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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 2021 

 

For 2020 titles, please click here -------->

Please click here for 2019 titles

Please click here for 2018 titles

Please click here for 2017 titles

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 

 


 

Beardstown Houston Memorial

 


Bradford Public Library District

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

Book Club est. May 2006

 

January 2021 - The Warmth of Other Suns - Isabel Wilkerson

February 2021 - The Yearling - Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

March 2021 - The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse - Charlie Mackesy

April 2021 - The Keeper of Lost Things - Ruth Hogan

 

 


 

Brimfield Public Library District

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

January-April - no in person book club due to COVID-19.

May 25: No book discussion - picking up The Red Book by Deborah Copaken

June 22: Discussing The Red Book by Deborah Copaken - picking up The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah

July 27: Discussing The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah - picking up The Woods by Harlan Coben

August 24: Discussing The Woods by Harlan Coben - picking up T.B.D.

September 28:

October 26:

November 23:

December 28:

 

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)

 

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

 

2021:

January 25 – News of the World, by Paulette Jiles

February 22 – Blue Horses: Poems, by Mary Oliver

March 22 – Lab Girl, by Hope Jahren (this is the focus book for Chillicothe Public Library’s 2021 NEA Big Read. You can pick up a free copy at the library!)

April 26 – The House of the Spirits, by Isabel Allende

May 24 – Talking to Strangers, by Malcolm Gladwell

June 28 – The Vanishing Half, by Brit Bennett

July 26 – The Secret Wisdom of the Earth, by Christopher Scotton

August 23 – The Library Book, by Susan Orlean

September 27 – The Night Watchman, by Louise Erdrich

October 25 – The Witch of Painted Sorrows, by M.J. Rose

November 22 – Grand Union: Stories, by Zadie Smith

December 20 – This Is Happiness, by Niall Williams (We’ll be meeting early at 6:00 p.m. this month)

 


 

Colchester District Library

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.

 



El Paso District Library

 

Our book club (RIOT ACT - Readers In Our Town Are Coming Together) meets on the 4th Thursday of the month at 7 pm.

 

 


 

Eureka Public Library District

Musings on Main 

 

Book Selections 2021

First Thursdays @ 6:30pm

 

     


 

Farmington Area Public Library District

Second Monday Book Group (Second Monday each month at 6:30pm)

Resumes Monday, September 13th with Discussion of Favorite Summer Read.

October 11th's book TBD

 

For more information contact the Library at 309-245-2175

 

 

After Thoughts Book Club at Hanna City Community Center (Last Monday of each month except June, July & August at 9:30am)

Resumes Monday, September 27th with Discussion of Favorite Summer Read.

October 25th's book TBD

 

 


 

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

 


Henderson County Public Library District - Biggsville

Turning Pages Book Club

 

 


 

Henry Public Library - Henry, IL

 

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.

 

Date Title Author Location
January 11 Reader's Choice    Zoom & Basement
February 8 Before We Were Yours Lisa Wingate Zoom & Basement
March 8 The Other Einstein Marie Benedict Zoom & Basement
April 12 New Kid Jerry Craft Zoom & ??
May 10 The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek Kim Michele Richardson Zoom & ??
June 14  The Queen: The forgotten life behind an American Myth  Josh Levin  Zoom & ??
       
July 12  Mama Makes Up Her Mind: And other dangers of Southern LIving  Bailey White  Zoom & Lawn 
August 9  The Library of Lost Things  Laura Taylor Namey  Zoom & Lawn 
September 13  All Adults Here  Emma Straub  Zoom & Lawn 
October 11  Trapped: The 1909 Cherry Mine Disaster  Karen Tintori  Zoom & ??? 
November 8  The Midnight Library   Matt Haig 

Zoom & ??? 

December 13  Silent Night: The Story of the World War I Christmas Truce  Stanley Weintraub  Zoom & Basement 

 

We meet at 9:30 on the Second Monday of the month.  We generally pick 6 months of books at a time.

 


 

Illinois Prairie District Public Library

 

Germantown Hills Branch

Book Buzz meets the 2nd Tuesday of each month at 1 pm.

 

 

Spring Bay Branch

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. 

