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CURRENT BOOK

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The Book of Maps
by Ernest Thompson
The Evening Book Discussion Group will discuss this book virtually on
Wednesday, June 18, at 7:00pm


PREVIOUSLY READ BOOKS:

2025
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Bicycling with Butterflies
​by Sara Dykman
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Things I Wish I Told My Mother
by Susan Patterson
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The Tobacco Wives
by Adele Myers
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Brave Hearted
by Katie Hickman
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The Dictionary of Lost Words
by Pip Williams
2024
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Christmas at Eagle Pond 
by Donald Hall 
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A Terrible Country
by Keith Gessen
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The Art of Gathering
by Priya Parker
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The Giver of Stars
Jojo Moyes
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The Lost Gutenberg
by Margaret Leslie Davis
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A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
by Anthony Marra
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Small Town, Big Oil
​by David W. Moore
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Foster
​by Claire Keegan
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The Obituary Writer
by Ann Hood
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The Untethered Soul
by Michael Singer
2023
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The Bear
by Andrew Krivak
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These Precious Days
By Ann Pratchett
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The Lost Girls of Paris
Pam Jenoff
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The Book of Form and Emptiness
​by Ruth Ozeki
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Fly Girl
by Ann Hood
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The 100-Year-Old-Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared
​by Jonas Jonasson
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Sisters of Mokama
by Jyoti Thottan
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Big Stone Gap
​by Adriana Trigiani
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Under the Sky We Make
​by Kimberly Nicholas

2022

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Mr. Dickins and His Carol
by Samantha Silva
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The Little Bookstore of Big Stone Gap
by Wendy Welch
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Ghostwalk
by Rebecca Stott
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The Ride of Her Life
by Elizabeth Letts
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The Soul of an Octopus
​by Sy Montgomery
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Little Heathens
by Mildred Armstrong Kalish
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The Good Daughters
by Joyce Maynard
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​Just Mercy
by Bryan Stevenson
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The Lady and the Unicorn
by Tracy Chevalier
 
 

2021

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The View From Mary’s Farm
by Edie Clark
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The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper
by Phaedra Patrick
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Meet Me at the Museum
by Anne Youngson
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Ernest Hemingway
by Mary V. Dearborn
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Ask Again, Yes
by Mary Beth Keane
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The Place He Made
by Edie Clark
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The Good Lord Bird
by James McBride
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Educated
by Tara Westover
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The Great Alone
by Kristin Hannah
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Book of Ages
by Jill Lepore
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Tenth of December
by George Saunders

2020

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The Soloist
by Steve Lopez
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Us
by David Nicholls
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Dark Tide
by Stephen Puleo



​"Sunday Driving and Rubbernecking"

by Carolyn Codding
Carolyn is one of our local Authors and is a member of the Chesley Memorial Library Writer's Group. During the uncertain times of the pandemic she shared her short story with us, keeping us motivated and occupied until we could meet again.
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Thunderstruck
by Erik Larson
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True History of the Kelly Gang
by Peter Carey




​BOOK CHAT
Occasionally, we step away from having an assigned book and discuss some of our favorite books we've read individually. It's a great opportunity to get recommendations from fellow readers.
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Becoming Grandma
by Lesley Stahl
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Last Christmas in Paris
by Hazel Gaynor

2019

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The Stranger in the Woods
by Michael Finkel
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Moonglow
by Michael Chabon
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Waking Up White
by Debby Irving
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The Story of Arthur Truluv
by Elizabeth Berg
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Furiously Happy
by Jenny Lawson
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Unsheltered
by Barbara Kingsolver
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Rise of the Rocket Girls by Nathalia Holt
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Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate
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The Undoing Project
by Michael Lewis
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Claire of the Sea Light
by Edwidge Danticat

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