Book Discussions
Books & Brews Book Discussion: The Book of George by Kate Greathead
Tuesday, December 2 at 7 – 8:15 PM Browndog Barlor1, 20 E. Main St, Northville, MI, 48167 Books and Brews Book Discussion: The Book of George by Kate Greathead FICTION A sharp, witty chronicle of George’s life from adolescence to adulthood, exposing the messy, aimless masculinity of a generation—and the women left wondering if change is…
Between the Lines Book Discussion: How to Read a Book by Monica Wood
Monday, December 8 at 7 PM Violet Powell, a twenty-two-year-old from rural Abbott Falls, Maine, is being released from prison after serving twenty-two months for a drunk-driving crash that killed a local kindergarten teacher. Harriet Larson, a retired English teacher who runs the prison book club, is facing the unsettling prospect of an empty nest.…
The Next Chapter: A 55+ Book Discussion Group: The Lion Women of Tehran by Marjan Kamali
Wednesday, December 17 at 11 AM Join us for our monthly 55+ book discussion group, The Next Chapter, in collaboration with Northville Senior Services. We will meet at the Community Center the third Wednesday of each month at 11 AM. We plan to alternate fiction and non-fiction titles. This month’s selection is The Lion Women…
Books & Brews Book Discussion: I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy
Tuesday, January 6 at 7 PM Browndog Barlor, 120 E. Main St, Northville, MI, 48167 Books and Brews Book Discussion: I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy MEMOIR A raw, witty memoir of child stardom, emotional abuse, and survival—how one young actress untangles her identity from her controlling mother and finally claims freedom. e-book available…
Between the Lines Book Discussion: There are Rivers in the Sky by Elif Shafak
Monday, January 12 at 7 PM In the ancient city of Nineveh, on the bank of the River Tigris, King Ashurbanipal of Mesopotamia, erudite but ruthless, built a great library that would crumble with the end of his reign. From its ruins, however, emerged a poem, the Epic of Gilgamesh, that would infuse the existence…
From Page to Palette Book Club
Wednesday, January 14 at 6:30 PM Join the Northville Art House and the Northville District Library at the Northville Art House for an art-inspired book club. Meeting bi-monthly, this book club will focus mostly on fiction inspired by art history’s most famous (and infamous) figures and styles. Participants will see the story come to life…
The Next Chapter: A 55+ Book Discussion Group: What an Owl Knows by Jennifer Ackerman
Wednesday, January 11 at 11 AM Join us for our monthly 55+ book discussion group, The Next Chapter, in collaboration with Northville Senior Services. We will meet at the Community Center the third Wednesday of each month at 11 AM. We plan to alternate fiction and non-fiction titles. This month’s selection is What an Owl…
Books & Brews Book Discussion: Sky Full of Elephants by Cebo Campbell
Tuesday, February 3 at 7 PM Browndog Barlor, 120 E. Main St, Northville, MI, 48167 Books and Brews Book Discussion: Sky Full of Elephants by Cebo Campbell FICTION In a world where every white person vanishes, a Black professor and his estranged biracial daughter journey through a reshaped America seeking identity, truth and healing. e-book available…
Between the Lines Book Discussion: James by Percival Everett
Monday, February 9 at 7 PM A brilliant reimagining of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn—both harrowing and satirical—told from the enslaved Jim’s point of view When Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he runs away until he can formulate a…
The Next Chapter: A 55+ Book Discussion Group: Absolution by Alice McDermott
Wednesday, February 18 at 11 AM Join us for our monthly 55+ book discussion group, The Next Chapter, in collaboration with Northville Senior Services. We will meet at the Community Center the third Wednesday of each month at 11 AM. We plan to alternate fiction and non-fiction titles. This month’s selection is Absolution by Alice McDermott.…
Find all of this year's selected titles in Overdrive here.
The Neighborhood Library Association (NLA) is a group of seven area libraries in a collaborative partnership. Our goal is to bring members of our communities together to read and discuss the same book in an annual Community Reads. These seven libraries also encourage community members to come together for events and programs related to that year’s book. The seven libraries composing the NLA are Commerce Township Community Library, Lyon Township Public Library, Northville District Library, Novi Public Library, Salem-South Lyon District Library, Walled Lake City Library, and Wixom Public Library.
Visit the Neighborhood Library Association’s Community Reads website for more information.
Book Club on the Go
Complete list of book kit titles
- Each kit contains 8 copies of fiction or non-fiction titles chosen based on professional reviews, award lists, and recommendations from Northville book group members.
