How We Choose Books

We read all kinds of books, with no one specialty or genre.  We read a wide variety of fiction and non-fiction, as you can see under the “Books Previously Read” section.  Most of the books chosen by our book selection committee for each year come from nominations by our members, so the books represent the wide interests of everyone in the group.  If you would like to nominate a book, please click on the link on this page.

 Because we are a library group, we select books with sufficient copies throughout the Minuteman Library network (to ensure that no one ever needs to purchase a book to participate).  Because of that limitation, our books are ones from the recent past rather than books that are currently in high demand or on waitlists, and sometimes we read older "classics" - this helps to ensure that the Minuteman Library system has  enough copies of the title available for us.  

 We select a list of books in the fall to read during the following year from nominations by Book Group members.  A sufficient quantity of each month's book selection is reserved by the library system and made available to Book Group members to check out a month in advance of the meeting.

Click here to Nominate Books for our Reading List! 

See books already nominated (spreadsheet format)