Book Discussion Groups
Join New Cumberland Library's Book Discussion Groups! Book discussions are sponsored by the Friends of the New Cumberland Public Library and each group meets on a standing schedule.
Great Books Discussion Groups:
1st & 3rd Monday mornings
September 18, 2023 - May 20, 2024
10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
The selection of titles to be read and discussed is available at the Main Desk.
Questions can be directed to Joan Short, 717-938-3494
Meeting is held in the Library's Dining Room
Selections for the 2023-2024 Season:
September 18 One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
October 2 Under the Greenwood Tree by Thomas Hardy
October 16 Empire of the Ants and The Door in the Wall by H.G. Wells (2 short stories
available online at americanliterature.com)
November 6 Hag-Seed by Margaret Atwood
December 4 Pere Goriot by Honore de Balzac
January 2** Cymbeline by William Shakespeare
January 15 The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
February 5 Apology by Plato
March 4 Rules of Civility by Amor Towles
March 18 The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Tolstoy
April 1 Antigone by Sophocles
April 15 Almayer's Folly by Joseph Conrad
May 6 Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf by Edward Albee
May 20 Poetry (to be selected)
**Tuesday
2nd & 4th Wednesday mornings
10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
The selection of titles to be read and discussed is available at the Main Desk.
Questions can be directed to Dan Tepsic, 717-774-0719
Meeting is held in the Library's 2nd Floor Meeting Room
Selections for September-December 2023:
September 27 The Prussian Officer by D. H. Lawrence
Willful Homing by Robert Frost
October 11 The Grasshopper and the Bell Cricket by Yasunari Kawabata
A Clean, Well Lighted Place by Ernest Hemmingway
October 25 The Sacrificial Egg by Chinua Achebe
Of Mere Being by Wallace Stevens
November 8 A Hunger Artist by Franz Kafka
How to Live, What to Do by Wallace Stevens
December 13 TBD (Makeup date)
Ruth's Mystery Discussion Group
1st Thursday of every month except July
10:30 a.m.
All lovers of good mysteries are invited to join our monthly discussion group.
Please call the Library at 717-774-7820 for more information
The meeting is currently held in Foundation House.
Ruth's Mystery Discussion Group members each report on a one book they've read on the selected reading topic. The reading topics for 2023 are:
January 5 - Reader's Choice
February 2 - Asian setting or author
March 2 - Private Investigator
April 6 - 1920s Setting
May 4 - Mystery Set Before 1500
June 1 - Spy Craft
July - No Meeting
August - Senior Sleuths
September 7 - One Author: Deborah Crombie
October 5 - Biblio Mysteries
November 2 - Indigenous Peoples
December 7 - Christmas Mysteries