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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

We meet the 2nd Thursday of the Month

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

April 13th, The Cellar by Minette Walters

May 11th, The Reader by Bernhard Schlink

June 8th, When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi

July 13th, The Lost City of Z by David Grann

August 10th, The Rabbit in Red by Joe Chianakas

September 14th, The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson

October 12th, The Lake House by Kate Morton

 

 


 

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: Touch and Go by Lisa Gardner

May: State of Wonder by Ann Patchett

June: The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion

July: The Burning Room by Michael Connelly

August: The Silver Star by Jeannette Walls

September: The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton

October: The Bodies Left Behind by Jeffery Deaver

November: Shanghai Girls by Lisa See

December: Winter Street by Elin Hilderbrand


 

Blessing Health Professions Library in Quincy

Contact us at 217-228-5520 x. 6970.  Melissa DeVerger

 


Bradford Public Library District

Our book club meets the 3rd Monday of each month at 5 p.m.

 

January 2017 - Gathering Blue - Lowry

 

 


 

Brimfield Public Library District 

Brimfield Book Club meets on the 4th Tuesday of the month at 1pm

 

January 24th- The Midwives Revolt by Helen Simonson

February 28th- A Man Called Ove by Frederick Backman & The Nature of the Beast by Louise Penny

March 28th- The Wet Nurse's Tale by Erica Eisdorfer

April 25th- The Last Patriot by Brad Thor

May 23rd- Mrs Lincoln's Dressmaker by Jennifer Chiaverini  

June 27th- The Fever Tree by Jennifer McVeigh

July 25th- The Husband's Secret by Liane Moriarty

August 22nd- TBD

September 26th- TBD

October 24th- TBD

November 28th- TBD

December 26th- TBD

 

For more information, contact Abby at 309-446-9575 or amiles@brimfieldlibrary.org.

 


 

Chillicothe Public Library

Books+Tea @ the Library meets on the 4th Monday of the month (book club webpage)

 

January 23 - Fortune Smiles, by Adam Johnson  

February 27 -  Between the World and Me, by Ta-Nehisi Coates 

March 27 -   The Custom of the Country, by Edith Wharton 

April 24 -   Station Eleven, by Emily St. John Mandel

May 22 -   The Forgotten Garden, by Kate Morton

June 26 -   H Is for Hawk, by Helen McDonald

July 24 -  The Woman in Cabin 10, by Ruth Ware 

August 28 -  Commonwealth, by Ann Patchett

September 25 -  Little Heathens: Hard Times and High Spirits, by Mildred Armstrong Kalish

October 23 -  The Haunting of Hill House, by Shirley Jackson

November 27 -  The Round House, by Louise Erdrich

December 18 -  A Man Called Ove, by Fredrik Backman

 

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 2017

January 5 - "Classic" book of the reader's choice (definition of a classic is up to the reader)

February 2 - A Man Called Ove: a novel   by Fredrick Backman

March 2 - White Smoke   by Andrew Greeley

April 6 - Vinegar Girl   by Anne Taylor

May 4 - The Life We Bury    by Allen Eskens

June 1 - The Other Einstein  by Marie Benedict

July 6 - Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates: the forgotten war that changed American History  by Brian Kilmeade

August 3 - (Reader's Choice) Lights Out: a cyberattack, a nation unprepared, surviving the aftermath by Ted Koppel  OR   The Circle   by David Eggers

September 7 - (Reader's Choice)  They Left Us Everything: a memoir  by Plum Johnson OR  Can't We talk About Something More Pleasant?  by Roz Chast

October 5 - No book selection.  Brainstorming for 2018 titles

November 2 - 97 Orchard

December 7 - Saving Simon: how a rescue donkey taught me the meaning of compassion    by Jon Katz

                                            


 

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 – Be Frank with Me by Julia Claiborne Johnson

June 2017 – Third Coast: When Chicago Built the American Dream Thomas Dyja 

July 2017 –  Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley 

August 2017 – The Gentleman by Forrest Leo

September 2017 – Are You Sleeping by Kathleen Barber

October 2017 – American Heiress by Jeffrey Toobin

November 2017 – The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien

December 2016 – Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk by Kathleen Rooney

 

 

Tome Raiders Science Fiction/Fantasy Book Club (tentative list)

January - The Fold by Peter Clines

February - All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders 

March - Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams 

April - Lexicon by Max Barry

May - Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by Corey Doctorow

June – Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne 

July – The Difference Engine by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling

August – Retribution Falls by Chris Wooding

September - 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne

October - Soulless by Gail Carriger 

November - The Thief Lord by Cornelia Funke 

December - Witches Be Crazy by Logan 

 

 

Food for Thought Book Club (tentative list)

March - The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

April – The Gardens of Emily Dickinson by Judith Farr

May - Botany of Desire by Michael Pollan

June - Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

July - Modified by Caitlin Shetterly

August - Devoured by Sophie Egan

September - Vintage by David Baker 

October - A Square Meal by Andrew Coe

November - I Will Send Rain by Rae Meadows

 

 


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 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 2017.  

