Book Discussion Group

Meetings are quarterly at 12:00 p.m., noon.

Register by calling 1-800-362-0699 or email Maggie Witte. You will need to provide your name and the phone number to use to join the meeting. On the day of the book discussion, Kansas Talking Books staff will call and you to the conference call. All you have to do is answer the phone.

Suggest a Book

Book Discussion Dates

March 13, 2024: Bring Your Own Book

Let's talk about the book(s) we’ve each been reading. We would love to hear from you and other patrons from around the state would too.

June 12, 2024: DB114761 Warrior girl unearthed by Angeline Boulley

Annotation: "With the rising number of missing Indigenous women, her family's involvement in a murder investigation, and grave robbers profiting off her Anishinaabe tribe, Perry takes matters into her own hands to solve the mystery and reclaim her people's inheritance." -- Provided by publisher. -- Unrated. Commercial audiobook. For senior high and older readers.

September 11, 2024: DB 109032 Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin.

Annotation: "On a bitter-cold day, in the December of his junior year at Harvard, Sam Masur exits a subway car and sees, amid the hordes of people waiting on the platform, Sadie Green. He calls her name. For a moment, she pretends she hasn't heard him, but then, she turns, and a game begins: a legendary collaboration that will launch them to stardom. These friends, intimates since childhood, borrow money, beg favors, and, before even graduating college, they have created their first blockbuster, Ichigo. Overnight, the world is theirs. Not even twenty-five years old, Sam and Sadie are brilliant, successful, and rich, but these qualities won't protect them from their own creative ambitions or the betrayals of their hearts. Spanning thirty years, from Cambridge, Massachusetts, to Venice Beach, California, and lands in between and far beyond, Gabrielle Zevin's Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow is a dazzling and intricately imagined novel that examines the multifarious nature of identity, disability, failure, the redemptive possibilities in play, and above all, our need to connect: to be loved and to love. Yes, it is a love story, but it is not one you have read before." -- Provided by publisher. -- Unrated. Commercial audiobook. Bestseller. 2022.

December 11, 2024: DBC02962 The man who invented Christmas: how Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol rescued his career and revived our holiday spirits by Les Standiford

Annotation: With warmth, wit, and good cheer, Standiford shows how the unlikely success of "A Christmas Carol" revitalized Charles Dickens's languishing career and revived the celebration of the near-forgotten Christmas holiday.