Welcome to RSA Bookgroups
The Resource Sharing Alliance (RSA) is a consortium of libraries in Central Illinois that share a common library automation system. RSA facilitates sharing of materials among its member libraries providing you with access to materials from up to 193 different libraries. RSA's website is http://alsi.sdp.sirsi.net/client/RSAwebsite
Since we share our material, we try to coordinate our bookgroups through this wiki. Please post your library's schedule if it's available. Thanks!
PLEASE NOTE: THIS PAGE IS FOR 2016
Libraries A-Z
Alpha Park Public Library in Bartonville
January 14th A Fierce Radiance by Lauren Belfer
February 11th In the Unlikely Event by Judy Blume
March 10th My Antonia by Willa Cather
April 14th Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
May 12th My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry Backman, Fredrik
June 9th After You by JoJo Moyes
July 14th Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd
August 11th Hotel at the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, by Jamie Ford
September 8th One Thousand White Women: The Journals of Mary Dodd, by Jim Fergus
October 13th, The Turner House, by Angela Flournoy
November 10th, The Residence: Inside the Private World of the White House, by Kate Andersen Brower
December 8th, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, by Sherman Alexie
January 2016: Accidental Empress by Allison Pataki
February 2016: King and Maxwell by David Baldacci
March 2016: Still Life with Bread Crumbs by Anna Quindlen
April 2016: The Husband's Secret by Liane Moriarty
May 2016: Someone by Alice McDermott
June 2016: The Twelve Tribes of Hattie by Ayana Mathis
July 2016: The Art of Hearing Heartbeats by Jan-Philipp Sendker
August 2016: Mrs. Grant and Madame Jule by Jennifer Chiaverini
September 2016: Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
October 2016: Dreams of Joy by Lisa See
November 2016: The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommended by Katarina Bivald
December 2016: The Christmas Quilt by Jennifer Chiaverini
January 2016: The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
February 2016: The Plum Tree by Ellen Marie Wiseman
March 2016: My Stroke of Insight by Jill Bolte Taylor
April 2016: The Boys in the Boat by Daniel Brown
May 2016: The Charm Bracelet by Viola Shipman
June 2016: A Man Called Ove by Fredrick Bachman
July 2016: The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper by Phaedra Patrick
August 2016: Coal River by Wiseman
October 2016 ~ The Lost Hours ~ White
November 2016 ~ Same Kind of Different as Me ~ Hall
December 2016 ~ The Thirteenth Tale - Setterfield
Brimfield Book Club meets on the 4th Tuesday of the month at 1pm
November- The Light in the Ruines - Christ Bohjalian
December- The Wet Nurse's Tale - Erica Eisdorfer
For more information, contact Abby at 309-446-9575 or amiles@brimfieldlibrary.org.
Books+Tea @ the Library (book club webpage)
January 25 - The Nightingale, by Kristin Hannah
February 22 - Better Than Before, by Gretchen Rubin
March 21 - The Cuckoo’s Calling, by Robert Galbraith
April 25 - A Window Opens, by Elisabeth Egan
May 23 - Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Bronte
June 27 - A Bone to Pick, by Charlaine Harris
July 25 - One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest, by Ken Keysey
August 22 - The Returned, by Jason Mott
September 26 - The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck
October 24 - The Watchers, by Dean Koontz
November 28 - West with the Night, by Beryl Markham
December 19 - Anne of Green Gables, by L.M. Montgomery
For more information, contact Catherine at 309-274--2719 or cbarnett@chillicothepubliclibrary.org.
Newly formed Reader's Group meets the first Wednesday of each month at 1:30 p.m. in the Don O'Harra Reading Room at the Library.
