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 2018
Libraries A-Z
Alpha Park Public Library in Bartonville
We meet the 2nd Thursday of the Month
January 11th- The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
February 8th- Small, Great Things by Jodi Picoult
March 8th, H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald
April 12th, Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff
May 10th- The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane, by Lisa See
June 14th- Mississippi Solo by Eddy L. Harris
July 12th- A Friend of Mr. Lincoln by Stephen Harrigan
August 9th- Bear Town by Fredrick Bachman
September 13th- Lucky Boy by Shanthi Sekaran
October 18th- No Meeting, ILA
November 8th- A Mother's Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of a Tragedy, by Sue Klebold
December 13th- Mr. Churchill's Secretary, by Susan Ella Klebold
January 10th, 2019- Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
February 14th, 2019- Before We Were Young by Lisa Wingate
Our book club meets the 3rd Monday of each month at 5 p.m.
January 2018 - The Mountain Between Us - Martin
February 2018 - Nightingale - Hannah
March 2018 - Th1rteen R3asons Why - Asher
April 2018 - A Gentleman in Moscow - Towles
May 2018 - Small Great Things - Picoult
June 2018 - Glory Over Everything - Grissom
July 2018 - Secret Book & Scone Society - Adams
August 2018 - The Invisible Wall - Bernstein
September 2018 - Atomic City Girls - Beard
October 2018 - Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker - Chiaverini
November 2019 - Cutting for Stone - Verghese
December 2018 - Christmas Jars - Wright
Brimfield Book Club meets on the 4th Tuesday of the month at 1pm
January 23rd - The Lake House by Kate Morton
February 27th - Same Kind of Different as Me by Ron Hall
March 27th - A Rule Against Murder by Louise Penny
April 24th - The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane by Lisa See
May 22nd - Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford
June 26th - Educated by Tara Westover
July 24th - The Last Patriot by Brad Thor
August 28th - Lilac Girls by Martha Hall Kelly
September 25th - The Midwife's Apprentice by Karen Cushman
October 23rd - Redeeming Love by Francine Rivers
November 27th - The Bookshop on the Corner by Jenny Colgan
December 18th - Turtles All the Way Down by John Green
For more information, contact Abby at 309-446-9575 or amiles@brimfieldlibrary.org.
Books+Tea @ the Library usually meets on the 4th Monday of the month (book club webpage)
January 29 - The Handmaid’s Tale, by Margaret Atwood
February 26 - The Underground Railroad, by Colson Whitehead
March 26 - So Big, by Edna Ferber
April 23 - The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America, by Erik Larson
May 21 - Thirty Girls, by Susan Minot
June 25 - The Moonstone, by Wilkie Collins
July 23 - Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood, by Trevor Noah
August 27 - 11/22/63, by Stephen King
September 24 - Some Luck, by Jane Smiley
October 22 - In a Dark, Dark Wood, by Ruth Ware
November 26 - Ginny Moon, by Benjamin Ludwig
December 17 - The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry, by Gabrielle Zevin
For more information, contact Catherine at 309-274-2719 or cbarnett@chillipld.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.
January--Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult
February--Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance
March--Perfect Girl by Gilly McMillan
April--The Magdalen Girls by V.S. Alexander
May--The Lake House by Kate Morton
June--Wonder by R.J. Palacio
Our book club (RIOT ACT - Readers In Our Town Are Coming Together) meets on the 4th Thursday of the month at 7 pm.
January 25, 2018 - The Invisible Wall by Harry Bernstein
February 22, 2018 -Little Bee by Chris Cleave
March 22, 2018 - Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
April 26, 2018 - The Zookeeper's Wife by Diane Ackerman
May 24, 2018 - Library at the Edge of the World by Felicity Hayes-McCoy
June 28, 2018 - Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly
July 26, 2018 - The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
August 23, 2018 - Rise: How a House Built a Family by Cara Brookins
September 27, 2018 - The Book of Joy: Finding Happiness in a Changing World by His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu
We meet the first Thursday of the month, 6:30pm
March The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend, Katarina Bivald
April The Rosie Project, Graeme Simsion
May Small Great Things, Jodi Picoult
June The Wedding Dress, Rachel Hauck
August Radium Girls, Kate Moore
September The Heavens May Fall, Allen Eskens
November The Book Jumper, Mechthild Glaser
December The Good Luck Girls of Shipwreck Lane, Kelly Harms
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
2018 TITLES
January Britt-Marie Was Here by Fredrick Backman
February The Life We Bury by Allen Eskens
March Into the Water by Paula Hawkins
April The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper by Phaedra Patrick
May Mrs. Sherlock Holmes by Brad Ricca
June Everyone Brave is Forgiven by Chris Cleave
July Love You More by Lisa Gardner
August The Chilbury Ladies Choir by Jennifer Ryan
September The Girl Who Came Home by Hazel Gaynor
October Reading with Patrick by Michelle Kuo
November The Magdalen Girls by V.S. Alexander
December Love and Other Consolation Prizes by Jamie Ford
Fondulac District Library in East Peoria
Out of the Box Book Club (meets in a different location in East Peoria at 6pm on the third Wednesday of every month)
January 17th 6pm, Cheese Nuts Pizzeria - Heat Wave by Richard Castle
February 21st 6pm, Tequila's - The Alice Network by Kate Quinn
March 21st 6pm, Jason's Deli - Fun Home by Alison Bechdel
April 18th 6pm, IHOP - Turtles All the Way Down by John Green
May 16th 6pm, Firehouse Pizza - True Crime novel of your choice
June 20th 6pm, Avanti's - Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
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.