- Each kit includes a folder with book discussion questions, author biography, and book reviews.
- The kits are checked out to one person who is responsible for all of the materials.
- The kits check out for 6 weeks. Kits can be placed on hold. Kits can be renewed once if no holds exist.
- New kits with new titles will be added throughout the year.
- Single copies of the books may not be checked out from the kit.
- The kit must be returned with all materials.
- Items from the kit cannot be returned separately. Incomplete kits will not be accepted and will incur fines once the due date is reached. Overdue Book Group kits will be fined $1.00 a day to a maximum of $25.00 Replacement cost of an entire kit is $100.00. Replacement costs of individual items will depend on the cost of the missing/damaged item.
Previous Between the Lines Book Discussions
- North Woods by Daniel Mason
- Beautyland by Marie-Helene Bertino
- Real Americans by Rachel Khong
- Tom Lake by Ann Patchett
- Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
- Yellowface by R.F. Kuang
- Night Watch by Jayne Anne Phillips
- Lady Tan’s Circle of Women by Lisa See
- Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
- A Fever in the Heartland by Timothy Egan
- Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
- Community Reads: Chevy in the Hole by Kelsey Ronan
- The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters
- I Have Some Questions For You by Rebecca Makkai
- The Reading List by Sara Nisha Adams
- The Book of Delights by Ross Gay
- Telephone by Percival Everett
- An Immense World by Ed Yong
- Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt
- Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
- Hell of a Book by Jason Mott
- Olga Dies Dreaming by Xochitl Gonzalez
- Anxious People by Fredrik Backman
- The Sentence by Louise Erdrich
- Community Reads: Mika In Real Life by Emiko Jean
- Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann
- Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead
- The Woman They Could Not Silence by Kate Moore
- Scarlet in Blue by Jennifer Murphy
- The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, by V. E. Schwab
- The Measure by Nikki Erlick
- Taste: My Life Through Food by Stanley Tucci
- The Book of Lost Names by Kristin Harmel
- Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell
- The Giant Killer by David Yuzuk
- The Dutch House by Ann Patchett
- Fox and I: An Uncommon Friendship by Catherine Raven
- The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray
- Dear Edward by Ann Napolitano
- A Life on Our Planet by David Attenborough
- Community Reads: Fire Keeper’s Daughter by Angeline Boulley
- The Women of the Copper Country by Mary Doria Russell
- Overground Railroad: The Greenbook and the Roots of Black Travel in America by Candacy Taylor
- The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
- The Mercies by Kiran Millwood Hargrave
- Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family by Robert Kolker
- The Plot by Jean Hanff Korelitz
- The Only Plane in the Sky by Garrett M. Graff
- My Wife said you May Want to Marry Me by Jason B. Rosenthal
- Homeland Elegies by Ayad Akhtar
- Nomadland by Jessica Bruder
- The Mountains Sing by Nguyen Phan Que’ Mai
- News of the World by Paulette Jiles
- In the Country of Women by Susan Straight
- Mighty Justice by Dovey Johnson Roundtree
- This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger
- The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah
- The Warmth of other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
- The Library Book by Susan Orlean
- Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult
- The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris
- Southernmost by Silas House
- The Good Neighbor: The Life and Work of Fred Rogers by Maxwell King
- The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson
- The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
- The Book of M by Peng Shepherd
- Community Reads: Kent State: Four Dead in Ohio by Derf Backderf (Community Reads)
- We Hope for Better Things by Erin Bartels
- The Friend by Sigrid Nunez
- Educated by Tara Westover
- The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin
- The Lost City of the Monkey God by Douglas Preston
- An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
- I’ll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara
- The Book Thieves: The Nazi Looting of Europe’s Libraries and the Race to Return a Literary Inheritance by Anders Rydell
- Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
- Community Read: Beautiful Music by Michael Zadoorian
- Heartland by Sarah Smarsh
- The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin
- X by Ilyasah Shabazz
- Dust Bowl Girls by Lydia Reeder
- Strings Attached by Joanne Lipman and Melanie Kupchynsky
- The Wonder by Emma Donoghue
- Commonwealth by Ann Patchett
- Turtles All the Way Down by John Green
- Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance
- Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate
- Community Read: The Poisoned City: Flint’s Water and the American Urban Tragedy by Anna Clark
- The Other Einstein by Marie Benedict
