Come enjoy discussing newer fiction and nonfiction titles. We meet on the first Tuesday of each month at 1 p.m. When we meet, we start by sharing books we’ve read recently, then discuss that month’s book. You do not have to read the book to attend the meeting.
This month we will be meeting on Tuesday, July 1 at 1 p.m. in Meeting Room A.
In July, we'll be discussing Florida by Lauren Groff.
A collection of stories spanning centuries of time in mercurial Florida examines the decisions and connections behind life-changing events in characters ranging from two abandoned sisters to a conflicted family woman. The stories in this collection span characters, towns, decades, even centuries. Yet Florida--its landscapes, climate, history, and state of mind--becomes the gravitational center as Groff writes about loneliness, rage, family, and the passage of time.
Lauren Groff is a local author who owns the bookstore The Lynx Books. Lauren Groff graduated from Amherst College and received an MFA in fiction from the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Her books include The Monsters of Templeton, Delicate Edible Birds, and Fates and Furies. Arcadia won of the Medici Book Club Prize. Her fiction has also won the Paul Bowles Prize for Fiction, the PEN/O. Henry Award, and the Pushcart Prize.
Her work has appeared in numerous magazines including the New Yorker, the Atlantic Monthly, Harper's, Tin House, One Story, McSweeney's, and Ploughshares, and in the anthologies 100 Years of the Best American Short Stories, The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses, PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories, and three editions of the Best American Short Stories. - Description provided by the publisher
Upcoming titles:
July: Florida by Lauren Groff
August: An immense world: how animal senses reveal the hidden realms around us by Ed Yong
September: The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates
October: Violeta by Isabel Allende
November: Braiding Sweetgrass: indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge and the teachings of plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Previous titles:
Here One Moment by Liane Moriarty
Their eyes were watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
On Call: a Doctor's Journey in Public Service by Anthony Fauci, M.D.
The Women by Kristin Hannah
James by Percival Everett
The Vaster Wilds by Lauren Groff
Tom Lake by Ann Patchett
Click here for a list of all of the 2025 book club titles for Millhopper.
Interested in other book clubs? The Alachua County Library District has several. You can find more information on our Book Clubs page.