Main Library Book Group Discussion

Join a community-led online discussion of a wide range of books, chosen by the members. To register, email library@santamonica.gov.

The 2024 selections are:

February 19, 2024: The Wright Brothers by David McCullough

March 18, 2024: The Alchemist by Paul Coelho

April 15, 2024: Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don't Know by Malcolm Gladwell

May 20, 2024: When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamin Labatut

June 17, 2024: The Time Traveler’s Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century by Ian Mortimer

July 15, 2024: Hamlet by William Shakespeare

August 19, 2024: The Universe in a Nutshell by Stephen Hawking

September 16, 2024: The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner

October 21, 2024: The Secret Life of Groceries: The Dark Miracle of the American Supermarket by Benjamin Lorr

November 18, 2024: The History of Love by Nicole Krauss

December 16, 2024: You Have to be Prepared to Die Before You Can Begin to Live: Ten Weeks in Birmingham that Changed America by Paul Kix