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Book Discussions at Somerset County Libraries |
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Winter Book Discussion Drawing!
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Winter is the perfect time to catch up with your reading! It's also the perfect time to get together with fellow readers and talk about books. Join the discussion at a book group at one of our branches from January through March and each time you participate get a drawing ticket. Lucky winners will receive $25 gift cards to Barnes & Noble.
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Thursday, May 16th at 7:00pm The sun also risesby Ernest HemingwayAn eightieth anniversary edition of the Nobel Prize-winning classic author's first novel follows the dual story of a wounded war correspondent's hopeless pursuit of an unattainable lady and a band of expatriates' 1920s journey from Paris's Left Bank to the bull fights of Spain. |
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Thursday, July 18th at 7:00pm |
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Popular Fiction Book Discussion
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Tuesday, May 21st at 7:00pm Once upon a river : a novel by Diane SetterfieldWhen the seemingly dead body of a child reanimates hours after arriving at an ancient inn on the Thames, three families try to claim her in the new novel from the best-selling author of The Thirteenth Tale. |
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Tuesday, June 18th at 7:00pm The river : a novel by Peter HellerOn a wilderness canoe trip in Northern Canada, best friends Jack and Wynn find their survival skills and longtime friendship tested by a wildfire, white-water hazards, and two mysterious strangers |
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Mysterious Mornings
Love a good mystery? Always looking for a new book because you've read EVERYTHING by your favorite author? Or do you just really enjoy reading mysteries? come and join our Mysterious Morning discussions!
Every other month we'll discuss a different sub-genre of mysteries. Pick a book from an author you haven't read already and tell the group all about it. There's only one big rule -- don't tell us how it ends!
A list of suggested authors and titles are available at the Bridgewater Library and books will be on display about a month prior to the discussion. (If you're a voracious mystery reader you can read more than one. May's Mystery Type: Bookshop & Literary Mysteries Wednesday, May 8th 10am - 11:30am July's Mystery Type: Legal Thrillers Wednesday, July 10th 10am - 11:30am |
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"Suspense with Susie" Discussion Group
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Tuesday, May 21st at 7:00pm Lying in wait : a novel by Liz NugentThe wife of a respected judge and mother to a beloved son finds their home in Dublin thrown into devastating turmoil by her son's discovery of dark family secrets. By the best-selling author of Unraveling Oliver |
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Tuesday, July 23rd at 7:00pm The vanishing season : A Mystery by Joanna SchaffhausenAn award-winning first novel follows the experiences of a police officer who hides her identity as a serial killer's only surviving victim while overseeing petty crime in a sleepy community where the disappearances of three people on a fateful anniversary compels the officer to reach out to the FBI agent who saved her years earlier. |
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Nighttime Book Discussion Group
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Monday, May 13th at 6:00pm A dog's purpose by W. Bruce CameronSearching for his purpose over the course of multiple canine lives, Bailey is reborn as a golden-haired puppy after a tragic death as a stray and shares a loving bond with young Ethan before he again dies and starts over, in a story that inspired the film set to be released in January 2017. By a New York Times best-selling author. Reprint. Movie tie-in. |
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Monday, June 10th at 6:00pm In the heart of the sea : the tragedy of the whaleship Essex by Nathaniel PhilbrickRecounts the story of the 1820 wreck of the whaleship Essex—which inspired Melville's classic Moby Dick—and its doomed crew's 90-day attempt to survive whale attacks and the elements on three tiny lifeboats, in a book that is the basis of the forthcoming film directed by Ron Howard. |
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Monday, July 8th at 6:00pm Before we were yours : a novel by Lisa WingateA tale inspired by firsthand accounts about the notoriously corrupt Tennessee Children's Home Society follows the efforts of a Baltimore assistant D.A. to uncover her parents' fateful secrets in the wake of a political attack and a chance encounter with a stranger. |
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Daytime Book Discussion Group
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Wednesday, May 15th at 12:00pm Surprise me : a novel by Sophie KinsellaWhen the fragile contentment in their marriage is shattered by someone's casual remark about how many more years they will be together, Sylvie and Dan agree to arrange surprises for each other to revitalize their relationship, only to encounter a comical series of mishaps. |
