Brown Bag Book Club
Tuesday, October 27, 2026 · 12:00 PM EDT · Providence Public Library · Providence, RI
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Trustees Room. PPL’s Brown Bag Book Club meets monthly on the last Tuesday from 12 - 1 pm. Meetings will be held in our Trustees Room, 3rd Floor. The member-chosen titles include classic and contemporary fiction and non-fiction. Copies of each month’s selection will be made available for check-out by club members at PPL’s Info Services desk before the meeting. For more information, please call Book Club Coordinator Bonnie Lilienthal at 401-455-8025 or email blilienthal@provlib.org. September 29, 2026 The Outmost House - Henry Beston A chronicle of a solitary year spent on a Cape Cod beach, The Outermost House has long been recognized as a classic of American nature writing. Henry Beston had originally planned to spend just two weeks in his seaside home, but was so possessed by the mysterious beauty of his surroundings that he found he "could not go." October 27, 2026 North Woods - Daniel Mason A sweeping novel about a single house in the woods of New England, told through the lives of those who inhabit it across the centuries—“a time-spanning, genre-blurring work of storytelling magic” (The Washington Post) from the Pulitzer Prize finalist and author of The Piano Tuner and The Winter Soldier. November 24, 2026 Klara and the Sun - Kazuo Ishiguro “What stays with you in ‘Klara and the Sun’ is the haunting narrative voice—a genuinely innocent, egoless perspective on the strange behavior of humans obsessed and wounded by power, status and fear.” —Booker Prize committee December 15, 2026 Evensong - Stewart O'Nan An intimate, moving novel that follows The Humpty Dumpty Club, a group of women of a certain age who band together to help one another and their circle of friends in Pittsburgh as they face the challenges of their golden years January 26, 2027 An Unfinished Love Story: a personal history of the 1960's - Doris Kearns Goodwin An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s by Doris Kearns Goodwin, one of America’s most beloved historians, artfully weaves…
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