The Black Earth Public Library has an active book discussion group. We meet almost monthly, but most typically every five or six weeks. The library orders in copies of the titles that are selected by the members. Members take turns leading the book discussion as well as selecting the titles to be read.
Wednesday, January 22, 2025 -- Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy
Past Books Read and Discussed by Date
Wednesday, December 18, 2024 -- Beneath a Scarlet Sky by Mark Sullivan
Wednesday, November 13, 2024 -- Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
Wednesday, October 9, 2024 -- The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After by Clemantine Wamariya
Wednesday, September 4, 2024 -- The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid by Bill Bryson
Wednesday, July 10, 2024 -- Horse by Geraldine Brooks
Wednesday, May 22, 2024 -- Unsheltered by Barbara Kingsolver
Wednesday, April 17, 2024 -- Fellowship Point by Alice Elliot Dark
Wednesday, March 6, 2024 -- News of the World by Paulette Jiles
Wednesday, January 17, 2024 -- Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah
Wednesday, December 6, 2023 -- All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me by Patrick Bringley
Wednesday, October 25, 2023 -- Signal Fires by Dani Shapiro
Wednesday, September 20, 2023 -- The Sentence by Louise Erdrich
Wednesday, August 2, 2023 -- My Antonia by Willa Cather
Wednesday, June 28, 2023 -- The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See
Wednesday, May 10, 2023 -- The Bartender's Tale by Ivan Doig
Wednesday, March 29, 2023 -- The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz by Erik Larson
February 15, 2023 -- Carnegie's Maid by Marie Benedict
January 11, 2023 -- The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes
November 30, 2022 -- Early Morning Riser by Katherine Heiny
October 19, 2022 - How the Word is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America by Clint Smith
September 7, 2022 -- The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit by Michael Finkel
July 27, 2022 -- Virgil Wander by Leif Enger
June 8, 2022 -- The Chilbury Ladies Choir by Jennifer Ryan
May 4, 2022 -- The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey
April 6, 2022 -- If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin
March 2, 2022 -- The Dry by Jane Harper
January 19, 2022 -- Sold on a Monday by Kristina McMorris
December 8, 2021 -- This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger
October 30, 2021 -- Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi
September 8, 2021 -- Being Mortal by Atul Gawande
July 28, 2021 -- The Maltese Falcon by Dashniell Hammett
June 23, 2021 -- Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
May 19, 2021 -- Eventide by Kent Haruf
April 14, 2021 -- The Dog Stars by Peter Heller
March 3, 2021 -- There, There by Tommy Orange
January 13, 2021 -- The Black Box by Michael Connelly
October 28, 2020 -- Parkland: Birth of a Movement by Dave Cullen.
September 16, 2020 -- The Nest by Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney
August 5, 2020 -- Blood, Bones & Butter by Gabrielle Hamilton
June 24, 2020 -- The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
April 18, 2020 -- The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah - CANCELED - to be rescheduled in May
March 21, 2020 -- A Love Tucked Away in the Attic by Heather Roberson & Up Harvey's Creek by Karl Stewart -- CANCELED
February 15, 2020 -- The Only Woman in the Room by Marie Benedict
January 11, 2020 -- The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu by Joshua Hammer
November 23, 2019 -- The Soloist by Steve Lopez
October 12, 2019 -- The Poison Squad by Deborah Blum
August 31, 2019 -- All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren
July 20, 2019 -- The Battle Hymn of the tiger Mother by Amy Chua
June 8, 2019 -- The Elephant Company by Vicki Constantine Croke
April 27, 2019 -- Nothing Daunted by Dorothy Wickenden
March 2, 2019 -- The Music Shop by Rachel Joyce
January 19, 2019 -- The Education of Will by Patricia McConnell
December 15, 2018 -- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
November 3, 2018 -- The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben
September 29, 2018 -- The Death and Life of the Great Lakes by Dan Egan
August 25, 2018 -- The Spirit Woman by Margaret Coel
July 28, 2018 -- Beloved by Toni Morrison
June 16, 2018 -- Isaac's Storm by Erik Larson
May 12, 2018 - The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
March 31, 2018 - Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
February 24, 2018 - River of Doubt: Theodor Roosevelt's Darkest Journey by Candice Millard
January 13, 2018 - Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
November 18, 2017 - Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance
October 21, 2017 - Everything You Wanted to Know About Indians But Were Afraid to Ask by Anton Treuer, and Warrior Nation by Anton Treuer
August 19, 2017 - The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson
June 2017 - Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight by Alexandra Fuller
May 13, 2017 - Breakfast with Buddha by Roland Merullo
April 1, 2017 - Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein
February 18, 2017 - The Last Days of Night by Graham Moore
January 7, 2017 - Loving Frank by Nancy Horan