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
Please click here for 2019 titles
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
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 - T.B.D.
July 26th - T.B.D.
August 30th - T.B.D.
September 27th -T.B.D.
October 25th - T.B.D.
November 22nd - T.B.D.
December 27th - T.B.D.
For more information, contact Abby at 309-446-9575 or amiles@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 - TBD
October 10 - TBD
November 14 - TBD
December 12 - TBD
After Thoughts Book Club at Hanna City Community Center (Last Monday of each month except for May 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 - Open Discussion - picking up Once We Were Brothers by Ronald H. Balson
October 31 - TBD
November 28 - TBD
December ? - 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
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).
1/31/22: Still Life, by Louise Penny
2/28/22: The Cold Dish, by Craig Johnson
3/28/22: The Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder, by Joanne Fluke
4/25/22: We Are Legion, We Are Bob, by Dennis E. Taylor
5/23/22: Open Season, by C.J. Box
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.
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 - TBD
November 7 - Things You Save in a Fire by Katherine Center
December 5 - TBD
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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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.
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 meeting 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.
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
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 /Bewilderment by Richard Powers
DEC / The Woman They Could Not Silence by Kate Moore
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)
Tremont District Library
Third Thursday Bookclub -- Meet at Eli's coffee shop in Tremont at 12:30PM on the third Thursday of each month.
Young Adult Book Club -- Meets at Eli's coffee shop in Tremont at 7pm on the third Tuesday 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 -- We Were the Lucky Ones by Georgia Hunter
further dates tbd
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
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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