MIDTOWN June 2026 — The Light Eaters, by Zoë Schlanger

📖 Why this book? 📖

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
An Audible Best Nonfiction Listen of 2024
TIME's 100 Must-Read Books of 2024
• A Best Book of the Year: Barnes & Noble and Publishers Weekly
• An Amazon Best Nonfiction Book of the Year
"A masterpiece of science writing." -Robin Wall Kimmerer, author of Braiding Sweet-grass

"Mesmerizing, world-expanding, and achingly beautiful." -Ed Yong, author of An Immense World

"Rich, vital, and full of surprises. Read it!" - Elizabeth Kolbert, author of Under a White Sky and The Sixth Extinction

"A brilliant must-read. This book shook and changed me." -David George Haskell, author of Sounds Wild and Broken, The Songs of Trees, and The Forest Unseen

Hard to find a copy? Suggest a title (https://www.saclibrary.org/Books-Media/Reading-Recommendations/Recommend-a-Title) or use Zip Books (https://www.saclibrary.org/Books-Media/Reading-Recommendations/Recommend-a-Title) at your local library

💠 What can I expect? 💠

We will meet in-person after hours in Time Tested Books. Front door will be unlocked, and staff will point the way.

💬 We catch up socially;
🧊 we recommend a book or author, and
📕 we start our book discussion at 7pm.

👜 WHAT DO I BRING? 👜

◾️A snack or drink to share
◾️$5 (cash or Venmo (https://venmo.com/u/Rebecca-Bon) 8913)
◾️And you could bring your book 😄

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