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 2017
Libraries A-Z
Alpha Park Public Library in Bartonville
We meet the 2nd Thursday of the Month
January 12th, In the Dark, Dark Wood by Ruth Ware
February 9th, My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry by Frederick Backman
April 13th, The Cellar by Minette Walters
May 11th, The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
June 8th, When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
July 13th, The Lost City of Z by David Grann
August 10th, The Rabbit in Red by Joe Chianakas
September 14th, The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson
October 19th, The Lake House by Kate Morton
November 9th- The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion
December 14th- The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
January: Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
February: Long Way Home by Louise Penny
March: I Shall Be Near to You by Erin Lindsay McCabe
April: Touch and Go by Lisa Gardner
May: State of Wonder by Ann Patchett
June: The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion
July: The Burning Room by Michael Connelly
August: The Silver Star by Jeannette Walls
September: The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton
October: The Bodies Left Behind by Jeffery Deaver
November: Shanghai Girls by Lisa See
December: Winter Street by Elin Hilderbrand
Our book club meets the 3rd Monday of each month at 5 p.m.
January 2017 - Gathering Blue - Lowry
February 2017 - The Terrorists Son - Ebrahim
March 2017 - Persian Pickle Club - Dallas
April 2017 - Lighthouse - Price
May 2017 - Daughter's of the Bride - Mallery
June 2017 - The Silent Sister - Chamberlain
July 2017 - The Stars Are Fire - Shreve
August 2017 - Hillbilly Elegy - Vance
September 2017 - The Other Einstein - Benedict
October - 2017 - The Lying Game - Ware
November 2017 - Calling Me Home - Kibler
December 2017 - MIlkweed - Spinelli
Brimfield Book Club meets on the 4th Tuesday of the month at 1pm
January 24th- The Midwives Revolt by Helen Simonson
February 28th- A Man Called Ove by Frederick Backman & The Nature of the Beast by Louise Penny
March 28th- The Wet Nurse's Tale by Erica Eisdorfer
April 25th- The Last Patriot by Brad Thor
May 23rd- Mrs Lincoln's Dressmaker by Jennifer Chiaverini
June 27th- The Fever Tree by Jennifer McVeigh
July 25th- The Husband's Secret by Liane Moriarty
August 22nd- Any book by Linda Fairstein
September 26th- Celine by Peter Heller
October 24th- Mennonite in a Little Black Dress by Rhoda Janzen
November 28th- The Nest by Cynthia Sweeney
December 26th- Any book by C.J. Box (using books in our library)
For more information, contact Abby at 309-446-9575 or amiles@brimfieldlibrary.org.
Books+Tea @ the Library meets on the 4th Monday of the month (book club webpage)
January 23 - Fortune Smiles, by Adam Johnson
February 27 - Between the World and Me, by Ta-Nehisi Coates
March 27 - The Custom of the Country, by Edith Wharton
April 24 - Station Eleven, by Emily St. John Mandel
May 22 - The Forgotten Garden, by Kate Morton
June 26 - H Is for Hawk, by Helen McDonald
July 24 - The Woman in Cabin 10, by Ruth Ware
August 28 - Commonwealth, by Ann Patchett
September 25 - Little Heathens: Hard Times and High Spirits, by Mildred Armstrong Kalish
October 23 - The Haunting of Hill House, by Shirley Jackson
November 27 - The Round House, by Louise Erdrich
December 18 - A Man Called Ove, by Fredrik Backman
For more information, contact Catherine at 309-274--2719 or cbarnett@chillicothepubliclibrary.org.
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.
