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Library Virtual Book Group

a monthly book discussion group on Zoom
Hotel Cuba by Aaron Hamburger

The library's virtual book group meets the third Friday of the month at 10 am on Zoom.

For April 2024 we will continue our Historical Fiction theme with a discussion of Hotel Cuba by Aaron Hamburger. There will be extra copies of the book at the Library Front Desk. The book is also available as an ebook and audiobook on Hoopla. Send us an email at tricia@wigginml.org for more information. Please note that the size of the group is limited due to the virtual discussion format.

Previous WML Library Book Group Themes:

Exploring Historical Fiction:

  • The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich
  • Washington Black by Esi Edugyan
  • Hotel Cuba by Aaron Hamburger
  • The Whalebone Theatre by Joanna Quinn
  • Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson

Exploring Memoirs:

  • Travels with Charley by John Steinbeck
  • Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner
  • The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating by Elisabeth Tova Bailey
  • March - Book 1 by John Lewis
Exploring Mysteries:
  • The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
  • The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
  • The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
  • The Widows of Malabar Hill by Sujata Massey
  • Bluebird, Bluebird by Attica Locke
  • The Firekeeper's Daughter by Angeline Boulley
Books About Music:
  • The Song of the Lark by Willa Cather
  • Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
  • The Violin Conspiracy by Brendan Slocumb
  • Girls Like Us by Sheila Weller
Books About Books:
  • The Library Book by Susan Orlean
  • Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
  • The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
  • The End of Your Life Book Club by Will Schwalbe
Bitter Injustice:
  • Facing the Mountain: A True Story of Japanese American Heroes of World War II by Daniel James Brown
Reading Around the World: Latin American Literature
  • A Long Petal of the Sea by Isabel Allende
  • In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez
  • One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Waiting for Snow in Havana by Carlos Eire
  • Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Women in Science:
  • The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert
  • The Glass Universe by Dava Sobel
  • Remarkable Creatures by Tracy Chevalier
  • Chemistry by Weike Want
  • Lab Girl by Hope Jahren
Pandemic Reads (only things available on Hoopla)
  • An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
  • The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michelle Richardson
  • Another Brooklyn by Jacqueline Woodson
  • Cherokee America by Margaret Verble
  • Girl Waits with Gun by Amy Stewart
  • Arctic Fury by Greer Macallister
  • The Boston Girl by Anita Diamant
  • The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
  • The Queen's Gambit by Walter Tevis
  • The Orphan Collector by Ellen Marie Wiseman
  • The Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
  • The Round House by Louise Erdrich
  • The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
  • Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
  • The Tenth Muse by Catherine Chung
Gothic Novels:
  • Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
  • Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
  • Dracula by Bram Stoker
  • Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
  • The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry
  • The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
Reading Around the World - African Literature
  • Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
  • Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight by Alexandra Fuller
  • Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
  • The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by William Kamkwamba
Coming of Age Novels:
  • A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
  • Tell the Wolves I'm Home by Carol Rifka Brunt
Graphic Novels:
  • Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant by Roz Chast
  • The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
The Immigrant Experience in Fiction:
  • Girl in Translation by Jean Kwok
  • Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozie Adichie
  • The Book of Unknown Americans by Cristina Henriquez
  • Salt Houses by Hala Alyan
  • The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
Memoirs:
  • My Beloved World by Sonia Sotomayor
  • Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah
  • This Life is in Your Hands by Melissa Coleman
A Novel Look at Art:
  • The Muralist by B.A. Shapiro
  • The Music Lesson by Katharine Weber
  • The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver

Austenmania:

  • Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
  • Longbourn by Jo Baker
  • Eligible by Curtis Sittenfeld

 

 

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