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Book Clubs

Try an Adult Book Club Kit. Each kit has multiple copies of the book, a discussion guide, and more. If you want kits for younger readers check out our Children's and Teen Book Club Kits.

 

Upcoming Book Club Events

December 5, 2023
6:00 PM
Pop Genre Romance Book Club at East

Are you interested in learning more about popular book genres…

December 11, 2023
4:30 PM
Teen Book Club at Bay View

Do you love books and love to talk about them?…

5:00 PM
Build Your Own Gingerbread House at Capitol

Get inspired to build your own gingerbread house by listening…

6:00 PM
Novel Ideas Book Club at Zablocki

Please join us for a discussion of The Bear and the…

6:00 PM
YA Book Club for Adults at Center Street

The YA Book Club for Adults reads newer young…

December 14, 2023
5:00 PM
History Buff Book Club at Tippecanoe

Calling all history buffs, History Buff Book Club is back!  Please…

December 16, 2023
1:30 PM
Art Book Club at Central

This informal art book appreciation club meets once a month in…

December 17, 2023
12:30 PM
Stories of Exile Reading Group at Outside Venue

The Yiddish Book Center, Milwaukee Public Library, Jewish Museum Milwaukee and…

December 19, 2023
5:00 PM
DIY Glass Fusion Snowflake at Capitol

Listen to excerpts of Snowflake Bentley about the life of W.A.…

December 20, 2023
5:30 PM
Coming to America Book Club at Virtual

This book club approaches American identity as an evolving and ongoing…

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Midnight in Broad Daylight
Midnight in Broad Daylight
by Sakamoto, Pamela Rotner

Three Japanese American brothers found themselves on opposite sides of the world and the war after two of them returned to Hiroshima while the eldest brother served as a Japanese interpreter in the U.S.

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Unsheltered
Unsheltered
by Barbara Kingsolver

How could two hardworking people do everything right in life, a woman asks, and end up destitute? Willa Knox and her husband followed all the rules as responsible parents and professionals, and have nothing to show for it.

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Watching You
Watching You
by Lisa Jewell

You meet the man next door. He's the head teacher at the local school. Twice your age. Very attractive. You find yourself watching him. All the time. But you never dreamed that your innocent crush might become a deadly obsession.

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Fun Home
Fun Home
by Alison Bechdel

A fresh and brilliantly told memoir from a cult favorite comic artist, marked by gothic twists, a family funeral home, sexual angst, and great books.

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The House of Broken Angels
The House of Broken Angels
by Luis Alberto Urrea

Big Angel, has summoned his entire clan for one last legendary birthday bash. As the party approaches, his nearly one-hundred-year-old mother dies, transforming the weekend into a farewell doubleheader.

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The Mars Room
The Mars Room
by Rachel Kushner

A woman begins serving two life sentences at Stanville Women's Correctional Facility in California, reflecting on the San Francisco of her youth and her relationship with her young son.

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An American Marriage
An American Marriage
by Tayari Jones

When her new husband is imprisoned for a crime she knows he did not commit, a rising artist takes comfort in a longtime friendship, only to see her husband's sentence is suddenly overturned.

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There There
There There
by Tommy Orange

A novel—which grapples with the complex history of Native Americans and a plague of addiction, abuse and suicide—follows 12 characters, each of whom has private reasons for traveling to the Big Oakland Powwow.

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Gilead
Gilead
by Marilynne Robinson

An intimate tale of three generations, from the Civil War to the 20th century.

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The Color Purple
The Color Purple
by Alice Walker

The lives of two sisters--Nettie, a missionary in Africa, and Celie, a Southern woman married to a man she hates--are revealed in a series of letters exchanged over thirty years.

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