The English Book Club

Would you like to share your passion for reading? So, join the English reading club at the Kirkland Library!

The ENGLISH BOOK CLUB meets on a Thursday night every month at 7 pm.
To reserve a copy of the book, please ask at the Reference Desk or call 514-630-2726, extension 3202.  

Admission is free

Upcoming Titles:

Lady Tan's Circle of Women: A Novel

Thursday, December 5, 2024

LADY TAN’S CIRCLE OF WOMEN

By Lisa See

In 15th-century China, a determined woman defies societal expectations to become a pioneering physician, facing personal and cultural obstacles along her journey.

Lady Tan's Circle of Women: A Novel

Thursday, January 9, 2025

HAMNET

By Maggie O'Farrell

Warwickshire in the 1580s. Agnes is a woman as feared as she is sought after for her unusual gifts. She settles with her husband in Henley street, Stratford, and has three children: a daughter, Susanna, and then twins, Hamnet and Judith. The boy, Hamnet, dies in 1596, aged eleven. Four years or so later, the husband writes a play called Hamlet.

Lady Tan's Circle of Women: A Novel

Thursday, February 6, 2025

Apeirogon

By Colum McCann

Colum McCann's most ambitious work to date, Apeirogon--named for a shape with a countably infinite number of sides--is a tour de force concerning friendship, love, loss, and belonging.

Bassam Aramin is Palestinian. Rami Elhanan is Israeli. They inhabit a world of conflict that colors every aspect of their daily lives, from the roads they are allowed to drive on, to the schools their daughters, Abir and Smadar, each attend, to the checkpoints, both physical and emotional, they must negotiate.

Lady Tan's Circle of Women: A Novel

Thursday, March 6, 2025

The House of Doors

By Tan Twan Eng

The year is 1921. Lesley Hamlyn and her husband, Robert, a lawyer and war veteran, are living at Cassowary House on the Straits Settlement of Penang. When “Willie” Somerset Maugham, a famed writer and old friend of Robert's, arrives for an extended visit with his secretary Gerald, the pair threatens a rift that could alter more lives than one.