Added 11/28/17
Tuesday/Thursday Book Clubs (tentative list)
January – Born to Run by Christopher McDougall
February – A Friend of Mr. Lincoln by Stephen Harrigan (LP avail)
March - Lincoln’s Greatest Case by Brian McGinty
April - The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears by Dinaw Mengestu (Big Read)
May – When Books Went to War by Molly Guptill Manning (Galesburg Public Library Month in Galesburg)
June – Pieces of Happiness by Anne Ostby (Reading Takes You Everywhere)
July – Woolly by Ben Mezrich (Reading Takes You Everywhere)
August - Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper by Phaedra Patrick
September – A Mother’s Reckoning by Sue Klebold
October - Huck Out West by Robert Coover
November - Woolly by Ben Mezrich
December - How to Find Love in a Bookshop by Veronica Henry
Added 11/28/17
Tome Raiders Science Fiction/Fantasy Book Club (tentative list)
January 2018 – Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer
February 2018 - Kindred by Octavia Butler
March 2018 – Good Omens by Neil Gaiman
April 2018 – The Girl in the Road by Monica Byrne (tie in to The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears Big Read)
May 2018 – About Time by Jack Finney (includes I Love Galesburg in the Springtime; May is Galesburg Public Library Month in Galesburg)
June – Ghost Country by Patrick Lee ( Reading Takes You Everywhere)
July – Just One Damned Thing After Another Jodi Taylor ( Reading Takes You Everywhere)
August – The House with a Clock in Its Walls by John Bellairs
September - The Everything Box by Richard Kadrey
October – At the Mountains of Madness and Other Tales of Terror by by H.P. Lovcraft
November - Meddling Kids by Edgar Cantero July 2017
December - Crosstalk by Connie Willis
Added 12/1/17
Food for Thought Book Club (tentative list)
March – Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
April – Yes, Chef by Marcus Samuelsson (Big Read tie in to The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears)
May – Seed Libraries: And Other Means of Keeping Seeds in the Hands of the People by Cindy Conner (tied in to Galesburg Public Library month)
June – Seeds on Ice: Svalbard and the Global Seed Vault (Reading Takes You Everywhere)
July – Bonereapers by Jeanne Matthews (Reading Takes You Everywhere)
August – A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold
September - Driftless by David Rhodes
October - Saving Tarboo Creek by Scott Freeman
November - Whitewash: The Story of a Weed Killer, Cancer, and the Corruption of Science by Carey Gillam
December - The Jesus Cow by Michael Perry
Henry Public Library - Henry, IL
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 8 |
The Losers Club |
Andrew Clements |
February 12 |
The Librarian of Aushwitz |
Antonio Iturbe |
March 12 |
The Readers of the Broken Wheel Recommend |
Katarina Bivald |
April 9 |
The Radium Girls |
Kate Moore |
May 14 |
Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: My Year of Magical Reading |
Nina Sankovitch |
June 11 |
The Sun is also a Star |
Nicola Yoon |
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July 9 |
The Sunday Philosophy Club |
Alexander McCall Smith |
August 13 |
Ghost |
Jason Reynolds |
September 10 |
The Abbot's Ghost and Assorted Thrillers |
Louisa May Alcott |
October 8 |
Our Town |
Thorton Wilder |
November 12 |
Watership Down |
Richard Adams |
December 10 |
The Haunted Man & the Ghosts Bargain |
Charles Dickens |
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 2018.
