MC-NPL offers three adult book clubs: Mystery Tuesday Book Club, Saturday Book Club, and The Mostly Lesbian Book Club.
Email JCove@mclinc.org for more information.
Mystery Tuesday Book Club
Led by Dr. Monica D’Antonio, former English professor at Montgomery County Community College, this club meets on the first Tuesday of each month at 2 pm to discuss thriller, suspense, true crimes, noir and detective fiction.
Meeting Date | Book | Author |
January 9, 2024 (2nd Tuesday this month only)
| The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle | Stuart Turton |
February 6, 2024 | Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone | Benjamin Stevenson |
March 5, 2024 | The Quiche of Death (Agatha Raisin #1) &
The Last Garden In England (Longwood Garden Community Read) | M.C. Beaton
Julia Kelly |
April 2, 2024 | Greenglass House | Kate Milford |
May 7, 2024 | One for the Money | Janet Evanovich |
June 4, 2024 | State of Terror | Hillary Rodham Clinton & Louise Penny |
July 2, 2024 | The 6:20 Man | David Baldacci |
August 6, 2024 | One of Us Is Lying | Karen M. McManus |
September 3, 2024 | The Maid | Nita Prose |
October 1, 2024 | The Caves of Steel | Isaac Asimov |
November 12, 2024 | Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy | John le Carre |
December 3, 2024 | Blanche on the Lamb | Barbara Neely |
Saturday Book Club
Meets on the third Saturday of each month at 2 pm. Dr. Hal Halbert, Professor at Montgomery County Community College facilitates the discussion. The club engages in all kinds of genre.
Meeting Date | Book | Author |
Jan. 20, 2024 | The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois | Honoree Fanonne Jeffers |
Feb. 17, 2024 | Our Missing Hearts | Celeste Ng |
March 16, 2024 | The Horse | Geraldine Brooks |
April 20, 2024 | The Lincoln Highway | Amor Towles |
May 18, 2024 | Olga Dies Dreaming | Xochitl Gonzalez |
June 15, 2024
| The Wager | David Grann |
July 20, 2024 | King Of The Armadillos | Wendy Chin-Tanner |
Aug. 17, 2024 | Who Is Maud Dixon? | Alexandra Andrews |
Sept. 21, 2024 | The Things We Carried | Tim O'Brien |
Oct. 19, 2024 | South To America: A Journey Below The Mason Dixon To Understand The Soul Of A Nation | Imani Perry |
Nov. 16, 2024 | A Burning | Megha Majumdar |
Dec. 21, 2024 | The Furrows | Namwali Serpell |
The Mostly Lesbian Books Club
Meets on the third Monday of each month at 6:30pm. Books discussed will feature lesbian characters or themes or be written by lesbian authors as chosen by the group. The first meeting is March 18th facilitated by library staff members Petina and Jeanne. We will discuss The Librarian of Burned Books by Brianna Labuskes.