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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

March 27, 2023
6:00 PM
Climate Action Book Club at Virtual

Join us for a discussion of A House Between Earth and the…

6:00 PM
Pop Genre Horror Book Club at Bay View

Are you interested in learning more about popular book genres…

March 28, 2023
6:00 PM
1st-3rd Grade Book Club at Tippecanoe

Kids in 1st-3rd grade who are beginning to read chapter…

April 4, 2023
6:00 PM
Pop Genre Romance Book Club at East

Are you interested in learning more about popular book genres…

April 10, 2023
6:00 PM
Novel Ideas Book Club at Zablocki

Please join us as we discuss Homeland Elegies by Ayad Akhtar.  Homeland Elegies blends…

6:00 PM
Pop Genre Mystery Book Club at Mitchell Street

Join the Pop Genre Mystery Book Club! We'll be reading…

April 19, 2023
5:30 PM
Coming to America Book Club at Virtual

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

April 24, 2023
6:00 PM
Climate Action Book Club at Virtual

Join us for a discussion of Particulate Matter by Felicia Luna Lemus.…

April 25, 2023
6:00 PM
1st-3rd Grade Book Club at Tippecanoe

Kids in 1st-3rd grade who are beginning to read chapter…

May 8, 2023
6:00 PM
Novel Ideas Book Club at Zablocki

Please join us for a discussion of Pachinko by Min Jin Lee.   Through…

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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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Dopesick
Dopesick
by Beth Macy

The only book to tell the full story of the opioid crisis, from the boardroom to the courtroom and into the living rooms of Americans struggling to save themselves and their families.

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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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Queenie
Queenie
by Candice Carty-Williams

As Queenie careens from one questionable decision to another, she finds herself wondering, 'What are you doing? Why are you doing it? Who do you want to be?' -- the questions today's woman must face.

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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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The Library Book
The Library Book
by Susan Orlean

In April of 1986, the Los Angeles Public Library went up in a blaze. Who set the fire, and why? After moving to LA, New Yorker staff writer Orlean decides to seek answers.

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