Upcoming Teen/ Adult Book Discussions

The Library hosts two book discussion groups each month. "Tuesdays with Books" is our evening book group that meets the first Tuesday of each month and is facilitated by Dianne Hathaway and Jessica Stevens alternating each month.
"Literary Ladies, Etc" is our afternoon book discussion group that meets the third Wednesday of each month and is facilitated by Sandy Whipple.

All discussions take place in the 3rd floor conference room and are open to any teen or adult who is interested.
To reserve a copy of the current selection, call 497-2102.

Past book group selections have included:

Click on dark blue titles to see if the book is available.

Book and Author	Score
The Lace Reader by Barry Brunonia	3.8
The Confessions of Max Tivoli by Andrew Sean Greer	2.3
The Salt Letters by Christine Balint	2.8
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens	4.8
The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein	3.79
The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde	4
One Thousand White Women by Jim Fergus
Angel and Apostle by Deborah Noyes	2.38
Ama Adhe: the Voice that Remembers: the Heroic Story of a Woman's Fight to Free Tibet by Joy Blakeslee
John Adams by David McCullough
People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks	4
Beethoven was One Sixteenth Black: short stories by Nadine Gordimer	3.75
Run by Ann Patchett	3.0
A Separate Peace by John Knowles	4.5
Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry	4.0
Lay That Trumpet in Our Hands by Susan Carol McCarthy	3.5
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski	4.9
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon	4.3
Jazz by Toni Morrison	3.75
Elmer Gantry by Sinclair Lewis	3.0
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver	3.0
The Story of a Marriage by Andrew Sean Greer	4.2
Ten Hours Until Dawn by Michael Tougias
A Long Fatal Love by Louisa May Alcott	3.3
Winter of Our Discontent by John Steinbeck	4.1
And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie	4
On Kingdom Mountain by Howard Frank Mosher	4.3
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls	4.5
Elizabeth Castello by J.M Coetzee	3.16
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini	4.5
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte	2.8
Get a Life by Nadine Gordimer	3.25
What is What by Dave Eggers	4.5
The Pact by Jodi Picoult	2.3
Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett	4.5
The Mistress of the Art and Death by Ariana Franklin	3.7
The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan	4.1
After This by Alice McDermott
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck	5.0
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See	4.2
The Tender Bar: a Memoir by J.R. Moehringer	3.8
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd	4.3
The Tipping Point by Malcom Gladwell	1.25
The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson	3.62
The Whole World Over by Mark Salzman	3.16
True Notebooks by Mark Salzman	3.92
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte	4.7
East of Eden by John Steinbeck	5.0
The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver	5.0
Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson	4.9
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee	4.9
Waiting by Ha Jin	4.9
Beloved by Toni Morrison	4.8
Running North: a Yukon adventure by Ann Mariah Cook.	4.8
In the Lake of the Woods by Tim O'Brien	4.7
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver	4.7
The Road from Coorain by Jill Kerr Conway	4.7
Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom	4.7
My Antonia by Willa Cather	4.6
Tenants of Time by Thomas Flanagan	4.6
A Living Reed by Pearl S. Buck	4.5
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck	4.5
One Man's Meat by E.B. White	4.5
The Wedding by Dorothy West	4.5
Where the Rivers Flow North by Howard Frank Mosher	4.5
Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernieres	4.4
Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder	4.4
The Ginger Tree by Oswald Wynd	4.4
The Bonesetter's Daughter by Amy Tan	4.3
Ragtime by E. L. Doctorow	4.3
Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand	4.3
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett	4.3
In the Heart of the Sea by Nathanial Philbrick	4.3
Miss Julia Speaks Her Mind by Ann B. Ross	4.3
The Place He Made by Edie Clark	4.3
The Pull of the Moon by Elizabeth Berg	4.3
Wait Till Next Year by Doris Kearns Goodwin	4.3
A Prayer for the Dying by Stewart O’Nan	4.3
The Buffalo Soldier by: Chris Bohjalian	4.3
Catherwood by Marly Youmans	4.2
Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather	4.2
Empire Falls by Richard Russo	4.2
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury	4.2
Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro	4.2
The Professor's House by Willa Cather	4.2
The River King by Alice Hoffman	4.2
The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx	4.2
True North by Jill Ker Conway	4.2
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith	4.1
Lying Awake by Mark Salzman	4.1
The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara	4.1
Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson	4.1
A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson	4.0
Burning Marguerite by Elizabeth Inness-Brown	4.0
Drowning Ruth by Christine Schwarz	4.0
Evening by Susan Minot	4.0
