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 2019
Libraries A-Z
Alpha Park Public Library in Bartonville
We meet the 2nd Thursday of the Month
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.
Book Club est. May 2006
January 2019 - Heartbeat - Sharon Creech
February 2019 - The Red Tent - Anita Diamant
March 2019 - Jesus Cow - Michael Perry
April 2019 - Still Life - Louise Penny
May 2019 - The Perfect Nanny - Leila Slimani
June 2019 - Before We Were Yours - Lisa Wingate
July 2019 - Blind Your Ponies - Stanley Gordon West
August 2019 - Butterfly Palace - Colleen Coble
September 2019 - The Alice Network - Kate Quinn
October 2019 - The Great Alone - Kristin Hannah
November 2019 - Educated - Tara Westover
December 2019 - Where the Crawdads Sing - Delia Owens
Brimfield Book Club meets on the 4th Tuesday of the month at 1pm
January 29th-Sing, unburied, sing by Jesmyn Ward
February 26-Crisis by Robin Cook
March 26-7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
April 23-Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
May 28-Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris
June 25-Citizen Vince by Jess Walter
July 23-Razor Girl by Carl Hiaasen
August 27-Star of the North by D.B. John
September 24-Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate
October 22-The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell by Robert Dugoni
November 26-The House of Broken Angels by Luis Alberto Urrea
December T.B.D.-
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 28 - The Hate U Give, by Angie Thomas
February 25 - Crazy Rich Asians, by Kevin Kwan
March 25 - Boy Erased, by Garrard Conley
April 22 - A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, by Betty Smith
May 20 - Defending Jacob, by William Landay
June 24 - The Death and Life of the Great Lakes, by Dan Egan
July 22 - The Invisible Library, by Genevieve Cogman
August 26 - The Sun Does Shine, by Anthony Ray Hinton
September 23 - Little Fires Everywhere, by Celeste Ng
October 28 - The Road, by Cormac McCarthy
November 25 - How to Be a Good Creature, by Sy Montgomery
December 16 - Vinegar Girl, by Anne Tyler
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'Hara Reading Room at the Library.
January The German Girl Armando Lucas Correa
February The Hidden Girl Camilla Lackberg
March Half Broke Horses Jeanette Walls
April Silver Star Jeanette Walls
May Girls of Atomic City Denise Kiernan
June Silent Sisters Diane Chamberlain
July Alice Network Kate Quinn
August Chilbury Ladies Choir Jennifer Ryan
September Winter Garden Kristen Hannah
October Before We Were Yours Lisa Wingate
November The Story Keeper Lisa Wingate
December Killers of the Flower Moon David Grann
Our book club (RIOT ACT - Readers In Our Town Are Coming Together) meets on the 4th Thursday of the month at 7 pm.
January - The Awakening of HK Derryberry by Jim Bradford
February - The Midwife of Hope River by Patricia Harman
March- When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
April - Love, Lucy by Lucilee Ball
May - Cry, The Beloved Country by Alan Paton
June - The Library Book by Susan Orlean
July - American Heart by Laura Moriarty
Aug - Soar by Joan Bauer
Sept - Life in a Jar, the Irena Sendler Project by Jack Mayer
Oct -The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown
Nov - No meeting
Dec - No meeting
Musings on Main
Book Selections 2019
First Thursdays @ 6:30pm
January 3 - Propose "Cozy Conversation & Chocolate" - Read any Christmas book(s) before this meeting, if you have time!
