Laurel Branch of PGCMLS
507 7th St, Laurel, MD 20707
Laurel Branch of PGCMLS
507 7th St, Laurel, MD 20707
Laurel Library Book Discussions in 2025
All are Welcome
Meetings* at the Laurel Library
Long Island Compromise by Taffy Brodesser-Akner May 27
The Museum of Failures by Thrity Umrigar June 24
The Child Finder by Rene Denfeld July 22
The Man Who Died Twice by Richard Osman August 26
No One is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood September 23
Maryland One Book Kin: Rooted in Hope by Carole Boston Weatherford October 28
Playground by Richard Powers November 25
Intermezzo by Sally Rooney December 23
*Video meeting sessions are available - Email mike@mdcsr.com for the link
Recent Books Discussed
and Recommended by the Group
Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson
Lifelines by Leana Wen
Symphony of Secrets by Brendan Slocum
Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
Of Women and Salt by Gabriela Garcia
Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
Wild by Cheryl Strayed
The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
Books for Discussion 2018 thru 2025
2025
The Man Who Could Move Clouds by Ingrid Rolas January 28
Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World by Henry Grabar February 25
Great Expectations by Vinson Cunningham March 25
The Beauty of Dusk by Frank Bruni April 22
Long Island Compromise by Taffy Brodesser-Akner May 27
The Museum of Failures by Thrity Umrigar June 24
The Child Finder by Rene Denfeld July 22
The Man Who Died Twice by Richard Osman August 26
No One is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood September 23
Maryland One Book TBD October 28
Playground by Richard Powers November 25
Intermezzo by Sally Rooney December 23
2024
Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
Tom Lake by Ann Patchett
Symphony of Secrets by Brendan Slocum
Wild by Cheryl Strayed
Midnight Library by Matt Haig
Hell of a Book by Jason Mott
The Vaster Wilds by Lauren Groff
Trust by Herman Diaz
The Wren, the Wren by Anne Enright
What Storm, What Thunder by Myriam J.A. Chancy
(Maryland One Book selection for 2024)
The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman
2023
Honey Girl by Morgan Rogers
The Library Book by Susan Orlean
Of Women and Salt: a novel by Gabriela Garcia
Libertie: a novel by Imbolo Mbue
Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
Book Lovers by Emily Henry
This Time Tomorrow by Emma Straub
I am these Truths by Sunny Hostin
The Things We Cannot Say by Kelly Rimmer
Lifelines : a doctor's journey in the fight for public health by Leana Wen
2022
Ladies of the House by Lauren Edmondson
On Earth We're Briefly Georgeous by Ocean Vuong
Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson
Here for It: Or, How to Save Your Soul in America by R. Eric Thomas
The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo
The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
The Sweetness of Water by Nathan Harris
Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi
The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates
What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker by Damon Young
The Feather Thief : beauty, obsession, and the natural history heist of the century by Kirk W. Johnson
2021
How to be an antiracist by Kendi, Ibram X
The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel
The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah
American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins
White Bird (Graphic Novel) by R.J. Palacio
The Book of Delights: Essays by Ross Gay
(Maryland One Book selection for 2021)
The Yellow House by Sara M. Broom
Caste by Isabel Wilkerson
2020
There there by Orange, Tommy
Dopesick : dealers, doctors, and the drug company that addicted America by Macy, Beth
Fruit of the drunken tree : a novel by Rojas Contreras, Ingrid
Parable of the Sower by Butler, Octavia E.
Less: a novel by Greer, Andrew Sean
Another Brooklyn: a novel by Woodson, Jacqueline
The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See
(Maryland One Book selection for 2020)
An American marriage : a novel by Jones, Tayari
2019
The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware
Things that Matter by Charles Krauthammer
Sunburn by Laura Lippman
The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
The First Congress by Fergus Bordeviche
The Secret History of Science Fiction by James Patrick Kelly
Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly
Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow
What the Eyes Don't See: A Story of Crisis, Resistance, and Hope in an American City by Mona Hanna-Attisha
(Maryland One Book selection for 2019)
In the Darkroom by Susan Falu
2018
Where'd You Go Bernadette by Maria Semple
The Diplomat's Daughter by Karin Tanabe
My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
The Alice Network by Kane Quinn
The Night Circus by Erin Morganstern
Unraveling Oliver by Liz Nugent
Barkskins by Annie Priolx
Bloodsworth: The True Story of the First Death Row Inmate Exonerated by DNA by Tim Junkin
(Maryland One Book selection for 2018)
The Glass Castle: a memoir by Jeannette Walls
Lady Cop Makes Trouble by Amy Stewart