Adult Readers Advisory, Events

Spring 2025 Reading & Discussion Series

The Friends of NPL host the Vermont Humanities Reading & Discussion series this spring.

Led by Suzanne H. Brown, Professor Emerita of English at Dartmouth College, the discussion group takes place here at NPL and is open to all. Sessions will be held on Tuesdays from 7-8:30 pm.

Pilgrimage

Human beings have undertaken pilgrimages of all kinds for thousands of years. Discover a variety of journeys – and whether the seekers find what they are looking for – in these varied writings.

Books in this Series

April 1 – Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
April 22 – Michael Wolfe, One Thousand Roads to Mecca: Ten Centuries of Travelers Writing About the Muslim Pilgrimage
June 3 – Peter Mathiessen, The Snow Leopard
June 24 – Gita Mehta, A River Sutra