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Nonfiction Book Discussion Group

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The Nonfiction Book Discussion Group meets the first Wednesday of each month at 7:00pm in the Activity Room. New members are always welcome. Questions? Contact Ellen Guthrie, epguthrie@comcast.net.

Join a Group! All of Memorial Hall Library’s book club groups are open to new members. Registration is not required for any of the book groups.

2025-2026

July 2, 2025

Chasing Beauty: The Life of Isabelle Stewart Gardner by Natalie Dykstra

August 6, 2025

Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America by Heather Cox Richardson

September 3, 2025

Airplane Mode: An Irreverent History of Travel by Shahnaz Habib

October 1, 2025

Everything is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of our Deadliest Infection by John Green

November 5, 2025

Who is Government? The Untold Story of Public Service by Michael Lewis

December 3, 2025

For All the Tea in China: How England Stole the World’s Favorite Drink and Changed History by Sarah Rose

January 7, 2026

The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness by Jonathan Haidt

February 4, 2026

Stolen Pride: Loss, Shame, and the Rise of the Right by Arlie Russel Hochschild

March 4, 2026

The Volunteer: The True Story of a Resistance Hero Who Infiltrated Auschwitz by Jack Fairweather

April 1, 2026

Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel Gilbert

May 6, 2026

The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth by Zoe Schlange

June 3, 2026

Empire of Cotton: A Global History by Sven Beckert

July 1, 2026

Resolute: How We Humans Keep Finding Ways to Beat the Toughest Odds by Benjamin Hall