Facts and Fibs Book Group
Biographies, autobiographies and memoirs
Meets on the third Tuesday of the month at 3:30pm
Hosted by Mary Ann Pleva and Ginny Bliss
Email staff@ivorytonlibrary.org if you would like to join us.
September 19
Guantanamo Diary
by Peter Ganim
October 17
The Tender Bar
by J.R. Moehringer
November 21
The Glass Castle
by Jeannette Walls
Books Read in The Facts and Fibs Book Club:
Heartland – Sarah Smarsh
Lean In – Sheryl Sandberg
Mennonite in a Little Black Dress -Rhonda Janzen
Year of the Monkey – Patti Smith
Year of Magical Thinking – Joan Didion
Five Thousand Days Like This One – Jane Brox
Born Standing Up – Steve Martin
Educated – Tera Westover
The Yellow House – Sarah M. Broom
Animal Vegetable Miracle – Barbara Kingsolver
Equal Justice Under Law – Constance Baker Motley
Or Constance Baker Motley – Gary Ford, Jr.
The Girl With Seven Names – Hyeonsea Lee
Life with Picasso – Francoise Gilot
Unorthodox: the Scandolous Rejection of my Hasidic Roots – Deborah Feldman
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings – Maya Angelou
A Woman in Business – Virginia Hale
A Moveable Feast – Ernest Hemingway
The Doctors Blackwell – Janice P. Nimura
The Sound of Gravel –Ruth Wariner
Bad Feminist – Roxanne Gay
The Elephant Whisperer – Lawrence Anthony
Mill Town –Kerri Arsenault
Hero of the Empire –Candice Millard
The Elephant Whisperer– Lawrence Anthony
Angela’s Ashes – Frank McCourt
Girls of Tender Age – Mary-Ann Tirone Smith
The Map Thief – Michael Blanden
Somebody’s Daughter – Ashley Ford
Nomadland – Jessica Bruder
Fire Shut Up in My Bones – Charles M. Blow
The Liars’ Club – Mary Karr
There is Nothing For You Here – Fiona Hill
A Girl Named Faithful Plum – Richard Bernstein
In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss – Amy Bloom
Travels with George: In Search of Washington and his Legacy – Nathaniel Philbrick
Joni Mitchell: In Her Own Words – Joni Mitchell
Chasing Me to my Grave – Winfred Rembert
Travels With Charley – by John Steinbeck
Born a Crime – by Trevor Noah
Spare – by Prince Harry
Making the Mummies Dance – by Thomas Hoving