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This book group meets at the East Anaheim Library on the fourth Thursday each month from 12:00 to 1:00 pm, in the Community Center's Sycamore Room, except for the March meeting which will be held at Canyon Hills Library. Each month features a new discussion book, ask at the desk for a copy to check out.
Join us this February as we celebrate our first 'One Book/One City' event featuring the Dashiell Hammett classic, “The Maltese Falcon” with themed programs throughout the month. We hope to see you at the “Anaheim Reads” Opening Reception event on Saturday, January 30th at the Central Library. The program begins at 4:00pm, and there are only a few seats left. RSVP to 714-765-1810 today to reserve your spot.
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January 28
2016 "Anaheim Reads" One Book, One City selected title.
The book that inspired a new genre of hard-boiled detective novels.
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The Maltese Falcon
Dashiell Hammett · Vintage Books
Pages: 217
Format: Paperback |
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A treasure worth killing for. Sam Spade, a slightly shopworn private eye with his own solitary code of ethics. A perfumed grafter named Joel Cairo, a fat man name Gutman, and Brigid O'Shaughnessy, a beautiful and treacherous woman whose loyalties shift at the drop of a dime. These are the ingredients... |
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February 26
2012 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
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The Buddha in the Attic
Julie Otsuka · Alfred A. Knopf
Pages: 129
Format: Print book |
Finalist for the 2011 National Book Award
Julie Otsuka's long awaited follow-up to When the Emperor Was Divine ("To watch Emperor catching on with teachers and students in vast numbers is to grasp what must have happened at the outset for novels like... |
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March 29 at Canyon Hills Library
2012 Agatha Nominee/2012 Kansas City Star's Top Book
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The Other Woman
Hank Phillippi Ryan · Forge
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover |
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Jane Ryland was a rising star in television news ... until she refused to reveal a source and lost everything. Now a disgraced newspaper reporter, Jane isn't content to work on her assigned puff pieces, and finds herself tracking down a candidate's secret mistress just days before a pivotal... |
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April 28
2003 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
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Middlesex: A Novel
Jeffrey Eugenides · Picador
Pages: 529
Format: Paperback |
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"I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day of January 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of l974. . . My birth certificate lists my name as Calliope Helen Stephanides. My most recent... |
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May 26
1932 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
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The Good Earth
Pearl S Buck · Washington Square Press
Pages: 379
Format: Paperback |
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