February 7 - Dream When You're Feeling Blue (Elizabeth Berg)
March 7 - Caroline: Little House, revisited (Sarah Miller)
April 4 - (Easter is April 21) [either or both]
~ The War That Saved My Life (Kimberly Bradley)
~ Four Perfect Pebbles (Lila Perl)
May 2 - The Language of Flowers (Vanesa Diffenabugh)
June 6 - A Prayer for Owen Meaney (John Irving)
July 4 - NO MEETING
August 2 - Educated (Tara Westoverr)
September 6 - Washington Black (Esi Edugyan)
October 4 - NO BOOK SELECTION - POTLUCK
November 1 - The Glass Ocean (Beatriz Williams)
December 6 - How Hard Can It Be? (Allison Pearson)
Farmington Area Public Library District
Second Monday Book Group (Second Monday each month at 6:30pm)
January 14th- Chosen by a Horse by Susan Richards
February 11th- The Wife Between Us by Greer Hendricks
March 11th- The Lake House by Kate Morton
April 8th- Death in the Air: The True Story of a Serial Killer, the Great London Smog, and the Strangling of a City by Kate Winkler Dawson
May 13th- The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah
June 10th- Summer Hours at the Robbers Library by Sue Halpern
July 8th- Lincoln's Last Trial: The Murder Case that Propelled Him to the Presidency by Dan Abrams
August 12th- A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
September 9th- The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
October 14th- Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover
November 11th- Carnegie's Maid by Marie Benedict
December 9th- Clock Dance by Anne Tyler
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
January – Nomadland
February – Girl Waits with Gun by Amy Stewart (includes skype with author)
March – The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row by Anthony Ray Hinton
April – When the Emperor Was Divine (Big Read)
May – Spying on Whales by Nick Pyenson
June – Virgil Wander by Leif Enger
July – Something Wonderful by Todd S. Purdum
August – French Exit by Patrick DeWitt
September 2019 - Trooper by Forrest Bryan Johnson
October 2019 - Harry’s Trees by Jon Cohen
November 2019 - Endurance by Scott Kelly
December 2019 - Dear Mrs Bird by AJ Pearce
Tome Raiders Science Fiction/Fantasy Book Club
January – End of Eternity by Isaac Asimov
February – Binti by Nnedi Okorafor
March – Dragons of Autumn Twilight by Margaret Weis
April – Echo by Pam Munoz Ryan (Big Read companion When the Emperor Was Divine)
May – Ringworld by Larry Niven
June – The Big Sheep by Robert Kroese
July – Technicolor Time Machine by Harry Harrison
August – Sleeping Giants by Sylvain Neuvel
September 2019 – Silverlock by John Myers Myers
October 2019 - One Way by S.J. Morden
November 2019 – The Forgotten Beasts of Eld by Patricia A. McKillip
December 2019 – All Systems Red by Martha Wells
Food for Thought Book Club
February - Blackout by Marc Elsberg
March - Lights Out by Ted Koppel
April - The Seasons of My Mother by Marcia Gay Harden (Big Read companion to When the Emperor Was Divine)
May - The Garden of Small Beginnings by Abbi Waxman – LP available
June – Fastest Things on Wings: Rescuing Hummingbirds in Hollywood
July - The Law of the Jungle by Paul M. Barrett
August - The Lost Vintage by Ann Mah
September - Death and Life of the Great Lakes by Dan Egan
October – The End of Ice by Dahr Jamail
November - The Jesus Cow by Michael Perry
Book Club is the 4th Tuesday of each month at 7 pm at the Library.
2019 Book Club Titles
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Jan.: All the Missing Girls by Megan Miranda
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Feb.: Angels Walking by Karen Kingsbury
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March: The Woman of the Castle by Jessica Shattauck
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April: I Found You by Lisa Jewell
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May: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
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June: Irena’s Children by Tilar J. Mazzo
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July: No Meeting
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Aug.: Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
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Sept.: Tending Roses by Lisa Wingate
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Oct.: AD 30 by Ted Dekker
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Nov.: Peace Like a River by Leif Engel
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 14 |
The Wind in the Willows |
Kenneth Grahame |
| February 11 |
All Creatures Great and Small |
James Herriott |
| March 11 |
A Girl from Yamhill (memoir) and The Mouse and the Motorcycle |
Beverly Cleary |
| April 8 |
The Perfect Horse |
Elizabeth Letts |
| May 13 |
Androclese and the Lion |
George Bernard Shaw |
| June 10 |
Flowers for Algernon |
Daniel Keyes |
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| July 8 |
The Hate U Give |
Angie Thomas |
| August 12 |
Sister's First |
Jenna Bush Hager & Barbara Pierce Bush |
| September 9 |
Darlene's Sliver Streak & The Bradford Model T Girls |
John Butte |
| October 14 |
Eighty Days: Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland's History Making Race Around the World |
Matthew Goodman |
| November 4 |
An Invisible Thread |
Laura Schroff |
| December 9 |
Mr Dickens and His Carol |
Samantha Silva |
The Spring Bay Bookies celebrated 17 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.