January The Carrot Cake Murder by Joanne Fluke
February Unbroken by Lauren Hillenbrand
March The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom
April The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
May I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai
June The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman
July Still Missing by Chevy Stevens
August Between Sisters by Kristin Hannah
Musings on Main – Titles for 2016
January – Our Souls at Night |
Kent Haruf |
February – Seven Women and the secret Of Their Greatness |
Eric Mataxas |
March - Empty Mansions |
Bill Dedman |
April – Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore: A Novel
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Robin Sloan |
May – Cruel Harvest |
Fran Elizabeth Grubb |
June - Take This Bread |
Sara Miles |
July – Traveling With Pomegranates |
Sue Monk Kidd |
August – The 100-year-old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared
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Jonas Jonasson |
September – River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt’s Darkest Journey
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Candice Millard |
October – No book choice / potluck at Maple Lawn/ choose 2017 titles |
November – After You |
Jojo Moyes |
December – A Highland Christmas |
M.C. Beaton |
Farmington Area Public Library District
Second Monday Book Group (Second Monday each month at 6:30pm)
For more information contact the Library at 309-245-2175309-245-2175
Fondulac District Library in East Peoria
YA For All Book Club (YA book discussion for teens and adults), meets second Tuesday of every month at 7pm
Teen Space Book Club (YA book discussion for grades 8 through 12), meets third Tuesday of every month at 7pm
To Be Continued Book Club (A series book club for 5-8th graders), meets the third Thursday of every month at 6:30pm
Galesburg Public Library
Tuesday/Thursday Book Clubs (tentative list)
January - Empty Mansions by Bill Dedman
February - We Are Called to Rise by Laura McBride
March - Boom, Bust, Exodus by Chad Broughton (Big Read tie-in)
April - Sun, Stone, and Shadows (Big Read)
May – Saving Simon by Jon Katz
June – Girl Runner by Carrie Snyder
July – Fully Alive by Timothy Shriver
August – The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman
September – Give Us the Ballot by Ari Berman
October – Falling to Earth by Kate Southwood
November - Day of Infamy by Walter Lord
December - Kitchens of the Great Midwest by J. Ryan Stradal
Tome Raiders Science Fiction/Fantasy Book Club (tentative list)
January - The Science of Star Wars by Jeanne Cavelos
February - The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
March - To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis
April - Sun, Stone, and Shadows (Big Read)
May - His Majesty's Dragon by Naomi Novik
June - The Infinite Arena edited by Terry Carr
July - The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon by Stephen King
August - The Circle by Dave Eggers
September - Spellwright by Blake Charlton
October - Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke
November The Fold by Peter Clines
December - Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones
Food for Thought Book Club (tentative list)
March - End of Night by Paul Bogard
April - Planet Taco by Jeffrey Pilcher (Big Read tie-in)
May - Where Things Come Back by John Corey Whaley
June - Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
July - Your Water Foot Print: The Shocking Facts About How Much Water We Use to Make Everyday Products by Stephen Leahy
August - The Water Knife by Paolo Bacigalupi
September - Ingredients: A Visual Exploration of 75 Additives and 25 Food Products
October - Sweetness #9 by Stephan Eirik Clark
November - Kitchens of the Great Midwest by J. Ryan Stradal
Turning Pages Book Club
Selections for 2016-2017
Sept-First Women by Kate Andersen Browwer
Oct.-Immortal Irishman by Timothy Egan
Nov.-Burying the Honeysuckle Girls by Emily Carpenter
Jan.-Free State of Jones by Bynum
Feb-Methland by Rick Reding
March-The gilded Hour by Sara Donati
April-What Its Like in Space by Ariel Waldman
May-Take Care of the Garden and the Dogs by Heather Lende
June-Biography of choice
July-Court Appointed by Priscilla Audette
Henderson County Book of the Year-Barefoot on the River by Faye Christian Perry
Best Little Book Club by a Dam Site - Group formed fall of 2002 and named January 2003. Henry has been using variations on this theme for many years. The first instance I found was in the 1 February 1872 paper.
We meet at 9:30 on the Second Monday of the month. We generally pick 6 months of books at a time.
Date
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Title
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Author
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January 11 |
The Redbird Christmas |
Fannie Flagg |
February 8 |
Unbroken |
Laura Hillenbrand |
March 14 |
Only Time Will Tell |
Jeffrey Archer |
April 11 |
The Things They Carried |
Tim O'Brien |
May 9 |
Rosemary: The Hidden Kennedy Daughter |
Kate Clifford Larson |
June 13 |
The Hired Girl |
Laura Amy Schlitz |
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July 11 |
Nightbird |
Alice Hoffman |
August 8 |
The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid |
Bill Bryson |
September 15 |
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society |
Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows |
October 10 |
A Man Called Ove |
Fredrik Backman |
November 14 |
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie |
Alan Bradley |
December 12 |
A Christmas Carol |
Charles Dickens |
The Spring Bay Bookies celebrated 14 years in January. We meet once a month at our branch library. We hope to avoid conflicts with other book clubs in getting our selections. The past year proved successful. We take turns selecting books and hosting that meeting. Here is our list for 2016.
