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Mystic & Noank Library Best Book Club
The 100 Books Club is for all of us who have not (yet) read all of those titles on The NY Times list of the 100 best books of the 21st century. The club will give us a chance to not only read all (or most!) of them, but to kibbutz about their worthiness to be on such a list.
We will meet in the Ames Room the third Monday of every month at 5:30 PM. All are welcome to join!
Contact Chris Bradley at cbradley@mysticnoanklibrary.org for details.
January 27th: My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
February 24th: Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
March 24th: Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe
April 28th: Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
History Book Discussion Group (Currently Meeting on Zoom)
The History Book Club meets on the second Monday of the month at 7:00 on Zoom. All readers are welcome to join. The Library works to provide copies of the books being discussed. Copies of the current selection are available at the front desk. Call the library at (860) 536-7721 for more information.
Feb. 11 (1st half) & March 11 (finish): Hitler's Jewish Soldiers: the Untold Story of Nazi Racial Laws and Men of Jewish Descent in the German Military, by Bryan Mark Rigg (2002)
April 8 (1st half) & May 13 (finish): Caste: the Origins of our Discontents, by Isabel Wilkerson (2020)
June 10 (1st half) & July 8 (finish): Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power, by Steve Coll (2012)
Previous titles:
Paris 1919, The Sisterhood, The Bishop and the Butterfly, New England at 400, Empress of the Nile , Creating Connecticut:, American Nations, Napoleon and Wellington, Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Siste, by Jung Chang, The Chancellor: The Remarkable Odyssey of Angela Merkel, by Kati Marton, October: The Story of the Russian Revolution, by China Mieville, London: The Biography, by Peter Ackroyd, Hemingway's Hurricane, Goering's Man in Paris, Aftermath: Life in the Fallout of the Third Reich 1945-1955, Kingdom of Characters, The Splendid and the Vile, The Empire of Pain, The Man Who Ran Washington, Trail of Tears, The Bomber Mafia,The Quiet Americans, The Battle of Stonington, The State of Jones, The Lodger Shakespeare: His Life on Silver Street, The Map that Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology, Bunker Hill: A City, A Siege, A Revolution, A Woman of No Importance, The Name of War: King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity, Empire: How Spain Became a World Power, The Invention of Nature, The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West, The Ornament of the World: How Muslims, Jews and Christians Created a Culture of Tolerance in Medieval Spain, by Maria Rosa Menocal, The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism, by Edward E. Baptist, Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century, by George Packer
