Wednesday, APRIL 3RD at 7:00 pm

Meets in the Glen Rock Library Reading Room. Bring your own book, or pick one up off the shelf. For one hour, everyone at Silent Book Club just reads. Then, and only if you really want to, there is a half-hour of social time (no facilitator). Some people talk about what they are currently reading, others what they have read in the recent or distant past, want to read but must read other books first, etc.

Think of Silent Book Club as a mandatory relaxation hour. Think of it as a time to read for other books clubs. Think of it as a means to learn about new books. Think of it as a means of meeting fellow lovers of the written word.

Registration not required.

Tuesday, April 2nd at 2:00 pm

Join us to read and discuss The Book of Goose by Yiyun Li.

A gripping, heartbreaking new novel about female friendship, art, and memory by the award-winning author of Where Reasons End.

Titles will be available at the Circulation Desk (starting March 4). The eBook of this title are available on the Libby app.

Registration is not required. Drop in to join our discussion over tea & treats.

Wednesday, March 6th at 7:00 pm

Meets in the Glen Rock Library Reading Room. Bring your own book, or pick one up off the shelf. For one hour, everyone at Silent Book Club just reads. Then, and only if you really want to, there is a half-hour of social time (no facilitator). Some people talk about what they are currently reading, others what they have read in the recent or distant past, want to read but must read other books first, etc.

Think of Silent Book Club as a mandatory relaxation hour. Think of it as a time to read for other books clubs. Think of it as a means to learn about new books. Think of it as a means of meeting fellow lovers of the written word.

Registration not required.

Tuesday, March 5th at 2:00 pm

Join us to read and discuss Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng

A novel about a mother’s unbreakable love in a world consumed by fear. Twelve-year-old Bird Gardner lives a quiet existence with his loving but broken father, a former linguist who now shelves books in a university library. Bird knows to not ask too many questions, stand out too much, or stray too far. For a decade, their lives have been governed by laws written to preserve “American culture” in the wake of years of economic instability and violence. To keep the peace and restore prosperity, the authorities are now allowed to relocate children of dissidents, especially those of Asian origin, and libraries have been forced to remove books seen as unpatriotic—including the work of Bird’s mother, Margaret, a Chinese American poet who left the family when he was nine years old.

Titles will be available at the Circulation Desk (starting February 1). The eBook & audiobook of this title are available on the Libby app, and the eBook is also available on the Hoopla app.

Register here for a reminder with LibCal.

Wednesday, February 7th at 7:00 pm

Meets in the Glen Rock Library Reading Room. Bring your own book, or pick one up off the shelf. For one hour, everyone at Silent Book Club just reads. Then, and only if you really want to, there is a half-hour of social time (no facilitator). Some people talk about what they are currently reading, others what they have read in the recent or distant past, want to read but must read other books first, etc.

Think of Silent Book Club as a mandatory relaxation hour. Think of it as a time to read for other books clubs. Think of it as a means to learn about new books. Think of it as a means of meeting fellow lovers of the written word.

Registration not required.

Tuesday, February 5th at 2:00 pm

Join us to read and discuss Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead.

From the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys, a gloriously entertaining novel of heists, shakedowns, and rip-offs set in Harlem in the 1960s.

Titles will be available at the Circulation Desk (starting January 2). The eBook & audiobook of this title are available on the Libby app.

Register here for a reminder with LibCal.

Wednesday, January 3rd at 7:00 pm

Meets in the Glen Rock Library Reading Room. Bring your own book, or pick one up off the shelf. For one hour, everyone at Silent Book Club just reads. Then, and only if you really want to, there is a half-hour of social time (no facilitator). Some people talk about what they are currently reading, others what they have read in the recent or distant past, want to read but must read other books first, etc.

Think of Silent Book Club as a mandatory relaxation hour. Think of it as a time to read for other books clubs. Think of it as a means to learn about new books. Think of it as a means of meeting fellow lovers of the written word.

Registration not required.

Tuesday, January 2nd at 2:00 pm

Join us to read and discuss The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin.

On the faded Island Books sign hanging over the porch of the Victorian cottage is the motto “No Man Is an Island; Every Book Is a World.” A. J. Fikry, the irascible owner, is about to discover just what that truly means.

Titles will be available at the Circulation Desk (starting December 1). The eBook & audiobook of this title are also available on both the Libby and Hoopla app.

Register here for a reminder with LibCal.

Tuesday, December 5th at 2:00 pm

Join us to read and discuss Under the Whispering Door by TJ Klune.

