The Novels at Night Book Group will meet in-person at the Southeast Library. Please call Library staff at 310-530-5044 for more information.   

Intermezzo by Sally Rooney
Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 5:00 pm

In the wake of their father's death, two brothers--successful Dublin lawyer Peter and his younger brother Ivan, a competitive chess player--find different ways to deal with their grief, which affects not only their lives, but the lives of those they hold dear. 

The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon
Thursday, March 26, 2026 at 5:00 pm

In 1789 Maine, midwife and healer Martha Ballard, who is good at keeping secrets, investigates a shocking murder linked to an alleged rape that has shaken her small town, especially when her diary lands at the center of the scandal, threatening to tear both her family and her community apart.

The God of the Woods by Liz Moore
Thursday, April 23, 2026 at 5:00 pm

Early morning, August 1975: a camp counselor discovers an empty bunk. Its occupant, Barbara Van Laar, has gone missing. Barbara isn’t just any thirteen-year-old: she’s the daughter of the family that owns the summer camp and employs most of the region’s residents. And this isn’t the first time a Van Laar child has disappeared. Barbara’s older brother similarly vanished fourteen years ago, never to be found. 

James by Percival Everett
Thursday, May 28, 2026 at 5:00 pm

Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn remains one of the most important and controversial novels in American literature. In this Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winning novel, this familiar tale is retold from the perspective of Jim.

Martyr by Kaveh Akbar
Thursday, June 25, 2026 at 5:00 pm

An alcoholic, addict and poet, Cyrus Shams, the orphaned son of Iranian immigrants, finds his obsession with martyrs leading him to examine the mysteries of his past and to a terminally ill painter living out her final days in the Brooklyn Museum.