Reader’s Advisory

In January the Literary Circle Book Group will be reading: A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles.

In 1922, Count Alexander Rostov is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, and is sentenced to house arrest in the Metropol, a grand hotel across the street from the Kremlin. Unexpectedly, his reduced circumstances provide him entry into a much larger world of emotional discovery.

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In January the NPL Evening Group will be reading: Horse by Geraldine Brooks.

Horse by Geraldine Brooks is a historical fiction about horses, art, science, love, and racism.  The story is told in three timelines 1850s, 1950s, and 2019.

In February the Literary Circle Book Group will be reading: The Color Purple by Alice Walker.

The Color Purple is an epistolary novel—a novel told in letter form—in which Alice Walker traces the gradual liberation of Celie, a poor, Black woman who must overcome abuse and separation from her beloved sister Nettie.

In February the NPL Evening Book Group will be reading: Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison.

Invisible Man, novel by Ralph Ellison, published in 1952. It was Ellison’s only novel to be published during his lifetime. Invisible Man is widely acknowledged as one of the great novels of American literature and a landmark in African American literature, winning the National Book Award for Fiction in 1953, the first novel by a Black author to receive that honor. (Britannica) 

In March the Literary Circle Book Group will be reading: The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey by Candice Mil

At once an incredible adventure narrative and a penetrating biographical portrait, The River of Doubt is the true story of Theodore Roosevelt’s harrowing exploration of one of the most dangerous rivers on earth.

For March the NPL Evening Book Group will be reading Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in Historyby Eric Larson.

Isaac’s Storm (1999) is the story of the deadliest hurricane in American history. It’s the story of a storm that destroyed thousands of lives. It’s also the story of one man, the weather, and the development of the United States Army’s Weather Bureau.

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In April the Literary Circle Book Group will be reading Fire Weather: On the Front Lines of a Burning World by John Vaillant.

A stunning account of a colossal wildfire that collided with a city and a panoramic exploration of the rapidly changing relationship between fire and humankind.

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In April the NPL Evening Book Group will be reading The Light Pirate by Lily Brooks-Dalton.

Set in the near future, this hopeful story of survival and resilience follows Wanda—a luminous child born out of a devastating hurricane—as she navigates a rapidly changing world.

In May the Literary Circle Book Group will be reading James by Percival Everett.

A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and ferociously funny, told from the enslaved Jim's point of view.

In May the NPL Evening Book Group will be reading The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt.

The Anxious Generation shows how smartphones, social media, and helicopter parenting have led to a decline in young people’s mental health and offers actionable solutions to help both our kids and ourselves become mature, emotionally stable adults.

In June the Literary Circle Book Group will be reading The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt.

The Anxious Generation shows how smartphones, social media, and helicopter parenting have led to a decline in young people’s mental health and offers actionable solutions to help both our kids and ourselves become mature, emotionally stable adults.

In June the NPL Evening Book Group will be reading Leadership: In Turbulent Times by Doris Kearns Goodwin.

In Leadership, Goodwin draws upon the four presidents she has studied most closely—Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Lyndon B. Johnson (in civil rights)—to show how they recognized leadership qualities within themselves and were recognized as leaders by others. By looking back to their first entries into public life, we encounter them at a time when their paths were filled with confusion, fear, and hope.