If you are reading this, you must be interested in knowing about the BAIN Downtown Book Group! We would love you to participate. The list of books to be read and discussed by the BAIN Downtown Book Group appears below. We meet on the second Tuesday of each month, in person or on Zoom, as the situation dictates. Hope to see you there.
| February | On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous | Ocean Vuong | 256 pages, 2019 |
| March | Convenience Store Woman | Sayaka Murata, tr. Ginny Tapley Takemori | 176 pages, 2018 |
| April | A Short History of Nearly Everything | Bill Bryson | 544 pages, 2004 |
| May | Leaving the Atocha Station | Ben Lerner | 181 pages, 2011 |
| June | Treasure Island!!! | Sara Levine | 172 pages – 2011 |
| July | 21 lessons for the 21st century | Yuval Harari — non-fiction | 372 pages, 2019 |
| August | Train Dreams | Denis Johnson | 116 pages, 2012 |
| September | Shuggie Bain | Douglas Stuart | 384 pages, 2020 |
| October | The Dutch House | Anne Patchett | 352 pages, 2019 |
| November | Margaret the First | Danielle Dutton | 160 pages, 2016 |
| December | One True Thing | Anna Quindlen | 289 pages, 1994 |
| January | A Pale View of Hills | Kazuo Ishiguro | 192 pages, 1982 |
| February | Lands of Lost Borders: A Journey on the Silk Road | Kate Harris – non-fiction | 320 pp, 2019 |
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