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 2022
Libraries A-Z
Alpha Park Public Library in Bartonville
We meet the 2nd Thursday of the Month
Our book club meets the 3rd Monday of each month at 5 p.m.
Book Club est. May 2006
January 2022 - Cilka's Journey by Heather Morris
February 2022 - Point of Danger by Irene Hannon
March 2022 - The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles
April 2022 - The Maid by Nita Prose
May 2022 - When We Meet Again by Kristin Harmel
June 2022 - Shanghai Girls by Lisa See
July 2022 - The Yellow Wife by Sadeqa Johnson
August 2022 - Mrs. Everything by Jennifer Weiner
September 2022 - Someone Like You by Karen Kingsbury
October 2022 - Little Souls by Sandra Dallas
November 2022 - Left Neglected by Lisa Genova
December 2022 - The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrille Zevin
Brimfield Book Club meets on the 4th Tuesday of the month at 1:00pm
January 25th - Discussing Have You Seen Luis Velez by Catherine Ryan Hyde - picking up Dreamland by Sam Quinones
February 22nd - Discussing Dreamland by Sam Quinones - picking up The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
March 22nd - Discussing The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt - picking up Plainsong by Kent Haruf
April 26th - Discussing Plainsong by Kent Haruf - picking up The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
May 24th - Discussing The Midnight Library by Matt Haig - picking up The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict
June 28th - Discussing The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict - picking up The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich
July 26th - Discussing The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich - picking up The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Richardson
August 30th - Discussing The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Richardson - picking up The Midwife's Revolt by Jodi Daynard
September 27th -Discussing The Midwife's Revolt by Jodi Daynard - picking up The Sound of Gravel by Ruth Wariner
October 25th - Discussing The Sound of Gravel by Ruth Wariner - picking up The Girl from Guernica by Karen Robards
November 22nd - Discussing The Girl from Guernica by Karen Robards - picking up The Mermaid Chair by Sue Monk Kidd
December 27th - Discussing The Mermaid Chair by Sue Monk Kidd - picking up T.B.D.
For more information, contact Abby at 309-446-9575 or awood@brimfieldlibrary.org.
Books+Tea @ the Library meets on the 4th Monday of the month (book club webpage)
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.
Our book club (RIOT ACT - Readers In Our Town Are Coming Together) meets on the 4th Thursday of the month at 7 pm.
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Musings on Main
Book Selections 2022
First Thursdays @ 6:30pm
January 6 - Come Fly the World (Julia Cooke)
February 3 - The Nature of Small Birds (Susie Finkbeiner)
March 3 - Radar Girls (Sara Ackerman)
April 7 - The Reading List (Sara Adams)
May 5 - Akin (Emma Donaghue)
June 2 - The Guest List (Lucy Foley)
July 7 - NO MEETING
August 4 - Anxious People (Fredrik Backman)
AND/OR Under the Tulip Tree (Michelle Shocklee)
September 1 - The Keeper of Lost Things (Ruth Hogan)
October 6 - No assigned book - planning meeting potluck night
November 3 - There She Was (Amy Argetinger)
December 1 - Wish Book Christmas (Lynn Austin)
Farmington Area Public Library District
Second Monday Book Group (Second Monday each month at 6:30pm)
January 10 - Where the Crawdads Sing - picking up Big Stone Gap by Adriana Trigiani
February 14 - Big Stone Gap - picking up Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz
March 14 - Magpie Murders - The Stranger In The Lifeboat by Mitch Albom
April 11 - The Stranger In The Lifeboat - picking up A Slow Fire Burning by Paula Hawkins
May 9 - A Slow Fire Burning
June 13 - Not Meeting
July 11 - Not Meeting
August 8 - Not Meeting
September 12 - We Begin At The End by Chris Whitaker - picking up Sooley by John Grisham
October 10 - Sooley - picking up A Woman of No Importance by Sonia Purnell
November 14 - A Woman of No Importance - picking up Alaskan Holiday: A Novel by Debbie Macomber
December 12 - Alaskan Holiday: A Novel - picking up The Undertakers Daughter by Sara Blaedel
After Thoughts Book Club at Hanna City Community Center (Last Monday of each month except for May and August at 9:30am)
January 31 - The Midnight Library - picking up The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown
February 28 - The Boys in the Boat - picking up Blacktop Wasteland by S. A. Cosby
March 28 - Blacktop Wasteland - picking up Anxious People by Fredrik Backman
April 25 - Anxious People - picking up Afterlife by Julia Alvarez
May 23 - Afterlife - picking up The Music of Bees by Eileen Garvin
June 27 -The Music of Bees - picking up The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict & Victoria Christopher Murray
July 25 - The Personal Librarian
August 29 - Not Meeting
September 26 - The Stanger in the Lifeboat by Mitch Alborn - picking up Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford
October 31 - Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet - picking up The Maid by Nita Prose
November 28 - The Maid - picking up The Christmas Bookshop by Jenny Colgan
December ? - The Christmas Bookshop - picking up TBD
FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT THE LIBRARY AT 309-245-2175
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
Tome Raiders Science Fiction/Fantasy Book Club
Food for Thought Book Club
Buzzwords Book Club
Book Club is the 4th Tuesday of each month at 7 pm at the Library.