Bookgroup picks for 2017
January-- Orphan Train
February-- All the Light We Cannot See
March-- Paris Architect
April-- Profound By Accident: Galesburg Reads Emily Dickenson
May-- Glory Over Everything
June-- Secret Keeper
July-- Those Who Saved Us
Aug.-- Lovely Bones
Sept.-- Falling From Horses
Oct.-- Same Kind of Different As Me
Musings on Main – Titles for 2017
January 5 - "Classic" book of the reader's choice (definition of a classic is up to the reader)
February 2 - A Man Called Ove: a novel by Fredrick Backman
March 2 - White Smoke by Andrew Greeley
April 6 - Vinegar Girl by Anne Taylor
May 4 - The Life We Bury by Allen Eskens
June 1 - The Other Einstein by Marie Benedict
July 6 - Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates: the forgotten war that changed American History by Brian Kilmeade
August 3 - (Reader's Choice) Lights Out: a cyberattack, a nation unprepared, surviving the aftermath by Ted Koppel OR The Circle by David Eggers
September 7 - (Reader's Choice) They Left Us Everything: a memoir by Plum Johnson OR Can't We talk AboutSomething More Pleasant? by Roz Chast
October 5 - No book selection. Brainstorming for 2018 titles
November 2 - 97 Orchard
December 7 - Saving Simon: how a rescue donkey taught me the meaning of compassion by Jon Katz
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
Please note: we DO loan our book club kits to other libraries for book discussions. Contact Jane (jane.easterly@galesburglibrary.org or 309-343-6118) if you want to borrow one of our kits.
Tuesday/Thursday Book Clubs (tentative list)
January 2017 – H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald
February 2017 – Paris is always a good idea by Nicolas Barreau
March 2017 – White Heat: the Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson by Brenda Wineapple
April 2017 – The Poetry of Emily Dickinson (Big Read)
May 2017 – Be Frank with Me by Julia Claiborne Johnson
June 2017 – Third Coast: When Chicago Built the American Dream Thomas Dyja
July 2017 – Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
August 2017 – The Gentleman by Forrest Leo
September 2017 – Are You Sleeping by Kathleen Barber
October 2017 – American Heiress by Jeffrey Toobin
November 2017 – Stoned by Aja Raden
December 2016 – Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk by Kathleen Rooney
Tome Raiders Science Fiction/Fantasy Book Club (tentative list)
January - The Fold by Peter Clines
February - All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders
March - Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams
April - Lexicon by Max Barry
May - Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by Corey Doctorow
June – Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne
July – The Difference Engine by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling
August – Retribution Falls by Chris Wooding
September - 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
October - Soulless by Gail Carriger
November - The Thief Lord by Cornelia Funke
December - Witches Be Crazy by Logan
Food for Thought Book Club (tentative list)
March - The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
April – The Gardens of Emily Dickinson by Judith Farr
May - Botany of Desire by Michael Pollan
June - Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
July - Modified by Caitlin Shetterly
August - Devoured by Sophie Egan
September - Vintage by David Baker
October - A Square Meal by Andrew Coe
November - I Will Send Rain by Rae Meadows
Turning Pages Book Club
Selections for 2017
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 9 |
John Glenn: A Memoir |
John Glenn |
February 13 |
Girl in Translation |
Jean Kwok |
March 13 |
Keep Moving |
Dick Van Dyke |
April 10 |
The War that Saved My Life |
Kimberly Brubaker Bradley |
May 8 |
Hidden Figures |
Margot Lee Shetterly |
June 12 |
A Wrinkle in Time |
Madeline L'Engle |
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July 10 |
Code Talker |
Chester Nez |
August 14 |
Beowulf |
Seamus Heaney |
September 11 |
Was God on Vacation? |
Jack van der Geest (I supplied copies of this book) |
October 9 |
Starved Rock Murders |
Steve Strout |
November 13 |
The Doctor's Apprentice |
John Raffensperger (We did this one from Overdrive and several of us shared readers) |
December 11 |
The Christmas Box |
Richard Paul Evans |
The Spring Bay Bookies celebrated 15 years in January. Meeting are held once a month at the Spring Bay Branch. We hope to avoid conflicts with other book clubs in getting our selections, and the past year proved successful. We take turns selecting books and hosting that meeting. Here is our list for 2017.
