Book Discussions
Note: The Glen Allen book discussion group meets at the Dumbarton Area Library. The Glen Allen branch is closed temporarily for expansion and renovation; it will reopen in 2010.
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Absurdistan by Gary Shteyngart
January 12, 7:30 p.m. Gayton Branch Library
April 6, 1:00 p.m. Gayton Branch Library
Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler
April 9, 1:00 p.m. & 7:30 p.m. Tuckahoe Area Library
Adrift: Twenty-six Days Lost at Sea by Steven Callahan
August 5, 7:00 p.m. Twin Hickory Area Library
The Age of Missing Information by Bill McKibben
February 16, 7:00 p.m. North Park Branch Library
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: a Year of Food for Life by Barbara Kingsolver
July 21, 7:00 p.m. Dumbarton Area Library
Anteater of Death by Betty Webb
July 13, 7:30 p.m. Sandston Branch Library
Beauty by Robin McKinley
January 27, 7:00 p.m. Tuckahoe Area Library
Be Near Me by Andrew O'Hagan
March 17, 7:00 p.m. Dumbarton Area Library
The Beekeeper's Apprentice by Laurie R. King
September 1, 7:00 p.m. Glen Allen Branch Library
Bleak House by Charles Dickens
June 29, 7:00 p.m. Twin Hickory Area Library
Bluebeard by Kurt Vonnegut
May 19, 7:00 p.m. Dumbarton Area Library
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
April 27, 7:00 p.m. Twin Hickory Area Library
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
July 13, 7:30 p.m. Gayton Branch Library
September 14, 1:00 p.m. Gayton Branch Library
Bridge of Sighs by Richard Russo
January 26, 7:00 p.m. Twin Hickory Area Library
Buddha by Deepak Chopra
February 24, 7:30 p.m. Varina Branch Library
Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood
June 1, 1:00 p.m. Gayton Branch Library
September 14, 7:30 p.m. Gayton Branch Library
China Road: A Journey Into the Future of a Rising Power by Rob Gifford
November 17, 7:00 p.m. Dumbarton Area Library
Chocolat by Joanne Harris
August 6, 7:00 p.m. Fairfield Area Library
Coal Black Horse by Robert Olmstead
March 12, 1:00 p.m. & 7:30 p.m. Tuckahoe Area Library
The Collectors by David Baldacci
January 6, 7:00 p.m. Glen Allen Branch Library
The Colour by Rose Tremain
April 21, 7:00 p.m. Dumbarton Area Library
Comrade J by Pete Earley
March 4, 7:00p.m. Twin Hickory Area Library
Critical by Robin Cook
March 17, 7:30 p.m. Varina Branch Library
Distant Shore by Caryl Phillips
August 17, 7:00 p.m. Fairfield Area Library
The Double Bind by Chris Bohjalian
July 27, 7:00 Twin Hickory Area Library
Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
January 26, 7:00 p.m. North Park Branch Library
February 3, 7:00 p.m. Glen Allen Branch Library
December 22, 7:30 p.m. Varina Branch Library
Family Fortune by Laurie Horowitz
September 10, 1:00 p.m. & 7:30 p.m. Tuckahoe Area Library
Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser
October 7, 7:00 p.m. Twin Hickory Area Library
Feed by M.T. Anderson-2009/10 All Henrico Reads selection
September 15, 7:00 p.m. Dumbarton Area Library
October 12, 7:30 p.m. Gayton Branch Library
October 12, 7:30 p.m. Sandston Branch Library
October 19, 7:00 p.m. North Park Branch Library
October 26, 7:00 p.m. Twin Hickory Area Library
November 10, 7:00 p.m. Glen Allen Branch Library
December 7, 1:00 p.m. Gayton Branch Library
Fifty Miles from Tomorrow by William Hensley
November 9, 7:30 p.m. Sandston Branch Library
From Dusk to Dawn by Niambi Davis
November 16, 7:00 p.m. Fairfield Area Library
Gang Leader for a Day by Sudir Venkatesh
January 7, 7:00 p.m. Twin Hickory Area Library
Garden Spells by Sarah Addison Allen
January 8, 1:00 p.m. & 7:30 p.m. Tuckahoe Area Library
July 7, 7:00 p.m. Glen Allen Branch Library
Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World by Eric Weiner
May 5, 7:00 p.m. Glen Allen Branch Library
A Ghost in the Machine by Caroline Graham
May 26, 7:30 p.m. Varina Branch Library
