Below are our books for the upcoming 2025-26/5786 year. Join us for any book(s) that you're interested in talking about. This year we will meet in person every other month on the 3rd Tuesday at 6:30pm, with a bonus meeting in April. The list below includes how many copies are available in the Timberland Regional Library (TRL). Contact Linda Rubin at linda.rubin23@gmail.com with questions. Please don't be shy, come join us!

Download the list of books we are reading for the 2025-2026 year.

September 16, 2025 – The Hebrew Teacher: Three Novellas by Maya Arad

Three Israeli women, their lives altered by immigration to the United States, seek to overcome crises. In these three stirring novellas—comedies of manners with an ambitious blend of irony and sensitivity—celebrated Israeli author Maya Arad probes the demise of idealism and the generation gap that her heroines must confront. (3 TRL +e book)

November 18 – I Seek a Kind Person: My Father, Seven Children, and the Adverts that Helped Them Escape the Holocaust by Julian Borger

In 1938, Jewish families are scrambling to flee Vienna. Desperate, they take out advertisements offering their children into the safe keeping of readers of a British newspaper. Borger traces the remarkable stories of his father, the other advertised children, and their families, each thrown into the maelstrom of a world at war. (3 TRL + 2ebooks)

January 20, 2026 – Stockholm: A Novel by Noa Yedlin

An ingeniously plotted dark comedy about aging and friendship following a tight-knit circle of seniors as they attempt to hide the death of one of their best friends so he can win the Nobel Prize for Economics. (4 TRL)

March 17 – Songs for the Brokenhearted: A Novel by Ayelet Tsabari

A young Yemeni Israeli woman learns of her mother’s secret romance in a dramatic journey through lost family stories, revealing the unbreakable bond between a mother and a daughter in the debut novel of an award-winning literary voice. (3 TRL)

April 21– One Little Goat: A Passover Catastrophe by Dara Horn (author) and Theo Ellsworth (illustrator)

A lost afikoman, a time-traveling talking goat, and a never-ending seder illuminate the meaning of Passover in Dara Horns hilariously deadpan graphic novel. (4 TRL + ebook)

May 19 – The Safekeep: A Novel by Yael van der Wouden

A “razor-sharp, perfectly plotted” (The Sunday Times, London) tale of desire, suspicion, and obsession between two women staying in the same house in the Dutch countryside during the summer of 1961—a powerful exploration of the legacy of WWII and the darker parts of our collective past. (8 TRL + 8 ebooks + 4 audiobooks)

June 16 – Book selection for next year!