When a reaper comes to collect Wallace from his own funeral, Wallace begins to suspect he might be dead. And when Hugo, the owner of a peculiar tea shop, promises to help him cross over, Wallace decides he’s definitely dead. But even in death he’s not ready to abandon the life he barely lived, so when Wallace is given one week to cross over, he sets about living a lifetime in seven days. Hilarious, haunting, and kind, Under the Whispering Door is an uplifting story about a life spent at the office and a death spent building a home.

Copies are available at the Circulation Desk beginning November 1 and on the Libby app.

Register here for a reminder with LibCal.

Tuesday, November 7th at 2:00 pm

Join us to read and discuss Wish You Were Here by Jodi Picoult. 

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Small Great Things and The Book of Two Ways comes a deeply moving novel about the resilience of the human spirit in a moment of crisis.

Copies will be available at the Circulation Desk and on the Libby app.

Register here for a reminder with LibCal.

Tuesday, October 3rd at 2:00 pm

Join us to read and discuss The Lost Girls of Willowbrook by Ellen Marie Wiseman. 

Six years after her twin sister's death, 16-year-old Sage discovers a shocking secret, her sister didn't die, she was committed to Willowbrook State School until she recently went missing, and, determined to find her, Sage walks through its doors, which changes her life in ways she never could have imagined.

Copies are available at the Circulation Desk and on the Libby and Hoopla apps.

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Tuesday, September 5th at 2:00 pm

Join us to read and discuss Finding Me by Viola Davis. 
"A fulfilling narrative of struggle and success... Her gorgeous storytelling will inspire anyone wishing to shed old labels." -Los Angeles Times 
Copies are available at the Circulation Desk and on the Libby and Hoopla apps. Register here for a reminder with LibCal.

Tuesday, August 1st at 2:00 pm

Join us to read and discuss The Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Post by Allison Pataki.  An epic reimagining of the remarkable life of Marjorie Merriweather Post, the American heiress and trailblazing leader of the twentieth century. Copies are available at the Circulation Desk and on the Libby app. Register here for a reminder with LibCal.

Tuesday, July 11th at 2:00 pm

Join us to read and discuss The Guncle by bestselling author Steven Rowley. A warm and deeply funny novel about a once-famous gay sitcom star whose unexpected family tragedy leaves him with his niece and nephew for the summer. Copies are available at the Circulation Desk and on the Libby app. Register here for a reminder with LibCal.

Tuesday, June 6th at 2:00 pm

English author and screenwriter David Nicholls’s contemporary novel Us tells the story of fifty-four-year-old Douglas Petersen who attempts to both save his marriage and heal his relationship with his moody son while on a family trip to Europe. With humor and pathos, Nicholls explores the dynamics of marriage and family relationships, and the aftermath of divorce. Copies are available at the Circulation Desk. This title is also available to download on the Libby and Hoopla apps. Register here for a reminder.

Tuesday, May 2nd at 2:00 pm

Join us as we discuss Say Nothing, Patrick Radden Keefe's mesmerizing book on the bitter conflict in Northern Ireland and its aftermath. This is the tale of a society wracked by a violent guerrilla war, a war whose consequences have never been reckoned with. From radical and impetuous IRA terrorists such as Dolours Price, who was planting bombs and targeting informers when she was barely out of her teens, to the spy games and dirty schemes of the British Army, to Gerry Adams, who negotiated the peace by betrayed his hardcore comrades by denying his IRA past. Copies are available at the Circulation Desk or on the Libby app. Register here for a reminder.

Tuesday, April 4th at 2:00 pm

Join us in discussing Richard Roper's How Not To Die Alone. Andrew's job is a little grim, searching for next of kin for those who die alone. Thankfully, he has a loving family waiting for him when he gets home. At least, that's what his coworkers believe. Andrew didn't mean for the misunderstanding to happen, yet he's become trapped in his own white lie. The fantasy of his wife and two kids has become a pleasant escape from his lonely one bedroom with only his Ella Fitzgerald records for company. But when new employee Peggy breezes into his life like a breath of fresh air, Andrew is shaken out of his routine. She doesn't notice the wall he's been safely hiding behind and their friendship promises to break it down. Copies are available at the Circulation Desk. Register here for a reminder.

Tuesday, March 7th at 2:00 pm

Join us to discuss Button Man by Andrew Gross. A stirring story of a Jewish family brought together in the dawn of the women's garment business and torn apart by the birth of organized crime in New York City in the 1930s.  Copies are available at the Circulation Desk. Also downloadable on the Libby and Hoopla apps. Click here for a reminder via LibCal.

Tuesday, february 7th at 2:00 pm

Join us to discuss Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner. An unflinching, powerful memoir about growing up Korean American, losing her mother, and forging her own identity. Copies are available at the Circulation Desk. This title is also available on the Libby app. Register here for a reminder.

