Memory (Memoir + History) Book Club

Curious? Always learning? Love hearing human stories? The new Memory (Memoir + History) Book Club is for you!

Join us as we delve into the broad and weird world of nonfiction through selected memoirs and historical books. Every 3rd Wednesday from 630 to 730pm, we will dive into a nonfiction book, from the smoke- and curse-filled kitchens of the 90s in Anthony Bourdain's Kitchen Confidential to the illustrated and intimate immigration story of Thi Bui's The Best We Could Do.

In June, we will read the pioneering True Crime “nonfiction novel.” Published in 1966, Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood details the 1959 quadruple murder in the small farming community of Holcomb, Kansas. A forerunner for the dime-a-dozen true crime podcast of today, Capote’s meticulous (and sometimes erroneous) non-fiction novel has been the subject of much love, criticism, and debate throughout the past 60 years.

Copies are available for you at Cooper-Siegel's Front Desk (or try an eBook for your Kindle or iPad)!

The audiobook version is also available on Libby.