Porter Book Group

Meets the first Thursday of the month at 7:30 pm.

Current Selection:

December 3: The Good Earth by Pearl Buck

This moving, classic story of the honest farmer Wang Lung and his selfless wife O-lan is must reading for those who would fully appreciate the sweeping changes that have occurred in the lives of the Chinese people during this century. Nobel Prize winner Pearl S. Buck traces the whole cycle of life: its terrors, its passions, its ambitions and rewards. Her brilliant novel -- beloved by millions of readers -- is a universal tale of the destiny of man.

Future Selections:

Jan. 7: Blink: the Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell
Feb. 4: A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines
Mar. 4: March by Geraldine Brooks
Apr. 1: I, Robot by Isaac Asimov
May 6: The Glass Castle: a Memoir by Jeannette Walls
June 3: Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
July 1: The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power by Jeff Sharlet
Aug. 5: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer
Sept. 2: The Help by Kathryn Stockett
Oct. 7: The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa
Nov. 4: The Shack by William P. Young
Dec. 2: The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho