Loraine Literary Society
Book Selections 2024/25
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 2024-25
Meetings are held on the third Monday of the month at 7 pm.
September 16, 2024 - Late Bloomers by Deepa Varadarajan
October 21, 2024 - The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder by David Grann
November 18, 2024 - Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner
December 16, 2024 - Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
January 20, 2025 - The Book of Longings by Sue Monk Kidd
February 17, 2025 - Indemnity Only by Sue Paretsky
March 17, 2025 - Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
April 21, 2025 - Iona Iverson's Rules for Commuting by Clare Pooley
May 19, 2025 - Biography/autobiography yet to be determined
June 16, 2025 - Trust by Herman Diaz
July 21, 2025 - Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles
August 18, 2025 - Book selection for the following year
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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