Book Club Reads

Where: Gorham Public Library

When: February 18th, 2026 at 6:00PM

This Months Book Choice is How to Solve Your Own Murder by Kristen Perrin. For fans of Knives Out and The Thursday Murder Club, an enormously fun mystery about a woman who spends her entire life trying to prevent her foretold murder only to be proven right sixty years later, when she is found dead in her sprawling country estate…. Now it’s up to her great-niece to catch the killer.

We have available at the Library.

• 4 Physical Copies
• 1 Large Print

Also available on Overdrive!

Questions, comments, or concerns: Talk to us at the front desk, call 466-2525, or email us at gorhampubliclibraryng@gmail.com

Where: Gorham Public Library

When November 26th, 2025 at 6:00PM

This Months Book Choice is The Spellshop by Sarah Beth Durst. Join Kiela the librarian and her assistant, Caz the sentient spider plant, as they navigate the low stakes market of illegal spellmaking and the high risk business of starting over.

We have available at the Library.

• 4 Physical copies
• 1 Large Print

Also available on Overdrive!

Questions, comments, or concerns: Talk to us at the front desk, call 466-2525, or email us at gorhampubliclibraryng@gmail.com

Where: Gorham Public Library

When August 27th, 2025 at 6:00PM

This Summer join us in reading In the Evil Day by Richard Adam Carey for our community read. A community read is a shared reading experience where members of the community all read and discuss one book. The Great North Woods Community Read connects members from the areas of Gorham, Berlin, and Randolph through the Public Libraries and the White Mountain Community College.

On the afternoon of August 19, 1997, John Harrigan—owner and publisher of the News and Sentinel newspaper in Colebrook, New Hampshire—arrived at his building to find the woman he loved lying dead in the parking lot. Lawyer Vickie Bunnell had been shot and killed by an itinerant carpenter wielding an assault rifle. By then, three more people were already dead or dying. More mayhem was to ensue in an afternoon of plot twists too improbable for a novel. The roots of the incident stretch back twenty-five years, with tendrils deep in the history of New England’s North Country. These bloody events shocked America and made headlines across the world. Hundreds of local citizens became unwilling players in the drama—friends and colleagues of the dead, men and women who were themselves real or potential targets, along with their neighbors in law enforcement—but the town and its inhabitants were never passive victims. From the first shot fired that day, they remained courageously determined to survive. This is the story of that town, those people, and that day. In the Evil Day is a moving portrait of small-town life and familiar characters forever changed by sudden violence.

We have available at the Library.

• Will be posted when copies arrive at the library.

Questions, comments, or concerns: Talk to us at the front desk, call 466-2525, or email us at gorhampubliclibraryng@gmail.com

Where: Gorham Public Library

When May 28th, 2025 at 6:00PM

This Months Book Choice is The Turtle House by Amanda Churchill. An emotionally engaging literary debut about a grandmother and granddaughter who connect over a beloved lost place and the secrets they both carry. It’s spring 1999, and 25-year-old Lia Cope and her prickly 73-year-old grandmother, Mineko, are sharing a bedroom in Curtain, Texas, the ranching town where Lia grew up and Mineko began her life as a Japanese war bride.

We have available at the Library.

• Physical copies

Also available on Overdrive!

Questions, comments, or concerns: Talk to us at the front desk, call 466-2525, or email us at gorhampubliclibraryng@gmail.com

This season we are taking a break. There is no Winter Book Club Meet. We will see you in the Spring!

Questions, comments, or concerns: Talk to us at the front desk, call 466-2525, or email us at gorhampubliclibrarynh@gmail.com

Meeting:

Where: Gorham Public Library

When: November 20th, 2024

6:00 PM

This Months Book Choice is The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon. A gripping historical mystery inspired by the life and diary of Martha Ballard, a renowned 18th-century midwife who defied the legal system and wrote herself into American history.

Maine, 1789: When the Kennebec River freezes, entombing a man in the ice, Martha Ballard is summoned to examine the body and determine cause of death. As a midwife and healer, she is privy to much of what goes on behind closed doors in Hallowell. Her diary is a record of every birth and death, crime and debacle that unfolds in the close-knit community. Months earlier, Martha documented the details of an alleged rape committed by two of the town’s most respected gentlemen—one of whom has now been found dead in the ice. But when a local physician undermines her conclusion, declaring the death to be an accident, Martha is forced to investigate the shocking murder on her own.

