The Pacific Beach Library Book Discussion Group is designed for all adult readers who want to talk about books, and provides an informal forum for the discussion of one selected book each month.

The Book Discussion Group meets in the Meeting Room/Gallery at the Pacific Beach/Taylor Library on the first Wednesday of each month, at 6:30 p.m. At the January meeting, participants select the books that will be read by the Book Discussion Group throughout the rest of the year.

Copies of that month's selection may be picked up at the Circulation Desk of the Pacific Beach/Taylor Library.

For additional information about the PB Library Book Discussion Group, please send email to the Book Discussion Group Coordinator.

For a color brochure which describes the book discusion group selections for 2010, please click on the following link:

  2010 Book Discussion Brochure

		January 6 Meet to select titles for 2010.
		February 3 Snow Flower and the Secret Fan  by Lisa See
	In 19th century China in a remote Hunan village,a seven year old girl named Lily is paired with a laotong, an "old same," in an emotional match that will last a lifetime. Over the years Lily and Snow Flower exchange messages written on silk fans and handkerchiefs using nu shu, a unique language that women created in order to communicate in secret, but when a misunderstanding arises, their friendship threatens to tear apart.
		March 3 Outcasts United  by Warren St. John
	The extraordinary tale of a refugee youth soccer team and the transformation of a small American town. This fast-paced chronicle of a single season is a complex and inspiring tale of a small town becoming a global community — and an account of the ingenious and complicated ways we create a home in a changing world. One Book — One San Diego selection.
		April 7 People of the Book  by Geraldine Brooks
	A fictionalized account of the turbulent history of the Sarajevo Haggadah, an illuminated manuscript which has survived into the 20th century thanks to people of various faiths who risked their lives to safeguard it. Hanna Heath, a manuscript conservator hired to restore the manuscript in 1996 Sarajevo, finds and pursues clues to crucial moments in the book's history.
		May 5 The Man in the Wooden Hat  by Jane Gardam
	A portrait of a marriage, with all the bittersweet secrets and surprising fulfillment of the 50-year union of two remarkable people. A companion to Gardam’s award-winning Old Filth, this novel is told from Betty's perspective.
		June 2 The Passions of the Mind  by Irving Stone
	A novel about the life of Sigmund Freud, from the acclaimed author of the classic historical novels Lust for Life (Vincent Van Gogh) and The Agony and the Ecstasy (Michelangelo).
		July 7 The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears  by Dinaw Mengestu
	Sepha Stephanos fled the Ethiopian Revolution 17 years ago, for a new start in the United States. Now he finds himself running a failing grocery store in a poor section of Washington, D.C., his only companions two fellow African immigrants who share his bitter nostalgia and longing for his home continent. New hope is threatened by a series of racial incidents, as Sepha may lose everything all over again.
		August 4 Wonder Boys  by Michael Chabon
	This novel introduces two unforgettable characters: Grady Tripp, a former publishing prodigy now lost in a fog of pot and passion and stalled in the midst of his endless second book, and Grady’s student, James Leer, a budding writer obsessed with Hollywood self-destruction and struggling with his own searching heart.
		September 1 Alfred and Emily  by Doris Lessing
	Lessing explores the lives of her parents, each irrevocably damaged by the Great War. In the fictional first half she imagines the happier lives they might have made for themselves had there been no war. This is followed by a piercing examination of their relationship as it actually was in the shadow of the devastating global conflict.
		October 6 The Shadow of the Wind  by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
	Barcelona, 1945 — A great world city lies shrouded in secrets after the war, and a boy mourning the loss of his mother finds solace in his love for an extraordinary book called The Shadow of the Wind, by an author named Julian Carax. The boy soon realizes, though, that The Shadow of the Wind is as dangerous to own as it is impossible to forget.
		November 3 Honeymoon in Tehran  by Azadeh Moaveni
	Azadeh Moaveni, Middle East correspondent for Time magazine, returned to Iran in 2005 to cover the rise of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, where she unexpectedly finds love and starts a family. Powerful and poignant, this is the harrowing story of a young woman’s tenuous life in a country she thought she could change.
		December 1 1999: A Novel of the Celtic Tiger and the Search for Peace  by Morgan Llywelyn
	Llywelyn's Irish Century series is the story of the Irish people's epic struggle for independence through the tumultuous course of the twentieth century. 1999 brings the story from 1972 to the disarmament talks and beginnings of reconciliation among the Irish at the end of the twentieth century.
		January 5 (2011) Meet to select titles for 2011.