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MCL Book Club

MCL Book Club

Marion Carnegie Library’s Book Club meets on a Saturday morning each month in MCL’s McCoskey Room. During each meeting, we discuss a book selected by members of the community. Book Club is  a very low-pressure arrangement and is a great way to get to know other book lovers. We hope to see you there! 📚

MCL Book Club - Current Pick

Click the cover of MCL Book Club’s current selection to find it in the card catalog!

At forty, Nora Webster is newly widowed, left with four children and not nearly enough money. Maurice, the love of her life, had once saved her from a stifling existence—but now he’s gone, and Nora fears she may be pulled back into a world she fought hard to leave behind. In a small Irish town where privacy is a luxury, Nora tries to keep her sorrow private—even as her young sons silently mourn the father they barely understand is missing.

As she wrestles with fear, anger, and identity, Nora reveals a complex interior life—wounded and secretive, yet capable of astonishing empathy and strength. When she rediscovers her passion for singing, Nora begins a quiet transformation, finding solace, connection, and a sense of self that she had long buried.

MCL Book Club Selections

Working ahead or revisiting past favorites? Click the title of any of MCL Book Club’s previous or upcoming selections to find it in the card catalog!

January/February 2026 – Lillian Boxfish Takes A Walk by Kathleen Rooney

March 2026 – Nora Webster by Colm Tóibín

January 2025 – How to Age Disgracefully by Clare Pooley

February 2025 – Murder at the Book Club by Betsy Reavley

March 2025 – Nettle and Bone by T. Kingfisher

April 2025 – Our Little Secret by Lisa Jackson

May 2025 – All the Colors of the Dark by Chris Whitaker

June 2025 – The Jane Austen Society by Natalie Jenner

July 2025 – Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See

August 2025 – Bright Young Women by Jessica Knoll

September 2025 – A Girl Called Samson by Amy Harmon

October 2025 – Starling House by Alix Harrow

November 2025 – Booked for Murder by P. J. Nelson

December 2025 – Jane Austen’s Bookshelf: a rare book collector’s quest to find the women writers who shaped a legend by Rebecca Romney

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