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!
A 20-year-old Chinese painter named Stephen is sent to his family’s summer home in a Japanese coastal village to recover from a bout with tuberculosis. Here he is cared for by Matsu, a reticent housekeeper and a master gardener. Over the course of a remarkable year, Stephen learns Matsu’s secret and gains not only physical strength, but also profound spiritual insight. Matsu is a samurai of the soul, a man devoted to doing good and finding beauty in a cruel and arbitrary world, and Stephen is a noble student, learning to appreciate Matsu’s generous and nurturing way of life and to love Matsu’s soul-mate, gentle Sachi, a woman afflicted with leprosy.
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!
Book Club Selections in 2026
January/February 2026 – Lillian Boxfish Takes A Walk by Kathleen Rooney
March 2026 – Nora Webster by Colm Tóibín
April 2026 – Happy Land by Dolen Perkins-Valdez
May 2026 – Before She Was Helen by Caroline B. Cooney
June 2026 – Revolutionary Mothers: Women in the Struggle for America’s Independence by Carol Berkin
July 2026 – The Samurai’s Garden by Gail Tsukiyama
Book Club Selections in 2025
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
Book Club Selections in 2024
January 2024 – Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt
February 2024 – Tom Lake by Ann Patchett
March 2024 – Apples Never Fall by Liane Moriarty
April 2024 – Look Closer by David Ellis
May 2024 – Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
June 2024 – The Stranger Inside by Laura Benedict
July 2024 – Beautiful Little Fools by Jillian Cantor
August 2024 – More Than You’ll Ever Know by Katie Gutierrez
September 2024 – Dark Matter by Blake Crouch
October 2024 – The Music of Bees by Eileen Garvin
November 2024 – Night Watch by Jayne Anne Phillips
Book Club Selections in 2023
November/December 2023 – Gingerbread by Helen Oyeyemi
October 2023 – All the Sinners Bleed by S.A. Cosby
September 2023 – The Unlikely Pilgramage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce
August 2023 – The Lager Queen of Minnesota by J. Ryan Stradal
July 2023 – Mad Honey by Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Finney Boylan
June 2023 – Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan
May 2023 – The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune
April 2023 – Dial A For Aunties by Jesse Q. Sutanto
March 2023 – The Love of My Life by Rosie Walsh
February 2023 – The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow
January 2023 – The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
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