Main Library Book Group

This community-led, book discussion group meets virtually at 7 p.m. on the third Monday of the month. This book discusses a wide range of books, chosen by the members. To register, email library@santamonica.gov.

The titles include:

• December 2024: You Have to be Prepared to Die Before You Can Begin to Live: Ten Weeks in Birmingham that Changed America by Paul Kix
• January 2025: The Painted Veil by Somerset Maugham 
• February 2025: Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
• March 2025: The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store by James McBride 
• April 2025: Hell and Other Destinations by Madeleine Albright 
• May 2025: Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury 
• June 2025: The Last Kings of Shanghai by Jonathan Kauffman 
• July 2025: Rules of Civility by Amor Towles 
• August 2025: Darwin’s Ghost by Steve Jones 
• September 2025: Mornings in Jenin by Susan Abulhawa 
• October 2025: The Man Who Mistook his Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks 
• November 2025: Tar Baby by Toni Morrison 
• December 2025: The Sum of Our Days: a Memoir by Isabel Allende