We have available at the Library.

• Physical copies
• Large Print

Also available on Overdrive!

Questions, comments, or concerns: Talk to us at the front desk, call 466-2525, or email us at gorhampubliclibrarynh@gmail.com

This Summer join us in reading American Eclipse by David Baron for our community read. A community read is a shared reading experience where members of the community all read and discuss one book. The Great North Woods Community Read connects members from the areas of Gorham, Berlin, and Randolph through the Public Libraries and the White Mountain Community College.

In the scorching summer of 1878, with the Gilded Age in its infancy, three tenacious and brilliant scientists raced to Wyoming and Colorado to observe a rare total solar eclipse. One sought to discover a new planet. Another – an adventuresome female astronomer – fought to prove that science was not anathema to femininity. And a young megalomaniacal inventor, with the tabloid press fast on his heels, sought to test his scientific bona fides and light the world through his revelations.

We have available at the Library.

• 5 Physical copies
• 1 Audio

Questions, comments, or concerns: Talk to us at the front desk, call 466-2525, or email us at gorhampubliclibrarynh@gmail.com

The Author:

Gorham Public Library, in partnership with New Hampshire Humanities, supports NH’s 2023 Big Read of The Bear by Andrew Krivak. NEA Big Read is a program of the National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with Arts Midwest.

In an Eden-like future, a girl and her father live close to the land in the shadow of a lone mountain. They own a few remnants of civilization: some books, a pane of glass, a set of flint and steel, a comb. The father teaches his daughter how to fish and hunt and the secrets of the seasons and the stars. He is preparing her for an adulthood in harmony with nature, for they are the last of humankind. But when the girl finds herself alone in an unknown landscape, it is a bear that will lead her back home through a vast wilderness that offers the greatest lessons of all, if she can learn to listen. A cautionary tale of human fragility, of love and loss, The Bear is a stunning tribute to the beauty of nature’s dominion.

-From back of the book.

Meeting Date: May 29th, 2024 at 6:30PM

We have available at the Library:

• 8 Free Physical copies
• 1 Library Copy

Also available on Overdrive/Libby in EBook and Audiobook!

Questions, comments, or concerns: Talk to us at the front desk, call 466-2525, or email us at gorhampubliclibrarynh@gmail.com

This season we are taking a break. There is no Winter Book Club Meet. We will see you in the Spring!

Questions, comments, or concerns: Talk to us at the front desk, call 466-2525, or email us at gorhampubliclibrarynh@gmail.com

Questions, comments, or concerns: Talk to us at the front desk, call 466-2525, or email us at gorhampubliclibrarynh@gmail.com

This is part of our Great North Woods Community Read for more information click on the Moose above.

This Months Book Choice is A Deep Presence by Dr. Robert Goodby. Join us as we go almost 13,000 years back in time to join a small groups of Paleoindians as they endured frigid winters on the edge of a river in what would become Keene, New Hampshire.

Meeting Date: September 20th at 6:30PM

We have available at the Library.

• Physical copies
• Large Print
• Audio

Also available on Overdrive!

Questions, comments, or concerns: Talk to us at the front desk, call 466-2525, or email us at gorhampubliclibrarynh@gmail.com

Join us in reading The Last Girl Ghosted by Lisa Unger. Secrets, obsession and vengeance converge in this riveting thriller about an online dating match turned deadly cat-and-mouse game. Meeting will be March 15th, 2023 at 6:30pm.

We have five regular print books, 1 large print, and 1 audio book available for pickup at the front desk. Available until March, 10th, 2023.

This is also available on Overdrive!

Questions, comments, or concerns: Talk to us at the front desk, call 466-2525, or email us at gorhampubliclibrary@ne.rr.com

This Months Book Choice is. Description

We have available at the Library.

• Physical copies
• Large Print
• Audio

Also available on Overdrive!

Questions, comments, or concerns: Talk to us at the front desk, call 466-2525, or email us at gorhampubliclibrarynh@gmail.com

This Months Book Choice is Hour of the Witch by Chris Bohjalian. We will be discussing the book while enjoying themed refreshments. Meeting will be held on August 3rd at 6:00PM

We have available at the Library.

• Physical copies
• Large Print
• Audio

Also available on Overdrive!

Questions, comments, or concerns: Talk to us at the front desk, call 466-2525, or email us at gorhampubliclibrarynh@gmail.com