New York Times 100 Best Books of the 21st Century Book Club

Join monthly or come as you wish. Bookseller Marni will host a book club that will read through the entire list of the NYT 100 Best Books of the 21st Century. This is meant to be a low-stakes community gathering so come as you are at any stage in reading the book!

We are not charging a fee for this event but do require that participants purchase the book from our store each month that they participate. Books can be purchased ahead of the book club or at the meeting. If cost is prohibitive we ask that you borrow from the Montclair Public Library.

January Pick: by Denis Johnson

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NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER
One of the New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year
"The God I want to believe in has a voice and a sense of humor like Denis Johnson's.” —Jonathan Franzen
Named A Best Book of the Year by Time, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, San Francisco Chronicle, Salon, Slate, The National Book Critics Circle, The Christian Science Monitor. . .
Tree of Smoke is the story of William "Skip" Sands, CIA--engaged in Psychological Operations against the Vietcong--and the disasters that befall him. It is also the story of the Houston brothers, Bill and James, young men who drift out of the Arizona desert and into a war where the line between disinformation and delusion has blurred away. In the words of Michiko Kakutani in The New York Times, Tree of Smoke is "bound to become one of the classic works of literature produced by that tragic and uncannily familiar war."

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