Everyone is welcome at the Reader's Group meetings, held on the last Monday of each month at 10 am in the lecture hall at the Belen Public Library. Meetings are informal and membership in the Friends is not required. Call June Romero, the group's facilitator, at (505) 864-1825 for information.

Monday, March 31
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

Monday, April 28
Peony in Love by Lisa See

Monday, May 19
Blasphemy by  Douglas Preston

Monday, June 30
Playing for Pizza by John Grisham

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ARCHIVED READERS GROUP SELECTIONS

2008 

January 28, Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
February 25, Ancestor Stones by Aminatta Forna

2007 

January 29, Anything by Louisa May Alcott
February 26, The Work of Wolves by Kent Meyers
March 26, Stones From The River by Ursula Hegi
April 30, Anything by James A. Michener
May 21, Anything by Tony Hillerman
June 25, The March by E.L. Doctorow
July 30, The Odyssey by Homer
August 27, The Hummingbird’s Daughter by Luis Urrea
September 24, Anything by Willa Cather
October 29, Any scary story (Poe, Shelly, etc.)
November 26, Reading Like a Writer by Francine Prose
December 17, The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson

2006 

January 30, Snow Falling on Cedars by John Guterson
February 27, The Winter of Our Discontent by John Steinbeck
March 27, No Life for a Lady by Agnes Morley Cleaveland
April 24, Tyrannosaur Canyon by Douglas J. Preston
May 22, The Last Days of Dogtown by Anita Diamant
June 26, Gilead by Marilyn Robinson
July 31, We Are All Welcome Here by Elizabeth Berg
August 28, The Shell Collector by Anothony Doerr
September 25, Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur S. Golden
October 30, Any book or essay by Mark Twain
November 27, The World is Flat by Thomas Friedman
December 27, For One More Day by Mitch Albom

2005 

January 31, Seldom Disappointed and The Sinister Pig by Tony Hillerman
February 28, Eventide by Kent Haruf
March 27, Poetry session
April 25, Dalva by Jim Harrison
May 23, The Sign of the Book by John Dunning
June 27, The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
July 25, Snowleg by Nicholas Shakespear
August 29, The Memory of Running by Ron McLarty
September 26, Oh My Stars by Lorna Landvic
October 31, The Giver by Lois Lowry
November 28, East of Eden by John Steinbeck
December 19, Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons by Lorna Landvic

2004

July 29, Inaugural meeting.
August 30, The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
September 27, The Master Butchers Singing Club by Louise Erdrich
October 25, Empire Falls by Richard Russo
November 20, A Map of the World by Jane Hamilton
December 27, An Unfinished Life by Mark Spragg

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