February 2025
The next discussion meeting will be on Thursday, February 20 at 7:00 pm to discuss Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: an inquiry into values by Robert Pirsig.
The March meeting will be on Thursday, March 20 at 7 pm to discuss The Vapors: a Southern family, the New York mob, and the rise and fall of Hot Springs, America’s forgotten capital of vice by David Hill.
Some print copies of The Vapors will be available for checkout; stop by or contact the Circulation Desk at (908) 608-8603 x1. The eBook may be available on Libby.
If you have any questions about the Books Speak Volumes book group, please email dgutch@bhplnj.org.
Books Speak Volumes Title List (by year)
2025
The Demon of Unrest: a saga of hubris, heartbreak, and heroism at the dawn of the Civil War by Erik Larson
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: an inquiry into values by Robert Pirsig
The Vapors: a Southern family, the New York mob, and the rise and fall of Hot Springs, America’s forgotten capital of vice by David Hill
2024
The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit: a Jewish family’s exodus from Old Cairo to the New World by Lucette Lagnado
Say Nothing: a true story of murder and memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe
The Wager: a tale of shipwreck, mutiny and murder by David Grann
Midnight in Chernobyl: the untold story of the world’s greatest nuclear disaster by Adam Higginbotham
Road to Surrender: three men and the countdown to the end of World War II by Evan Thomas
Killers of the Flower Moon: the Osage murders and the birth of the FBI by David Grann
The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown
Muppets in Moscow: the unexpected crazy true story of making Sesame Street in Russia by Natasha Rogoff
Isaac’s Storm: a man, a time, and the deadliest hurricane in history by Erik Larson
A Fever in the Heartland: the Ku Klux Klan’s plot to take over America, and the woman who stopped them by Timothy Egan
Hero of the Empire: the Boer War, a daring escape, and the making of Winston Churchill by Candice Millard
The Chancellor: the remarkable odyssey of Angela Merkel by Kati Marton
2023
The Nickel Boys: a novel by Colson Whitehead
Harry Truman’s Excellent Adventure by Matthew Algeo