Our Book Club
Our next books:
| Title | Author | Meeting date and time |
| This Is Not About Us | Allegra Goodman | September 30, 2026 |
| Please note that the dates are either the 3rd or 4th Wednesday of the month. Dates were adjusted to accommodate for holidays. Some dates are Thursdays, as noted. |
Books that we already read:
| Title | Author | Meeting date |
| The Art Forger |
Barbara A. Shapiro | April 26, 2023 |
| All About Me | Mel Brooks | May 24, 2023 |
| We Were the Lucky Ones | Georgia Hunter | June 28, 2023 |
| The Weight of Ink | Rachel Kadish | September 27, 2023 |
| Tomorrow, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow | Gabrielle Zevin | October 25, 2023 |
| The Spy Who Loved: The Secrets and Lives of Christine Granville |
Clare Mulley | December 27, 2023 |
| The Matchmakers Gift | Lynda Cohen Loigman | January 24, 2024 |
| The Dressmakers of Auschwitz | Lucy Adlington | February 28, 2024 |
| Madam | Debbie Applegate | May 1 , 2024, 7:30 pm |
| The Storyteller | Jodi Picoult | May 22, 2024, 7:30 pm |
| This Magnificent Dappled Sea | David Biro | June 26, 2024, 7:30 pm |
| Barry Sonnenfeld, Call Your Mother: Memoirs of a Neurotic Filmmaker | Barry Sonnenfeld | September 25, 2024, 7:30 pm |
| Song Yet Sung | James McBride | October 23, 2024, 7:30 pm |
| Moonflower Murders: A Novel | Anthony Horowitz | December 4, 2024, 7:30 pm |
| The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store | James McBride | January 22, 2025, 7:30 pm |
| Nightingale | Kristin Hannah | February 26, 2025, 7:30 pm |
| Mazel | Rebecca Goldstein | April 23, 2025 7:30 pm |
| The Book Spy | Alan Hlad | May 28, 2025 7:30 pm |
| Florence Adler Swims Forever | Rachel Beanland | June 25, 2025, 7:30 pm |
| The House is on Fire | Rachel Beanland | Oct. 22, 2025 7:30 pm |
| The Family: Three Journeys into the Heart of the Twentieth Century | David Laskin | Nov. 17, 2025, 7:30 pm |
| Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity and Love | Dani Shapiro | Jan 14, 2026, 7:30 pm |
| Lilli de Jong | Janet Benton | Feb. 25, 2026, 7:30 pm |
| Opening Doors : The Unlikely Alliance Between The Irish And The Jews In America | Hasia R. Diner | March 25, 2026, 7:30 pm |
| The Little Liar | Mitch Albom | July 1, 2026, 7:30 pm |
| The Invisible Harry Gold: The Man Who Gave the Soviets the Atom Bomb | Alan Hornblum | August 26, 2026, 7:30 pm |
Book Club Meeting
This is Not About Us
by Allegra Goodman
Wednesday, September 30, 2026 at 7:30 PM
Beloved bestselling author Mitch Albom returns with his most important novel to date, an unforgettable work of World War II historical fiction about truth and lies set during the Holocaust.
Eleven-year-old Nico Krispis has never told a lie. When the Nazis invade his home in Salonika, Greece, the trustworthy boy is discovered by a German officer, who offers him a chance to save his family. All Nico has to do is persuade his fellow Jewish residents to board trains heading “north,” where new jobs and safety await. Unaware that this is all a cruel ruse, the innocent boy reassures passengers on the station platform every day.
But when the final train is loaded, Nico sees his family being herded into a boxcar. Only then does he discover that he has helped send them—and everyone he knows and loves—to their doom at Auschwitz.
Nico escapes—but he never tells the truth again.
In The Little Liar, a gripping family saga, Mitch Albom examines the human repercussions of deception by interweaving the stories of Nico, who yearns for forgiveness; his older brother, Sebastian, who vows revenge against him; Fannie, the girl who must choose between them; and Udo Graf, the Nazi officer who forever changed their lives with his lies.
Through the war years, the concentration camps, and the decades that follow, Albom reveals the consequences of each person’s honesty and dishonesty in this powerful story of survival, bringing them back to where it all started in a staggering climax worthy of the best of Albom’s internationally embraced stories.
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