In the fall of 2008 Main Library began our first downtown book discussion group. You are invited to join our growing group.

It isn’t like school – Our goal is lively, informal, and friendly conversation about books that you help choose.  All that you need to be a part of the group is a love and enthusiasm for reading.  The library provides the books.

The First Wednesday Book Group meets the first Wednesday of every month – our name may have given that away - at 7 p.m. in the Main Library. Call Popular Culture at 330-643-9035 for more information and the title of our current read.

Wednesday June 6th
Good Omens, by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett

 Previous 2012 Titles

Downtown Owl, by Chuck Klosterman
 Mr. Peanut, by Adam Ross
The Little Disturbances of Man, by Grace Paley
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot
Finding Nouf, by Zoe Ferraris

Previous 2011 Titles
The Razor’s Edge, by W. Somerset Maugham
In Defense of Food, by Michael Pollan
 All the Pretty Horses by  Cormac McCarthy
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close , by Jonathan Safran Foer
The Tender Bar by J.R. Moehringer
Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
King of Lies by John Hart
Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Founding Brothers by Joseph Ellis
Saint Maybe by Anne Tyler
Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
Super Sad True Love Story by Gary Shteyngart

2010 Titles
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
The Sea by John Banville
The Lost City of Z by David Grann
How To Be Good by Nick Hornby
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
Brooklyn by Colm Toibin
Await Your Reply by Dan Chaon
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
A Gate at the Stairs by Lorrie Moore
People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks

2008-2009 Titles
Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris
Crooked River Burning by Mark Winegardner
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Dear American Airlines by Jonathan Miles
Tender Is The Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
All Over But The Shoutin’ by Rick Bragg
The Space Between Us by Thrity Umrigar
Theft:  A Love Story by Peter Carey
Supreme Courtship by Christopher Buckley
Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
On The Road by Jack Kerouac
O Pioneers by Willa Cather
The Plot Against America by Philip Roth
The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga