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Bookgroup picks for 2017

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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.

Please click here for 2016 titles 

Please click here for 2015 titles

 

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

 


 

Beardstown Houston Memorial

 

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

 


Bradford Public Library District

 


 

Brimfield Public Library District 

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.

 


 

Chillicothe Public Library

Books+Tea @ the Library (book club webpage)

 

For more information, contact Catherine at 309-274--2719 or cbarnett@chillicothepubliclibrary.org.

 


 

Colchester District Library

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


 

Eureka Public Library District

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

 

 

 


Henderson County Public Library District - Biggsville

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

 


 

Illinois Prairie District Public Library - Spring Bay Branch

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.

 


 

Lillie M. Evans Library District in Princeville "Talk About a Good Book” Discussion Group

Usually meets last Monday of the month at 3 pm in Turner Room

 

2017(Our 14th year)

January 30

Lilac Girls

Kelly, Martha Hall

February 27

Founding Mothers: The Women Who Raised Our Nation

Roberts, Cokie

March 27

Suspect

Crais, Robert

April 24

Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

Gilbert, Elizabeth

May 22

House of Silk

Horowitz, Anthony

June 26 

Lock In

Scalzi, John

July 31

Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War

Roach, Mary

August 28

Swans of Fifth Avenue

Benjamin, Melanie

September 25

Book that Matters Most

Hood, Ann

October 30

Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II

Kiernan, Denise

November 27

Nightingale

Hannah, Kristin

December 11th @ 3pm —Coffee Chat about your favorite books of 2017

& get our new list for 2018

 

Blog available online at: http://talkaboutagoodbook.blogspot.com/ 

Contact Beth Duttlinger lill@lmelibrary.org for more information.

 


 

Macomb Public Library

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

Discussion Date Title Author
January 11
All the Light We Cannot See
Anthony Doerr
February 8
The Elegance of the Hedgehog
Muriel Barbery
March 8
Let the Great World Spin
John McCann
April 12
Thirteen Moons
Charles Frazier
May 10
My Brilliant Friend
Elena Ferrante

 

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
Title
Author
January 25
Death on Deadline
Robert Goldsborough
February 22
Splinter the Silence
Val McDermid
March 22
The Mapping of Love and Death
Jacqueline Winspear
April 26
Jane and the Canterbury Tale
Stephanie Barron
May 24
Dreaming Spies
Laurie R. King

 

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
Title
Author
January 6
All the Light We Cannot See
Anthony Doerr
February 3
The Light Between the Oceans
M.L. Stedman
March 3
The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend
Katarina Bivald
April 7
The Nightingale
Kristin Hannah
May 5
TBA
TBA
June 2
Ellis Island
Kate Kerrigan
July 7
Dragon House
John Shors
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.

 


 

Morton Public Library Book Club

Held at the Morton Public Library at 315 W. Pershing St in Morton, IL

 

Contact Tahdra for more information:   TahdraT@mortonlibrary.org 

 


 

Normal Public Library

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


 

Pekin Public Library

 

Jan 2017:  We Never Asked for Wings by Vanessa Diffenbaugh

 

 


 

Prairie Skies Public Library District

 "Bookies" Book Club 

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

 

 


Quincy Public Library

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

 


 

Tremont District Library

Third Thursday Bookclub -- Meet at Eli's coffee shop in Tremont at 12:30PM on the third Thursday of each month.

 


Washington District Library

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

 


 

Wyoming Public Library Book Club

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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