‘The Dinner’ next on book club menu

The Sonoma Valley Library’s “Sonoma Reads!” book discussion group, meets monthly at 2 p.m., on Thursdays in the Library’s Forum Room.

All discussions are free, open to the public and do not require registration.

The book selections include both fiction and non-fiction titles chosen by a committee of librarians from throughout Sonoma County.

The books are available for check-out from the library a month in advance.

The next book discussion is about Herman Koch’s “The Dinner” on May 21.

“The Dinner” promises to be the topic of countless dinner party debates. Skewering everything from parenting values to pretentious menus to political convictions, the novel depicts the dark side of genteel society and asks what each of us would do in the face of unimaginable tragedy.

Future books include, June 25, “A Farewell to Arms,” by Ernest Hemingway; July 23, “The Silver Linings Playbook” by Matthew Quick; Aug. 27, “Flamethrowers,” by Rachel Kushner; Sept. 24, “The Fault in our Stars,” by John Green; Oct. 22, “Sparta,” by Roxana Robinson; and Dec. 3, “The Art of Hearing Heartbeats,” by Jan-Phillipp Sendker.

For details, contact Lisa Musgrove at 996-5217 or lmusgrove@sonoma.lib.ca.us.

The library is located at 755 W. Napa St., Sonoma.