First Monday Book Club
The First Monday Book Club is meets the first Monday of each month 10:30-11:30 am in the Fireplace Room adjacent to the Bistro. Books available through Baltimore County Library, Book Mobile = 2nd Thursday of the month, Amazon, and sometimes from Broadmead's Library or Old/New Shop For more information contact Elsa Collins.
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First Monday Book Group Selections for 2024
May 6 Lessons in Chemistry - Gamus
June 3 House of Doors - Tan Twan Eng
July 1 Flee North - Scott Shane
Aug. 5 Eve - Cat Bohannon
Sept. 2 Eve - Cat Bohannon
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Classics Book Club (the third Monday)
The Classics Book Club meets on the third Monday of each month 10:00 am in the Fireplace Room next to the Bistro. All are welcome. Contact John Mattingly at johnbosco360@gmail.com
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Third Monday Classics Book Club 2024-25
July 15: Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald
August 19: Beast in the Jungle and Aspern Papers by Henry James
September 16: Civilization and Its Discontents by Sigmund Freud
October 21: A Swim in the Pool in the Rain by George Saunders
November 18: The Hours by Michael Cummings
December 16 Dramatic Monologues by Robert Browning
January 20: Death Comes for the Archbishop and Lost Lady by Willa Cather
February 17: Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
March 17: Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
April 21: Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
May 19: The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
June 16 Four Quartets by T.S. Eliot
July 21: One Thousand Years of Solitude by G.G.Marquez
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Mystery Novel Group (the third Monday)
The Mystery Novel Group currently meets on the third Monday of the month in the Uplands Community Room at 1:00 pm. Contact Craig Smith with questions or comments.
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Third Monday Mystery Novel Group Selections
July 15: Owning Up by George Pelecanos
August: No meeting
September 16: the Return of the Dancing Master by Mankell
​Reading List Information
Prior to 2016, the First Monday Book Group had an arrangement with the Baltimore County Library that brought books selected by various book groups on the Book Mobile each week. The practice was stopped by the library in 2016. Since then, the first Monday Book Group coordinator has listed book titles 4-6 months in advance in order for readers to obtain books in time to read them. (Go to the book clubs webpage).
Readers can call the mobile library number 410-887-7586 or go online at bcpl.info to reserve books. Readers can also visit Cockeysville Library to reserve, pick up books, or get information on how to receive books electronically. ( computer, ipad, amazon fire.) Broadmead's library is another source of books. Broadmead residents have offered to share their own books.
As we have come out of COVID restrictions, titles have published titles months in advance so that readers have a chance to get the titles in time to read them. With the reorganization of the mystery readers, several titles have moved up on the schedule.
With the separation of the mystery readers, readers are being asked to suggest books for June-Dec. 2023. These do not need to be current, but could be books that someone is interested in discussing.