Our book club currently meets in the library garden on the third Tuesday and Thursday of the month. Please RSVP to Jen at jbremer@delafieldlibrary.org.
2021 Selections:
 | Evicted by Matthew DesmondTuesday, January 19th at noon & A sociologist follows eight families in Milwaukee as they struggle to keep a roof over their heads, transforming our understanding of poverty and economic exploitation while providing fresh ideas for solving one of 21st-century America's most devastating problems. |
 | Circe by Madeline MillerTuesday, February 16th at noon & Follows the banished witch daughter of Titans as she hones her powers and interacts with famous mythological beings before a conflict with one of the most vengeful Olympians forces her to choose between the worlds of the gods and mortals. |
 | Daring Greatly by Brene BrownTuesday, March 16th at noon & Researcher and thought leader Dr. Brené Brown offers a powerful new vision that encourages us to dare greatly: to embrace vulnerability and imperfection, to live wholeheartedly, and to courageously engage in our lives. |
 | And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer by Fredrik BackmanThursday, April 15th at 6:30 PM & An exquisitely moving portrait of an elderly man’s struggle to hold on to his most precious memories, and his family’s efforts to care for him even as they must find a way to let go. |
 | The Dutch House by Ann PatchettTuesday, May 18th at noon & Set over the course of five decades, The Dutch House is a dark fairy tale about two smart people who cannot overcome their past. A richly moving story that explores the indelible bond between two siblings, the house of their childhood, and a past that will not let them go. |
 | Oona Out of Order by Margarita MontimoreTuesday, June 15th at noon & As the countdown to the New Year begins, soon-to-be-19 Oona Lockhart faints and awakens 32 years in the future in her 51-year-old body; and, greeted by a friendly stranger in a beautiful house she’s told is her own, Oona learns that with each passing year she will leap to another age at random. |
 | Rules of Civility by Amor TowlesThursday, July 15th at 6:30 PM & A chance encounter with a handsome banker in a jazz bar on New Year's Eve 1938 catapults Wall Street secretary Katey Kontent into the upper echelons of New York society, where she befriends a shy multi-millionaire, an Upper East Side ne'er-do-well, and a single-minded widow. |
 | The Stonekeeper by Kazu KibuishiTuesday, August 17th at noon & After the tragic death of their father, Emily and Navin move with their mother to the home of her deceased great-grandfather, but the strange house proves to be dangerous. Before long, a sinister creature lures the kids' mom through a door in the basement. Em and Navin, desperate not to lose her, follow her into an underground world inhabited by demons, robots, and talking animals.... |
 | Never Let me Go by Kazuo IshiguroThursday, September 16th at 6:30 PM & A reunion with two childhood friends--Ruth and Tommy--draws Kath and her companions on a nostalgic odyssey into the supposedly idyllic years of their lives at Hailsham, an isolated private school in the serene English countryside, and a dramatic confrontation with the truth about their childhoods and about their lives in the present. |
 | The Woman in the Window by A.J. FinnTuesday, October 19th at noon & An agoraphobic recluse languishes in her New York City home, drinking wine and spying on her neighbors, before witnessing a terrible crime through her window that exposes her secrets and raises questions about her perceptions of reality. |
 | A Reliable Wife by Robert GoolrickTuesday, November 16th at noon & Ralph Truitt, a wealthy businessman with a troubled past who lives in a remote nineteenth-century Wisconsin town, has advertised for a reliable wife; and his ad is answered by Catherine Land, a woman who makes every effort to hide her own dark secrets. |
 | When No One is Watching by Alyssa ColeTuesday, December 14th at noon (note: one week early) & Finding unexpected support from a new friend while collecting stories from her rapidly vanishing Brooklyn community, Sydney uncovers sinister truths about a regional gentrification project and why her neighbors are moving away. |