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MCCC Book Club

The MCCC book club is open to all MCCC employees and students. The club was started by the Library Staff in Winter 2023, with a new book being selected to read each semester. The book club meets two times per semester at 12:30 in the Library. It is a fun, lunchtime club that encourages thoughtful opinions and discussions. The best part of the club has been getting to know people from all across campus through a shared joy of reading.

Students are welcome to join club, but we would also like to encourage them to consider joining the student led book club run by SLAC (The Student Library Advisory Club).

For more information about either club, please stop by the Library or email Elizabeth Hartig (ehartig@monroeccc.edu).

Winter 2025 Book Club Title

Remarkably Bright Creatures

By Shelby Van Pelt

PS3622 .A58572 R46 2022

 

After Tova Sullivan's husband died, she began working the night shift at the Sowell Bay Aquarium, mopping floors and tidying up. Keeping busy has always helped her cope, which she's been doing since her eighteen-year-old son, Erik, mysteriously vanished on a boat in Puget Sound over thirty years ago. Tova becomes acquainted with curmudgeonly Marcellus, a giant Pacific octopus living at the aquarium. Marcellus knows more than anyone can imagine but wouldn't dream of lifting one of his eight arms for his human captors--until he forms a remarkable friendship with Tova. Ever the detective, Marcellus deduces what happened the night Tova's son disappeared. And now Marcellus must use every trick his old invertebrate body can muster to unearth the truth for her before it's too late.

 

 

Previous Book Club Titles

Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt

Winter 2025

 

PS3622 .A58572 R46 2022

The Soul of an Octopus by Sy Montgomery

Fall 2024

 

QL430.3 .O2 M66 2016

Tom Lake

Tom Lake by Ann Patchett

Summer 2024

 

PS3566.A7756 T66 2023

Firekeeper's Daughter

Firekeeper's Daughter by Angeline Boulley

Winter 2024

 

PZ7.1.B6784 Fir 2021

The Best Part of Us

The Best Part of Us by Sally Cole-Misch

Winter 2024

 

PS3603 .O442 B47 2020

The Lost Girls of Paris by Pam Jenoff

The Lost Girls of Paris by Pam Jenoff

Fall 2023

 

PS3610.E562 L67 2019

 

The Midnight Library by Matt Haig

The Midnight Library by Matt Haig

Summer 2023

 

PR6108 .A39 M53 2020

Educated by Tara Westover

Educated by Tara Westover

Winter 2023

 

CT3262 .I2 W47 2018

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