The Lanpher Library hosts a book discussion on the third Tuesday of each month from 6:30-8:00. The discussions are free and all are welcome to join us.
Copies of the book are available for loan in advance at the Lanpher Library and are due back on or before the evening of the discussion.
Participants take turns choosing the book and facilitating the discussion.
Copies of the book are available for loan in advance at the Lanpher Library and are due back on or before the evening of the discussion.
Participants take turns choosing the book and facilitating the discussion.
Past discussion titles include:
June 2025: The Lamplighters, by Emma Stonex May 2025: Walkaway, by Cory Doctorow April 2025: The Great Alone, by Kristin Hannah March 2025: Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen, by Jose Antonio Vargas February 2025: Lady Tan's Circle of Women, by Lisa See January 2025: James, by Percival Everett November 2024: The Life and Crimes of Hoodie Rosen, by Isaac Blum October 2024: What You Are Looking for is in the Library, by Michiko Aoyama September 2024: Gather, by Kenneth Caddow August 2024: One Good Dog, by Susan Wilson July 2024: The House in the Cerulean Sea, by T.J. Klune June 2024: The Glass Chateau by Stephen P. Kiernan May 2024: Tom Lake, by Ann Patchett April 2024: In the Lives of Puppets, by T.J. Klune March 2024: The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store, by James McBride February 2024: The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley, by David Waldstreicher January 2024: West With Giraffes, by Lynda Rutledge November 2023: The Queens of Animation, by Nathalia Holt October 2023: Lessons in Chemistry, by Bonnie Garmus September 2023: The Book of Lost Friends, by Lisa Wingate August 2023: Worn: A People's History of Clothing, by Sofi Thanhauser July 2023: Six Crimson Cranes, by Elizabeth Lim June 2023: Last Night at the Telegraph Club, by Malinda Lo (VT Reads 2023) May 2023 Violeta, by Isabel Allende April 2023: Horse, by Geraldine Brooks March 2023: Still Life, by Sarah Winman February 2023: Overstory, by Richard Powers November/December 2022: Apeirogon, by Colum McCann October 2022: The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot, by Marianne Cronin September 2022: The Most Costly Journey, VT Reads 2022 August 2022: A Stranger Here Below, by Charles Fergus July 2022: The Personal Librarian, by Marie Benedict June 2022: The Barbizon, by Paulina Bren May 2022: A Gentleman in Moscow, by Amor Towles April 2022: Ordinary Grace, by William Kent Kruger March 2022 The Hare With Amber Eyes, by Edmund de Waal February 2022 The Gift of Rain, by Tan Twan Eng January 2022 The Guncle, by Steven Rowley November 2021 We Contain Multitudes, by Sarah Henstra (Vermont Reads 2021) October 2021 The Hummingbird's Daughter, by Louis Alberto Urrea September 2021 The Beekeeper of Aleppo, by Christy Lefteri August 2021 Weather, by Jenny Offill July 2021 The God of Small Things, by Arundhati Roy June 2021: Rising Out Of Hatred: The Awakening of a Former White Nationalist, by Eli Saslow May 2021 Vanishing Half, by Brit Bennett April 2021: Falter, by Bill McKibben March 2021: Island of Sea Women, by Lisa See February 2021: A Light in the Ruins, by Chris Bohjalian January 2021: Stamped: Racism, Antiracism and You, by Jason Reynolds & Ibram X. Kendi December 2020: Book Share November 2020: Shadows on the Rock, by Willa Cather October 2020: Major Pettigrew's Last Stand, by Helen Simonson September 2020: The Hate U Give, by Angie Thomas January 2020: Carnegie's Maid, by Marie Benedict November 2019: My Mortal Enemy, by Willa Cather October 2019 All Systems Red. by Martha Wells September 2019 Long Way Down, by Jason Reynolds August 2019 I Liked My Life, by Abby Fabiaschi July 2019 The Women in the Castle, by Jessica Shattuck June 2019 Where the Crawdads Sing, by Delia Owens May 2019 Lincoln in the Bardo, by George Saunders April 2019 The Buddha in the Attic, by Julie Otsuka March 2019, An American Marriage, by Tayari Jones February 2019 The Book Thief, by Markus Zusak January 2019 March: Book 1, by John Lewis November 2018: Women and Power, by Mary Beard