Check the catalog
Future Readings:
- Dec 6: HOUSE OF MIRTH by Edith Wharton
- Jan 3: OUT STEALING HORSES by Per Petterson
- Feb 7: THE MALTESE FALCON by Dashiell Hammett
- Mar 7: WOMEN IN LOVE by D.H. Lawrence
Crozet-Monday Evening Book Club ( adult )
THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER by by Carson McCullers
Date: April 07, 2008
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
With the publication of this first novel, Carson McCullers became a literary sensation. With its profound sense of moral isolation and its compassionate glimpses into its characters' inner lives, the novel is considered McCullers' finest work, an enduring masterpiece. Check the Catalog
Crozet-Monday Evening Book Club ( adult )
THE SNOW LEOPARD by Peter Matthiessen
Date: May 05, 2008
7:00 pm - 8:45 pm
Published in 1978, The Snow Leopard is rightly regarded as a classic of modern nature writing. Guiding his readers through steep-walled canyons and over tall mountains, Matthiessen offers a narrative that is shot through with metaphor and mysticism, and his arduous search for the snow leopard becomes a vehicle for reflections on all manner of matters of life and death.
Check the Catalog
Crozet-Monday Evening Book Club ( adult )
A THOUSAND SPLENDID SUNS by Khaled Hosseini
Date: June 02, 2008
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Tells the wonderful, intensely moving story of how two modern Afghan women overcome the great challenges that have faced women in Afghanistan and rise above their victimization.
Check the Catalog
Crozet-Monday Evening Book Club ( adult )
THE BRIDGE OF SAN LUIS REY by Thornton Wilder
Date: July 07, 2008
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
The Bridge of San Luis Rey opens in the aftermath of an inexplicable tragedy--a tiny foot-bridge in Peru breaks, and five people hurtle to their deaths. For Brother Juniper, a humble monk who witnesses the catastrophe, the question in inescapable. Why those five? Suddenly, Brother Juniper is committed to discover what manner of lives they led--and whether it was divine intervention or a capricious fate that took their lives.
Check the Catalog
Crozet-Monday Evening Book Club ( adult )
MAYFLOWER: A STORY OF COURAGE, COMMUNITY AND WAR by Nathaniel Philbrick
Date: September 08, 2008
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
National Book Award winner Philbrick…now gives us a story of both heartbreaking misery and driving determination as he relates the Pilgrims' historic journey from Europe and their hardscrabble work to establish the Plymouth Colony... a jaw-dropping epic of heroes and villains, bravery and bigotry, folly and forgiveness. -Library Journal
Check the Catalog
Crozet-Monday Evening Book Club ( adult )
BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S by Truman Capote.
Date: October 06, 2008
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
A valentine of love, fashioned by way of reminiscences to one Holly Golightly. Capote makes unique reading. - The New York Times Book Review
Check the Catalog