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Wednesday, June 19th at 12:00pm Regrets only : a novel by Erin DuffyAfter catching her husband cheating, a suburban mom throws herself into a business enterprise with two friends and finds herself heading down a road to self-discovery and possibly a new relationship. By the author of Bond Girl. 25,000 first printing. |
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Wednesday, July 17th at 12:00pm The husband hour by Jamie BrennerA surprise visitor interrupts a young widow's reclusive life in a charming beach town, forcing her to reckon with dark secrets about her family, her late husband and the past she has tried to leave behind. By the author of The Gin Lovers. 50,000 first printing. |
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Fantasy Book Discussion Group
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Tuesday, April 16th at 6:30pm Ender's game by Orson Scott CardAn expert at simulated war games, Andrew "Ender" Wiggin believes that he is engaged in one more computer war game when, in truth, he is commanding the last Earth fleet against an alien race seeking Earth's complete destruction |
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Tuesday, May 21st at 6:30pm The dreamers : a novel by Karen Thompson WalkerThe best-selling author of The Age of Miracles presents the story of a student at an isolated Southern California college town who witnesses a strange sleeping illness that subjects patients to life-altering, heightened dreams |
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Tuesday, June 18th at 6:30pm Vox by Christina DalcherMarginalized in a near-future America where the government limits women to no more than 100 spoken words daily before outlawing women's education and employment altogether, a former doctor resolves to be heard for the sake of her daughter. |
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Tuesday, July 16th at 6:30pm All our wrong todays : a novel by Elan MastaiLiving in an alternate world of flying cars, moon bases and plentiful food, aimless Tom Barren is blindsided by an accident of fate that leads to a time-travel mishap that lands him in our less-than-ideal 2016, where he discovers wonderful unexpected versions of his own life. |
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Thursday, May 2nd at 6:00pm Best day ever by Kaira Sturdivant RoudaAs Paul and Mia Strom drive out of the city and toward the countryside, a spike of tension begins to wedge itself between them and doubts start to arise. How much do they trust each other? And how perfect is their marriage, or any marriage, really? By a USA Today best-selling author. 60,000 first printing. |
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Thursday, June 6th at 6:00pm The last time I lied : a novel by Riley SagerAn artist who witnessed the disappearance of her bunkmates at summer camp as a young girl accepts an opportunity to return to Camp Nightingale as a painting instructor and tries to discover what really happened to her friends. |
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Thursday, July 11th at 6:00pm All is not forgotten by Wendy WalkerGiven a controversial drug to erase her memory of a violent assault, young Jenny Kramer struggles with difficult emotional memories that linger months later as her father becomes obsessed with revenge and her mother descends into denial |
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Tuesday Morning Page Turners
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Tuesday, May 14th at 10:00am Eleanor Oliphant is completely fine by Gail HoneymanA socially awkward, routine-oriented loner teams up with a bumbling IT guy from her office to assist an elderly accident victim, forging a friendship that saves all three from lives of isolation and secret unhappiness. A first novel. |
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Tuesday, June 11th at 10:00am Sourdough : a novel by Robin SloanEnduring a virtually solitary existence working for an ambitious software company, an exhausted coder is bequeathed a sourdough recipe from sibling bakers who are forced to close their shop, a gift that leads to a new vocation, a legal dispute and a venture into a secret market that fuses food with technology. |
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Tuesday, July 9th at 10:00am We are not ourselves : a novel by Matthew ThomasRaised by her Irish immigrant parents in a 1940s Queens apartment where alcohol and company combine in mercurial ways, Eileen marries an unambitious scientist with whom she endures an increasingly psychologically dark family life. A first novel. |
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American History Book Discussion Group
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Thursday, May 16th at 7:00pm The witches : Salem, 1692 by Stacy SchiffThe Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Cleopatra analyzes the Salem Witch Trials to offer key insights into the role of women in its events while explaining how its tragedies became possible. |
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Thursday, April 4th at 1:00pm or Thursday, April 18th at 7:15pm The muralist by Barbara A. ShapiroAuction-house employee Danielle Abrams investigates the unsolved disappearance of her famous artist great-aunt when she discovers enigmatic paintings hidden behind Abstract Expressionist works created decades earlier. By the New York Times best-selling author of The Art Forger. Reprint. A national best-seller. |
