Join us for the Get Lit! Book Club, neighborhood edition! Each month, New Yorkers come together to read and discuss a popular title leading up to a live event with WNYC’s Alison Stewart and the author. This month’s book is Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders.
This neighborhood book club takes place at the Fort Washington Branch. Meet fellow readers and share your thoughts about the book! Learn more and download the book at nypl.org/getlit
The September title is George Saunders’ Booker Prize winning novel Lincoln in the Bardo, a moving and original father-son story featuring none other than Abraham Lincoln, as well as an unforgettable cast of supporting characters, living and dead, historical and invented.
From the Publisher: February 1862. With the Civil War less than one year old, President Lincoln’s beloved eleven-year-old son, Willie, lies gravely ill. In a matter of days, Willie dies and is laid to rest in a Georgetown cemetery. Newspapers report that a grief-stricken Lincoln returns, alone, to the crypt several times to hold his boy’s body. From that seed of historical truth, George Saunders spins an unforgettable story that breaks free of its realistic framework into a thrilling, supernatural realm, deploying a kaleidoscopic, theatrical panorama of voices—living and dead, historical and invented—to ask a timeless question: How do we live and love when we know that everything we love must end?
Don’t forget to register to join Alison Stewart along with the author and readers everywhere for a live conversation, in-person or online, on Wednesday, September 30, 2026, from 6 – 7 PM.
