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 11:20am. 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.

Join Christine, our horror queen, for a discussion of The Dorians at 12pm on June 28th. “On a remote island in the Canadian wilderness, five elderly volunteers from different walks of life are given a tantalizing offer: to stall their biological clocks or even reverse them, restoring their lost youth…

Read the classics with us. Read with your child and come to book club WITH them to discuss. Next up: The Secret Garden, discussion on June 12th at 4:30pm. Then, Alice in Wonderland June 26th at 4pm.

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 ...