Loraine Literary Society
Book Selections 2023/24
Meetings are held on the third Monday of the month at 7:00 P.M. (Meetings will start at 8 pm when the Condo Board is meeting that day). The Loraine Literary Society (LLS) invites all residents to join the discussion. Subscribe to the email list of LLS members by sending an email to Sybil Better.
If you're just looking for a book to read, head to the Community Room and visit The Book Exchange, our resident-operated small lending library. Instructions are posted inside the top left cabinet door. Books are also available for borrowing on the first floor by the elevators.
Loraine Book Group Schedule for 2023-24
Meetings are held on the third Monday of the month at 7 pm.
September 18, 2023
Little Bee by Chris Cleave
Discussion Leader: Susan
October 16, 2023
Caleb's Crossing by Geraldine Brooks
Discussion Leader: Joan
November 20, 2023
The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa
Discussion Leader: Ellen
December 18, 2023
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
Discussion Leader: Sue
January 15, 2024
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
Discussion Leader: Ann
February 19, 2024
The Beekeeper of Aleppo by Christie Lefteri
Discussion Leader: Kathy
March 18, 2024
Untold Power: The Fascinating Rise and Complex Legacy of First Lady Edith Wilson by Rebecca Boggs Roberts
Discussion Leader: Jo
April 15, 2024
The Golden Egg by Donna Leon
Discussion Leader: Maurice
May 20, 2024
The Sentence by Louise Erdrich
Discussion Leader: Sybil
June 17, 2024
Still True by Maggie Ginsberg
Discussion Leader: Chris
July 15, 2024
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
Discussion Leader: Sue
August 19, 2024
Select books for 2024-25
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Suggested Reading List
The Literary United States (PDF) - a book for every state
*The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
*All the Light We Cannot See
*All the Missing Girls
*Anna Karenina
*Anything is Possible
*Beyond the Ties of Blood
Birdsong
*Bliss: A Novel
*Born a Crime
*Born to Run
*Bread and Wine
*Britt-Marie Was Here
*Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness
*Crossing to Safety
*Cutting for Stone
*The Devil in the White City
Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight
*Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors and the Drug Company that Addicted America
*Educated: A Memoir
The English Major
*Everything I Never Told You
*Exit West
*Famous Father Girl
*A Fine Balance
*The Fire Next Time
Forever
*A Gentleman in Moscow
*The Goldfinch
The Girl Who Wrote in Silk
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
*Hag-Seed
*The Honest Truth About Dishonesty: How We Lie to Everyone - Especially Ourselves
*I Am Mary Sutter
*The Invention of Wings
*Isaac's Storm
*Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
*The Kitchen House
*A Life of Her Own
*Little Fires Everywhere
*A Man Called Ove
*Mary Queen of Scots and the Isles
Master Butcher’s Singing Club
*Me Before You
*The Memory Keeper's Daughter
*A Moveable Feast
*My Brilliant Friend
*News of the World
*Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century
Olive Kitteridge
On Canaan’s Side
*Ordinary Grace
*Orphan Train
*Overstory
*A Paris Wife
*A Piece of the World
Racing in the Rain
*Raven Black
The Room
*The Rosie Project
*The Round House
The Rules of Civility
Sarah’s Key
*Sing, Unburied, Sing
A Soldier’s Wife
*The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels
*The Space Between Us
*State of Wonder
*There There
Three Cups of Tea
A Train in Winter
The Unbroken
*Waking Lions
*Waiting
We The Animals
*When In French: Love in a Second Languange
* = already discussed