- Number One Chinese Restaurant by Lillian Li
- The Last Days of Night by Graham Moore
- Invisible: The Forgotten Story of the Black Woman Lawyer who Took Down America’s Most Powerful Mobster by Stephen L. Carter
- Little Paris Bookshop by Nina George
- Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly
- Aviators Wife by Melanie Benjamin
- Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
- Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen
- A Long Way Home: A Memoir by Saroo Brierley
- Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
- Florence Gordon by Brian Morton
- Evicted: Poverty and Profit in an American City by Matthew Desmond
- Community Reads: Underground Airlines by Ben H. Winters
- Terror in the City of Champions: Murder, Baseball, and the Secret Society that Shocked Depression-era Detroit by Tom Stanton
- Mr. Penumbra’s 24-hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan
- Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
- Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd
- Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy by Karen Abbott
- Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a world that cant’ stop talking by Susan Cain
- Light Between Oceans by M.L Stedman
- Concussion by Jeanne Marie Laskas
- Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell
- Girls of Atomic City by Denise Kiernan
- Man Called Ove by Fredrick Backman
- Community Reads: Born to Run by Christopher McDougall
- The Girl on The Train by Paula Hawkins
- Free Days with George by Colin Campbell
- Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
- I am Malala by Malala Yousafzai
- Me Before You by Jojo Moyes
- Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
- A Hologram for the King by Dave Eggers
- Little Failure: A Memoir by Gary Shteyngart
- The Fault in our Stars by John Green
- Three Minutes in Poland by Glenn Kurtz
- Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
- Deep Down Dark by Hector Tobar
- Community Read: Lisette’s List by Susan Vreeland
- Social Animal by David Brooks
- The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce
- The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business by Charles Duhigg
- Where’d You Go, Bernadette: A Novel by Maria Semple
- Full Body Burden: Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats by Kristen Iversen
- Requiem by Frances Itani
- Bootstrapper: From Broke to Badass on a Northern Michigan Farm by Mardi Jo Link
- The Age of Miracles: A Novel by Karen Thompson Walker
- The Smartest Kids in the World: and How They Got that Way by Amanda Ripley
- Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline
- Community Reads: We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler
- Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
- Life Itself: A Memoir by Roger Ebert
- The Paris Wife by Paula McLain
- In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson
- Breakfast with Buddha by Roland Merullo
- The Girls of Murder City by Douglas Perry
- Rules of Civility by Amor Towles
- Wild by Cheryl Strayed
- Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman
- A Jane Austen Education: How Six Novels Taught Love, Friendship, and the Things that Really Matters by William Deresiewicz
- The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh
- Community Reads: Detroit City is the Place to Be: the Afterlife of an American Metropolis by Mark Binelli
- Defending Jacob by William Landay
- The Geography of Bliss: One Grump’s Search for the Happiest Places in the World by Eric Weiner
- Kosher Chinese by Michael Levy
- The Three Day Road by Joseph Boyden
- Dangerously Funny by David Bianculli
- The Painted Veil by W. Somerset Maugham
- My Life in France by Julia Child
- Winter’s Bone by Daneil Woodrell
- Stuff by Randy O. Frost
- Fathermucker by Greg Olear
- The Other by Wes Moore
- Mudbound by Hillary Jordan
- Moneyball: the art of winning an unfair game by Michael M. Lewis
- This Perfect Day by Ira Levin
- Every Man Dies Alone by Hans Fallada
- Room: A Novel by Emma Donoghue
- Eden’s Outcasts by John Matteson
- Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
- Lincoln’s Sanctuary: Abraham Lincoln and the Soldiers’ Home by Matthew Pinsker
- Moloka’i by Alan Brennert
- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
- Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand: A Novel by Helen Simonson
- The Good Old Days – They Were Terrible! by Bettmann, Otto
- Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
- Your Call Is (not that) Important to Us: Customer Service and What It Reveals About Our World and Our Lives by Emily Yellin
- Loving Frank: A Novel by Nancy Horan
- The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester
- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
- The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell
- Still Alice: A Novel by Lisa Genova
- Traffic: Why We Drive The Way We Do (And What It Says About Us) by Tom Vanderbilt
- The Things They Carried: A Work of Fiction by Tim O’Brien
- Holy Cow: An Indian Adventure by Sarah MacDonald
- The Disappearance by Philip Wylie
- The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family by Annette Gordon-Reed