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Thursday, May 2nd at 1:00pm by Jamie FordA half-Chinese orphan whose mother sacrificed everything to give him a better chance is raffled off as a prize at Seattle's 1909 World's Fair, only to land in the ownership of the madam of a notorious brothel where he finds friendship and opportunities, in a story based on true events. |
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Thursday, May 16th at 7:15pm The last time I lied : a novel by Riley SagerAn artist who witnessed the disappearance of her bunkmates at summer camp as a young girl accepts an opportunity to return to Camp Nightingale as a painting instructor and tries to discover what really happened to her friends. |
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Thursday, June 13th at 1:00pm or Thursday, June 20th at 7:15pm News of the world : a novel by Paulette JilesA live news reader traveling the antebellum south is offered $50 to bring an orphan girl, who was kidnapped and raised by Kiowa raiders, back to her family in San Antonio in this new novel from the author of Enemy Women. |
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Thursday, July 11th at 1:00pm or Thursday, July 18th at 7:15pm The widows of Malabar Hill by Sujata MasseyIn 1921, Bombay's first female lawyer, Oxford graduate Perveen Mistry, investigates a suspicious will on behalf of three Muslim widows living in strict seclusion who become subject to a murderous guardian's schemes for their inheritances |
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Thursday, April 25th at 1:30pm Pachinko by Min Jin LeeIn early 1900s Korea, prized daughter Sunja finds herself pregnant and alone, bringing shame on her family until a young tubercular minister offers to marry her and bring her to Japan, in the saga of one family bound together as their faith and identity are called into question. |
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Thursday, April 30th at 7:15pm Little fires everywhere : a novel by Celeste NgFighting an ugly custody battle with an artistic tenant who has little regard for the strict rules of their progressive Cleveland suburb, a straitlaced family woman who is seeking to adopt a baby becomes obsessed with exposing the tenant's past, only to trigger devastating consequences for both of their families. |
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Thursday, May 16th at 1:30pm Meet me at the museum by Anne YoungsonA disenchanted farmer's wife and a widowed museum curator begin a correspondence over their mutual fascination with poet Seamus Heaney's "The Tollund Man" and gradually share details from their lives, forging an unexpected bond along the way. |
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Thursday, June 5th at 7:15pm 1984 by George OrwellPortrays life in a future time when a totalitarian government watches over all citizens and directs all activities |
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Thursday, June 20th at 1:30pm Rebecca by Daphne Du MaurierAt the great Cornwall estate of Manderley, Maxim de Winter and his frightened new wife try to live with the haunting legacy of Maxim's first wife, the beautiful and cold Rebecca, who died in a sailing accident |
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Thursday, July 18th at 7:15pm Killers of the Flower Moon : The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David GrannPresents a true account of the early 20th-century murders of dozens of wealthy Osage and law-enforcement officials, citing the contributions and missteps of a fledgling FBI that eventually uncovered one of the most chilling conspiracies in American history. Reprint. A New York Times best-seller and National Book Award finalist. |
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Thursday, May 9th at 7:30pm Mennonite in a little black dress : a memoir of going home by Rhoda JanzenA poet describes how, after her husband left her for a relationship with a man and she subsequently was seriously injured in a car crash, she returned home to her close-knit Mennonite family and came to terms with her failed marriage and her choices in life |
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Thursday, June 13th at 7:30pm Mornings on horseback by David McCulloughExamines the life of Theodore Roosevelt from age ten to twenty-seven, focusing on the influence of his family relationships and experiences on his growth to manhood |
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Thursday, July 11th at 7:30pm The Eyre affair : a novel by Jasper FfordeIn a world where you can actually get lost (literally) in literature, Thursday Next, a notorious Special Operative in literary detection, races against time to stop the world's Third Most Wanted criminal from kidnapping characters, including Jane Eyre, from works of literature, forcing her to dive into the pages of a novel to stop literary homicide, in a wildly imaginative, mesmerizing thriller. |
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Somerset County Library System of New Jersey1 Vogt Drive
P.O. Box 6700
Bridgewater, New Jersey 08807
(908) 526-4016www.sclsnj.org/ |
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