For Love of the Game by Michael Shaara	4.0
House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus	4.0
Longitude by Dava Sobel	4.0
Peace Like a River by Leif Enger	4.0
Slaves in the Family by Edward Ball	4.0
The Handyman by Caroline See	4.0
The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie	4.0
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri	4.0
The Weight of Water by Anita Shreve	4.0
Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks	4.0
A Brother's Blood by Michael C. White	3.9
Enemy Women by Paulette Jiles	3.9
Five Quarters of the Orange by Joanne Harris	3.9
Land Girls by Angela Huth	3.9
Skeletons on the Zahara: a true story of survival by Dean King	3.9
The Rapture of Canaan by Sheri Reynolds	3.9
Under the Tuscan Sun by Frances Mayes	3.9
We Took to the Woods by Louise Dickinson Rich	3.9
Life of Pi by Yann Martel	3.8
Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen	3.8
Ship Fever and Other Stories by Andrea Barrett	3.8
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald	3.8
The Soloist by Mark Salzman	3.8
Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis	3.8
Black Dog by Stephen Booth	3.7
Driving Mr. Albert by Michael Paterniti	3.7
Ordinary Love and Good Will by Jane Smiley	3.7
String Too Short to be Saved by Donald Hall	3.7
The Sunday Philosophy Club by Alexander McCall Smith.	3.7
Tulip Fever by Deborah Moggach	3.7
Name All the Animals by Alison Smith	3.6
Doomsday Book by Connie Willis	3.6
I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith	3.6
The Color of Water: a Black Man's Tribute to his White Mother by James McBride	3.6
The Reader by Bernhard Schlink	3.6
Before and After by Rosellen Brown	3.5
Charming Billy by Alice McDermott	3.5
In the Deep Midwinter by Robert Clark	3.5
Julie and Romeo by Jeanne Ray	3.5
Ladder of Years by Anne Tyler	3.5
The Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald	3.5
The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton	3.5
Wild Decembers by Edna O'Brien	3.5
Yellow Raft in Blue Water by Michael Dorris	3.5
Balzac and the little Chinese seamstress by Dai Sijie	3.4
Black Water by Joyce Carol Oates	3.4
Heat Wave by Penelope Lively	3.4
La Cucina by Lily Prior	3.4
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt	3.4
The Giant's House by Elizabeth McCracken	3.4
The Glass Palace by Amitav Ghosh	3.4
Where the Heart is by Billie Letts	3.4
Pompeii by Roberty Harris	3.3
Dreaming Water by Gail Tsukiyama	3.3
Personal History by Katharine Graham	3.3
Plainsong by Kent Haruf	3.3
Smilla's Sense of Snow by Peter Hoeg	3.3
The Deep End of the Ocean by Jacquelyn Mitchard	3.3
Dancing with the Virgins by Stephen Booth	3.2
The Lost Legends of New Jersey by Frederick Reiken	3.2
E= mc2: A Biography of the World’s Most Famous Equation by David Bodanis	3.2
White Rose: Una Rosa Blanca by Amy Ephron	3.2
In the Fall by Jeffrey Lent	3.1
Mercy by Jodi Picoult	3.1
Princess: a true story of life behind the veil in Saudi Arabia by Jean Sasson	3.1
A Simple Habana Melody by Oscar Hijuelos	3.0
Object Lessons by Anna Quindlen	3.0
The Dive From Clausen's Pier by Ann Packer	3.0
The Emperor of Ocean Park by Stephen L. Carter	3.0
The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood	3.0
American Pie by Michael Lee West	2.9
An Instance of the Fingerpost by Iain Pears	2.9
Lamb in Love by Carrie Brown	2.9
Martin Dressler: the tale of an American Dreamer by Steven Millhauser	2.9
Shoeless Joe by W.R. Kinsella	2.9
The Beet Queen by Louise Erdrich	2.9
The Best of Friends by Joanna Trollope	2.9
The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood	2.7
The Lake of Dead Languages by Carol Goodman	2.7
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce	2.7
Leper's Companion by Julia Blackburn	2.6
Straight Man by Richard Russo	2.6
Hole in the Sky: a Memoir by William Kittredge	2.5
Ex-Libris by Ross King	2.4
The Sunday Wife by Cassandra King	2.2
The Evidence Against Her by Robb Forman Dew	1.9
Toxin by Robin Cook	1.9
The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century by Thomas L. Friedman	1.6
Beachcombing for a Shipwrecked God by Joe Coomer	Not Rated
Caramelo by Sandra Cisneros	Not Rated
Gap Creek by Robert Morgan	Not Rated
My Old Man and the Sea by David Hays and Daniel Hays	Not Rated
On the Beach by Neville Shute	Not Rated
Preston Falls by David Gates	Not Rated
The Jump-Off Creek by Molly Gloss	Not Rated
The White by Deborah Larsen	Not Rated
Visible Spirits by Steve Yarbrough	Not Rated
Water Witches by Chris Bohjalian	Not Rated
The Devil in the White City  by Eric Larson Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis The Fixer by: Bernard Malamud Breath, Eyes, Memory by: Edwidge Danticat	Not Rated Not Rated
Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons by Lorna Landvik
The Cider House Rules by John Irving
Snow by Orhan Pamluk, winner of the Nobel Prize
The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole	3.9
Night by Elie Wiesel	4.3

If you are having trouble deciding what to read next, consider using NoveList, a reader's advisory database.

1. At the "remote patron authentication" screen, enter your Goffstown Public Library barcode (found on the back of your library card.)
2. Next, select your reading level.
3. Then begin your search. Your might want to start by entering the title of a book that you enjoyed reading, and then searching for other works of fiction with similar subject headings.