MONTH READING AUTHOR DISCUSSING
Jan Wild: From Lost to Found Cheryl Strayed Feb 5
Feb Dead Wake Erik Larson Mar 5
Mar I Will Send Rain Rae Meadows Apr 2
Apr Half Broke Horses Jeanette Walls May 7
May An Accidental Woman Barbara Delinsky June 4
Jun See Me Nicholas Sparks July 2
Jul The Almost Moon Alice Sebold Aug 6
Aug Lilac Girls Martha Hall Kelley Sep 6
Sep Redemption Road John Hart Oct 1
Oct Prayers For Sale Sandra Dallas Nov 5
Nov The Rosie Project Graeme Simsion Dec 3
Dec Along Came a Spider James Patterson Jan 7
Usually meets last Monday of the month at 3 pm at LME Library
2018 (Our 15th year)
January 29
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One in a Million Boy
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Wood, Monica
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February 26
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Open Season
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Box, C.J.
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March 26
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Beartown
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Backman, Fredrik
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April 30
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Killers of the Flower Moon
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Grann, David
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May 21
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Women in the Castle
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Shattuck, Jessica
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June 25
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Dry
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Harper, Jane
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July 30
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Hillbilly Elegy
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Vance, J.D.
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August 27
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This is How It Always Is
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Frankel, Laurie
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September 24
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Jane Eyre
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Brontë, Charlotte
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October 29
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Books for Living
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Schwalbe, Will
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November 26
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Reason You’re Alive
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Quick, Matthew
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December 10
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Coffee Chat about our favorites for 2018 and the new titles for 2019
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Blog available online at: http://talkaboutagoodbook.blogspot.com/
Contact Beth Duttlinger lill@lmelibrary.org for more information.
Great ReadsSave
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.
2018 Selections for Great Reads Book Club
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Discussion Date |
Title |
Author |
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, 2018
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Brave New World |
Aldous Huxley |
July 11, 2018 |
The Nix |
Nathan Hill |
September 12, 2018 |
When Breath Becomes Air |
Paul Kalanithi & Abraham Verghese |
October 10, 2018 |
Mudbound |
Hillary Jordan |
November 14, 2018 |
Destiny of the Republic: a Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President |
Candice Millard |
January 9, 2019 |
Killers of the Flower Moon: the Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI |
David Grann |
February 13, 2019 |
A Gentleman in Moscow |
Amor Towles |
March 13, 2019 |
Little Fires Everywhere |
Celeste Ng |
April 10, 2019 |
The Great Alone |
Kristin Hannah |
May 8, 2019 |
Before We Were Yours |
Lisa Wingate |
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.
2018 Selections for Mystery Book Club
Discussion Date
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Title
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Author
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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 |
July 11, 2018 |
The Nix |
Nathan Hill |
September 26, 2018 |
The Cuckoo's Calling |
Robert Galbraith |
October 24, 2018 |
The Temptation of Forgiveness |
Donna Leon |
November 28, 2018 |
The Glass House |
Louise Penny |
January 23 , 2019 |
TBA
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TBA
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February 27, 2019 |
The Brass Verdict |
Michael Connelly |
March 27, 2019 |
TBA
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TBA
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April 24, 2019 |
TBA
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TBA
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May 22, 2019 |
TBA
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TBA
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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
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 8 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.
2018 Selections for Book Club 2
Discussion Date
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Title
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Author
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January 5, 2018 |
Angela's Ashes |
Frank McCourt |
February 2, 2018 |
Light a Penny Candle
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Maeve Binchy |
March 2, 2018 |
Nights of Rain and Stars
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Maeve Binchy
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April 6, 2018 |
The House at Riverton
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Kate Morton |
May 4, 2018 |
The Kite Runner
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Khaled Hosseini |
June 1, 2018 |
Small Great Things |
Jodi Picoult |
July 6, 2018 |
All Creatures Great & Small |
James Herriot |
August 3, 2018 |
The Bean Trees |
Barbara Kingsolver |
September 7, 2018 |
The Keeper of Lost Things |
Ruth Hogan |
October 5, 2018 |
The Hideaway |
Lauren Denton
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November 2, 2018 |
Before We Were Yours
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Lisa Wingate
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December 7, 2018 |
Little Fires Everywhere |
Celeste Ng |
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.
Book picks for 2018:
January -- Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
February -- Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
March -- A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness
April --- Radium Girls by Kate Moore
May -- Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
June -- The Reader by Rachel Chee
July -- The Alice Network by Kate Quinn
August -- The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
September -- No book selected due to Elmwood's Fall Festival
October -- Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
November -- Memoir of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
December -- The Little Prince by Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Our Book Group meets the first Thursday of every month at 6:30 PM. New members and visitors are always welcome!
