The Patten Free Library Book Group meets on the second Thursday of each month at 3:00 pm in the Community Room. For the Fall session we match a pair of books, one fiction, one non-fiction on a discussion theme. New members are always welcome!
Fall ’23 Titles & Dates!
October 12: Fiction: Small Mercies by Dennis Lehane and Nonfiction: All Souls: A family Story from Southie Setting: South Boston, 1970s. Theme: Desegregation & Busing crisis.
November 9: Fiction: Horse by Geraldine Brooks, and Nonfiction, Race Horse Men by Katherine Mooney. Setting: Antebellum South. Theme: thoroughbred racing, and the black jockey class.
December 14: Fiction: Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell, and Nonfiction: Will in the World by Stephen Greenblatt. Setting: 16th c England. Theme: Shakespeare, personal life.
January 11: Fiction: Barkskins by Annie Proux and Nonfiction: Beaverland: How one weird rodent made America by Leila Phillips. Setting: Broadly North America 17-20th c. Theme: ecological and economic history, colonization and natural history.
