We meet to discuss an eclectic mix of fiction and nonfiction.

This book club is hosted in partnership with the Arlington's Office of Senior Adult Programs.

We are led by an experienced volunteer. We welcome new members to join us in reading and discussing current literary fiction, historical fiction and some nonfiction titles.

We meet via a hybrid format, both online and in person on the first Friday of the month. If you wish to participate in person, join us in the Bluemont Room at Central Library.

Registration required to receive the Zoom link. 

About this month's title: "The Housekeeper and the Professor" by Yoko Ogawa

He is a brilliant math professor, with a peculiar problem--since a traumatic head injury, he has lived with only 80 minutes of short-term memory. She is an astute young housekeeper with a 10-year-old son who is hired to care for the professor. Between them, a strange, beautiful relationship blossoms.

2023 Reading LIst: 

• Jan. 6: "The Hemingses of Monticello" by Annette Gordon-Reed
• Feb. 3: "The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and how We Can Prosper Together" by Heather McGhee
• Mar. 3: "The Diamond Eye" by Kate Quinn
• Apr. 7: "Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead" by Olga Tokarchuk
• May 5: "The Housekeeper and the Professor" by Yoko Ogawa
• Jun. 2: "Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont" by Elizabeth Taylor
• Jul. 7: "Anxious People" by Fredrik Backman
• Aug. 4: "Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal" by George Packer
• Sep. 1: "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" by Milan Kundera
• Oct 6: "An Odyssey: A Father, A Son and an Epic" by David Mendelsohn
• Nov. 3: "Mother Daughter Traitor Spy" by Susan Elia McNeal
• Dec. 1: "Lessons in Chemistry" by Bonnie Gamus

For more information contact jodlum@arlingtonva.us or 703-228-5954.

• Location campus Central Library
• Audience:
  • Events for Adults
  • Good for Adults Age 55+
• Categories:
  • Book Club