Books of Note meets on Zoom only. Contact Sue Reimer if you would like to be added to the monthly Zoom meeting.

On the third Tuesday of the month from September thru May, the book discussion group, Books of Note, meets on Zoom. The group is open to anyone who would like to join.

NECC BOOKS OF NOTE READING SELECTIONS FOR 2024 – 2025

September: The Violin Conspiracy by Brendan Slocumb.  A Black classical musician goes on a desperate quest to recover his great-great-grandfather’s heirloom violin on the eve of the most prestigious musical competition in the world.

October:  The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner.  A subversive and intoxicating novel of secrets, vengeance and the remarkable ways women can save each other despite the barrier of time. Set in eighteenth-century London, and the present.

November: Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell.  An imagined story of Shakespeare’s family life, focusing on his wife and children, including the death of his son Hamnet during childhood. It’s a story of love and grief, an illustration of passion and hard work.

December: The Uncommon Reader.  A funny novella about the Queen of England and her new passion for reading that leads to surprising and very funny consequences for the country at large.

January: Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt.  A charming, witty and exploration of friendship, reckoning, and hope that traces a widow’s unlikely connection with a giant Pacific octopus.

February: Kathryn Magnolia Johnson.  A firsthand telling of the grassroots movement that smoldered during the post-reconstruction period. By a woman of color and one of many unsung heroes of a budding modern civil rights movement.

March: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon.  A modern classic about a boy with autism who sets out to solve the murder of a neighbor’s dog and discovers unexpected truths about himself and the world.

April: Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi.  In a small back alley of Tokyo, there is a café that has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. Local legend says that this shop offers something else besides coffee—the chance to travel back in time.

May: Horse by Geraldine Brooks.  A discarded painting in a junk pile, a skeleton in an attic, and the greatest racehorse in American history: from these strands, a Pulitzer Prize winner braids a sweeping story of spirit, obsession, and injustice across American history.