The Lifelong Readers Book Club is a program of the Literacy Program, encouraging continued growth in reading and writing. The book club meets the fourth Thursday of the month, 5:30-6:30 pm, at the Colusa Branch’s Morse room. Everyone is encouraged to read (or reread!) the month’s selection and join in our discussion.

Jan. 26, 2023: The Satanic Verses: A Novel by Salman Rushdie

"One of the most controversial and acclaimed novels ever written, The Satanic Verses is Salman Rushdie’s best-known and most galvanizing book. Set in a modern world filled with both mayhem and miracles, the story begins with a bang: the terrorist bombing of a London-bound jet in midflight. Two Indian actors of opposing sensibilities fall to earth, transformed into living symbols of what is angelic and evil. This is just the initial act in a magnificent odyssey that seamlessly merges the actual with the imagined. A book whose importance is eclipsed only by its quality, The Satanic Verses is a key work of our times." (Amazon.com)

This book is available for check out at the library and digitally through Libby.

Upcoming Selections

• Feb. 23, 2023: Love in Color: Mythical Tales from Around the World (2022) Bolu Babalolo
• March 23, 2023: Into the Beautiful North: A Novel (2010) Luis Alberto Urrea
• April 27, 2023: The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times (2022) Michelle Obama
• May 25, 2023: Nothing to See Here (2022) Kevin Wilson
• June 22, 2023: Earth Abides (1949) George R. Stewart
• July 27, 2023: The Commitments (1989) Roddy Doyle
• Aug. 24, 2023: The High Sierra: A Love Story (2022) Kim Stanley Robinson
• Sept. 28, 2023: The Handmaid's Tale (1985) Margaret Atwood
• Oct. 26, 2023: The Paris Library: A Novel (2022) Janet Skeslien Charles
• Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2023: The Diary of a Young Girl (1947) Anne Frank

Past Selections

• Nov. 22, 2022: Ishmael (1995) Daniel Quinn
• Oct. 25, 2022: They Called Us Enemy (2019) George Takei
• Sept. 27, 2022: The Midnight Library: A Novel (2020) Matt Haig
• Aug. 23, 2022: The 1619 Project (2021) Nikole Hannah-Jones, et.al. 
• July 26, 2022: Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (2019) Trevor Noah
• June 28, 2022: Hamnet (2020) Maggie O'Farrell
• May 24, 2022: True Grit (1968) Charles Portis
• April 26, 2022: The Great Gatsby (1922) F. Scott Fitzgerald
• March 22, 2022: Night (1956) Elie Wiesel
• Feb. 22, 2022: Dead Irish (1989) John Lescroart