Cover to Cover, the library’s book discussion group for adults, meets on the fourth Thursday of each month at 10:30 AM. in the library’s Riker Room. If you are interested in participating in the book discussion group, please contact Librarian Christine O'Brien.

Visit Book Club newsletters for a look at our monthly discussions and ratings of current and past titles.

Coming up:

• No Book Group meeting in June or July
• Moloka'i by Alan Brennert (August 22)
• Heft by Liz Moore (September 26)

Below is a partial list of books the group has read, with our average rating (we rate on a scale of 1-10, with 10 being the highest):

• The Beginner's Goodbye by Anne Tyler (6.4)
• Blue Asylum by Kathy Hepinstall (7.6)
• The Absolutist by John Boyne (8.4)
• The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller (7.5)
• The Invisible Ones by Staf Penney (7.5)
• The Widower's Tale by Julia Glass (6.7)
• Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (8)
• Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood (5.3)
• Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy (6.5)
• Stones from the River by Ursula Hegi (9.2)
• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (8.1)
• The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway (8.4)
• The Uncoupling by Meg Wolitzer (2.6)
• Sacred Hearts by Sarah Dunant (7.2)
• Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck (9)
• Mudbound by Hilary Jordan (8.2)
• The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein (7.7)
• My Antonia by Willa Cather (8.9)
• Dark Places by gillian Flynn (6.1)
• Little Bee by Chris Cleave (8.8)
• Ghost Riders by Sharyn McCrumb (7.6)
• Land of Marvels by Barry Unsworth (5.1)
• Lavinia by Ursula K. LeGuin (5.5)
• Charity Girl by Michael Lowenthal (6.4)
• Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout (8)
• A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway (6.6)
• The Coral Thief by Rebecca Stott (4.4)
• The 19th Wife by David Ebershoff (7.5)
• The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett (8.6)
• Homer & Langley by E. L. Doctorow (7.9)
• The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters (3.3)
• A Death in Vienna by Daniel Silva (7.5)
• Labor Day by Joyce Maynard (8)
• March by Geraldine Brooks (7.6)
• Serena by Ron Rash (6.1)
• Coal Run by Tawni O'Dell (5.8)
• Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson (5.5)
• The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society by mary Ann Shaffer (8.6)
• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (8.5)
• Cost by Roxana Robinson (7.4)
• A Christmas Memory by Truman Capote and The Gift of the Magi by O.Henry (no rating)
• Digging to America by Anne Tyler (7.1)
• Skeletons at the Feast by Chris Bohjalian (8.4)
• The Woods by Harlan Coben (7.6)
• The Friday Night Knitting Club by Kate Jacobs (5.5)
• Old School by Tobias Wolff (6.7)
• The Tenderness of Wolves by Stef Penney (7.2)
• Family Matters by Rohinton Mistry (6.1)
• Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen (8.8)
• Song Yet Sung by James McBride (6.4)
• The Birth of Venus by Sarah Dunant (7.3)
• The Painted Veil by W. Somerset Maugham (8.2)
• Winter Solstice by Rosamunde Pilcher (6.7)
• Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See (8.4)
• The Road by Cormac McCarthy (6.0)
• The Senator's Wife by Sue Miller (6.5)