2022 Book Club Titles
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Jan.: Dooley by John Grisham
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Feb.: canceled due to low turnout
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March: River of Doubt by Candace Millard
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April: The President & the Freedom Fighter by Brian Kilmeade
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May: Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks
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June: Masterpiece by Francine Rivers
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July: To the Moon and Back by Karen Kingsbury
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Aug.: Big Stone Gap by Andriana Trigiani
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Sept.: A Higher Call by Adam Makos
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Oct.: The Second Mrs. Astor by Shana Abe’
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Nov.: no meeting
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Dec.: no meeting
Starting 10/25/21, our Book Club will meet the last Monday of the month at 7:30 pm at the Library, except December (no meeting) and May (one week earlier).
7/25/22: The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins
8/29/22: When Crickets Cry, by Charles Martin
9/26/22: This Tender Land, by William Kent Krueger
10/24/22: Odd Thomas, by Dean Koontz
11/28/22: The Chilbury Ladies' Choir, by Jennifer Ryan
1/30/23: The Five People You Meet in Heaven, by Mitch Albom
2/27/23: Bel Canto, by Ann Patchett
3/27/23: All Creatures Great and Small, by James Herriot
4/24/23: The Radium Girls, by Kate Moore
5/22/23: The Girl from Guernica, by Karen Robards
6/26/23: Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury
Turning Pages Book Club
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.
January |
The life-changing magic of tidying up: The Japanese art of decluttering and organizing
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Marie Kondo |
February |
Educated: A memoir |
Tara Westover |
March |
The Personal Librarian |
Marie Benedict |
April |
Sourdough |
Robin Sloan |
May |
Oona Out of Order |
Mararita Montimore |
June |
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil |
John Berendt |
July |
The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise |
Dan Gemeinhart |
August |
The Butterfly's Daughter |
Mary Alice Monroe |
September |
The Boys: a memoir of Hollywood and Family |
Ron & Clint Howard |
October |
The Trial of Lizzie Borden |
Cara Robertson |
November |
The Nature of Fragile Things |
Susan Meissner |
December |
The Diamond Eye |
Kate Quinn |
Illinois Prairie District Public Library
Book Buzz meets the 2nd Tuesday of each month at 1 pm.
January - The Personal Librarian, by Marie Benedict
February - The Woman They Could Not Silence, by Kate Moore
March - One Two Three, by Laurie Frankel
April - E. R. Nurses, by James Patterson and Matt Eversmann
May - Wish You Were Here, by Jodi Picoult
June - The Boys, by Ron Howard and Clint Howard
July - The Midnight Library, by Matt Haig
August - The Day the World Came to Town, by Jim DeFede
September - The Lost Apothecary, by Sarah Penner
October - How the Word is Passed, by Clint Smith
November - Necessary Lies, by Diane Chamberlain
December - Christmas at the Mysterious Bookshop, edited by Otto Penzler
Spring Bay Branch
The Spring Bay Bookies celebrated 20 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.
January 3 - The Loop by Nicholas Evans
February 7 - Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty
March 7 - Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys
April 4 - We Begin at the End by Chris Whitaker
May 2 - The Beantown Girls by Jane Healey
June 6 - The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah
July 7 - Her Mother's Hope by Francine Rivers
August 1 - The Giver of Stars by JoJo Moyes
September 1 - Reconstructing Amelia by Kimberly McCreight
October 3 - The Music of Bees by Eileen Garvin
November 7 - Things You Save in a Fire by Katherine Center
December 5 - Still Me by Jo Jo Moyes
Adult Book Club meets the 3rd Monday of each month.
