Book Clubs & Author Talks

Upcoming Events

Evening Book Club: "True Biz"
Tuesday, July 16, 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Evening Book Club: "True Biz"
This month our featured book will be "True Biz" by Sara Novic. About True Biz NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK • A “tender, beautiful and radiantly outraged” (The New York Times Book Review) novel that follows a...
Virtual Classics Book Club: "Fahrenheit 451"
Thursday, July 18, 7:00 pm
Virtual Classics Book Club: "Fahrenheit 451"
Join us for the latest “Virtual Classics Book Club.” This month’s featured book is Ray Bradbury’s “Fahrenheit 451” "Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses...
Black, White, and Yellow Taxis: Morris County and The Green Book
Sunday, July 28, 2:00 pm
Black, White, and Yellow Taxis: Morris County and The Green Book
The first edition of the "Negro Motorist Green Book" came out in 1936, published by a New Jersey postal carrier as a way to guide African-Americans to welcome businesses during their travels across the country. The Green Book was published...
Silent Book Club
Sunday, August 4, 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Silent Book Club
Join us on the first Sunday of every month from 2-3 pm in our upstairs Gallery for Silent Book Club. Silent Book Club is a unique gathering for book enthusiasts seeking a quiet communal reading experience. Unlike traditional book clubs,...
The Seekers: "Signs: The Secret Language Of The Universe" By Laura Lynn Jackson
Wednesday, September 4, 7:00 pm
The Seekers: "Signs: The Secret Language Of The Universe" By Laura Lynn Jackson
"Laura Lynne Jackson is a psychic medium and the author of the New York Times bestseller The Light Between Us. She possesses an incredible gift: the ability to communicate with loved ones who have passed, convey messages of love and...
Book Lovers' Circle
Thursday, September 5, 7:00 pm
Book Lovers' Circle
The Library’s popular “Book Lovers' Circle” is online! What is the “Book Lovers’ Circle,” you may ask? Participants of this long-running book club meet the first Thursday of each month to share about the books, good, bad, or indifferent, they...
Morning Book Club: "So Late in the Day"
Thursday, September 12, 10:00 am - 11:00 am
Morning Book Club: "So Late in the Day"
This month our featured book will be "So Late in the Day - Stories of Men and Women" by Claire Keegan. About So Late in the Day From Booker Prize Finalist and bestselling author of “pitch perfect” (Boston Globe) Small Things Like...
Virtual Classics Book Club: "A Doll's House"
Thursday, September 12, 7:00 pm
Virtual Classics Book Club: "A Doll's House"
Join us for the latest “Virtual Classics Book Club.” This month’s featured book is Henrik Ibsen’s “A Doll's House" "A Doll's House (1879), is a masterpiece of theatrical craft which, for the first time portrayed the tragic hypocrisy of Victorian...
Science Fiction Book Club "On A Sunbeam"
Saturday, September 14, 2:00 pm
Science Fiction Book Club "On A Sunbeam"
"Tillie Walden is the future of comics, and On a Sunbeam is her best work yet. It's a 'space' story unlike any you've ever read, with a rich, lived-in universe of complex characters." --Brian K. Vaughan, Saga and Paper Girls...
Evening Book Club: "So Late in the Day"
Tuesday, September 17, 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Evening Book Club: "So Late in the Day"
This month our featured book will be "So Late in the Day" by Claire Keegan. About So Late in the Day From Booker Prize Finalist and bestselling author of “pitch perfect” (Boston Globe) Small Things Like These, comes a triptych of stories about...
The Seekers: "You were born for this : astrology for radical self-acceptance" By Chani Nicholas
Wednesday, October 2, 7:00 pm
The Seekers: "You were born for this : astrology for radical self-acceptance" By Chani Nicholas
"Your weekly horoscope is merely one crumb of astrology’s cake. In her first book You Were Born For This, Chani shows how your birth chart—a snapshot of the sky at the moment you took your first breath—reveals your unique talents,...
Book Lovers' Circle
Thursday, October 3, 7:00 pm
Book Lovers' Circle
The Library’s popular “Book Lovers' Circle” is online! What is the “Book Lovers’ Circle,” you may ask? Participants of this long-running book club meet the first Thursday of each month to share about the books, good, bad, or indifferent, they...
Silent Book Club
Sunday, October 6, 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Silent Book Club
Join us on the first Sunday of every month from 2-3 pm in our upstairs Gallery for Silent Book Club. Silent Book Club is a unique gathering for book enthusiasts seeking a quiet communal reading experience. Unlike traditional book clubs,...
Science Fiction Book Club: We Have Always Been Here by Lena Nguyen
Saturday, October 12, 2:00 pm
Science Fiction Book Club: We Have Always Been Here by Lena Nguyen
Aboard a ship manned by humans and androids, one doctor must discover the source of her crew's madness--or risk succumbing to it herself. Misanthropic psychologist Dr. Grace Park is placed on the Deucalion, a survey ship headed to an icy...
Silent Book Club
Sunday, November 3, 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Silent Book Club
Join us on the first Sunday of every month from 2-3 pm in our upstairs Gallery for Silent Book Club. Silent Book Club is a unique gathering for book enthusiasts seeking a quiet communal reading experience. Unlike traditional book clubs,...
The Seekers: "Lab Girl: A Memoir" by Hope Jahren
Wednesday, November 6, 7:00 pm
The Seekers: "Lab Girl: A Memoir" by Hope Jahren
"In these pages, Hope takes us back to her Minnesota childhood, where she spent hours in unfettered play in her father’s college laboratory. She tells us how she found a sanctuary in science, learning to perform lab work “with both...
Book Lovers' Circle
Thursday, November 7, 7:00 pm
Book Lovers' Circle
The Library’s popular “Book Lovers' Circle” is online! What is the “Book Lovers’ Circle,” you may ask? Participants of this long-running book club meet the first Thursday of each month to share about the books, good, bad, or indifferent, they...
Virtual Classics Book Club: "A selection of short stories by Edgar Allan Poe"
Thursday, November 14, 7:00 pm
Virtual Classics Book Club: "A selection of short stories by Edgar Allan Poe"
Join us for the latest “Virtual Classics Book Club.” This month will be a selection of short stories by Edgar Allen Poe A section of short stories to be announced. How do you attend online? We use Zoom, which can...
Silent Book Club
Sunday, December 1, 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Silent Book Club
Join us on the first Sunday of every month from 2-3 pm in our upstairs Gallery for Silent Book Club. Silent Book Club is a unique gathering for book enthusiasts seeking a quiet communal reading experience. Unlike traditional book clubs,...
The Seekers: "In My Time of Dying: how I came face-to-face with the idea of an afterlife" By Sebastian Junger
Wednesday, December 4, 7:00 pm
The Seekers: "In My Time of Dying: how I came face-to-face with the idea of an afterlife" By Sebastian Junger
"For years as an award-winning war reporter, Sebastian Junger traveled to many front lines and frequently put his life at risk. And yet the closest he ever came to death was the summer of 2020 while spending a quiet afternoon...
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