Book Club

Gibson's Book Club reads Caste, by Isabel Wilkerson

Monday, September 14th, 2020, 5:30 p.m. EDT, online only via Zoom. Registration is free but required: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIsd-msrjsjGdOggCkY7UTb9nQyhbz9kC7O

Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)

By Isabel Wilkerson

$32.00

ISBN: 9780593230251

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Published: Random House - August 4th, 2020

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK • “An instant American classic and almost certainly the keynote nonfiction book of the American century thus far.”—Dwight Garner, The New York Times

Open Discussion Project: Talking to Strangers

March's discussion title will be Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know, by Malcolm Gladwell.

Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know (Hardcover)

By Malcolm Gladwell

$30.00

ISBN: 9780316478526

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Published: Little, Brown and Company - September 10th, 2019

Malcolm Gladwell, host of the podcast Revisionist History and author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Outliers, offers a powerful examination of our interactions with strangers—and why they often go wrong.

A Best Book of the Year: The Financial Times, Bloomberg, Chicago Tribune, and Detroit Free Press

Gibson's Book Club discusses Olive Kitteridge

Monday, February 3rd, 2020, 5:30 p.m.

Gibson's Book Club discusses Olive Kitteridge, by Elizabeth Strout.

Our book club is free and open to the public, newcomers are encouraged! Join us for every month, or deal yourself in as the spirit moves you.

Olive Kitteridge: Fiction (Paperback)

By Elizabeth Strout

$17.00

ISBN: 9780812971835

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Published: Random House Trade Paperbacks - September 30th, 2008

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE • The beloved first novel featuring Olive Kitteridge, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Oprah’s Book Club pick Olive, Again

“Fiction lovers, remember this name: Olive Kitteridge. . . . You’ll never forget her.”—USA Today

Girl, Interrupted book discussion, with NHTI community reads

Gibson's Bookstore is partnering with NHTI for a community discussion of Girl, Interrupted, as part of NHTI's campus community read and discussion series! Join us for the evening to delve deeper into this fascinating memoir of mental illness and its treatment in the 1960s.

Girl, Interrupted (Paperback)

By Susanna Kaysen

$16.00

ISBN: 9780679746041

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Published: Vintage - April 19th, 1994

30th ANNIVERSARY EDITION • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • In 1967, after a session with a psychiatrist she'd never seen before, eighteen-year-old Susanna Kaysen was put in a taxi and sent to McLean Hospital. Her memoir of the next two years is a "poignant, honest ... triumphantly funny ... and heartbreaking story" (The New York Times Book Review).

Postponed- Gibson's Book Club discusses The River

This event was been delayed as we wait for clarity on timing for reopening for small groups.

Gibson's Book Club discusses The River, by Peter Heller.

Our book club is free and open to the public, newcomers are encouraged! Join us for every month, or deal yourself in as the spirit moves you.

The River: A novel (Hardcover)

By Peter Heller

$25.95
Likely available, but must be ordered by email/phone

ISBN: 9780525521877

Published: Knopf - March 5th, 2019

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the author of The Guide and The Dog Stars comes the story of two college students on a wilderness canoe trip—a gripping tale of a friendship tested by fire, white water, and violence.

Gibson's Virtual Book Club discusses The Pioneers

Monday, June 1st, 2020, 5:30 p.m. EDT, online only via Zoom.

Gibson's Book Club discusses The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West, by David McCullough.

The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West (Hardcover)

By David McCullough

$30.00

ISBN: 9781501168680

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Published: Simon & Schuster - May 7th, 2019

The #1 New York Times bestseller by Pulitzer Prize–winning historian David McCullough rediscovers an important chapter in the American story that’s “as resonant today as ever” (The Wall Street Journal)—the settling of the Northwest Territory by courageous pioneers who overcame incredible hardships to build a community based on ideals that would

Gibson's Book Club discusses Semicolon

Monday, March 2nd, 2020, 5:30 p.m.

Gibson's Book Club discusses Semicolon: The Past, Present, and Future of a Misunderstood Mark, by Cecelia Watson.

Our book club is free and open to the public, newcomers are encouraged! Join us for every month, or deal yourself in as the spirit moves you.

Semicolon: The Past, Present, and Future of a Misunderstood Mark (Hardcover)

By Cecelia Watson

$19.99
Likely available, but must be ordered by email/phone

ISBN: 9780062853059

Published: Ecco - July 30th, 2019

“Delightful.” —Mary Norris, The New Yorker

Gibson's Book Club discusses Circe

Monday, July 6th, 2020, 5:30 p.m. Online only, via Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwsdeippz8iHNCDuU2eoE-oF3VCTZuJSeIQ

Gibson's Book Club discusses Circe, by Madeline Miller.

Circe (Paperback)

By Madeline Miller

$18.99

ISBN: 9780316556323

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Published: Back Bay Books - April 14th, 2020

This #1 New York Times bestseller is a "bold and subversive retelling of the goddess's story" that brilliantly reimagines the life of Circe, formidable sorceress of The Odyssey (Alexandra Alter, TheNew York Times).

In the house of Helios, god of the sun and mightiest of the Titans, a daughter is born.

Gibson's Book Club discusses A Little History of Philosophy

Monday, January 6th, 2020, 5:30 p.m.

Gibson's Book Club discusses A Little History of Philosophy, by Nigel Warburton.

Our book club is free and open to the public, newcomers are encouraged! Join us for every month, or deal yourself in as the spirit moves you.

A Little History of Philosophy (Little Histories) (Paperback)

By Nigel Warburton

$15.00

ISBN: 9780300187793

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Published: Yale University Press - October 30th, 2012

For readers of E. H. Gombrich’s A Little History of the World, an equally irresistible volume that brings history’s greatest philosophers to life

“A primer in human existence: philosophy has rarely seemed so lucid, so important, so worth doing and so easy to enter into. . . .