DPL Book Club Organizers

April's book club selection is A Gentleman in Moscow, by New York Times bestselling author Amor Towles.   In 1922, Count Alexander Rostov is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, and is sentenced to house arrest in the Metropol, a grand hotel across the street from the Kremlin. Rostov, an indomitable man of erudition and wit, has never worked a day in his life, and must now live in an attic room while some of the most tumultuous … Read More

May's book is Frank McCourt's Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir, Angela's Ashes. “When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I managed to survive at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood.” So begins the luminous memoir of Frank McCourt, born in Depression-era Brooklyn to recent Irish immigrants and raised in the … Read More

July's book is The Rosie Project, by Australian author Graeme Simsion. The art of love is never a science: Meet Don Tillman, a brilliant yet socially inept professor of genetics, who’s decided it’s time he found a wife. In the orderly, evidence-based manner with which Don approaches all things, he designs the Wife Project to find his perfect partner: a sixteen-page, scientifically valid survey to filter out the drinkers, the smokers, the late arrivers.   Rosie Jarman possesses all these qualities. … Read More

August's selection is Stephen Kurczy's The Quiet Zone. The Green Bank Telescope is the largest fully steerable radio telescope in the world. By federal law, an area of 13,000 square miles around the telescope—the eponymous National Radio Quiet Zone—is supposed to be free from all sources of radio interference. Some writers have described the town of Green Bank, WV, as a "disconnected paradise", where residents are free of the incessant chatter of smartphones and Wi-Fi. But is that really the case? … Read More

September's selection is The Year of Fog, by Michelle Richmond. Life changes in an instant. On a foggy beach. In the seconds when Abby Mason—photographer, fiancée soon-to-be-stepmother—looks into her camera and commits her greatest error. Heartbreaking, uplifting, and beautifully told, here is the riveting tale of a family torn apart, of the search for the truth behind a child’s disappearance, and of one woman’s unwavering faith in the redemptive power of love—all made startlingly fresh through Michelle Richmond’s incandescent sensitivity … Read More

For November, the book will be The Horse Whisperer by Nicholas Evans, with the club meeting on Wednesday, November 16. Copies of the book will be available for pickup at Dormont Public Library in late October, or in the Libby app. The book club will be held at Arsenal Tap House on West Liberty Ave. There is a $6 beverage fee, payable to the server. Must be 21 and over to attend.   To RSVP for the Book Club, please … Read More

February's selection is The Upside, also published as You Changed My Life, by Abdel Sellou. The memoir tells the extraordinary true story of the charming Algerian con-man whose friendship with a disabled French aristocrat inspired the record-breaking hit film, The Intouchables (remade in the US as The Upside (2019)). Sellou’s fictional reincarnation, Driss, played to critical acclaim by French comedian Omar Sy in the movie Les Intouchables, captured the hearts of millions. Already a bestseller in France and Germany, his … Read More