Library Book Discussions
Leonardtown Library
Lexington Park Library
Charlotte Hall Library
- Feel free to drop in for any book discussion at any branch. No registration is required.
- Copies of the books are available at the Circulation Desk of the library hosting the discussion.
- The books have an extended due date, usually one week after the discussion, to allow you to review the book after the discussion.
- If you would like to attend but have not finished the book, please come but be aware the ending will be disclosed.
- Enjoy the discussion … and tell a friend!
- 2013 Book Discussion Titles
Leonardtown Library
3rd Thursday at 7:00 PM
January 17
Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel
February 121
Than Frome by Edith Wharton
March 21
The Pearl by John Steinbeck
April 18
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
May 16
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce
June 20
Emily Alone by Steward O’Nan
July 18
The Known World by Edward P. Jones
August 15
The Right-Hand Shore by Christopher Tilghman
September 19
The Round House by Louise Erdrich
October 17
TBD One Maryland, One Book
November 21
Wild Decembers by Edna O’Brien
December 19
Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White
Lexington Park Library
2nd Monday at 6:00 PM
January 14
The Better Angel: Walt Whitman in the Civil War by Roy Morris, Jr.
February 11
Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President by Candice Millard
March 11
Ford County by John Grisham
April 8
The Great War and Modern Memory by Paul Fussell
May 14
The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
June 10
Arguably: Essays by Christopher Hitchens
July 8
Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman by Robert K. Massie
August 12
Smilla’s Sense of Snow by Peter Hoeg
September 9
Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood by Alexandra Fuller
October 21 (3rd Monday)
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
November 18 (3rd Monday)
Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel
December 9
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Can’t Stop Talking by Susan Cain
Charlotte Hall Library
1st Monday at 7:00 PM
January 7
The Heretic’s Daughter by Kathleen Kent
February 4
Caleb’s Crossing by Geraldine Brooks
March 4
One Thousand White Women by Jim Fergus
April 1
The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom
May 6
Rules of Civility by Amor Towles
June 3
The Sight of the Stars by Belva Plain
July 1
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
August 5
The Newlyweds by Nell Frendenberger
September 9 (2nd Monday)
Midnight in Peking by Paul French
October 7
TBD One Maryland One Book
November 4
A Good Man: Rediscovering My Father, Sargent Shriver by Mark Shriver
December 2
Faithful Place by Tana French
