UPL Book Club

Last Wednesday of the Month at 1pm

The UPL Book Club is a group of enthusiastic readers who usually meet on the last Wednesday of each month, at 1pm in the Melvin Community Meeting Room at the library. Everyone is welcome!


UPL Book Club Selections for 2024

FEBRUARY
The Catcher in the Rye, by J. D. Salinger 277p

MARCH
Fairy Tale, by Stephen King 599p

APRIL
The Interpreter of Maladies, by Jhumpa Lahiri 198p

MAY
Sea of Tranquility, by Emily St. John Mandel 255p

JUNE
Lessons in Chemistry, by Bonnie Garmus 390p

JULY
Covenant of Water, by Abraham Verghese 724p

AUGUST
Ink Blood Sister Scribe, by Emma Torzs 407p

SEPTEMBER
What an Owl Knows: The new science of the world’s most enigmatic birds, by Jennifer Ackerman 333 p

OCTOBER
Horse, by Geraldine Brooks 401p

NOVEMBER*
Drive Your Plough Over the Bones of the Dead, by Olga Tokarczuk 274p

*Meeting rescheduled to Wednesday, December 4th at 1 pm in the Melvin Room.

DECEMBER**
This Other Eden, by Paul Harding 221p

**Meeting rescheduled to Wednesday, January 8th at 1 pm in the History Room.


ALTERNATIVE SELECTIONS:

  • First Women: The Grace and Power of America’s Modern First Ladies by Kate Andersen Bower

  • Amazing Grace Adams, by Fran Littlewood

  • Heaven and Earth Grocery Store, by James McBride

  • Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World, by Naomi Klein

  • The Lemon Tree: an Arab, a Jew, and the heart of the Middle East, by Sandy Tolan