Girl in the Mirror: Three Generations of Black Women in Motion by Natasha Tarpley
February 16, 7:00 p.m. Fairfield Area Library
Gossamer by Lois Lowry
May 26, 7:00 pm. Tuckahoe Area Library
Grayson by Lynne Cox
July 1, 7:00 p.m. Twin Hickory Area Library
The Great Escape From Stalag Luft III by Tim Carroll
September 2, 7:00 p.m. Twin Hickory Area Library
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer
June 2, 7:00 p.m. Glen Allen Branch Library
September 28, 7:00 p.m. Twin Hickory Area Library
December 3, 7:00 p.m. Fairfield Area Library
December 21, 7:00 p.m. North Park Branch Library
Harris Men by R.M. Johnson
June 15, 7:00 p.m. Fairfield Area Library
Heroes Among Us by John Quinones
September 14, 7:30 p.m. Sandston Branch Library
Hot, Flat and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution... by Thomas Friedman
June 15, 7:00 p.m. Tuckahoe Area Library
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia Alvarez-2008/09 All Henrico Reads selection
January 12, 7:30 p.m. Sandston Branch Library
January 27, 7:30 p.m. Varina Branch Library
February 12, 1:00 p.m. & 7:30 p.m. Tuckahoe Area Library
How Tia Lola Came to Visit (Stay) by Julia Alvarez-2008/09 All Henrico Reads selection
February 24, 7:00 p.m. Tuckahoe Area Library
The Innocent Man by John Grisham
August 25, 7:30 p.m. Varina Branch Library
The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick
June 15, 7:00 p.m. North Park Branch Library
Isaac's Storm by Erik Larson
February 4, 7:00 p.m. Twin Hickory Area Library
April 13, 7:30 p.m. Gayton Branch Library
July 6, 1:00 p.m. Gayton Branch Library
Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key by Jack Gantos
April 28, 7:00 p.m. Tuckahoe Area Library
Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
November 12, 1:00 p.m. & 7:30 p.m. Tuckahoe Area Library
Letters from Rifka by Karen Hesse
March 24, 7:00 p.m. Tuckahoe Area Library
The Long Emergency... by James Howard Kunstler
April 20, 7:00p.m. Tuckahoe Area Library
Love by Toni Morrison
June 8, 7:30 p.m. Sandston Branch Library
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez
August 3, 1:00 p.m. Gayton Branch Library
November 9, 7:30 p.m. Gayton Branch Library
Loving Frank by Nancy Horan
February 23, 7:00 p.m. Twin Hickory Area Library
October 5, 1:00 p.m. Gayton Branch Library
December 14, 7:30 p.m. Gayton Branch Library
Maker of Saints by Thulani Davis
March 16, 7:00 p.m. Fairfield Area Library
Man vs Wild by Bear Grylls
June 3, 7:00 p.m. Twin Hickory Area Library
March by Geraldine Brooks
June 23, 7:30 p.m. Varina Branch Library
The Measure of a Man by Sidney Poitier
February 9, 7:30 p.m. Sandston Branch Library
The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards
October 27, 7:30 p.m. Varina Branch Library
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
October 1, 7:00 p.m. Fairfield Area Library
The Ministry of Special Cases by Nathan Englander
June 16, 7:00 p.m. Dumbarton Area Library
Moloka'i by Alan Brennert
August 13, 1:00 p.m. & 7:30 p.m. Tuckahoe Area Library
Mudbound by Hillary Jordan
November 23, 7:00 p.m. Twin Hickory Area Library
My Best Friend and My Man by Cydney Rax
September 21, 7:00 p.m. Fairfield Area Library
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan
January 20, 7:00 p.m. Dumbarton Area Library
One Drop by Bliss Broyard (nonfiction)
August 31, 7:00 p.m. Twin Hickory Area Library
Orange Mint and Honey by Carleen Rice
May 18, 7:00 p.m. Fairfield Area Library
The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory
August 10, 7:30 p.m. Sandston Branch Library
Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson
September 21, 7:00 p.m. North Park Branch Library
The Outlander by Gil Adamson
November 16, 7:00 p.m. North Park Branch Library
Pearl Harbor by Newt Gingrich
April 28, 7:30 p.m. Varina Branch Library
People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
