Book Group – Fishers Island Library

Book Group August 9: Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

by Gail Honeyman
the smart, warm, and uplifting story of an out-of-the-ordinary heroine whose deadpan weirdness and unconscious wit make for an irresistible journey

Book Group July 12: Revolution Song

by: Russell Shorto From the author of the acclaimed history The Island at the Center of the World, an intimate new epic of the American Revolution that reinforces its meaning for today. Russell Shorto’s work has been praised as “first-rate…

BookGroup June 14: White Rose Black Forest

by Eoin Dempsey
In the shadows of World War II, trust becomes the greatest risk of all for two strangers.

BookGroup May 10: Calling Me Home

by Julie Kibler
A soaring debut interweaving the story of a heartbreaking, forbidden love in 1930s Kentucky with an unlikely modern-day friendship.

BookGroup April 12: The Radium Girls by Kate Moore

The Radium Girls fully illuminates the inspiring young women exposed to the "wonder" substance of radium, and their awe-inspiring strength in the face of almost impossible circumstances. Their courage and tenacity led to life-changing regulations, research into nuclear bombing, and ultimately saved hundreds of thousands of lives...

Book Group March 8: Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

by Fannie Flagg
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe is folksy and fresh, endearing and affecting, with humor and drama—and with an ending that would fill with smiling tears the Whistle Stop Lake...if they only had a lake....

BookGroup Feb 8: The Gentleman From Moscow by Arthur Towles

Brimming with humor, a glittering cast of characters, and one beautifully rendered scene after another, this singular novel casts a spell as it relates the count’s endeavor to gain a deeper understanding of what it means to be a man of purpose.

BookGroup Jan 11: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

This phenomenal New York Times bestseller tells a riveting story of the collision between ethics, race, and medicine; of scientific discovery and faith healing; and of a daughter consumed with questions about the mother she never knew.