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Reading
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Author
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Meeting
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Miss Julia Speaks Her Mind
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Ann B Ross
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Feb 4
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Running Blind
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Lee Childs
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Mar 4
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The Cat Who Knew A Cardinal
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Lillian Braun Jackson
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April 1
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The Book Thief
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Marcus Zusak
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May 6
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The 17th Suspect
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James Patterson
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Jun 3
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The Underground Railroad
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Colson Whitehead
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Jul 1
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The Last Original Wife
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Dorothea Benton Frank
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Aug 5
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Before We Were Yours
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Lisa Wingate
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Sep 5
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The Things We Keep
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Sally Hepworth
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Oct 7
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A Man Called Ove
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Fredrik Backman
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Nov 4
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A Light in the Window
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Jan Karon
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Dec 2
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Alaskan Holiday
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Debbie Macomber
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Jan 6, 2020
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Mr Penumbra’s 24 Hour Bookstore
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Robin Sloan
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Feb 3, 2020
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Usually meets last Monday of the month at 3 pm in Turner Room
2019(Our 16th year)
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January 28
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Cuckoo's Calling
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Galbraith, Robert
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February 25
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Almost Sisters
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Jackson, Joshilyn
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March 25
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Celine
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Heller, Peter
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April 29
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Hidden Figures
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Shetterly, Margot Lee
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May 20
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Story of Arthur Truluv
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Berg, Elizabeth
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June 24
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Bluebird, Bluebird
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Locke, Atttica
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July 29
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Educated
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Westover, Tara
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August 26
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Between You and Me
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Wiggs, Susan
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Sept 30
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IQ
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Ide, Joe
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October 28
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Last Castle
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Kiernan, Denise
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November 25
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Great Alone
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Hannah, Kristin
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December 9th @ 3pm —Coffee Chat about your favorite books of 2019
& get our new list for 2020
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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. The book club will meet at the Macomb Public library multi-purpose room.
| Date |
Title |
Author |
July 1, 2019
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The New Iberia Blues
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James Lee Burke |
September 11, 2019
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Go, Went, Gone
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Jenny Erpenbeck
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October 8, 2019
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Educated |
Tara Westover
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November 13, 2019
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Where the Crawdads Sing |
Delia Owens
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December 2019
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TBA
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TBA |
| January 8, 2020 |
Warlight |
Michael Ondaatje |
| February 19, 2020 |
The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border |
Francisco Cantu |
| March 11, 2020 |
Americanah |
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
| April 8, 2020 |
Washington Black |
Ese Edugyan |
| May 13, 2020 |
There Will Be No Miracles Here: a Memoir |
Casey Gerald |
Mystery Book Club
Mystery Book Club is an adult reading/discussion group sponsored by the Friends of the Macomb Public Library. The group schedule is in a state of revision, but these are the dates available so far. The book club will meet at the Macomb Public library multi-purpose room.
| Date |
Title |
Author |
July 1, 2019
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The New Iberia Blues
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James Lee Burke |
| October 23, 2019 |
The Death of Mrs. Westaway |
Ruth Ware |
| December 4, 2019 |
Buckingham Palace Gardens |
Anne Perry |
| February 26, 2020 |
The Indian Bride |
Karin Fossum |
Patron-run book clubs
These groups use Macomb Public Library for interlibrary loan of book club titles, but these groups 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.
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.
January 3, 2019 -- To Kill a Mockingbird (movie) Harper Lee
February 7, 2019 -- What Mrs. McGillicuddy Saw! Agatha Christie
March 7, 2019 -- The Girl on the Train, Paula Hawkins
April 4, 2019 -- Leaves of Grass, Walt Whitman
May 2, 2019 -- Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
June 6, 2019 -- In Pieces, Sally Field
July 4, 2019 -- No Book Group due to holiday
August 1, 2019 -- A House Without Windows, Nadia Hashimi
September 5, 2019 -- The English Patient, Michael Ondaatje
October 3, 2019 -- Outlander, Diana Gabaldon
November 7, 2019 -- The Lost City of Z, David Grann
December 5, 2019 -- A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
Our Book Group meets the first Thursday of every month at 6:30 PM. New members and visitors are always welcome!