 

MONTH               READING                                           AUTHOR                                                          DISCUSSING

Jan                        The Boys in the Boat                        Daniel James Brown                                        Feb 6

Feb                        The Healing                                     Jonathan Odell                                                Mar 6

Mar                       The Snow Child                                Eowyn Ivey                                                      Apr 3

Apr                        The Poet                                          Michael Connelly                                             May 1

May                       Low Country                                    Anne Rivers Siddons                                       June 5

Jun                        The Mercedes Coffin                       Faye Kellerman                                                July 3

Jul                         All Fall Down                                    Jennifer Weiner                                               Aug 7

Aug                       Three Cups of Tea                           Greg Mortenson                                              Sep 7

Sep                        The Last Town of Earth                    Thomas Mullen                                               Oct 2

Oct                        Fly Away                                           Kristen Hannah                                               Nov 6

Nov                       Everything I Never Told You             Celeste Ng                                                      Dec 4

Dec                       The Life-Changing Magic                 Marie Kondo                                                   Jan 4

                                  Of Tidying Up

             


 

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 
July 19 The Crossing Places Elly Griffiths
September 13 Born a Crime Trevor Noah
October 11 Hillbilly Elegy J.D. Vance
November 8 A Man Called Ove Fredrik Backman
December TBA TBA
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 Brave New World Aldous Huxley

 

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 
July 19 The Crossing Places Elly Griffiths
September 27 Murder in the Ball Park
Robert Goldsborough
October 25 The Face of a Stranger Anne Perry
November 15 Blood Hollow William Kent Krueger
December TBA TBA
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

 

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 
Me Before You
JoJo Moyes
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

 

January We Never Asked for Wings

February 6  My Story by Elizabeth Smart

March 6   Girl Waits with Gun by Amy Stewart

April 3 Arsonist by Sue Miller

May 1 Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger;

June 5 Versions of Us  by Laura Barnett

July  Man Called Ove by Fredrick Backman

August – Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert

Sept –  Under the Wide and Starry Sky by Nancy Horan 

Oct – The Children Act by Ian McEwan

Nov -  Last Days of Night by Graham Moore

Dec - Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult 

 

 

 


 

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.

 

January: My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry by Fredrik Backman
February: The Perfect Horse: The Daring U.S. Mission to Rescue the Priceless Stallions Kidnapped by the Nazis by Elizabeth Letts 

March: Bridget Jones Diary
April: I am Malala
May
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June : Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger
July : Ashley's War
August : Cinder by Marissa Meyer

September : News of the World by Paulette Jiles

 

The Breakfast Club -- young adult discussion group, meets at Eli's coffee shop in Tremont, 9:30 a.m.

 

June 12: Everything Everything by Nicola Yoon

July 14: Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs 


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                                        SWORN TO SILENCE (Kate Burkholder #1//Linda Castillo)

     February 9, 2017          Romance                                               UNTIL THERE WAS YOU (Kristan Higgins)  

     March 9, 2017              Historical Fiction                                   RAINWATER (Sandra Brown)     

     April 13, 2017               Award Winner                                       ALL THE MISSING GIRLS (Megan Miranda)

     May 11, 2017               Contemporary Fiction                            NINE WOMEN, ONE DRESS (Jane L. Rosen)

     BREAK FOR SUMMER READING PROGRAM

     August 10, 2017          Second Chance Book                              SEA SWEPT (Nora Roberts)

     September 14, 2017     From Page to Screen

     October 12, 2017         Spooky/Horror/True Crime

     November 9, 2017       Author's Debut Book

     December 14, 2017     Book about a Book Store

 


 

Wyoming Public Library Book Club

Meet at One Eleven Coffee at 6 p.m. the second Tuesday of each month

Jan 10th  Penny, LouiseStill Life 

Feb 14th  Meissner, Susan   A Fall of Marigolds 

Mar 14th  Zusak, MarcusI Am The Messenger 

April 11th  Cleave, ChrisEveryone Brave is Forgiven 

May 9th  Tyler, AnneDinner at the Homesick Restaurant  

June 13th  Meyer, StephanieThe Chemist 

July 11th  Perry, ThomasMetzger’s Dog 

Aug 8th   Bleeker, Emily When I’m Gone 

Sept 12th  Smith, Martin Cruz The Girl From Venice 

Oct 10th  Colin, Beatrice To Capture What We Cannot Keep 

Nov 14th  Krueger, William Kent Ordinary Grace 

Dec 12th    

 

 

 


 

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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