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Book Club Kits
Book club kits are available from all branch libraries and may be requested from the online catalog. The checkout limit is 2 kits, the loan period is 6 weeks and a kit may be renewed 1 time.
Bethesda Book Group
The Bethesda Book Group for adults meets on the first Thursday of each month at 6:30 p.m. New members are always welcome. Check out our calendar for events.
Tuesday Morning Book Club
New members are always welcome to join our lively, informal discussions. The club, a joint venture of the Library and FiftyForward College Grove, is open to adults of all ages. We meet on the third Tuesday of the month at 9 a.m. Check out our calendar for events.
Avid Readers Book Group
The Avid Readers Book Club will meet on fourth Wednesday each month at 1 p.m. to discuss the books that individual members have read during the past month. New members are always welcome to all groups. See Fairview's home page or email the Library for more information. Check out our calendar for events.
Fairview Book Club
The Fairview Book Club meets on the second Tuesday of every month at 6:30 p.m. Check out our calendar for events.
Best Reads Book Club
The Best Reads Book Club meets on the third Thursday of each month at 1 p.m. Meetings are usually held in the Williamson Room on the second floor of the Main Library in Franklin. New readers are welcome. Check out our calendar for events. Upcoming Book Discussions:
2019
November 21 The Woman's Hour by Elaine Weiss.
December 19 Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
2020
January 16 Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover
February 20 The Judge Hunter by Christopher Buckley
March. 19 I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban by Christina Lamb and Malala Yousafzai
April 16 The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah
May 21 Lost Horizon by James Hilton
June 18 Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
July 16 The Impossible Rescue: The True Story of an Amazing Arctic Adventure by Martin W. Sandler
August 20 The Alice Network by Kate Quinn
September 17 Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson
October 15 I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter by Erika L. Sanchez
November 19 Becoming by Michelle Obama
December 17 The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder
Literary Ladies Book Club
The Literary Ladies Book Club meets the third Monday at 6 p.m. in the Board Room on the second floor of the library. New members are always welcome. Check out our calendar for events.
November 18 The Christmas Jars by Jason F Wright
December 17 News of the World by Paulette Giles
2020
January 27 The Flight Attendant by Chris Bohjalian
February 24 Circe by Madeline Miller
March 16 The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris
April 20 Cuckoo’s Calling by Robert Galbraith
May 18 Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
June 15 Love thy neighbor: a Muslim doctor’s struggle for home in rural America by Ayaz Virgi
July 20 The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden
August 17 Next year in Havana by Chanel Cleeton
September 21 Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
October 19 The Good Neighbor: the life and work of Fred Rogers by Maxwell King
November 16 Dutch girl: Audrey Hepburn and World War II by Robert Matzen
Dec 21 Educated by Tara Westover
Eclectic Readers
The Eclectic Readers meet the third Thursday of every month at 1 p.m. to discuss a book selection. There is no meeting in December. Check out our calendar for events.