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
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
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: Tough and Go by Lisa Gardner
May: State of Wonder by Ann Patchett
Blessing Health Professions Library in Quincy
Contact us at 217-228-5520 x. 6970. Melissa DeVerger
Brimfield Book Club meets on the 4th Tuesday of the month at 1pm
January 24th-
February 28th-
March 28th-
April 25th-
May 23rd-
June 27th-
July 25th-
August 22nd-
September 26th-
October 24th-
November 28th-
December 26th-
For more information, contact Abby at 309-446-9575 or amiles@brimfieldlibrary.org.
Books+Tea @ the Library (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'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 2016
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 – NF –
June 2017 – F
July 2017 – NF
August 2017 – F
September 2017 – Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly
October 2017 – F
November 2017 – NF
December 2016 – F
Tome Raiders Science Fiction/Fantasy Book Club (tentative list)
January - The Fold by Peter Clines
April - Lexicon by Max Barry
Food for Thought Book Club (tentative list)
April – The Gardens of Emily Dickinson by Judith Farr
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
The Spring Bay Bookies celebrated 14 years in January. We meet once a month at our branch library. We hope to avoid conflicts with other book clubs in getting our selections. The past year proved successful. We take turns selecting books and hosting that meeting. Here is our list for 2016.
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
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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
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Suspect
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Crais, Robert
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April 24
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Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
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Gilbert, Elizabeth
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May 22
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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
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John McCann
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April 12
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Thirteen Moons
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Charles Frazier
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May 10
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My Brilliant Friend
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Elena Ferrante
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Mystery Book Club
Mystery Book Club is an adult reading/discussion group sponsored by the Friends of the Macomb Public Library. It meets the fourth Wednesday every month from August to May at 7:00 pm (*with slight deviations for November and December to accommodate holidays). The book club will meet at the Macomb Public library multi-purpose room.
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
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Dreaming Spies
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Laurie R. King
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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
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
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TBA
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TBA
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June 2
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Ellis Island
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Kate Kerrigan
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July 7
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Dragon House
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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
Jan 2017: We Never Asked for Wings by Vanessa Diffenbaugh
Meet at the Pleasant Plains location on the 4th Thursday of each month @ 7 pm
January 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.
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
February 9, 2017 Romance
March 9, 2016 Historical Fiction
April 13, 2017 Award Winner
May 11, 2017 Contemporary Fiction
BREAK FOR SUMMER READING PROGRAM
August 10, 2017 Second Chance Book
Meet at One Eleven Coffee at 6 p.m. the second Tuesday of each month
Jan 10th Penny, Louise Still Life
Feb 14th Meissner, Susan A Fall of Marigolds
Mar 14th Zusak, Marcus I Am The Messenger
April 11th Cleave, Chris Everyone Brave is Forgiven
May 9th Tyler, Anne Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
June 13th Meyer, Stephanie The Chemist
Questions about this wiki?
Contact Beth Duttlinger
bethd@lmelibrary.org
Lillie M. Evans Library District
207 N Walnut, PO Box 349
Princeville, IL 61559
lmelibrary.org
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