Monroe Public Library in Monroe, WI
Located on the Historic Square in Monroe, Wisconsin
925 16th Avenue | Monroe WI 53566 | (608) 328-7010
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Our casual lunchtime book club meets on the 2nd Wednesday of each month to discuss a variety of fiction and nonfiction, and to share a love of reading.

We meet in person at the library at 11:00 AM, and virtually on Zoom at 12:30 PM. Please choose the mode that works for you. Books are available at the Checkout Desk any time after the previous discussion.

Zoom: http://bit.ly/MPLBookClub
Library Lunchtime Book Club
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May 11

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A GATE AT THE STAIRS
by Lorrie Moore

​Twenty-year-old Tassie Keltjin, the daughter of a gentleman farmer, has come to a university town as a student. When she takes a job as a part-time nanny for a mysterious and glamorous family, she finds herself drawn deeper into their world and forever changed. Told through the eyes of this memorable narrator, A Gate at the Stairs is a piercing novel of race, class, love, and war in America.



June 8

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THE LIBRARY BOOK
by Susan Orlean

Susan Orlean re-opens the unsolved mystery of the most catastrophic library fire in American history, and delivers a dazzling homage to a beloved institution – our libraries. On the morning of April 29, 1986, a fire alarm sounded in the Los Angeles Public Library. Raging through the stacks, the fire reached 2000 degrees and burned for more than seven hours. It was the largest library fire in the history of the United States: it destroyed four hundred thousand books and damaged seven hundred thousand more, and shut the library down for seven years. The mystery remains: did someone purposefully set fire to the library—and if so, who?


Upcoming Titles
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July 13
WHILE JUSTICE SLEEPS
by Stacey Abrams
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August 10
​A WRINKLE IN TIME
​by Madeleine L'Engle
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