After carefully considering the rapidly changing situation in New York City around novel coronavirus (COVID-19), The General Society Library will be closed for the time being, this also includes the current suspension of the Library Book group.
LIBRARY BOOK GROUP and NEW LIBRARY TITLES (Please scroll down for the titles)
The Library Book Group normally meets on the 1st Thursday of the month at 1pm in the Library. Upcoming 2020 Winter and Spring dates are:
Thursday, February 6th, Elizabeth Gaskell, Mary Barton
Thursday, March 5: Dorothy Sayres, “The Documents in the Case”
Thursday, April 2: James Agee,“A Death in the Family”
Thursday, May 7: Willa Cather ,“My Mortal Enemy”
Thursday, June 4: Sara Orne Jewett, “Deep Haven”
New Members are very welcome. For more information on future titles and how to join the group, please email karin.taylor@generalsociety.org.
NEW LIBRARY TITLES RECENTLY ADDED:
Fiction
The Woman in Cabin 10 – Ruth Ware
The Nix – Nathan Hill
Here I Am – Jonathan Safran Foer
Razor Girl – Carl Hiaasen
Siracusa – Delia Ephron
You Will Know Me – Megan Abbott
The Underground Railroad –Colson Whitehead
Everyone Brave is Forgiven – Chris Cleave
The Black Widow – Daniel Silva
A Hero of France – Alan Furst
LaRose – Louise Erdrich
Home – Harlan Coben
Non-Fiction
Paper: Paging Through History – Mark Kurlansky
Leaving Orbit: Notes from the Last Days of American Spaceflight –
Margaret Lazarus Dean
City on a Grid: How New York Became New York – Gerard Koeppel
Picking Up: On the Streets and Behind the Trucks with the Sanitation Workers of New York City – Robin Nagle
A Burglar’s Guide to the City – Geoff Manaugh
Fiction
The Hand That Feeds You – A. J. Rich
God Help The Child – Toni Morrison
Among The Ten Thousand Things: A Novel – Julia Pierpont
Blood On Snow – Jo Nesbø
Our Souls At Night – Kent Haruf
The Star Side Of Bird Hill – Naomi Jackson
A God In Ruins: A Novel – Kate Atkinson
Luckiest Girl Alive – Jessica Knoll
The Girl On The Train – Paula Hawkins
The Stranger – Harlan Coben
Non-Fiction
Prose. Volume V, 1963-1968 – W. H. Auden
The Wright Brothers – David G. Mccullough
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing Of The Lusitania – Erik Larson
The General Society Of Mechanics And Tradesmen Of The City Of New York: A History – Polly Guerin
Seeking New York: The Stories Behind The Historic Architecture Of Manhattan–One Building At A Time – Tom Miller
The Race Underground: Boston, New York, And The Incredible Rivalry That Built America’s First Subway – Doug Most
Other Recently Added Titles
Leaving Time: A Novel – Jodi Picoult
Nora Webster: A Novel – Colm Tóibín
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End – Atul Gawande
Citizen: An American Lyric – Claudia Rankine
Station Eleven: A Novel – Emily St. John Mandel
A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing – Eimear McBride
How to be both – Ali Smith
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions – Randall Munroe
The Innovators: How a Group of Inventors, Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution – Walter Isaacson
One Plus One – Jojo Moues
All the Light We Cannot See: A Novel – Anthony Doerr
Big Little Lies – Liane Moriarty
The Bone Clocks: A Novel – David Mitchell
Everything I Never Told You – Celeste Ng
Gray Mountain – John Grisham
The Heist: A Novel – Daniel Silva
Hope to Die – James Patterson
Lila – Marilynne Robinson
The Silkworm – Robert Galbraith
We are Not Ourselves – Matthew Thomas