The Morning Book Club at Temple Concord announced its book list for its 21st reading season 2024-25. Book club meetings will take place on the first Tuesday of the month, except October when the club will meet on the first and fifth Tuesdays; the club does not meet in November. Unless otherwise indicated, book club meetings take place in the Temple Concord library and on Zoom beginning at 10:30 am. Everyone is welcome to participate whether or not they have read the book. For the Temple Concord Zoom link or to join the Morning Book Club e-mail list, e-mail Merri Pell-Preus at merrypell.preus@gmail.com.
The 2023-24 book list is:
- July 2: “Kunstlers in Paradise: A Novel” by Cathleen Shine
- August 6: “The Rabbi Who Prayed With Fire” and “The Rabbi Who Prayed for the City” (Rabbi Vivian Mysteries) by Rachel Sharona Lewis
- September 3: “The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store: A Novel” by James McBride
- October 1: “The Village Idiot: A Novel” by Steve Stern
- October 29: “Anything but Yes: A Novel of Anna Del Monte, Jewish Citizen of Rome 1749” by Joie Davidow
- No meeting in November: Election Day
- December 3: “The Wolf Hunt” by Ayelet Gundar-Goshen, translated by Jessica Cohen
- January 7: “Gangsters vs Nazis: How Jewish Mobsters Battled Nazis in Wartime America” by Michael Benson (non fiction)
- February 4: “The Hebrew Teacher” by Maya Arad, translated by Sondra Silverston
- March 4: “The Island of Extraordinary Captives: A Painter, a Poet, an Heiress, and a Spy in a World War II British Internment Camp” by Simon Parkin (non fiction)
- April 1: TBA
- May 6: TBA and Annual Book Selection Meeting
- June: date to be determined late because the regular meeting date, June 3, is the second day of Shavuot.