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 2025
Monday, August 4: Table for Two by Amor Towles.
Monday, September 1: NO MEETING
Monday, October 6: The Paris Express by Emma Donuhue (Attention: members of the Train Group are invited).
Monday November 3: The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters
Attention The Multicultural Group: This book deals with First Nations Members from Canada who yearly pick blueberries in Maine.
Monday, December 1: NO MEETING
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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 - 2025
April 21 William Faulkner The Sound and the Fury
May 19 T.S. Eliot Four Quartets
June 23 G.G. Marquez One Hundred Years of Solitude
July 21 Anthony Trollope Phineas Finn
Aug 18 Thackery Henry Esmond
Sept 15 George Eliot Felix Holt the Radical
Oct 20 Austen Persuasion
Nov 17 No meeting
Dec 15 Dickens Our Mutual Friend
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Third Monday Classics Book Club - 2026
Jan 19 Joyce A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Feb 16 Austen Pride and Prejudice
Mar 16 Trollope Phineas Redux
April 20 Greene The Power and the Glory
May 18 Eco The Name of the Rose
June 15 Woolf Jacob’s Room
July 20 James Portrait of a Lady
Aug 17 Conrad Under Western Eyes
Sept 21 Sontag The Volcano Lover
Oct 19 Forster A Room with a View
Nov 16 Dickens Great Expectations
Dec 21 M Shelley The Last Man
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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
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April 21 - Helsinki Homicide: Against the Wall by Jarkko Sipila
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May 19 - The God of the Woods by Liz Moore.
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June 23 - Faceless Killers by Henning Mankell.
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July 21 - The Drowned by John Banville.
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August 18 - In Too Deep by Lee Child.
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​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.