- The Help by Kathryn Stockett
- In Cheap We Trust: The Story of a Misunderstood American Virtue by Lauren Weber
Previous Books & Brews Book Discussions
- Community Reads: My Murder by Katie Williams
- Come and Get It by Kiley Reid
- The Great Displacement by Jake Bittle
- Bear by Julia Phillips
- Cultish by Amanda Montell
- All Good People Here by Ashley Flowers
- Banyan Moon by Thao Thai
- Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar
- A Woman is No Man by Etaf Rum
- The Survivalists by Kashana Cauley
- Four Treasures of the Sky by Jenny Tinghui Zhang
- They Called Us Exceptional: And Other Lies That Raised Us by Prachi Gupta
- Community Reads: Chevy in the Hole by Kelsey Ronan
- The Undocumented Americans by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
- Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng
- Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy
- The Thirty Names of Night by Zeyn Joukhadar
- Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner
- The Sweetness of Water by Nathan Harris
- This Time Tomorrow by Emma Straub
- Mika In Real Life by Emiko Jean
- True Biz by Sara Novic
- Scarlet in Blue by Jennifer Murphy
- Normal People by Sally Rooney
- The Phone Booth at the Edge of the World by Laura Imai Messina
- Between Two Kingdoms by Suleika Jaouad
- Good Neighbors by Sarah Langan
- A Burning by Megha Majumdar
- I Live a Life Like Yours : A Memoir by Jan Grue
- Pew by Catherine Lacey
- Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid
- In Five Years by Rebecca Serle
- A Knock at Midnight: A Story of Hope, Justice, and Freedom by Brittany K. Barnett
- The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai
- Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue
- Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 by Cho Nam-Joo
- The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
- Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen by Jose Antonio Vargas
- A Place For Us by Fatima Farheen Mirza
- There There by Tommy Orange
- All You Can Ever Know: A Memoir by Nicole Chung
- Daisy Jones & the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
- Nothing To See Here by Kevin Wilson
- Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
- Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
- The Music Shop by Rachel Joyce
- The Power by Naomi Alderman
- Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
- Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen by Jose Antonio Vargas
- The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Woo by Junot Diaz
- The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
- Let’s Pretend This Never Happened by Jenny Lawson
- Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan
- Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
- Beartown by Fredrik Backman
- Modern Romance by Aziz Ansari
- The Circle by Dave Eggers
- Walden on Wheels by Ken Ilgunas
- The Portable Veblen by Elizabeth McKenzie
- Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng
Previous Next Chapter Book Discussions
- Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
- Community Reads: My Murder by Katie Williams
- A Day in the Life of Abed Salama by Nathan Thrall
- Go as a River by Shelley Read
- Smoke gets in your eyes and other lessons from the crematory by Caitlin Doughty.
- The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Hester by Laurie Lico Albanese
- The Wager by David Grann
- The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece by Tom Hanks
- The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters
- River Sing Me Home by by Eleanor Shearer
- Spirit Run by Noé Álvarez
- Chevy in the Hole by Kelsey Ronan
- How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu
- The Book of Hope by Jane Goodall
- So Big by Edna Ferber
- No One Cares About Crazy People by Ron Powers
- Less by Andrew Sean Greer
- Stealing by Margaret Verble
- River of the Gods by Candice Millard
- Trust by Hernan Diaz
- Memorial Drive by Natasha Trethewey
- The Swimmers by Julie Otsuka
- The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert
- Mika In Real Life by Emiko Jean
- Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
- A Long Petal of the Sea by Isabel Allende
- Say Nothing: a True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe
- Scarlet in Blue by Jennifer Murphy
- Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi
- The Innocents by Michael Crummey
- The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green
- Maniac by Harold Schechter
- The Last Days of Night by Graham Moore
- Fordlandia by Greg Grandin
- The River by Peter Heller
From Page to Palette Book Club Discussions
- The Forest Lover by Susan Vreeland
- Anita de Monte Laughs Last by Xóchitl González.
- The Friday Night Club by Sofia Lundberg, Alyson Richman, and M.J. Rose
- Stealing the Scream by Theodore Carter
- The Architect’s Apprentice by Elif Shafak
- The Secret Life of Sunflowers by Marta Molnar
- There there by Tommy Orange
- The Secret Book of Frida Kahlo by F. G. Haghenbeck
- Drawing Home by Jamie Brenner
- Portrait of a Thief by Grace D Li
- Georgia, A Novel of Georgia O'Keeffe by Dawn Tripp
- I Always Loved You by Robin Oliveira