October 2018: Educated, by Tara Westover September 2018 The Woman in Cabin 10, by Ruth Ware August 2018 The Girl with Seven Names, by Hyonseo Lee July 2018 An Address in Amsterdam, by Mary Dungee Fillmore June 2018: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, by Mary Ann Schaffer and Annie Barrows May 2018: Doc, by Mary Doria Russell April 2018: Maisie Dobbs, by Jaqueline Winspear March 2018: Bread and Roses Too, by Katherine Paterson (VT READS 2018) February 2018: Little Fires Everywhere, by Celeste Ng January 2018 Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane, by Lisa See Nobember 2017 A Man Called Ove, by Fredrik Backman October 2017 Orphan Train, by Christina Baker Kline Septbember 2017 Transatlantic, by Colum McCann August 2017 Braiding Sweetgrass, by Robin Wall Kimmerer July 2017 Tender is the Night, by F. Scott Fitzgerald June 2017 Tribe, by Sebastian Junger May 2017 A Long Way Home, by Saroo Brierly April 2017 The Grass Harp, by Truman Capote March 2017 Underground Railroad, by Colson Whitehead February 2017: Brown Girl Dreaming , by Jaqueline Woodson (VT READS 2017) December 2016/January 2017: The Thornbirds, by Colleen McCullough November 2016: The Art of Hearing Heartbeats, by Jan-Philipp Sendker October 2016: Not a Wasted Breath, by LaRecea Taylor Gibbs September 2016, The Beekeeper's Apprentice, by Laurie R. King August 2016, The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival, by John Valliant July 2016, A Prayer for Owen Meany, by John Iriving June 2016, Goodbye for Now, by Laurie Frankel May 2016 A Slant of Light, by Jeffrey Lent April 2016 H is for Hawk, by Helen Macdonald March 2016 Too Late the Phalarope, by Alan Paton February 2016 Three Can Keep a Secret, by Archer Mayor January 2016, All the Light We Cannot See, by Anthony Doerr December 2015, The All of It, by Jeannette Haien November 2015 The Professor's House, by Willa Cather October 2015: Water Witches, by Chris Bohjalian September 2015: Naked, by David Sedaris August 2015 Watership Down, by Richard Adams July 2015: Postmistress, by Sara Blake June 2015: Haroun and the Sea of Stories, by Salman Rushdie (VT Reads 2015) May 2015: October Light, by John Gardner April 2015: The Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, by Jamie Ford March 2015: White Teeth, by Zadie Smith February 2015: A Thousand Acres, by Jane Smiley January 2015: The Orphan Master's Son, by Adam Johnson December 2014: Reading Lolita in Tehran, by Azar Nafisi November 2014 The Proving Ground, by G. Bruce Knecht October 2014: The Alchemist, by Paolo Coelho September 2014: Olive Kitteridge, by Elizabeth Strout August 2014: A Stranger in the Kingdom, by Howard Frank Mosher July 2014 Wonder, by R.J. Palacio (VT Reads 2014) June 2014: Daisy Miller, by Henry James May 2014: Disgrace, by J.M. Coetzee April 2014: Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China, by Jung Chang March 2014: Mountains Beyond Mountains, by Tracy Kidder February 2014: The Lives of Girls and Women, by Alice Munro January 2014: The Language of Flowers, by Vanessa Diffenbaugh December 2013: Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, by Dai SiJie November 2013: A Study in Scarlett, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle October 2013: When We Were Orphans, by Kazuo Ishiguro September 2013: The Last Telegraph, by Liz Trenow August 2013: My Antonia, by Willa Cather July 2013: Secret Daughter, by Shipli Somaya May 2013: The Terra Cotta Dog, by Andrea Camillieri April 2013: The Paris Wife, by Paula McLain March 2013: Motherless Brooklyn, by Jonathan Lethem February 2013: Coyote Wisdom, by Lewis Mahl Madrone January 2013: The Pilot's Wife, by Anita Shreve 2012 Titles: Tuesdays With Morrie, by Mitch Albom To the Lighthouse, by Virginia Wolf Year of Wonders, by Geraldine Brooks Red Badge of Courage, by Stephen Crane Bull Run, by Paul Fliechman Skinwalkers, by Tony Hillerman The Water is Wide, by Pat Conroy |
Tuesday, July 15th
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Lanpher Memorial Library P.O. Box 196/141 Main St., Hyde Park, VT 05655
802-888-4628 [email protected]
802-888-4628 [email protected]