MONTH READING AUTHOR DISCUSSING
Jan The Boys in the Boat Daniel James Brown Feb 6
Feb The Healing Jonathan Odell Mar 6
Mar The Snow Child Eowyn Ivey Apr 3
Apr The Poet Michael Connelly May 1
May Low Country Anne Rivers Siddons June 5
Jun The Mercedes Coffin Faye Kellerman July 3
Jul All Fall Down Jennifer Weiner Aug 7
Aug Three Cups of Tea Greg Mortenson Sep 7
Sep The Last Town of Earth Thomas Mullen Oct 2
Oct Fly Away Kristen Hannah Nov 6
Nov Everything I Never Told You Celeste Ng Dec 4
Dec The Life-Changing Magic Marie Kondo Jan 4
Of Tidying Up
Lansing Public Library "Avid Reads" Discussion Group (15th year). We meet the first Thursday each month at 6:30 p.m.
Usually meets last Monday of the month at 3 pm in Turner Room
2017(Our 14th year)
January 30
|
Lilac Girls
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Kelly, Martha Hall
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February 27
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Founding Mothers: The Women Who Raised Our Nation
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Roberts, Cokie
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March 27
|
Suspect
|
Crais, Robert
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April 24
|
Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
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Gilbert, Elizabeth
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May 22
|
House of Silk
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Horowitz, Anthony
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June 26
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Lock In
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Scalzi, John
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July 31
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Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War
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Roach, Mary
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August 28
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Swans of Fifth Avenue
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Benjamin, Melanie
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September 25
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Book that Matters Most
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Hood, Ann
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October 30
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Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II
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Kiernan, Denise
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November 27
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Nightingale
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Hannah, Kristin
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December 11th @ 3pm —Coffee Chat about your favorite books of 2017
& get our new list for 2018
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Blog available online 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.
2017 Selections for Great Reads Book Club
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Discussion Date |
Title |
Author |
January 11
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All the Light We Cannot See
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Anthony Doerr
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February 8
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The Elegance of the Hedgehog
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Muriel Barbery
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March 8
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Let the Great World Spin
|
John McCann
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April 12
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Thirteen Moons
|
Charles Frazier
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May 10
|
My Brilliant Friend
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Elena Ferrante
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July 19 |
The Crossing Places |
Elly Griffiths |
September 13 |
Born a Crime |
Trevor Noah |
October 11 |
Hillbilly Elegy |
J.D. Vance |
November 8 |
A Man Called Ove |
Fredrik Backman |
December |
TBA |
TBA |
January 10, 2018 |
Commonwealth |
Ann Patchett |
February 14, 2018 |
The Orphan Master's Son |
Adam Johnson |
March 14, 2018 |
Madam President: the Secret Presidency of Edith Wilson |
William Hazelgrove |
April 11, 2018 |
The Children Act |
Ian McEwan |
May 9 |
Brave New World |
Aldous Huxley |
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.
2017 Selections for Mystery Book Club
Discussion Date
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Title
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Author
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January 25
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Death on Deadline
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Robert Goldsborough
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February 22
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Splinter the Silence
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Val McDermid
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March 22
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The Mapping of Love and Death
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Jacqueline Winspear
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April 26
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Jane and the Canterbury Tale
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Stephanie Barron
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May 24
|
Dreaming Spies
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Laurie R. King
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July 19 |
The Crossing Places |
Elly Griffiths |
September 27 |
Murder in the Ball Park
|
Robert Goldsborough |
October 25 |
The Face of a Stranger |
Anne Perry |
November 15 |
Blood Hollow |
William Kent Krueger |
December |
TBA |
TBA |
January 24, 2018 |
The Case of the Velvet Claws |
Erle Stanley Gardner |
February 28, 2018 |
After the Storm |
Linda Castillo |
March 28, 2018 |
Last to Die |
Tess Gerritsen |
April 25, 2018 |
Invisible Prey |
John Sandford |
May 23, 2018 |
Death in the Off-Season |
Francine Matthews |
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 first Friday of the month. The leader has expressed willingness to switch discussion dates of particular titles as needed to accommodate for conflicts with groups from other libraries. 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.
