Memorial Day is behind us, and beautiful weather has arrived, so the 2016 Readings at the Canaan Meetinghouse must be imminent. As usual, the Readings will occur on the four Thursday evenings in July, at the exquisite Canaan Meetinghouse.

We have a very exciting and diverse slate of authors again this summer, a couple of which are returnees. Others we will meet for the first time. We hope you will join us for some or all of the sessions. New this year will be a limited number of audience questions for each speaker.

July 7

Ellen Fitzpatrick, The Highest Glass Ceiling: Women’s Quest for the American Presidency; PBS election commentator; author of the New York Times bestseller Letters to Jackie

Mary Gaitskill, The Mare; author of National Book Award nominee Veronica

July 14

Sy Montgomery, Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness; 2015 National Book Awards finalist

Diane les Bequets: Breaking Wild; national bestseller and Indie New Pick

July 21

Vievee Francis, Forest Primeval: Poems; PEN Open Book Award finalist

Dawn Tripp, Georgia: A Novel; national bestseller and USA Today #1 New and Noteworthy Book

July 28

Pagan Kennedy, Inventology: How We Dream Up Things that Change the World; former Who Made That? columnist for New York Times Magazine; author of 11 books

Tommy O’Malley and Doug Purdy, We Were Kings: (The Boston Saga); sequel to the acclaimed Serpents in the Cold; O’Malley is the author of New York Times Editor’s Choice This Magnificent Desolation

All readings start at 7:30 PM at the Canaan Meetinghouse, Canaan Street, in Canaan. The Norwich Bookstore will sell current and past books by each author at the Meetinghouse. Many of the books can be purchased at the bookstore in advance and can be signed by the authors in July.