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2025 Central Book Club Reading List

Join the Central Book Club in 2025 to read books across genres! The Central Park Library's book club meets (almost) every 4th Monday from 10:30 - 11:30 a.m. at the Central Park Library's Board Room on the 2nd Floor. Join the group and create a space to talk about and enjoy reading. Visit our event calendar for more information at sclibrary.org/events. Click on each title below to see what other formats we offer (eBook, eAudiobook, large print, etc.). You can also use Link+ to request books from other libraries if all of our copies are checked out.

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Loneliness & Company
a Novel
Dyroff, Charlee,
Discussing January 27, 2025 (one of this year's Silicon Valley Reads picks)
Book, 2024New York : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2024 — Fiction DYROFF C
Too Soon
a Novel
Shamieh, Betty,
Discussing February 24, 2025 (and join us for an author talk from Betty Shamieh at Central Park Library on Saturday, February 15!)
Book, 2025New York : Avid Reader Press, 2025 — Fiction SHAMIEH B
In Dubious Battle
Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968
Discussing March 24, 2025
Book, 2006New York : Penguin Books, 2006 — Fiction STEINBECK J
Ariel
the Restored Edition
Plath, Sylvia
Discussing April 28, 2025
Book, 2004New York : HarperCollins Publishers, c2004 — 811.54 P71
Disability Visibility
First-person Stories From the Twenty-first Century
**Discussing May 19, 2025 (in Sycamore Room - first floor of Central Park Library) **Date change due to Memorial Day holiday
Book, 2020New York : Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, 2020 — 305.908 D61
Under the Udala Trees
Okparanta, Chinelo
Discussing June 23, 2025
Book, 2015Boston ; New York : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015 — Fiction OKPARANTA C
The Thursday Murder Club
Osman, Richard, 1970-
Discussing July 28, 2025
Book, 2020[New York] : Pamela Dorman Books/Viking, [2020] — Mystery OSMAN R
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
Tokarczuk, Olga, 1962-
Discussing August 25, 2025
Book, 2019New York : Riverhead Books, 2019 — Fiction TOKARCZUK O
Bite by Bite
Nourishments & Jamborees
Nezhukumatathil, Aimee,
Discussing September 22, 2025
Book, 2024New York, NY : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2024] — 641.3 N57
Solito
a Memoir
Zamora, Javier,
Discussing October 27, 2025
Book, 2022New York : Hogarth, an imprint of Random House, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, 2022 — 305.9069 Z25
The Marrow Thieves
Dimaline, Cherie, 1975-
Discussing November 24, 2025
Paperback, 2023Toronto : DCB, 2023 — Young Adult Fiction DIMALINE C
James
a Novel
Everett, Percival,
**Discussing December 15, 2025 (in Margie Edinger Room - first floor of Central Park Library) **Date change due to winter holidays
Book, 2024New York : Doubleday, [2024] — Fiction EVERETT P

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