First Thursday Book Group of Greene Co. Library
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This adult group meets on the first Thursday of every month at 7 pm in the meeting room of the Greene County Library. We pick the books we'll read every six months or so, by voting on member's suggestions. We read a combination of fiction and non-fiction. Everyone is welcome to attend. Please call 434-985-5227 for more information.
Current Slate
- Apr. 7th, 2011 Remarkable Creatures by Tracy Chevalier
- May 5th, 2011 What the Dog Saw and Other Adventure Stories by Malcolm Gladwell
- June 2nd, 2011 The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
- July 7th, 2011 Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
- Aug. 4th, 2011 Corelli's Mandolin by Louis De Bernieres
- Sept. 1st, 2011 The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
Past Titles Read
- Nov. 5, 2009 Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
- Dec. 3, 2009 Sky Burial: An Epic Love Story of Tibet by Xinran
- Jan. 7, 2010 (2nd Thurs.due to the New Year's holiday) Middlemarch by George Eliot
- Feb. 4, 2010 Remembering the Bones by Frances Itani
- Mar. 4, 2010 A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines
- Apr. 1, 2010 Ghost Train to the Eastern Star: On the Tracks of the Great Railway Bazaar by Paul Theroux
- Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert (Nov. 6)
- A Judgment In Stone by Ruth Rendell (Dec. 4)
- The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak (Jan 8, due to holiday)
- Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston (March 5, 2009)
- Washington Square by Henry James (April 2, 2009)
- Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout (May 7, 2009)
- The Places In Between by Rory Stewart (June 4, 2009)
- When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro (July 2, 2009)
