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.
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Current Slate
- Dec. 1st, 2011 Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry
- Jan 5th, 2012 Too Big to Fail: the Inside Story of how Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System From Crisis and Themselves by Andrew Ross Sorkin
- Feb 2nd, 2012 Star of the Sea by Joseph O' Connor
- March 1st, 2012 Bless Me Ultima by Rudolpho Anaya
- April 5th, 2012 Tinkers by Paul Harding
- May 3rd, 2012 Nothing Daunted: The Unexpected Education of Two Society Girls in the West by Dorothy Wickenden
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Past Titles Read
- 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
Note: the Book group voted not to meet in July due to many members being unavailable.
- Aug 7th, 2011 Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
- Sept. 1st, 2011 Corelli's Mandolin by Louis De Bernieres
- Oct. 6th, 2011 The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
- July 1st, 2010 Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage: Stories by Alice Munro
- Aug. 5th, 2010 People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
- Sept. 2nd, 2010 A Guide to the Birds of East Africa by Nicholas Drayson
- Oct. 7th, 2010 The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
- Nov. 4th, 2010 Breakfast With Buddha by Roland Merullo
- Dec. 2nd, 2010 The Human Stain by Philip Roth
- Jan. 6th, 2011 Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Feb 3rd, 2011 THE BIG READ The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
- 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 THE BIG READ 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
- May 2010 Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen
- 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)
- THE BIG READ 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)
- The Gathering by Anne Enright (Aug. 6th 2009)
- The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski (Sept. 3rd, 2009)
