The Mayor’s Book Club

The Mayor’s Book Club began in 2011 as a way to encourage local reading groups to explore books with roots in different countries and cultures, as well as celebrate the diversity of Louisville. The Mayor's Book Club meets at the Main Library on the third Wednesday of the month, from noon – 1p.m. (new time: 1 - 2 p.m. beginning September 18). Brown-bag lunches are welcome.

Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann

Wednesday, July 17, 12 p.m.

In the 1920s, the Osage Indian nation possessed the greatest wealth per capita in the world...which made them targets of one of the most chilling conspiracies in American history, and birthed the modern version of the F.B.I.

The Leavers by Lisa Ko

Wednesday, August 21, 12 p.m.

Daniel, an orphaned Chinese American, struggles to reconcile his adoptive parents' wishes to assimilate into white America with the memories of his mother, Polly, who left one day for work and never returned.

Born a Crime by Trevor Noah

Wednesday, September 18, 1 p.m. <<NEW TIME!

The compelling and comic story of The Daily Show host Trevor Noah's coming-of-age, set during the twilight of apartheid in South Africa (where a mixed-race child was a crime) and the tumultuous days of freedom that followed.