BookBuffs is a monthly drop-in discussion group for book lovers who wish to share their thoughts and opinions with fellow readers. The group meets on the first Tuesday of every month at 6:30 PM.

Each attendee is given the opportunity to spend 5-10 minutes talking about books that they love or hate, sharing information and impressions about their favorite fiction and nonfiction works and their authors. A worksheet for making notes prior to our meetings is available on our web site for those who like to prepare ahead! No one is required to speak, though; listening is just fine, too. Questions, comments, and additional information from other group members will be welcomed at the discretion of each speaker. Please be sure to have the correct title and author of each book that you "talk". Everyone is invited to bring along a notebook (some will be provided at the first meeting) to record future "reads" that interest them. If the group gets large we will have a timer available to ensure that everyone has their chance to speak!

Selected Recommended Titles:

July 2010
The Passage (Justin Cronin)
Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India (William Dalrymple)
Downtown: My Manhattan (Pete Hamill)
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest (Steig Larsson)
Dearly Beloved (Anne Morrow Lindberg)
Roses (Leila Meacham)

June 2010
The Gathering (Anne Enright)
84 Cahring Cross Road (Helen Hanff)
The Devil's Rooming House (M. William Phelps)
Three Weismanns of Westport (Catherine Schine)
Private Life (Jane Smiley)
Naked Economics (Charles Wheelan)

May 2010
U is for Undertow (Sue Grafton)
31 Bond Street (Ellen Horan)
Three Cups of Tea (Greg Mortensen)
Heresy (S. J. Paris)
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Rebecca Skloot)
Knitting Fiction (various authors)

April 2010
Girl in a Blue Dress (Gaynor Arnold)
Here if You Need Me: A True Story (Kate Baestrup - Memoir)
The Infinities (John Banville)
Born Under a Million Shadows (Andrea Busfield)
Little Bee (Chris Cleave)
The Tenth Muse: My Life in Food (Judith Jones - Memoir)
I Sold Andy Warhol Too Soon (Richard Polski)

March 2010
School of Essential Ingredients (Erica Bauermeister)
Book of Fires (Jane Borodale)
Four Freedoms (John Crowley)
The Antelope Wife (Louise Erdrich)
Secret River (Kate Grenville)
More Than You Know (Beth Gutcheon)
Story Sisters (Alice Hoffman)
The Hound (Vincent McCaffrey)
Robert B. Parker - author recommendation
Mrs. Somebody Somebody (Tracy Winn)
Dirt Music (Tim Winton)

February 2010
First Family (David Baldacci)
All Things at Once (Mika Brzezinski) Memoir
The Reluctant Fundamentalist (Mohsin Hamid)
Lifelines: The Black Book of Proverbs (Askhari Johnson Hodari) NF
Girl with the Dragon Tatoo (Steig Larssen)
Ideas of Heaven (Joan Silber)
The Doctor's Daughter (Hilma Wolitzer)
The Ten Year Nap (Meg Wolitzer)
A Brave Vessel (Hobson Woodward) NF

January 2010
The case for God (Karen Armstrong)
Carry Me Across the Water (Ethan Canin)
Killing Floor (Lee Child)
Alice I Have Been (Alice Lidell)
Bridge of San Luis Rey (Thornton Wilder)

December 2009
A Separate Country (Robert Hicks)
Wolf Hall (Hilary Mantel)
In My Hands (Irene Gut Opdyke)
Commencement (J. Courtney Sullivam)
Toss of a Lemon (Padma Viswanathan)

November 2009
Sarah's Key (Tatiana DeRosnay)
Sacred Hearts (Sarah Dunant)
Zeitoun (David Eggers)
Pearl (Mary Gordon)
Stormy Weather (Paulette Jiles)
Devil in the White City (Eric Larson)
From Cradle to Grave (Patricia MacDonald)
The Elephant Keeper (Christopher Nicholson)
The Art of Racing in the Rain (Garth Stein)
The Help (Kathryn Stockett)

October 2009
Utz (Bruce Chatwin)
Intervention (Robin Cook)
Homer and Langley (E.L. Doctorow)
The Color of Lightening (Paulette Jiles)
Ladies of the Lake (Haywood Smith)
Morgan's Passing (Anne Tyler)

September 2009
Fractal Time (Gregg Braden)
Howard Dean's Prescription for Healthcare Reform (Howard Dean, MD)
The Worst Hard Times (Timothy Egan)
The Good Rain (Timothy Egan)
Mistress of the Art of Death (Ariana Franklin)
The Tie That Binds (Kent Haruf)
Execution Dock (Anne Perry)
That Old Cape Magic (Richard Russo)
Manhunt: The Twelve Day Chase For Lincoln's Killer (James L. Swanson)
Very Valentine (Adriana Trigiani)
Innocent Traitor (Alison Weir)

August 2009
Eat, Pray, Love (Elizabeth Gilbert)
Icarus at the Edge of Time (child) (Brian Greene)
View from Mount Joy (Lorna Landvik)
Perfection (memoir) (Julie Metz)
Under the Southern Sun (travel / historical) (Paul Paolicelli)
The Last Lecture (Randy Pausch)
Nineteen Minutes (Jodi Picoult)
A River of Doubt (Bio T. Roosevelt)
Men in the Queue (Josephine Tey)
We Two (Bio Victoria and Albert)
Now the Drum of War (Bio Walt Whitman)

July 2009
Death Comes to the Archbishop (Willa Cather)
The Hour I First Believed (Wally Lamb)
Suttree (Cormac McCarthy)
Patriotic Grace (Peggy Noonan)
Accordian Crimes (E. Annie Proulx)
The Thirteenth Tale (Diane Setterfield)
The Celebrated Cases of Judge Dee (Robert Van Gulick)