New members are always welcome!
Read the book and come for a lively discussion.
Copies for the Daytime & Evening Book Discussion, provided by The Friends of BTL, are available at the Adult Circulation desk one month prior to the meeting, and all books are also available on digital platforms. See the full list of 2026 dates and titles.
Daytime Book Discussion
The Lathe of Heaven
During a time racked by war and environmental catastrophe, George Orr discovers his dreams alter reality. George is compelled to receive treatment from Dr. William Haber, an ambitious sleep psychiatrist who quickly grasps the immense power George holds. After becoming adept at manipulating George’s dreams to reshape the world, Haber seeks the same power for himself. George–with some surprising help–must resist Haber’s attempts, which threaten to destroy reality itself.
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Evening Book Discussion
The Devil At His Elbow: Alex Murdaugh and the Fall of a Southern Dynasty
Alex Murdaugh was a benevolent dictator — the president of the South Carolina trial lawyers’ association, a political boss, a part-time prosecutor, and a partner in his family’s law firm. He was always ready with a favor, a drink, and an invitation to Moselle, his family’s 1,700-acre hunting estate. When he murdered his wife Maggie and son Paul at Moselle on a dark summer night, the fragile façade of Alex’s world could no longer hold.
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Walk & Talk Book Club
The Correspondent
Sybil Van Antwerp has throughout her life used letters to make sense of the world and her place in it. Most mornings, around half past ten, Sybil sits down to write letters-to her brother, to her best friend, to the president of the university who will not allow her to audit a class she desperately wants to take, to Joan Didion and Larry McMurtry to tell them what she thinks of their latest books, and to one person to whom she writes often yet never sends the letter. Sybil expects her world to go on as it always has-a mother, grandmother, wife, divorcee, distinguished lawyer, she has lived a very full life. But when letters from someone in her past force her to examine one of the most painful periods of her life, she realizes that the letter she has been writing over the years needs to be read and that she cannot move forward until she finds it in her heart to offer forgiveness.
