2026

Our book group choice for February 2026 is The Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald. Set in 1959 in the damp, windswept Suffolk coastal town of Hardborough, The Bookshop is a clinical, unsentimental examination of how a small, entrenched community reacts to an outsider’s modest ambition. The outsider is Florence Green, a middle-aged widow with a small inheritance and a quiet resolve. […]

Our book group choice for January 2026 is Exhalation by Ted Chiang. Exhalation is a collection of nine speculative fiction stories; rather than a single novel, this book functions as an anthology of distinct narratives, each exploring profound philosophical questions through the lens of science fiction and fantasy.