Spring Bay Bookies 2021

Meeting   Reading

Apr 5       The Lady Cyclist’s Guide to Kashgar by Suzanne Johnson

May 3      Death of a Macho Man by M C Beaton

June 7      The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson

July 1       The Lost Man by Jane Harper

Aug 2       Snap Shot by Lis Wiehl

Sep 2       The Secret Life of CeeCee Wilkes by Diane Chamberlain

Oct 4       If the Creek Don’t Riseby Leah Weiss

Nov 1      Defending Jacob by William Landy

Dec 6      Unsolved by James Patterson

 

 


 

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

 

                       2021 (Our 18th year)

January 25

All Creatures Great & Small

James Harriot

February 22

Celebrate Black History Month and pick a book by an African American author

 

March 29

Pick a Hemingway book or readalike

 

April 26

Pick a poem by US Poet Laurate, Joy Harjo or Unbound by Ann E. Burg

 

May 24

I feel Bad About My Neck

Nora Ephron

June 28

Island of Sea Women

Lisa See

July 26

Last Lecture

Randy Pausch

August 33

Farm

Joanne Ramos

September 27

Twenty-One Days

Anne Perry

October 25

No Time Like the Future

Michael J. Fox

November 29

In Five Years

Rebecca Serle

December 13th @ 3pm —Coffee Chat about your favorite books of 2021

& get our new list for 2022

 

Members, please check blog online for latest info 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. The book club will meet at the Macomb Public library multi-purpose room.

 

 

 

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.

 

 

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.

 

Book Club 2

This group usually meets roughly every 6 to 8 weeks and selects subsequent selections on their meeeting dates. Some exceptions are made for holidays with this schedule, though. This group usually requests 2 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 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 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.

 


Morrison & Mary Wiley Library (in Elmwood)

We are currently meeting over Zoom on the first Thursday of every month, hoping to return to in-person meetings in the spring or summer. Our Book Group meets the first Thursday of every month at 6:30 PM. New members and visitors are always welcome!

 

January 7, 2021 -- Miracle Creek by Angie Kim

February 4, 2021 -- Born a Crime by Trevor Noah

March 4, 2021 -- The Chosen by Chaim Potok

April 1, 2021 -- Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler

May 6, 2021 -- Refugee by Alan Gratz (2020 Rebecca Caudill winner)

June 3, 2021 -- The World That We Know by Alice Hoffman

July 1, 2021 -- Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell

August 5, 2021 -- The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See

September 2, 2021 -- Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson

October 7, 2021 -- Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

November 4, 2021 -- Moon Over Manifest by Clare Vanderpool

December 2, 2021 -- The Christmas Box by Richard Paul Evans

 

 


 

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

NPL Book Club at the Normal Public Library, 206 West College Avenue, Normal is currently on hiatus. 


 

Pekin Public Library

We meet the 1st Monday of the month at 2 and 6:45 (same book both times) I ORDER 38 BOOKS EACH MONTH which can deplete the Large Print copies for the month (sorry) If you run into a conflict with my group, let me know!  Beth         bbradford@pekinpubliclibrary.org

 

January - This Tender Land by William Kent Kruger

Feb – American Dirt by Jeanine Cummings

March - The Good Neighborhood by Therese Fowler

April - The Huntress by Kate Quinn

May - Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman

June - The Martian  by Weir

July – Akin by Emma Donoghue

August – 7 and a half Deaths

September – Hillbilly Elegy by Vance

October – The Lager Queen of Minnesota

November – Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid

December – The Dearly Beloved by Cara Wall

 

 

 

 

 


 

Prairie Skies Public Library District

 "Bookies" Book Club 

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

     


Quincy Public Library

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

  


Toulon Public District Library

Third Thursday Bookclub

 

 

YA Book Club (Last Tuesday of Each Month)

 

 

Youth Book Club (Last Tuesday of Each Month)

 


 

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 -- Little Fires Everywhere

February -- Secret Wisdom of the Earth

March -- Winter Solstice by by Rosamunde Pilcher

April --   Call Me American by Abdi Nor Iftin

May -- This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger 

June -- BYO Book (Swap Reading Recommendations)

July -- Keeper of Lost Things
August -- Educated

 

 

Young Adult Book Club -- Meets at Eli's coffee shop in Tremont at 7pm on the third Tuesday 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.)

 

 


 

Wyoming Public Library Book Club

Meet at One Eleven Coffee at 5:45 p.m. the second Tuesday of each month

2020 

 


                   

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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