March 9, 7:30 p.m. Sandston Branch Library
The Pesthouse by Jim Crace
May 18, 7:00 p.m. North Park Branch Library
Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
July 20, 7:00 p.m. North Park Branch Library
Politics of Love by Giselle Carmichael
January 5, 7:00 Fairfield Area Library
Portrait of an Unknown Woman by Vanora Bennett
March 16, 7:00p.m. North Park Branch Library
The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester
March 9, 7:30 p.m. Gayton Branch Library
May 4, 1:00 p.m. Gayton Branch Library
Rhett Butler's People by Donald McCaig
July 9, 1:00 p.m. & 7:30 p.m. Tuckahoe Area Library
Rules by Cynthia Lord
June 23, 7:00 p.m. Tuckahoe Area Library
Sacred Time by Ursula Hegi
October 6, 7:00 p.m. Glen Allen Branch Library
Say You Need Me by Kayla Perrin
April 20, 7:00 p.m. Fairfield Area Library
The Secret History of the War on Cancer by Devra Davis
January 26, 7:00 p.m. Tuckahoe Area Library
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
October 8, 1:00 p.m. & 7:30 p.m. Tuckahoe Area Library
Septembers of Shiraz by Dalia Sofer
March 5, 1:00 p.m. Dumbarton Area Library
Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
March 30, 7:00 p.m. Twin Hickory Area Library
Silent Night by Stanley Weintraub
December 2, 7:00 p.m. Twin Hickory Area Library
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
September 22, 7:30 p.m. Varina Branch Library
Stagolee Shot Billy by Cecil Brown
October 19, 7:00 p.m. Fairfield Area Library
Stoner by John Williams
August 18, 7:00 p.m. Dumbarton Area Library
Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski
May 11, 7:30 p.m. Sandston Branch Library
Sugar Queen by Sarah Addison Allen
November 5, 7:00 p.m. Fairfield Area Library
Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky
January 5, 1:00 p.m. Gayton Branch Library
June 8, 7:30 p.m. Gayton Branch Library
The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo
April 20, 7:00 p.m. North Park Branch Library
Telex from Cuba by Rachel Kushner
October 20, 7:00 p.m. Dumbarton Area Library
The Templar Legacy by Steve Berry
May 18, 7:00 p.m. Twin Hickory Area Library
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
February 17, 7:00 p.m. Dumbarton Area Library
Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris
February 9, 7:30 p.m. Gayton Branch Library
November 9, 1:00 p.m. Gayton Branch Library
The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
February 2, 1:00 p.m. Gayton Branch Library
May 14, 1:00 p.m. & 7:30 p.m. Tuckahoe Area Library
August 10, 7:30 p.m. Gayton Branch Library
Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson
March 2, 1:00 p.m. Gayton Branch Library
March 3, 7:00 p.m. Glen Allen Branch Library
May 11, 7:30 p.m. Gayton Branch Library
August 17, 7:00 p.m. North Park Branch Library
The Three Martini Playdate by Christie Mellor
May 6, 7:00 p.m. Twin Hickory Area Library
Tomato Girl by Jayne Pupek
September 3, 7:00 p.m. Fairfield Area Library
The Two Princesses of Bamarre by Gail Carson Levine
July 28, 7:30 p.m. Varina Branch Library
Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri
April 2, 1:00 p.m. Dumbarton Area Library
April 13, 7:30 p.m. Sandston Branch Library
An Uncommon Friendship: From Opposite Side of the Holocaust by Frederic C. Tubach
April 7, 7:00 p.m. Glen Allen Branch Library
The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett
August 4, 7:00 p.m. Glen Allen Branch Library
Waiting for Snow in Havana by Carlos Eire
April 1, 7:00 p.m. Twin Hickory Area Library
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
June 11, 1:00 p.m. & 7:30 p.m. Tuckahoe Area Library
What is the What by Dave Eggers
February 5, 1:00 p.m. Dumbarton Area Library
When a Crocodile Eats the Sun: A Memoir of Africa by Peter Godwin
November 4, 7:00 p.m. Twin Hickory Area Library
The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan
November 24, 7:30 p.m. Varina Branch Library