Discussion Date
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Title
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Author
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January 6
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All the Light We Cannot See
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Anthony Doerr
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February 3
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The Light Between the Oceans
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M.L. Stedman
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March 3
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The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend
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Katarina Bivald
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April 7
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The Nightingale
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Kristin Hannah
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May 5
|
Me Before You
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JoJo Moyes
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June 2
|
Ellis Island
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Kate Kerrigan
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July 7
|
Dragon House
|
John Shors
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August 4 |
The Widower's Tale |
Julia Glass |
September 1 |
Where the Lilacs Still Bloom |
Jane Kirkpatrick |
October 6 |
One Summer--America 1927 |
Bill Bryson |
November 3 |
The Underground Railroad: a novel |
Colson Whitehead |
December 1 |
Wesley the Owl |
Stacey O'Brien |
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.
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
Contact Tahdra for more information: TahdraT@mortonlibrary.org
2017 NPL Book Club at the Normal Public Library, 206 West College Avenue, Normal
January: The Wright Brothers by David McCullough
March: Take Me With You by Catherine Ryan Hyde
May: Show Boat by Edna Ferber
July: Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger
September: Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein
November: The Stupidest Angel by Christopher Moore
Contact Pixie for more information: pfreymann at normalpl.org
January We Never Asked for Wings
February 6 My Story by Elizabeth Smart
March 6 Girl Waits with Gun by Amy Stewart
April 3 Arsonist by Sue Miller
May 1 Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger;
June 5 Versions of Us by Laura Barnett
July Man Called Ove by Fredrick Backman
August – Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert
Sept – Under the Wide and Starry Sky by Nancy Horan
Oct – The Children Act by Ian McEwan
Nov - Last Days of Night by Graham Moore
Dec - Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult
Meet at the Pleasant Plains location on the 4th Thursday of each month @ 7 pm
January Rhett Butler’s People by Donald McCaig
February Summit Lake by Charlie Donlea
March The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and their Quest for Gold in the 1936 Olympics by Daniel James Brown
April Stone Butterfly by James D. Doss
May Glory Over Everything: Beyond the Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom
June All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
July The Blind Doctor by Rosalind Perlman
August Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
September The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd
October Desert Noir by Betty Webb
November Memory Man by David Baldacci
December No Meeting Happy Holidays
All are welcome
ABC book club
Meets at Ashland location on the third Tuesday of each month @ 6:30pm
January The Readers of the Broken Wheel recommend by Katarin Bivald
February Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee
Bookies--meet in the Library on the first Wednesday of each month at 1:30 PM
January: The Obituary Writer by Ann Hood
February: Putin Country by Anne Garrels
March: The One-Hundred-Year-Old Man who Climbed out of the Window & Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson (Rod Bradbury, translator)
April: Gwendolyn Brooks poetry
May: TBA
June: Sophia's War by Avi
Renaissance Readers--meet in the library on the second Tuesday of each month at 10:15 AM
January: Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
February: Slavery by another name by Douglas Blackmon
March: The Crucible by Arthur Miller
April: Emily Dickinson poetry
May: All the King's Men by Penn Warren
June: Othello by William Shakespeare
All Over the Page--meets at local restaurants on the second Tuesday of each month at 7:00 PM
January: individual choice
February: Triumph: the untold story of Jesse Owens & Hitler's Olympics by Jeremy Schaap
March: Lawless OR The Wettest County in the World by Matt Bondurant
April: Bettyville by George Hodgman
May: Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Schaffer & Annie Barrows
June: The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu by Joshua Hammer
July: Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Unshelved--meets in the library on the second Wednesday of each month at 1:00 PM
January: History: a novel by Elsa Morante
February: Leaving Time by Jodi Picoult
March: Bettyville by George Hodgman
April: The Summer Before the War by Helen Simonson
May: The Little Paris Bookshop by Nina George
Pardon our Youth--meets in the library on the third Monday of each month at 6:00 PM. This is an adult group reading Young Adult titles.
