In its 17th year, the Memoir Book Group boasts of being perhaps the only original group still meeting and comprised of virtually the same members since the inception of the Library’s program many years ago! As our group’s name implies, we read memoirs and follow a rigorous formula of research and presentations by each member of our group. For our 10th anniversary, we edited a booklet of all of the books we’ve studied, including the hundreds of “almost-reads” over the years.

Led by Leslie de Galbert and Clydette de Groot.

• A Man of Two Faces: A Memoir, A History, A Memorial by Viet Thanh Nguyen
• Knife, Meditations After an Attempted Murder by Salman Rushdie
• Boyhood, Scenes from Provincial Life by J.M. Coetzee
• Patriot by Alexei Navalny

• 9 September
• 14 October
• 18 November
• 16 December