January 17 - Rules of Civility by Amor Towles
February 21 - Anxious People by Fredrik Backman
March 21 - The Lying Game by Ruth Ware
April 18 - An American Sunrise (NEA Big Read) by Joy Harjo
May 16 - A Good Neighborhood by Therese Anne Fowler
June 20 - The Rules of Magic by Alice Hoffman
July 18 - The Lager Queen of Minnesota by J. Ryan Stradal
August 15 - The Dutch House by Anne Patchett
September 19 - What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty
October 17 - Lady in the Lake by Laura Lippman
November 21 - The Book of Longings by Sue Monk Kidd
December 19 - Comfort & Joy by Kristin Hannah
Higher Learning Book Club is a limited-run club (Feb-April 2022).
February 15 - Forensics: What Bugs, Burns, DNA, and More Tell Us About Crime by Val McDermid
March 22 - How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America by Heather Cox Richardson
April 26 - Buzz, Sting, Bite: Why We Need Insects by Anne Sverdup-Thygeson
Usually meets last Monday of the month at 3 pm in Turner Room
2022 (Our 19th year)
January 31
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Jennifer Ryan
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February 28
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Brit Bennett
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March 28
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Therese Fowler
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April 25
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Susan Orlean
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May 23
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Abbi Waxman
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June 27
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Kate Quinn
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July 25
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Phaedra Patrick
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August 29
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Jojo Moyes
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September 26
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Where the Crawdads Sing **Due to the high volume of holds, we have substituted:
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Delia Owens
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October 31
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Marie Benedict
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November 28
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Maxwell King
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December 12th @ 3pm —Coffee Chat about your 2022 favorites & get our new list for 2023
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Blog available online at: http://talkaboutagoodbook.blogspot.com/
Contact Beth Duttlinger lill@lmelibrary.org for more information.
Page Turners
Page Turners is an adult reading/discussion group sponsored by the Friends of the Macomb Public Library. They meet monthly on Mondays 4:30-5:30 p.m. in the Macomb Public Library multi-purpose room. Usually the group meets on the 2nd Monday of the month, though sometimes they meet on the 3rd Monday if there is a Monday holiday closure on the usual meeting date.
Date
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June 13, 2022
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This Is How It Always Is
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Laurie Frankel
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JULY BIG LIBRARY READ-TBA |
The Girl in His Shadow |
Audrey Blake |
July 18, 2022
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American Dirt
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Jeanine Cummins
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August 8, 2022
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Ordinary Grace
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William Kent Krueger
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September 19, 2022
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Maya's Notebook
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Isabel Allende
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October 17, 2022
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The Loneliest Americans
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Jay Caspian Kang
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November 14, 2022
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The Dressmakers of Auschwitz
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Lucy Adlington
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December 14, 2022 |
Small Things Like These
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Claire Keegan |
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 library staff assistance, so staff is usually unaware the titles are intended for book club use or how long materials 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 non-RSA libraries.
Contact Carla Ainslie macomblib.carla@gmail.com or macomb.pld.rsa@gmail.com for more information.
Our Book Group meets the first Thursday of every month at 6:30 PM. New members and visitors are always welcome! We meet in person, but readers are welcome to join us on Zoom. Just email us at elmwoodlib@gmail.com to get the link.
January 6 -- The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley
February 3 -- Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive by Stephanie Land
March 3 -- The Kitchen Front by Jennifer Ryan
April 7 -- The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V. E. Schwab
May 5 -- The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray
June 2 -- A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
July 7 -- Under the Tuscan Sun by Frances Mayes
August 4 -- The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill
September 1 -- Eternal by Lisa Scottoline
October 6 --- The Martian by Andy Weir
November 3 -- Chatter: The Voice in Our Head by Ethan Kross
December 1 -- The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
Held at the Morton Public Library at 315 W. Pershing St in Morton, IL
Contact Tahdra for more information: TahdraT@mortonlibrary.org
Stranger Than Fiction: A Nonfiction Book Club meets monthly, usually on the 2nd Wednesday from 6:30-7:30 pm. Beginning in June, we will meet at the Beer Hall at DESTIHL, in Normal. Contact: Rhiannon - rhiannon@normalpl.org
April 2022: Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud and the Last Trial of Harper Lee by Casey Cep
May 2022: Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law by Mary Roach
June 2022: Good Boy: My Life in Seven Dogs by Jennifer Finney Boylan
July 2022: The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit by Michael Finkel
August 2022: The Unwomanly Face of War: An Oral History of Women in World War II by Svetlana Aleksievich
September 2022: Ruthless Tide: The Heroes and Villains of the Johnstown Flood, America’s Astonishing Gilded Age Disaster by Al Roker
October 2022: The Best We Could Do by Thi Bui
November 2022: Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer
December 2022: Conditional Citizens: On Belonging in America by Laila Lalami
Romance Me Book Club meets monthly, usually on the 4th Thursday from 6:30-7:30 pm in the Community Room.
