Malden Public Library

The Malden Public Library hosts two book discussion groups: The Monday Book Discussion and the Booker Prize Book Discussion. New members are always welcome! Copies of books for discussion are available at the information desk.

Monday Book Discussion Group

The Monday Book Discussion Group meets on the first Monday of each month at 7:00p.m. in the Program Room.

Upcoming Books

• May 7, 2012 - The Glassblower of Murano by Marina Fiorato
• Summary of The Glassblower of Murano:
• After the dissolution of her marriage, beautiful English artist Leonora Manin is hired as an apprentice glassblower in the Venetian suburb of Murano. Leonora’s ancestor was master glassmaker Corradino Manin, and her new boss plans to exploit that connection. But centuries-old jealousies and treachery surface and the public relations campaign is suddenly canceled. Switching between modern-day and seventeenth-century Venice, Fiorato’s novel is an intriguing mix of history, mystery, art, music, poetry, romance, and politics in the family of Corradino Manin.


• June 4, 2012 - Rabbit Run by John Updike
• July 2, 2012 - Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

Call Barbara Brown at 781-324-9335 or The Malden Public Library at 781-324-0218 for further information

Booker Prize Discussion Group

The Booker Prize Discussion Group meets at 7:00 p.m. in the library on the fourth Wednesday of each month (This is the new schedule beginning in October 2011). Since 1969 the “Booker Prize” has been awarded to the best full-length novel written in English by a citizen of the UK, the Commonwealth, Eire, Pakistan, or South Africa. For more information about the Booker Prize please visit www.themanbookerprize.com.

Upcoming Books:

• May 23, 2012 – Knowledge of Angels by Jill Paton Walsh
• Summary of Knowledge of Angels:
• The ordered tranquility of a fifteenth century Mediterranean island is shattered by the appearance of two outsiders: one, a castaway, plucked from the sea by fishermen, whose beliefs represent a challenge to the established order; the other, a child abandoned by her mother and suckled by wolves, who knows nothing of the precarious relationship between Church and State but whose innocence becomes the subject of a dangerous experiment. But the arrival of the Inquisition on the island creates a darker, more threatening force which transforms what has been a philosophical game of chess into a matter of life and death.


• June 27, 2012 – Under the Frog by Tibor Fischer
• July 25, 2012 – The Folding Star by Alan Hollinghurst

If you have any questions, please e-mail Andrew Dempsey or the Library.