Books & Bites meets at local restaurants on the 3rd Tuesday of each month @6:30pm
2018 Selections
January 16: Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore by Matthew Sullivan (Basta's Italian Kitchen)
February 20: Born a Crime Trevor Noah (La Fiesta)
March 20: A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab (Firehouse Pizza)
April 17: Circling the Sun by Paula McClain (Eli's Coffee Shop)
May 15: Emma in the Night by Wendy Walker (Hacienda Fuentes)
June 19: The Soloist: a Lost Dream, an Unlikely Friendship, and the Redemptive Power of Music by Steve López (Seasons Gastropub)
July 17: Instructions for a Heatwave by Maggie O'Farrell (Monical's Pizza)
August 21: Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate (Eli's Coffee Shop)
September 18:
October 16:
November 20:
December: No December meeting
www.mortonlibrary.org | (309) 263-2200
2018 NPL Book Club at the Normal Public Library, 206 West College Avenue, Normal
January 17: Iron Lake by William Kent Krueger
March 21: The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
May 16: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
July 18: Ask Him Why by Catherine Ryan Hyde
September 19: Missing You by Harlan Coben
November 28: A Redbird Christmas by Fannie Flagg and A Cup of Christmas Tea by Tom Hegg
Contact for more information: ask at normalpl.org
JAN - Widowers Tale by Julia Glass
FEB - Handmaids Tale by Margaret Atwood
MARCH - Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
APRIL - Yellow Birds by Kevin Powers
MAY - Women in the Castle by Jessica Shattuck
JUNE - Art of Mending
JULY - The ocean at the end of the lane by Neil Gaiman
August - The tea girl of Hummingbird Lane : a novel by Lisa See
Sept - Before we were yours : a novel by Lisa Wingate
Oct - The child finder : a novel by Rene Denfeld
Nov - Little fires everywhere by Celeste Ng
Dec - Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann
Bookies--meet in the Library on the first Wednesday of each month at 1:30 PM
Renaissance Readers--meet in the library on the second Tuesday of each month at 10:15 AM
All Over the Page--meets at local restaurants on the second Tuesday of each month at 7:00 PM
Unshelved--meets in the library on the second Wednesday of each month at 1:00 PM
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.
Literary Angles--meet at the library on the third Tuesday each month at 1:30 PM
Third Thursday Bookclub -- Meet at Eli's coffee shop in Tremont at 12:30PM on the third Thursday of each month.
March: The Road Back to You: An Enneagram Journey to Self-Discovery by Ian Morgan Cron
April: Beartown by Fredrik Backman
May : A Mother's Reckoning by Sue Klebold
June: The Book of Joe by Jonathon Tropper (may change)
August : Radium Girls by Kate Moore
September: Goodbye, Vitamin by Rachel Khlong
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 11, 2018 1st in a Series In the Woods (Tana French)
February 8, 2018 Romance The Hating Game (Sally Thorne)
March 8, 2018 Mystery/Thriller One of Us is Lying (Karen M. McManus)
April 12, 2018 New in 2017--Fiction Edition Sourdough (Robin Sloan)
May 10, 2018 Second Chance The Dry (Jane Harper)
BREAK FOR SUMMER READING PROGRAM
August 9, 2018 New in 2017--Nonfiction Edition Killers of the Flower Moon (David Grann)
September 13, 2018 Fiction At the Water's Edge (Sara Gruen)
October 11, 2018 Mystery/Thriller Are You Sleeping (Kathleen Barber)
November 8, 2018 Memoir The Mighty Queens of Freeville (Amy Dickinson)
December 13, 2018 Humor/Holiday Holidays on Ice (David Sedaris)
Meet at One Eleven Coffee at 6 p.m. the second Tuesday of each month
Jan 9th Branard, LynneTraveling Light
Feb 13th Bivald, KatrinaThe Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend
Mar 13th Ng, CelesteLittle Fires Everywhere
April 10th Wood, MonicaThe One-In-A-Million Boy
May 8th Loigman, Lynda C.The Two-Family House
June 12th Littlefield, SophieGarden of Stones
July 10th Mclain, Paula Circling the Sun
Aug 14th McDermott, AliceThe Ninth Hour
Questions about this wiki?
Contact Beth Duttlinger
bethd@lmelibrary.org
Lillie M. Evans Library District
207 N Walnut, PO Box 349
Princeville, IL 61559
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