Join Penny and the Foodies on June 22nd at 1pm to discuss “The Spinach King”.

"Having left this material for his writer son, my father must have wanted the story told, even if he couldn't bear to tell it himself." So begins the story of a forgotten American dynasty, a farming family from the bean fields of southern New Jersey who became as wealthy and powerful as aristocrats--only to implode in a storm of lies.

Join Spenser for a chat about “Talk” by Linda Rosenkrantz June 20 at 2pm. “Talk is a hilariously irreverent and racy testament to dialogue: the gossip, questioning, analysis, arguments, and revelations that make up our closest friendships. It’s the summer of 1965 and Emily, Vincent, and Marsha are at the beach. All three are ambitious and artistic; all are hovering around thirty; and all are deeply and mercilessly invested in analyzing themselves and everyone around them. The friends discuss sex, shrinks, psychedelics, sculpture, and S and M in an ongoing dialogue where anything goes and no topic is off limits. Talk is the result of these conversations, recorded by Linda Rosenkrantz and transformed into a novel whose form and content put it well ahead of its time. Controversial upon its first publication in 1968, Talk remains fresh, lascivious, and laugh-out-loud funny nearly fifty years later.”

Join Hannah and crew for our next Romantasy book club “The Second Death of Locke”. July 11 at 12pm. Please RSVP below and we’ll save you a seat!

Join Ava on June 20th at 12pm for a discussion of Lost Lambs by Madeline Cash. Also, fun fact: Madeline Cash is coming to Katonah on November 7th for Westchester Book Festival! Read her book ahead of the visit.

Join Mia on June 23rd at 3pm for a discussion of The Night We Met by Abby Jimenez. “In everyone's life, there's a split-second decision that can change everything ...

Join the Shakespeare lovers for a discussion of Hamlet on June 6th at 3pm. “Hamlet is Shakespeare’s most popular, and most puzzling, play. It follows the form of a “revenge tragedy,” in which the hero, Hamlet, seeks vengeance against his father’s murderer, his uncle Claudius, now the king of Denmark.”

Join Sara on June 7th at 12pm for a discussion of “The Price of Salt”. “Patricia Highsmith's story of romantic obsession may be one of the most important, but still largely unrecognized, novels of the twentieth century. First published in 1952 and touted as "the novel of a love that society forbids," the book soon became a cult classic.

May 27st at 11am with Penny, discuss “A Marriage at Sea”. An instant New York Times bestseller, this is the electrifying true story of a young couple shipwrecked at sea: a mind-blowing tale of obsession, survival, and partnership stretched to its limits.

Join Joseph for a discussion of “Yesteryear” on June 14th at 2:30pm. “My name was Natalie Heller Mills, and I was perfect at being alive. Natalie lives a traditional lifestyle. Her charming farmhouse is rustic, her husband a handsome cowboy, her six children each more delightful than the last. So what if there are nannies and producers behind the scenes, her kitchen hiding industrial-grade fridges and ovens, her husband the heir to a political dynasty? What Natalie’s followers—all 8 million of them—don’t know won’t hurt them. And The Angry Women? The privileged, Ivy League, coastal elite haters who call her an antifeminist iconoclast? They’re sick with jealousy. Because Natalie isn’t simply living the good life, she’s living the ideal—and just so happens to be building an empire from it….

Join Spenser on May 23rd at 2pm for a discussion of “The Driver’s Seat” by Muriel Spark. “Driven mad by an office job, Lise flies south on holiday -- in search of passionate adventure and sex. In this metaphysical shocker, infinity and eternity attend Lise's last terrible day in the unnamed southern city that is her final destination.”

Join Spenser on May 30th at 2pm for the next non-fiction book club “Famesick” by Lena Dunham. “For the last decade, as she’s spent countless hours in doctor’s waiting rooms searching for diagnoses, treatments, and relief, being the owner and operator of Lena Dunham’s body has felt, as she puts it, “like towing a wrecked car across town at midnight.” It’s not easy dragging a wrecked car anywhere, much less to the Met Gala while sewn into a gold lamé corset. Or to the set of the hit show that you—as a twenty-five-year-old—are writing, directing, producing, and starring in. Or to the White House, the Golden Globes, or your publicist’s office to discuss the latest internet disaster. But Dunham does it—even if it means interminable hospital stays, vomiting in the bathroom when she’s meant to be meeting Oprah, or terrifying those closest to her—because she can no longer tell the difference between fighting to do what she loves and being a servant to her own ambition. All the while, she is holding out for a love that can withstand her personal and public challenges and, more than anything, yearning to feel like herself again—if only she could remember who that self was.”

Join Hannah and the crew for a discussion of “Half City” on May 23rd at 12:30pm. “Viv Abbot will do whatever it takes to rescue Reid Graveheart, the reformed Brood demon she loves—even if it means teaming up with his violent, unpredictable older brother, Deacon. Her uneasy truce with him offers Viv something Reid never could: the chance to embrace her darkness.

Join Spenser for our parent-child book club of “Harriet the Spy” May 29th at 4pm. Re-read the classics together with your kids! Read “Harriet the Spy” and join us together with your kiddo to discuss! Enjoy a classic, gain your child’s perspective, have some fun reading together, and spend time with us in our lovely, cozy book club space. Please RSVP below to save your space.

April 18th at 12:30pm. Read and discuss The Tainted Cup with us.

“In Daretana’s greatest mansion, a high imperial officer lies dead—killed, to all appearances, when a tree erupted from his body. Even here at the Empire’s borders, where contagions abound and the blood of the leviathans works strange magical changes, it’s a death both terrifying and impossible.

Next up “Lunch in Paris”, discussion April 28th at 1pm with Penny and crew.

“In Paris for a weekend visit, Elizabeth Bard sat down to lunch with a handsome Frenchman -- and never went home again.

May 3rd at 12pm come discuss “Call Me By Your Name”. RSVP below to save a seat and let us know you’re coming!

“Call Me by Your Name is the story of a sudden and powerful romance that blossoms between an adolescent boy and a summer guest at his parents' cliffside mansion on the Italian Riviera.

Re-read the classics together with your kids! Read “Frindle” and join us together with your kiddo to discuss! April 24th at 4pm. Enjoy a classic, gain your child’s perspective, have some fun reading together, and have fun with us in our lovely, cozy book club space. Please RSVP below to save your space.

I picked a book that then went out of stock. I will now be reading “Murder Bimbo” for April 12th Trash & Sass book club! 11:30am. Please RSVP.

Join Spenser for our non-fiction book club discussion of “Strangers” by Belle Burden. Meeting May 2nd at 2pm….

Join Spenser on March 28 at 2pm for the next “Classics” book club. “In this eerie and evocative masterpiece, the nameless protagonist gives up his identity and the trappings of a normal life to live in a large cardboard box he wears over his head. Wandering the streets of Tokyo and scribbling madly on the interior walls of his box, he describes the world outside as he sees or perhaps imagines it, a tenuous reality that seems to include a mysterious rifleman determined to shoot him, a seductive young nurse, and a doctor who wants to become a box man himself. The Box Man is a marvel of sheer originality and a bizarrely fascinating fable about the very nature of identity.”