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If one of your New Year’s resolutions was to do more reading, here are some book club reading lists for the first half of 2020. 

The book group at Gibson’s Bookstore in Concord meets the first Monday of the month at 5:30 p.m. unless otherwise noted. 

Jan. 6: A Little History of Philosophy by Nigel Warburton

Feb. 3: TBA pending January session

March 2: Semicolon by Cecelia Watson

April 6: On Earth We Are Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong

May 4: The River by Peter Heller

June 1: The Pioneers by David McCullough

July 6: Circe by Madeline Miller

Aug. 3: Pickapalooza. Choose titles for the next year. 

The book group at MainStreet BookEnds in Warner meets the first Sunday of the month at 4 p.m. 

Jan. 5: Amy Snow by Tracy Rees

Feb. 2: The Library Book by Susan Orlean

March 1: League of Extraordinarily Funny Women by  Sheila Moeschen and Anne Bentley (meet the author)

April 5: The Day the World Came to Town by Jim Defede

May 3: Awakening by Kate Chopin

June 7: No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith

July 12: Why They Marched by Susan Ware (A Tory Hill Author Series presenter) 

Aug. 2: The Woman’s Hour by Elaine Weiss