FANTOS is the name of our library's Speculative Fiction Book Club, meeting on the second Tuesday of each month.  Speculative Fiction is an umbrella term for stories in the broadly fantastic realms of Alternate History, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Magical Realism, etc.  Titles are chosen through a mediated nomination and voting process.  Meetings will be in the Phoenix Room unless we are just so cool that we need more space.  Contact Head of Reference Sarah Lauderdale (slauderdale@hwlibrary.org, 978-468-5577 x619) with any questions.

Tues. March 10: The Raven Tower by Ann Leckie (416 pages; orig. pub. 2019)

Tues. April 14: The Names by Florence Knapp (328 pages; orig. pub. 2025)

Tues. May 12: The Cemetery of Untold Stories by Julia Alvarez (243 pages; orig. pub. 2024)

Tues. June 9: Prophet by Sin Blaché and Helen Macdonald (468 pages; orig. pub. 2023)

Adjourned July and August for the summer.  

Tues. Sept. 8: I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman (173 pages; orig. pub. 1995)

Tues. Oct. 13: Hidden Pictures by Jason Rekulak (372 pages; orig. pub. 2022)

Tues. Nov. 10: The Ministry of Time by Kaliare Bradley (339 pages; orig. pub. 2024)

Tues. Dec. 8: Twice by Mitch Albom (320 pages; orig. pub. 2025)