Reading and discussion are the roots of learning and can also become the roots of community bonding. Join other readers at the Folsom Public Library for lively, monthly book discussions on the first Tuesday, 6:30-7:30 p.m. or the third Thursday, 1:00-2:00 p.m. in the Library Meeting Room. All adults welcomed! Copies of selection available for checkout at the Adult Information desk.
Upcoming Book Club Selections

	May 1 & 17 The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz The book chronicles the lives of Oscar de Leon, Oscar's runaway sister, Lola; his mother, Hypatia Belicia Cabral; and his grandfather, Abelard. Rife with footnotes, science fiction and fantasy references, comic book analogies, and various Spanish dialects, the novel is also a meditation on story-telling, the Dominican diaspora and identity, masculinity, and oppression. Winner of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.  Get the discussion guide.
	June 5 & 21 The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins Called "the first and greatest of English detective novels" by T.S.Eliot. A fabulous yellow diamond becomes the dangerous inheritance of Rachel Verinder. Outside her Yorkshire country house watch the Hindu priests who have waited for many years to reclaim their ancient talisman, looted from the holy city of Somnauth. When the Moonstone disappears the case looks simple, but in mid-Victorian England no one is what they seem, and nothing can be taken for granted.
	July 3 & 19 State of Wonder by Ann Patchett A researcher at a pharmaceutical company, Marina Singh must step out of her comfort zone when she is sent into the heart of the Amazonian delta to check on a field team that has been silent for two years--a dangerous assignment that forces Marina to confront the ghosts of her past.
	August 7 & 16 Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali The author recounts the story of her life, from her traditional Muslim childhood in Somalia and escape from a forced marriage to her efforts to promote women's rights while surviving numerous threats to her safety.
	September 4 & 20 Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather It concerns the attempts of a Catholic bishop and a priest to establish a diocese in New Mexico Territory. The novel was included on Time's 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005 and Modern Library's list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century, and was chosen by the Western Writers of America to be the 7th-best "Western Novel" of the 20th century.
	October 2 & 18 Angle of Repose by Wallace Earle Stegner The classic Pulitzer Prize-winning novel traces the lives and fortunes of four generations of one family as they attempt to build a life for themselves in the American West.
	November 6 & 15 The Plague of Doves by Louise Erdrich Unaware of a violent event that marked the beginning of her mixed ancestry, ambitious young Evelina Harp, a part-Ojibwe, part-white girl prone to falling hopelessly in love, learns disturbing truths from her gifted storyteller grandfather. A finalist for the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
	December 4 & 20 Poetry Share a favorite poem with our book club members.

Previous book club selections:
2012
River of Red Gold by Naida West
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
The Kitchen House: a Novel by Kathleen Grissom
The Girl Who Fell From the Sky by Heidi W. Durrow

2011
The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
Little Bee by Chris Cleave
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler
The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver
Parrot and Olivier in America by Peter Carey
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
Mrs. Adams in Winter: a Journey in the Last Days of Napoleon by Michael O'Brien
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
The School of Essential Ingredients by Erica Bauermeister

2010
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
by Dee Alexander Brown
Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
Funny in Farsi by by Firoozeh Dumas
The Glass Castle by Jeanette Wall
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford
The Last Child by John Hart
The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon by David Grann
Mudbound by Hillary Jordan
Shanghai Girls by Lisa See
Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks
Zeitoun by Dave Eggers

2009
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows 
Honeymoon With My Brother: A Memoir by Franz Wisner
Little Heathens : Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm During the Great Depression by Mildred Armstrong Kalish
Loving Frank: A Novel by Nancy Horan
Marco Polo: From Venice to Xanadu by Laurence Bergreen
My Antonia by Willa Cather
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson
The Soloist: A Lost Dream, an Unlikely Friendship and the Redemptive Power of Music
by Steve Lopez
The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story by Diane Ackerman

2007-08
The Friday Night Knitting Club by Kate Jacobs
The Double Bind by Chris Bohjalian
Dispatches from the Edge by Anderson Cooper 
Deadheads : a Murder Mystery by Reginald Hill
God is Not Great : How Religion Poisons Everything by Christopher Hitchens
Grayson by Lynne Cox
The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai  
The Innocent Man by John Grisham
Life of Pi : A Novel by Yann Martel
The Madonnas of Leningrad : A Novel by Debra Dean
Mayflower by Nathan Philbrick
Oil! byUpton Sinclair
On Gold Mountain by Lisa See
The Quiet American by by Graham Greene
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
The Tea-Olive Bird Watching Society by Augusta Trobaugh  
Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
The World to Come by Dara Horn