Brown Baggers Book Group (Central Library)

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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 January 2016 - May 2017:

• 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)

• One Summer: America, 1927 by Bill Bryson (May 2016)

• Howard's End by E.M. Forster (June 2016)

• The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion (July 2016)

• The Boys in the Boat (August 2016)

• King, Queen, Knave by Vladimir Nabokov (September 2016)

• Gray Mountain by John Grisham (October 2016)

• The Round House by Louise Erdrich (November 2016)

No December 2016 selection

• The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas (January 2017)

• The English Passengers by Matthew Kneale (February 2017)

The Big Read - Title TBA (March 2017)

• Mornings on Horseback by David McCullough (April 2016)

• Old Filth by Jane Gardam (May 2016)

BrownBaggers’ selections for February 2015 - December 2015:

• 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

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)