The West End Library Friends to Host Reading and Discussion Series
Booker Prize Winners
This fall the West End Library Friends will create a Booker Prize Winner Book Club and host a discussion series. The series will include novels depicting different historical periods of the 20th and 21st centuries set in England, Canada, Ireland and India from award-winning novelists.
The series is funded by the West End Library Friends. You need not be a member of the Friends to participate.
The series will be led by Philip Burnham, a retired associate professor in the English Department at George Mason University. All discussions will be held at the West End Neighborhood Library, once a month, from 6:15 β8:00 p.m. To register, please reply to this e-mail address: bookerprizeclub@gmail.com. You will receive confirmation of your registration by e-mail, but registration will be limited to 30 participants. If registration is full, you will be placed on a wait list. Registration ends September 16.
The Booker Prize winning novels have been pulled from the library collection and are available at the front desk for checkout.
The schedule and selections are as follows:
September 19 ---The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro (1989)
October 17 ---The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy (1997)
November 21---Prophet Song by Paul Lynch (2023)
December 19 βThe Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood (2000)