MONTH READING DISCUSSING
Jan Finding Jake, by Bryan Reardon Feb 1st
Feb Death Comes To Pemberley, by P.D. James Mar 7th
Mar The Enemy, by Lee Childs Apr 4th
Apr Killing Kennedy, by Bill O’Reilly May 2nd
May Firefly Lane, by Kristin Hannah June 6th
June The Girl On The Train, by Paula Hawkins July 7th
July Sweet Salt Air, by Barbara Delinsky Aug 1st
Aug The Forgotten Garden, by Kate Morton Sept 8th
Sept The Silent Wife, by A.S.A. Harrison Oct 3rd
Oct Gray Mountain, by John Grisham Nov 7th
Nov The Christmas Wedding, by James Patterson Dec 5th
Dec Knit The Season, by Kate Jacobs Jan 5th
Lansing Public Library "Avid Reads" Discussion Group (15th year). We meet the first Thursday each month at 6:30 p.m.
January 7 Songs of Willow Frost by Jamie Ford
February 4 Yellow Birds by Kevin Powers
March 3 All the light we cannot see by Anthony Doerr
April 7 An Untamed State by Roxane Gay
May 5 A Tree Grows In Brooklyn by Betty Smith
June 2 Tell The Wolves I'm Home by Carol Riffka Brunt
July 7 Mr. Churchill's Secretary by Susan Elia Macneal
August 4 Midwife of Hope River by Patricia Harman
September 1 Necessary Lies by Diane Chamberlane
October 6 Defending Jacob by William Landay
November 3 Tallgrass by Sandra Dallas
Usually meets last Monday of the month at 3 pm in Turner Room
2016(Our 13th year!)
January 25
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Immortal Life Of Henrietta Lacks
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Skloot, Rebecca
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February 29
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My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry
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Backman, Fredrik
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March 28
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Everything I Never Told You
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Ng, Celeste
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April 25
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Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
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Larson, Erik
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May 23
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The Martian
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Weir, Andy
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June 27
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Some Luck
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Smiley, Jane
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July 25
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What Alice Forgot
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Moriarty, Liane
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August 29
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Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace
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Hobbs, Jeff
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Sept 26
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Shoemaker’s Wife
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Trigiani, Adriana
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October 31
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Wright Brothers
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McCullough, David
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November 28
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All the Light We Cannot See
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Doerr, Anthony
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December 12th @ 3pm —Coffee Chat about your favorite books of 2016
& get our new list for 2017
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Bookgroup blog is at: http://talkaboutagoodbook.blogspot.com/
Contact Beth Duttlinger lill@lmelibrary.org for more information.
Great Reads
Great Reads Book Club is an adult reading/discussion group sponsored by the Friends of the Macomb Public Library. It meets from September through May (except for December) on the second Wednesday of each month at 7:00 p.m. (November is a first Wednesday due to the library's closing for Veteran's Day.) The book club will meet at the Macomb Public library multi-purpose room.
2016 Selections for Great Reads Book Club
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Discussion Date |
Title |
Author |
January 13 |
Deep Down Dark
|
Hector Robar |
February 10
|
The House of Special Purpose |
John Boyne
|
March 9
|
The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid
|
Bill Bryson
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April 13 |
Transatlantic |
Colum McCann |
May 11
|
My Notorious Life
|
Kate Manning
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Mystery Book Club
Mystery Book Club is an adult reading/discussion group sponsored by the Friends of the Macomb Public Library. It meets the fourth Wednesday every month from August to May at 7:00 pm (*with slight deviations for November and December to accommodate holidays). The book club will meet at the Macomb Public library multi-purpose room.
2016 Selections for Mystery Book Club
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Discussion Date |
Title |
Author |
January 27 |
Blood Hina |
Naomi Hirahara |
February 24 |
New Tricks |
David Rosenfelt |
March 23 |
March Violets |
Philip Kerr |
April 27 |
The Circular Staircase |
Mary Roberts Rinehart |
May 25 |
North of Nowhere |
Steve Hamilton |
Patron-run book clubs.
These groups use Macomb Public Library for interlibrary loan of book club titles but are not directly sponsored by our library.
Book Club 1
This group usually meets the final Friday of the month and selects the title for the next month on their meeting dates. Some exceptions are made for holidays with this schedule, though. This group usually requests 4-5 copies of a selection.
Book Club 2
Group usually meets on a Monday roughly every six weeks and selects the next title on their meeting dates. This group usually requests 4-5 copies of a title.
Book Club 3
This group meets on the second Friday of the month. The leader has expressed willingness to switch discussion dates of particular titles as needed to accommodate for conflicts with other groups. The group requests 9 titles for each discussion. The majority of selections for this group are borrowed in large print format to accommodate more seasoned readers from a local nursing home.
