The community is invited to participate in monthly book discussions at the Snyder County Libraries. The library will host a morning discussion on the second Tuesday of every month at 10 AM at the Gelnett Library, Selinsgrove and an evening discussion on the third Thursday of every month at 6:45 PM in the Middleburg Community Room. Each month a new book will be discussed.
A monthly book list will be published in the Selinsgrove Library, in the Daily Item, as well as here. This program is free and open to the public. For more information please contact the Selinsgrove Library at 570-374-7163.
If you buy your books online, please remember that Amazon donates to the Snyder County Libraries about 7.5 percent of any purchase, provided that you use the links below.
The Morning Book Discussion Group meets at 10 am at Gelnett Library
| Date | Title | Author | Borrow | Buy |
| 10 September 2019 | September | Rosamunde Pilcher | Borrow | Buy |
| 8 October 2019 | The Underground Man | Mick Jackson | Borrow | Buy |
| 12 November 2019 | Never Caught | Erica Armstrong Dunbar | Borrow | Buy |
| 10 December 2019 | The Paris Wife | Paula Mclain | Borrow | Buy |
| 14 January 2020 | The Silent Patient | Alex Michaelides | Borrow | Buy |
| 11 February 2020 | Breaking Cadence: One Woman’s War Against the War | Rosa del Duca | Borrow | Buy |
| 10 March 2020 | The Overstory | Richard Powers | Borrow | Buy |
| 14 April 2020 | My Brilliant Friend | Elena Ferrante | Borrow | Buy |
| 12 May 2020 | Becoming | Michelle Obama | Borrow | Buy |
| 9 June 2020 | Book Selection for 2020-2021 |
The Evening Book Discussion Group meets at 6:45 pm at Middleburg Borough Building
| Date | Title | Author | Borrow | Buy |
| 19 September 2019 | Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland | Patrick Radden Keefe | Borrow | Buy |
| 17 October 2019 | The Library Book | Susan Orlean | Borrow | Buy |
| 21 November 2019 | Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight | Alexandra Fuller | Borrow | Buy |
| 19 December 2019 | The Sun is a Compass: A 4000-mile Journey into the Alaskan Wilds | Caroline Van Hemert | Borrow | Buy |
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22 January 2020 (Group will meet at Midtown Scholar Bookstore in Harrisburg at 7:00 PM.) |
Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother’s Will to Survive | Stephanie Land | Borrow | Buy |
| 20 February 2020 | Born to Run | Bruce Springsteen | Borrow | Buy |
| 19 March 2020 | Educated | Tara Westover | Borrow | Buy |
| 16 April 2020 | My Own Words | Ruth Bader Ginsburg | Borrow | Buy |
| 21 May 2020 | An American Marriage | Tayari Jones | Borrow | Buy |
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18 June 2020 |
Stories I Only Tell My Friends | Rob Lowe | Borrow | Buy |
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16 July 2020 |
Book Selection for 2020-2021 |
Book Discussion Group will meet on July 16 at Middleburg Library at 6:00 PM to discuss the new selections for the upcoming year. The potluck dinner will be held afterwards.