February 24 2022: The Proposal by Jasmine Guillory
March 24 2022: Normal People by Sally Rooney
April 28 2022: The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
May 26 2022: Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan
June 23 2022: Red White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston
July 28 2022: Recipe for Persuasion by Sonali Dev
August 25 2022: Beach Read by Emily Henry
September 22 2022: You Had Me at Hola by Alexis Daria
October 27 2022: The Ex Hex by Erin Sterling
November: NO MEETING
December 22 2022: Ayesha at Last by Uzma Jalaluddin
We meet the 1st Monday of the month at 2 and 6:30 (same book both times)
I ORDER 42 BOOKS EACH MONTH (sorry to deplete the supply) Beth bbradford@pekinpubliclibrary.org
Jan - All Adults Here by Emma Straub
Feb - The Bookish Life of Nina Hill by Waxman
March - Midnight Library by HAIG
April - What Comes After by JoAnne Tompkins
May- THE LIBRARY OF LOST AND FOUND by Phaedra Patrick
JUNE- The Paris Library by Janet Skeslien Charles
JULY / The Push By Audrain
AUG /Author visit / Music Of Bees By Garvin
SEPT / Beekeeper Of Aleppo By Lefteri
OCT/ Daisy Jones and the 6 by Taylor Jenkins Reid
NOV /The Woman They Could Not Silence by Kate Moore
DEC / The Survivors by Jane Harper
2023
Jan – Violeta by Allende
Feb/The Maid –
March/Band of Sisters
April Bewilderment by Richard Powers
May/The Measure by Erlick
June/Black Cake by Wilkerson
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
TBD
Renaissance Readers--meet in the library on the second Tuesday of each month at 10:15 AM
TBD
Unshelved--meets in the library on the second Wednesday of each month at 1:00 PM
TBD
20s & 30s SciFi/Horror reading group -- meets in the library on the third Wednesday of each month at 6:00 PM.
TBD
Literary Angles--meet at the library on the third Tuesday each month at 1:30 PM
TBD
All Over the Page--meets at local restaurants on the third Tuesday of each month at 7:00 PM
TBD
Third Thursday Bookclub
YA Book Club (Last Tuesday of Each Month)
Youth Book Club (Last Tuesday of Each Month)
Third Thursday Bookclub -- Meet at Eli's coffee shop in Tremont at 12:30PM on the third Thursday of each month.
January -- The music of bees by Eileen Garvin
February -- The girl with the louding voice by Abi Daré
March -- The Maid by Nina Prose
April -- The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes
May -- Chilbury Ladies' Choir
June -- The Worst Hard Time
July -- The Four Winds by Kristen Hannah
August -- Travels with Charley by John Steinbeck
September --The Library of Lost and found by Phaedra Patrick
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.)
Meet at the Paramount Theater at 6 p.m. the third Tuesday of each month
January and February we will meet at One Eleven Coffee at 11:30 a.m.
2022
Jan 11th Clark, Julie The Last Flight
Feb 8th Bennett, Brit The Vanishing Half
Mar 8th Harmel, Kristin The Forest of Vanishing Stars
April 12th Meissner, Susan The Nature of Fragile Things
May 10th Prose, Nita The Maid
June 14th Sepetys, Ruta I Must Betray You
July 19th Harris, Kai What the Fireflies Knew
Aug 16th Wright, Camron The Rent Collector
Sept 20th Clark, Julie The Lies I Tell
Oct 18th Hlad, Alan A Light Beyond the Trenches
Nov 15th Brown, Eleanor Any Other Family
Dec 20th Skenandore, Amanda The Second Life of Mirelle West
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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