2016 Selections for Book Club 3
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Discussion Date |
Title |
Author |
January 8, 2016
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TBD Season-related title |
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There are also book clubs affiliated with our local university, so a few patrons sometimes request titles for those as well. Those patrons usually place their requests on RSACat with no assistance, so I am usually unaware the titles are intended for book club use or how long they may be in use unless the patron expresses concern about being able to renew a title. These particular patrons are usually very responsible about their usage, though, and the titles are usually not in high demand at the time these patrons place their requests.
When we see there is a situation of a book club title not being easily available, we expand our searches to I-Share, SHARE Illinois libraries, and non-RSA libraries in our region.
We are in the middle of a construction project. With such a small local collection available, we are not in a position to loan right now. We look forward to resuming loans to other libraries for book clubs and other purposes when the project is complete, though.
Contact Carla Ainslie macomblib.carla@gmail.com or macomb.pld.rsa@gmail.com for more information.
Held at the Morton Public Library at 315 W. Pershing St in Morton, IL
2016
January 21st - River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey by Candice Millard
February 18th - Letters from Skye by Jessica Brockmole
March 17th - The Wright Brothers by David McCullough
April 21st - Kitchens of the Great Midwest: A Novel by J. Ryan Stradal
May 19th - A Man Called Ove: a Novel by Fredrik Backman
June 16th - Whistling Past the Graveyard by Susan Crandall
July 21st - Brooklyn by Colm Toibin
Aug 18th - The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend by Katarina Bivald
Sept 22nd - The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
Oct 20th - Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter
Nov 17th - The Imperfectionists by Tom Rachman
Dec 15th - Dimestore by Lee Smith
Contact Tahdra for more information: TahdraT@mortonlibrary.org
2016 NPL Book Club at the Normal Public Library, 206 West College Avenue, Normal
January 21: End of Your Life Book Club by Will Schwalbe
March 17: The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd
May 19: Where'd You Go by Bernadette by Maria Semple
July 21: Boys in the Boat by Daniel Brown
September 15: The Good Earth by Pearl Buck
November 17: The Best Christmas Pageant Ever by Barbara Robinson
Contact Pixie for more information: pfreymann at normalpl.org
2016
January: The Husband's Secret
February: The Tiger's Wife
March: I Am the Cheese
April: Save Me by Lisa Scottoline
May: Beekeepers Apprentice by Laurie King
June: The Storied Life of A.J. Firkry by Garielle Zevin
July: Astronaut’s Wives Club by by Lily Koppel
August: Our Souls At Night by Kent Haruf
Sept: All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
October:Best Boy by Eli Gottlieb
Nov: Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown
Dec: Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom
Jan 2017: We Never Asked for Wings by Vanessa Diffenbaugh
Meet at the Pleasant Plains location on the 4th Thursday of each month @ 7 pm
January: The Postmistress by Sarah Blake
February: The Boston Girl by Anita Diamant
March: True Sisters by Sandra Dallas
April: Storm Clouds Rolling In by Ginny Dye
May: Crash and Burn by Lisa Gardner
June: The Dovekeepers by Alice Hoffman
July: The Thirteeth Tale by Diane Setterfield
August: The Light Between Oceans by M. L. Stedman
September: Sycamore Row by John Grisham
October: Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee
November: Duck the Halls by Donna Andrews
December: No Meeting No Meeting
All are welcome
Third Thursday Bookclub -- Meet at Eli's coffee shop in Tremont at 12:30PM on the third Thursday of each month.
January |
Rin Tin Tin: The Life and Legend by Susan Orlean
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February |
Mockingbird Next Door by Marja Mills |
March |
Sandcastle Girls by Chris Bohjalian |
April
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The Secret Keeper by Kate Morton |
May |
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr |
June |
Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter |
July |
One Summer by Bill Bryson |
August |
The Blue Castle by Lucy Maud Montgomery |
September |
The Art of Hearing Heartbeats by Jan-Philipp Sendker |
October |
Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend
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November |
Improbability of Love? (tentative) |
Meet at One Eleven Coffee at 6 p.m. the second Tuesday of each month
Jan 10th Penny, Louise Still Life
Feb 14th Meissner, Susan A Fall of Marigolds
Mar 14th Zusak, Marcus I Am The Messenger
April 11th Cleave, ChrisEveryone Brave is Forgiven
May 9th Tyler, Anne Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
June 13th Meyer, Stephanie The Chemist
Questions about this wiki?
Contact Beth Duttlinger
bethd@lmelibrary.org
Lillie M. Evans Library District
207 N Walnut, PO Box 349
Princeville, IL 61559
lmelibrary.org
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