Tuesday, December 6th at 2:00 pm

Pick up your copy of Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart. Shuggie is a sweet and lonely boy who spends his 1980s childhood in run-down public housing in Glasgow, Scotland. Shuggie's mother Agnes is Shuggie's guiding light but a burden for him and his siblings. Agnes finds increasing solace in drink, and she drains away the lion's share of each week's benefits on cans of extra-strong lager. Agnes's older children find their own ways to get a safe distance from their mother, abandoning Shuggie to care for her. Shuggie is meanwhile struggling to somehow become the normal boy he desperately longs to be, but everyone has realized that he is "no right," a boy with a secret that all but him can see. Register here for a reminder.

Tuesday, November 1st at 2:00 pm

Pick up your copy of The Displacements by Bruce Holsinger. An adrenaline-fueled story of lives upended and transformed by an unprecedented catastrophe. To all appearances, the Larsen-Hall family has everything: healthy children, a stable marriage, a lucrative career for Brantley, and the means for Daphne to pursue her art full-time. Their deluxe new Miami life has just clicked into place when Luna-the world's first category 6 hurricane-upends everything they have taken for granted. When the storm makes landfall, it triggers a descent of another sort. Their home destroyed, two of its members missing, and finances abruptly cut off, the family finds everything they assumed about their lives now up for grabs. Swept into a mass rush of evacuees from across the American South, they are transported hundreds of miles to a FEMA megashelter where their new community includes an insurance-agent-turned-drug dealer, a group of vulnerable children, and a dedicated relief worker trying to keep the peace. Will "normal" ever return? A suspenseful read plotted on a vast national tapestry, The Displacements thrillingly explores what happens when privilege is lost and resilience is tested in a swiftly changing world.

Copies will be available at the Circulation Desk

Tuesday, October 4th at 2:00 pm

Pick up your copy of Dream Girl by Laura Lippman. Bedridden after a freak accident, novelist Gerry Andersen begins to question his own sanity as he moves through dreamlike memories of his own fictional characters. Copies are available at the Circulation Desk or downloadable on the Libby app. Register here for a reminder.

Tuesday, September 6th at 2:00 pm

Read and discuss Hidden Valley Road by Robert Kolker. The heartrending true story of a midcentury American family with twelve children, six of them diagnosed with schizophrenia, that became science's great hope in the quest to understand the disease. Copies are available at the Library or downloadable on the Libby app. Register here for a reminder.

Tuesday, July 5th at 2:00 pm

This month we are reading Upper Bohemia by Hayden Herrera. This is a coming-of-age memoir by the daughter of privileged, artistic, hard-drinking, bohemian parents, set against a backdrop of 1950s New York, Cape Cod, and Mexico. Copies are available at the Library. Register here for a reminder.

Tuesday, June 7th at 2:00 pm

Join us to discuss Falling by T.J. Newman.

Copies are available at the Library and available on the Libby app.

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Tuesday, May 3rd at 2:00 pm

This month's selection is Beauty in the Broken Places : a Memoir of Love, Faith, and Resilience by Allison Pataki.

Copies are available at the Circulation Desk.

We will meet in the Reading Nook. Register here with LibCal to receive a reminder.

Tuesday, April 12th at 2:00 pm

This month we're reading Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid. A gripping novel about the whirlwind rise of an iconic 1970s rock group and their beautiful lead singer Daisy, revealing the mystery behind their infamous break up. Books will be available in the Library. This title is available to download on the Libby app. The Zoom link is sent after registering. Register here with LibCal

Tuesday, March 1st at 2:00 pm

This month's book is The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave. Copies are available at the Library or on the Libby app. Register here with LibCal. The Zoom link is sent upon registration.

Tuesday, February 1st at 2:00 pm

This month's book is Early Morning Riser by Katherine Heiny. Jane has fallen in love with Duncan, a man who has slept with most of the women in town. He's so agreeable that he still mows his ex-wife's lawn and allows his co-worker Jimmy free access to his apartment. When Duncan is injured in a serious car crash, Jane has to figure out how to find happiness. “The funniest novel of the year.” – The Washington Post. Copies are available at the Library or on the Libby app. Register here with LibCal. The Zoom link is sent upon registration.

Tuesday, January 4th at 2:00 pm

This month's book is Anxious People by Fredrik Backman. Taken hostage by a failed bank robber while attending an open house, eight anxiety-prone strangers--including a redemption-seeking bank director, two couples who would fix their marriages, and a plucky octogenarian--discover their unexpected common traits. Books are available in the Library or downloadable on the Libby app. Register here with LibCal.