Join our friend Cait on October 17th at 2pm. Cait is a customer who reached out with a need to TALK about this book, help her out with a discussion book club.

Join our Shakespeare book club on September 19th at 1pm for a discussion of “King Lear”. “Full of cruelty and betrayal, King Lear is the timeless and tragic story of a kingdom held in the thrall of an aging ruler’s descent into madness. Desperate for praise, he banishes those who would guide him with honesty and surrounds himself with sycophants—an action that leads to his ultimate downfall....”

October 10th at 2pm discuss “The Story of Your Life” with Spenser. “An eye-opening look at how social media shapes the stories we tell and the lives we lead. Over the past two decades, platforms like Instagram, Facebook, and TikTok have revolutionized how we document and share our lives. We once archived our experiences in photo albums, and now we capture our most significant moments in reels and photo dumps. Whether we prefer to admit it or not, social media is where our history lives now. In The Story of Your Life, journalist and New York magazine columnist Kathryn Jezer-Morton examines how these algorithm-driven platforms not only change the way we share information but also shape the content itself. What stories do we choose to tell, and how do these choices reflect and shape our evolving identities?

October 5 at 1pm join Penny and ger foodie friends for a discussion of “The School of Essential Ingredients”.

Join Spenser September 26th at 2pm for a thriller. Discuss “Bright Young Women” by Jessica Knoll.

Join Joseph for his “best sellers” popular fiction book club. He will be discussing “Land” by Maggie O’Farrell on September 6th at 2pm.

Join us on September 27th at 10:30am with Harmony and Spenser for a Climate Week book club discussion. We will be reading and discussing “How to Fall in Love in a Time of Unnamable Disaster” by Muriel Leung. Sign up to save a seat and join us. You can purchase books here at the Katonah Reading Room, or support us by buying your ebook at Bookshop.org or audiobook at Libro.fm.

Join Hannah for a discussion of “These Immortal Truths” on August 29th at 12:30pm.

Both epic and intimate, These Immortal Truthsis an enchanting and romantic historical fantasy that explores not only what it means to live forever, but what it means to truly live at all.

Join Spenser for his Classics book club, “Covert Joy” short stories. August 29th at 2pm.

“This radiant selection of Clarice Lispector's best and best-loved stories includes such familiar favorites as "The Smallest Woman in the World,""Love," "Family Ties," and "The Egg and the Chicken." Lispector's luminous regard for life's small revelatory incidents is legendary, and here her genius is concentrated in a fizzing, portable volume. Covert Joy offers the particular bliss a book can bring that she expresses in the title story: Joy would always be covert for me... Sometimes I'd sit in the hammock, swinging with the book open on my lap, not touching it, in the purest

Join Joseph for a discussion of “Whistler” by Ann Patchett, August 2nd at 2pm.

The acclaimed, prize-winning #1 New York Timesbestselling writer returns with a moving, luminous novel that reminds us of the sweetness and impermanence of life and the power of connection to defy time.

Read with your kids and come discuss “Tuck Everlasting” July 28th at 4pm. Studies show kids are more likely to read if you read with them or model reading. So read together! And then come discuss the story with us together.

Join Christine on August 23rd at 2pm for a discussion of “We Were Forbidden.”

“From the bestselling author of I Who Have Never Known Men comes a startling trio of novellas--translated into English for the first time--each plumbing the depths of that vital human instinct: defiance.

Discuss “Slow Days, Fast Company” on August 1 at 4pm with Ava.

“Slow Days, Fast Company is a full-fledged and full-bodied evocation of a bygone Southern California that far exceeds its mash-note premise. In ten sun-baked, Santa Ana wind–swept sketches, Babitz re-creates a Los Angeles of movie stars distraught over their success, socialites on three-day drug binges holed up in the Chateau Marmont, soap-opera actors worried that tomorrow’s script will kill them off, Italian femmes fatales even more fatal than Babitz.

Date change! Now August 23rd at 11:30am. I just finished Danny McBride’s short story collection “Thrilling Tales of Modern Men” and I need to talk to you about it. Join me for a discussion August 23rd at 11:30am. McBride writes the best characters and people behaving badly and with the funniest spin on certain male behavior - I just love him. If you loved and are missing The Righteous Gemstones, grab a copy immediately and join me. Books have been sold out — but you can download on Libro.fm and support us and get started — the audio book readings are SPECTACULAR.

Join Spenser in August for a discussion of “The Reverse Centaurus Guide to Life After AI, August 22nd at 2pm.

“In modern tech parlance, a centaur is a person who is able to use technology to be a better, more productive version of themself. A reverse centauris a person who is forced by technology to work at an inhuman pace—a driver made to deliver all day long, nonstop; a warehouse worker made to work without food or bathroom breaks; a programmer made to crank out impossible amounts of code…

Join Spenser for the next Classics Book Club “Strangers on a Train” - discussion July 18 at 2pm.

“Guy Haines and Charles Anthony Bruno are passengers on the same train. Haines is a successful architect in the midst of a divorce, Bruno a mysterious smooth-talker with a sadistic proposal: he’ll murder Haines’s wife if Haines will murder Bruno’s father. As Bruno carries out his twisted plan, Guy finds himself trapped in Highsmith’s perilous world, where, under the right circumstances, ordinary people are capable of extraordinary crimes. The inspiration for Alfred Hitchcock’s classic 1951 film, Strangers on a Train launched Highsmith’s prolific career, proving her a master at depicting the unsettling forces that tremble beneath the surface of everyday life.”

Join our Shakespeare Book Club discussing “As You Like It” on July 12 at 2pm. Banished from her uncle's court, young princess Rosalind disguises herself as a farmer and encounters a memorable cast of characters—including her love Orlando—in the Forest of Arden in this witty, subversive comedy.

Join Ava for a discussion of “Play Ot As It Lays” by Joan Didion on July 11th at 4pm.

A ruthless dissection of American life in the late 1960s, Joan Didion's Play It as It Lays captures the mood of an entire generation, the ennui of contemporary society reflected in spare prose that blisters and haunts the reader.

Join Spenser for his non-fiction book club discussion of “Mighty Real” by Barry Walters on July 25th at 1pm. The definitive history of LGBTQ music, from Stonewall to RuPaul, and its impact on culture and American life.

Join the Foodie book club for a discussion of “Feast” by Catherine Kurtz on August 31st at 1pm. The perfect summer read.

In nineteenth-century France, a young woman with a magical sense of taste saves a duc from poison, and her new role as poison taster thrusts her into the world of the nobility, where secrets and danger lurk around every corner.