At present, the Katonah Village Library runs two adult book groups—the Katonah Village Library Adult Book Discussion Group and the World Affairs Book Club.
Katonah Village Library’s Adult Book Discussion Group
We are celebrating 30+ years of reading and meeting. Virginia Fetscher, Assistant Director, has been leading this successful Book Discussion Group since 1983.
The Library’s Adult Book Discussion Group meets every three weeks (with occasional one-week lapses due to holidays). The group meets on Wednesday evenings at 8 PM and talks informally about plot, character, motivation, language, and anything else that comes to mind for about an hour before checking out the author’s biographical facts and what critics have had to say about the book under discussion.
Anyone interested is cordially invited to pick up a copy of the upcoming book (lists for future dates and copies of the current book are always available) and join the fun! The books are almost always fiction, with a fair distribution between male and female authors; and a range of publication dates from the nineteenth century up to a few months ago.
2019 BOOK LIST
January 9 | Aja Gabel | The Ensemble |
January 30 | Frederick Backman | My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry |
February 20 | Yaa Gyasi | Homegoing |
March 13 | Carl Hiaasen | Razor Girl |
April 3 | Claire Messud | The Woman Upstairs |
April 24 | Kurt Vonnegut | Breakfast of Champions |
May 15 | Cynthia d’Aprix Sweeney | The Nest |
June 6 | James McBride | The Good Lord Bird |
June 26 | Marie Benedict | The Other Einstein |
July 17 | Wally Lamb | I’ll Take You There |
August 7 | Kaye Gibbons | A Virtuous Woman |
August 28 | Graham Swift | Mothering Sunday, a Romance |
September 18 | Lisa Halliday | Asymmetry: a Novel |
October 9 | Patrick DeWitt | French Exit |
October 30 | Catherine Steadman | Something in the Water: a Novel |
November 20 | Julian Fellowes | Belgravia |
December 11 | Rachel Kushner | The Mars Room |
2018 book titles are listed below
January 10 | Mohsin Hamid | Exit West |
January 31 | Brit Bennett | The Mothers |
February 21 | Colum McCann | Let the Great World Spin |
March 14 | Sue Monk Kidd | Invention of Wings |
April 4 | Sherman Alexie | Absolutely True |
April 25 | Vatty Ratner | Celine |
May 16 | Peter Heller | Exit West |
June 7 | Sarah Perry | The Essex Serpent |
June 27 | Ron Rash | Serena |
July 18 | Otessa Moshfegh | Eileen |
August 8 | Amor Towles | A Gentleman in Moscow |
August 29 | Vanessa Diffenbaugh | The Language of Flowers |
September 19 | Michael Ondaatje | The Cat’s Table |
October 10 | Rachel Khong | Goodbye, Vitamin |
November 7 | Ian McEwan | Nutshell |
November 28 | Gail Honeyman | Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine |
December 19 | F.Scott Fitzgerald | This Side of Paradise |
Please view past KVL Book Discussion Titles for previous years’ book selections.
World Affairs Book Club
The World Affairs Book Club reads a current non-fiction book to generate a conversation among the participants. The Club meets September through May on the first Wednesday of the month from 10am to noon.