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For a complete list of upcoming programs, visit the library events calendar.
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Drop Dead Book Club
First Wednesdays at 7 p.m. at CCM Edgewood
1 Pennwood Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15218
Contact: Linda Herward, herward@pitt.edu
Since 2003, the Drop Dead Book Club has read a mystery every month. The atmosphere is informal. The group has a facilitator/record keeper but not a discussion leader. Books are chosen by consensus.
| Date | Title | Author |
|---|---|---|
| Feb 1 | Under Orders | Dick Francis |
| Mar 1 | Where’s Laura | Octavia Long |
| Apr 5 | The Department of Rare Books & Special Collections | Eva Jurczyk |
| May 3 | 1989 | Val McDermid |
| Jun 7 | All Good People Here | Ashley Flowers |
For a complete list of upcoming books and meeting dates, please visit the Drop Dead Book Club website.
Fourth Tuesday Book Club
Fourth Tuesdays at 1 p.m. at CCM Forest Hills.
4400 Greensburg Pike, Pittsburgh, PA 15221
Contact: Cameron Bloom, bloomc@einetwork.net
The 4th Tuesday Book Club reads books on a wide variety of subjects and genres: fiction and nonfiction, classic and contemporary. Join us for lively discussions on–you guessed it–the 4th Tuesday of every month in the Community Room beside the CCM Forest Hills Library.
| Date | Title | Author |
|---|---|---|
| Jan 24 | Pathways to our Sustainable Future | Patricia DeMarco |
| Feb 28 | The Winemaker’s Wife | Kristin Harmel |
| Mar 28 | Madam Speaker | Susan Page |
| Apr 25 | The Hidden Life of Trees | Peter Wohlleben |
| May 23 | Empire of Pain | Patrick Radden Keefe |
| Jun 27 | Pachinko | Min Jin Lee |
| Jul 25 | Agatha Christie: a Mysterious Life | Laura Thompson |
| Aug 22 | Kindred | Octavia Butler |
| Sep 26 | This is Happiness | Niall Williams |
| Oct 24 | Hope Made Real | Arlene D. Brown |
| Nov 28 | The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek | Kim Michele Richardson |
| Dec 26 | TBD | Agatha Christie |
Century Book Club
Third Wednesdays at 7 p.m. on Zoom
Contact: Cameron Bloom, bloomc@einetwork.net
Click here to join Zoom Meeting
Meeting ID: 851 9143 0785
Passcode: 635567 (“Mellor,” for the pre-keyboard phone crowd)
Originally started to commemorate CCM’s centennial in 2018, the Century Book club reads books from each decade of the 20th and 21st centuries in sequence. Past selections have been fiction, nonfiction, drama, short stories, and more.
| Date | Title | Author | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 15 | Cloud Cuckoo Land | Anthony Doerr | 2021 |
| Mar 15 | The Hound of the Baskervilles | Arthur Conan Doyle | 1902 |
| Apr 19 | The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man | James Weldon Johnson | 1912 |
| May 17 | The Enchanted April | Elizabeth Von Arnim | 1922 |
| Jun 21 | Brave New World | Aldous Huxley | 1932 |
| Jul 19 | The Stranger | Albert Camus | 1942 |
| Aug 16 | East of Eden | John Steinbeck | 1952 |
| Sep 20 | Silent Spring | Rachel Carson | 1962 |
| Oct 18 | The Stepford Wives | Ira Levin | 1972 |
| Nov 15 | TBD | 1982 | |
| Dec 20 | TBD | 1992 |