WPL's Book Clubs

Welcome to Our Book Clubs!

WPL has two book clubs, one which meets at the Main Library (35 Albert Street), the other at the McCormick Branch (500 Parkside Drive). Both are open clubs, which allows for people to drop in and attend once in a while, or to come faithfully every month.

The two book clubs read different titles each month. You are welcome to attend one or both of the clubs.

WPL Book Club - Main

This club meets on the second Monday of each month from 7:00 to 8:00 in the Auditorium (lower level) at the Main Library, 35 Albert Street. For more information call 519-886-1310 ext. 146.

Titles for 2009

• January 12 - The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A Memoir by Bill Bryson
• February 9 - Blindness by Jose Saramago
• March 9 - A Short History of Progress by Ronald Wright
• April 20 - The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
• May 11 - Watchmen by Alan Moore
• June 8 - The Painted Veil by Somerset Maugham
• July 13 - Black Dogs by Ian McEwan
• August 10 - The Nymph and the Lamp by Thomas H. Raddall
• September 14 - The Book of Negroes by Lawerence Hill
• October 19 - Payback: debt and the shadowside of wealth by Margaret Atwood
• November 9 - A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
• December 14 - A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

NEW! WPL Book Club - McCormick Branch

Do you enjoy meeting with other people to discuss books you've enjoyed (or not enjoyed)? The Club meets at 7:00pm on the last Tuesday of each month in the Albert McCormick Community Centre (Community Room). For more information call 519-885-1920.

Titles for 2009

• January 27 - Crocodile on the Sandbank by Elizabeth Peters
• February 24 - Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
• March 31 - Consolation by Michael Redhill
• April 28 - The Piano Man's Daughter by Timothy Findley
• May 26 - Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
• June 30 - Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
• July 28 - My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult
• August 25 - The Book of Negroes by Lawrence Hill
• September 29 - The Reader by Bernhard Schink
• October 27 - Watermelon Syrup by Annie Jacobsen
• November 24 - The Birth House by Ami McKay
• December 29 - Best Laid Plans by Terry Fallis

Titles Read by the Club since 2002

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J.K. Rowling
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
White Teeth by Zadie Smith
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night by Mark Haddon
Wicked: the life and times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire
The Other Side of the Bridge by Mary Lawson
The Attack by Yasmina Khadra
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie
Crime and Punishment by Fydor Dostoyevsky
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
Millroy the Magician by Paul Theroux
An Audience of Chairs by Joan Clark
Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
The 100 Mile Diet by Alisa Smith and J.B. MacKinnon
Prisoner of Zenda by Anthony Hope
As for Me and My House by Sinclair Ross
By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept by Elizabeth Smart
Smoke by Elizabeth Ruth
Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
The Many Lives and Secret Sorrows of Josephine B. by Sandra Gulland
Muriella Pent by Russell Smith
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
Louis Riel: a comic strip biography by Chester Brown
Of Human Bondage by Somerset Maugham
Rush Home Road by Lori Lansens
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Fearsome Particles by Trevor Cole
The Ash Garden by Dennis Bock
A Blade of Grass by Lewis DeSoto
The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
Paris 1919 by Margaret Olwen Macmillan
A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
Saturday by Ian McEwan
Russlander by Sandra Birdsell
Maus: A Survivor’s Tale by Art Spiegelman
Three Day Road by Joseph Boyden
Not Wanted on the Voyage by Timothy Findley
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
The Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
Easter Island by Jennifer Vanderbes
Hominids by Robert Sawyer
The Little Immigrants by Kenneth Bagnell
Five Quarters of the Orange by Joanne Harris
Colony of Unrequited Dreams by Wayne Johnston
The Diviners by Margaret Laurence
An Equal Music by Vikram Seth
Convict Lover by Merilyn Simonds
Island Walkers by John Bemrose
A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women by Eric McCormack
Open House by Elizabeth Berg
Navigator of New Yorkby Wayne Johnston
Crow Lake by Mary Lawson
The Wars by Timothy Findley
Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
Stupid White Men by Michael Moore
Dirt Music by Tim Winton
Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy
Lives of the Saints by Nino Ricci
Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
Romantic by Barbara Gowdy
A Day Late and a Dollar Short by Terry McMillan