Join us for the Mostly Lesbian Books Club on the third Monday of each month at 6:30pm at the Norristown Public Library. All are welcome to attend this book club focusing on books with lesbian themes, characters, or authors. You can borrow copies of the book through the library or get it elsewhere. The group will decides on titles together two months ahead. Questions? Email Jeanne at JCove@mclinc.org or call 610-278-5100 x400.
March 2024: The Librarian of Burned Books by Brianna Labuskes
April 2024: One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston
May 2024: Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield
June 2024: Skye Falling by Mia McKenzie
July 2024: She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan
August 2024: The Memory Librarian by Janelle Monáe
September 2024: Cantoras by Carolina De Robertis
October 2024: The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Monday, November 18, 2024 at 6:30-7:30pm: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeannette Winterson
Winner of the Whitbread Prize for best first fiction, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit is a coming-out novel from Winterson, the acclaimed author of The Passion and Sexing the Cherry. The narrator, Jeanette, cuts her teeth on the knowledge that she is one of God’s elect, but as this budding evangelical comes of age, and comes to terms with her preference for her own sex, the peculiar balance of her God-fearing household crumbles.
Monday, December 16, 2024 at 6:30-7:30pm: Orlando by Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf’s fantastical novel about an Elizabethan nobleman who lives for three centuries and transitions into a woman, with a new introduction by Carmen Maria Machado.
All are welcome!