Reading Roundtable Adult Book Discussion - The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict

Join us monthly February through November for  our new book club "Reading Roundtable" a book discussion for adult readers. Pick up a bookmark at the Recommendations desk with a list of books for upcoming discussions. Books will be a mix of non-fiction and fiction, and will be available at the check-out desk one month before the discussion date.

Join us for the Dubuque County Reads Book Club selection and April's Reading Roundtable book: The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray (2021). This is the 2024 Dubuque County Reads discussion title. Please visit libguides.dbq.edu/dubuquecountyreads to learn more about the Dubuque County Reads program and events.

Hired by J. P. Morgan to curate a collection of rare manuscripts, books and artwork for his newly built Pierpont Morgan Library, Belle de Costa Greene becomes one of the most powerful women in New York despite the dangerous secret she keeps.

Appeal factors: Descriptive, African American historical and biographical fiction, character driven, dramatic and richly detailed.