January: We All Looked Up by Tommy Wallach
February: Cinder by Marissa Meyer
March: The Magician's Nephew by C. S. Lewis
April: Aristotle & Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Saenz
May: Gone by Michael Grant
June: Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher
July: Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
August: City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau
September: The First Time She Drowned by Kerry Kletter
October: Splintered by A. G. Howard
November: The Iron Trial by Holly Black & Cassandra Clare
Literary Angles--meet at the library on the third Tuesday each month at 1:30 PM
January: The Road to Little Dribbling by Bill Bryson
February: The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
March: Bettyville by George Hodgman
April: Moo by Jane Smiley
May: Jayber Crow by Wendell Berry
Third Thursday Bookclub -- Meet at Eli's coffee shop in Tremont at 12:30PM on the third Thursday of each month.
January: My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry by Fredrik Backman
February: The Perfect Horse: The Daring U.S. Mission to Rescue the Priceless Stallions Kidnapped by the Nazis by Elizabeth Letts
March: Bridget Jones Diary
April: I am Malala
May :
June : Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger
July : Ashley's War
August : Cinder by Marissa Meyer
September : News of the World by Paulette Jiles
October : The Widower's Tale by Julia Glass
Young Adult Book Club -- Meets at Eli's coffee shop in Tremont at 7pm on the third Tuesday of each month.
January: The Wendy Project by Melissa Jane Osborne
February: Bone Gap by Laura Ruby
March: My Name is Not Friday by John Walter
April: Turtles all the Way Down by John Green
We meet the second Thursday of the month at 6:30 PM in the Main library study rooms. (We do not meet during June/July, due to Summer Reading.)
January 12, 2017 1st in a Series SWORN TO SILENCE (Kate Burkholder #1//Linda Castillo)
February 9, 2017 Romance UNTIL THERE WAS YOU (Kristan Higgins)
March 9, 2017 Historical Fiction RAINWATER (Sandra Brown)
April 13, 2017 Award Winner ALL THE MISSING GIRLS (Megan Miranda)
May 11, 2017 Contemporary Fiction NINE WOMEN, ONE DRESS (Jane L. Rosen)
BREAK FOR SUMMER READING PROGRAM
August 10, 2017 Second Chance Book SEA SWEPT (Nora Roberts)
September 14, 2017 From Page to Screen HIDDEN FIGURES (Margot Lee Shetterly)
October 12, 2017 Spooky/Horror/True Crime BEHIND HER EYES (Sarah Pinborough)
November 9, 2017 Author's Debut Book SWEET AND DEADLY (Charlaine Harris)
December 14, 2017 Book about a Book Store THE BOOKSHOP ON THE CORNER (Jenny Colgan)
Meet at One Eleven Coffee at 6 p.m. the second Tuesday of each month
Jan 10th Penny, LouiseStill Life
Feb 14th Meissner, Susan A Fall of Marigolds
Mar 14th Zusak, MarcusI Am The Messenger
April 11th Cleave, ChrisEveryone Brave is Forgiven
May 9th Tyler, AnneDinner at the Homesick Restaurant
June 13th Meyer, StephanieThe Chemist
July 11th Perry, ThomasMetzger’s Dog
Aug 8th Bleeker, Emily When I’m Gone
Sept 12th Smith, Martin Cruz The Girl From Venice
Oct 10th Hannah, Kristin The Nightingale
Nov 14th Krueger, William Kent Ordinary Grace
Dec 12th Backman, Fredrik Beartown
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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