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Article in Book Groups
On the third Thursday of the month bring your lunch to the Central Branch of JMRL and discuss fiction and non-fiction books. Library staff will provide value-added content and lead the discussion. Drinks and desserts will be provided. Send an email to be added to our mailing list.
BrownBaggers’ selections for February 2015 - April 2016:
- The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd (February 2015)
- The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri (March 2015)
This is the Big Read 2015 title.
- A Visit From the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan (April 2015)
- The Reader by Bernard Schlink (May 2015)
- We Were Liars by E. Lockhart (June 2015)
- Thank You, Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse (July 2015)
- Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand (August 2015)
- The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman (September 2015)
- Dear Committee Members by Julie Schumacher (October 2015)
- All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr (November 2015)
No December 2015 selection
- The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters (January 2016)
- Radiance of Tomorrow by Ishmael Beah (February 2016)
- The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (March 2016)
This is the Big Read 2016 title.
- The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan (April 2016)
BrownBaggers’ selections for February 2014 - January 2015:
- The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Steadman (February 2014)
- True Grit by Charles Portis (March 2014)
This is the Big Read 2014 title.
- Dear Life by Alice Munro (April 2014)
- Mr. Penumbra's 24 Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloane (May 2014)
- The Book of Daniel by E.L. Doctorow (June 2014)
- Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain (July 2014)
- Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain (August 2014)
- Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe (September 2014)
- I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai with Christina Lamb (October 2014)
- The Good Lord Bird by James McBride (November 2014)
No December 2014 selection
- The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt (January 2015)
BrownBaggers’ selections for February 2013 - January 2014:
- Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery (February 2013)
- Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan (March 2013)
This is the Big Read 2013 Title.
- House of Stone: a Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East by Anthony Shadid (April 2013)
- American Pastoral by Philip Roth (May 2013)
- Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes (June 2013)
- A Train in Winter: an Extraordinary Story of Women, Friendship, and Resistance in Occupied France by Caroline Moorehead (July 2013)
- Canada by Richard Ford (August 2013)
- A Study in Scarlet by A. C. Doyle (September 2013)
- Master of the Mountain by Henry Wiencek (October 2013)
- Sweet Tooth by Ian McEwan (November 2013)
No selection for December 2013
- Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver (January 2014)
BrownBaggers’ selections for February 2012 - January 2013:
- Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford (February 2012)
- Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo A. Anaya (March 2012)
This is the Big Read 2012 Title.
- People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks (April 2012)
- Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali (May 2012)
- The Good Priest's Son by Reynolds Price (June 2012)
- The Hare with Amber Eyes: a Family's Century of Art and Loss by Edmund de Waal (July 2012)
- The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey (August 2012)
- The Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller (September 2012)
- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Sloot (October 2012)
- We, the Drowned by Carsten Jensen (November 2012)
No selection for December 2012
- Bleak House by Charles Dickens (January 2013)
BrownBaggers’ selections for February 2011 - January 2012:
- Child of My Heart by Alice McDermott (February 2011)
- The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett (March 2011 The group's meeting will be March 24th instead of 17th due to Virginia Festival of the Book.)
- Confederates in the Attic by Tony Horwitz (April 2011)
- Look Homeward, Angel by Tom Wolfe (May 2011)
- Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson (June 2011)
- One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (July 2011)
- The Help by Kathryn Stockett (August 2011)
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (September 2011)
- Charming Billy by Alice McDermott (October 2011)
- The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey by Candice Millard (November 2011)
No selection for December 2011
- Moby Dick by Herman Melville (January 2012)
BrownBaggers’ selections for February 2010 – January 2011:
- A Lesson before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines (February 2010)
- An Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett (The group's meeting will be March 11th instead of 18th due to Virginia Festival of the Book.)
- The City of Falling Angels by John Berendt (April 2010)
- The Sun also Rises by Ernest Hemingway (May 2010)
- A Cook's Tour : in Search of the Perfect Meal by Anthony Bourdain (June 2010)
- The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer (July 2010)
- City of Thieves by David Benioff (August 2010)
- The Professor and the Mad Man by Simon Winchester (September 2010)
- Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (October 2010)
- Slaughterhouse-five by Kurt Vonnegut (November 2010)
No selection for December 2010
- The Maples Stories by John Updike (January 2011)
BrownBaggers’ selections for September 2008 – January 2010:
- Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen (September 2008)
- An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England by Brock Clarke (October 2008)
- A Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin (November 2008)
No selection for December 2008
- Run by Ann Patchett (January 2009)
- Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston (February 2009)
- The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (March 2009)
- Devil in the White City by Erik Larsen (April 2009)
- The Painted House by John Grisham (May 2009)
- My Stroke of Insight by Jill Bolte Taylor (June 2009)
- Loving Frank by Nancy Horan (July 2009)
- Netherland by Joseph O'Neill (August 2009)
- March by Geraldine Brooks (September 2009)
- Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (October 2009)
- Embers by Sàndor Màrai (November 2009)
No selection for December 2009
- Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (January 2010)