Held at the Morton Public Library at 315 W. Pershing St in Morton, IL
Contact Tahdra for more information: TahdraT@mortonlibrary.org
NPL Book Club at the Normal Public Library, 206 West College Avenue, Normal meets on the 3rd Wednesday every other month
January 16 - The Sun Does Shine by Anthony Hinton
March 20 - Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls
May 15 - The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom
July 17 - One Light Still Shines: My Life Beyond the Amish Schoolhouse Shooting by Marie Monville
September 18 - The President is Missing by Bill Clinton & James Patterson
November 20 - The Gift by Richard Paul Evans
Contact our volunteer book club leader, Pixie for more information: ask at normalpl.org
We meet the 1st Monday of the month at 2 and 6:45 (same book both times) I ORDER 38 BOOKS EACH MONTH (sorry to deplete the supply)
January - Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter
February - As Bright As Heaven
March - Rebecca
April - Educated by Tara Westover
May - Stars are Fire by Shreve
June - Sometimes I Lie
July - The Great Alone by Hannah
August - American Marriage by Jones
Sept - Alternate Side by Quindlen
Oct - Button Man
Nov - Stranger in the Woods by Finkle
Dec - Elevation by King
Meet at the Pleasant Plains location on the 4th Thursday of each month @ 7 pm
All are welcome
ABC book club
Meets at Ashland location on the third Tuesday of each month @ 6:30pm
Bookies--meet in the Library on the first Wednesday of each month at 1:30 PM
October 2019 - The Librarian of Auschwitz by Antonia Iturbe
November 2019 - Penguin Lessons by Tom Michell
December 2019 - The Keeper of Lost Things by Ruth Hogan
Renaissance Readers--meet in the library on the second Tuesday of each month at 10:15 AM
September 2019 - Radium Girls by Kate Moore
October 2019 - Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson
November 2019 - Pick your own book with the theme "Women of Note"
December 2019 - End of Year party - no book
All Over the Page--meets at local restaurants on the third Tuesday of each month at 7:00 PM
September 2019 - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime by Mark Haddon
October 2019 - Gingerbread by Helen Oyeyemi
November 2019 - A Woman of No Importance by Sonia Purnell
December 2019 - Next Year in Havana by Chanel Cleeton
Unshelved--meets in the library on the second Wednesday of each month at 1:00 PM
September 2019 - The Book that Matters Most by Ann Hood
October 2019 - The Kitchen Daughter by Jael McHenry
November 2019 - Hiddensee: a tale of the once & future Nutcracker by Gregory Maguire
December 2019 - No meeting
20s & 30s SciFi/Horror reading group -- meets in the library on the third Wednesday of each month at 6:00 PM.
September 2019 - 1984 by George Orwell
October 2019 - TBA
November 2019 - TBA
December 2019 - TBA
Literary Angles--meet at the library on the third Tuesday each month at 1:30 PM
September 2019 - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
October 2019 - Pick your own Horror book
November 2019 - An Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan
December 2019 - End of Year party - no book
Third Thursday Bookclub -- Meet at Eli's coffee shop in Tremont at 12:30PM on the third Thursday of each month.
Young Adult Book Club -- Meets at Eli's coffee shop in Tremont at 7pm on the third Tuesday of each month.
January BYO Book (Swap Reading Recommendations with Others)
February Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate
March Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
April Carnegie's Maid
May A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
June Blood and Thunder: An Epic of the American West
July
August The Address by Fiona Davis
September The Great Alone
October Crazy Rich Asians
November Educated by Tara Westover
December
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 10, 2019 (1st in a Series) Virgin River Robyn Carr
February 14, 2019 (Romance) One Plus One Jojo Moyes
March 14, 2019 (Classic) The Haunting of Hill House Shirley Jackson (probably the BEST book discussion I have ever attended!)
April 11, 2019 Author event with The Book Nook Susan Furlong spoke about her cozy and not-so-coy mysteries
May 9, 2019 (Mystery/Thriller) I Found You Lisa Jewell
BREAK FOR SUMMER READING
August 8, 2019 Topical Book Choice - True Crime Each member read a true crime book of choice and book talked it at the meeting.
September 12, 2019 ("Potluck" Book Choice) Good Riddance Elinor Lipman
October 10, 2019 (Mystery/Thriller) Bring Her Back B. A. Paris
November 14, 2019 (Fiction) The Last Romantics Tara Conklin
December 12, 2019 (Biography/Memoir) Born Standing Up Steve Martin
Meet at One Eleven Coffee at 5:45 p.m. the second Tuesday of each month
2019
Jan 8th Jiles, Paulette News of the World
Feb 13th Owens, Delia Where the Crawdads Sing
Mar 13th Flynn, Gilliam Sharp Objects
April 16th Salinger, J.D. The Catcher in the Rye
May 14th Dugoni, Robert The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell
June 11th Benedict, Marie The Only Woman in the Room
July 9th Williams, Beatriz et. al The Glass Ocean
Aug 13th Kistler, Bonnie House on Fire
Sept 10th Jonasson, Jonas The 100-year-old Man Who Climbed Out …
Oct 8th Tyler, Anne Clock Dance
Nov 12th Krueger, W.K. This Tender Land
Dec 10th Cohen, Jon Harry’s Trees
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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