We invite you to join our book club!
Every other month, a different Community Library staff member chooses a book and hosts a lively discussion. Our exciting new book club features a wide array of genres, including popular fiction, science fiction, narrative nonfiction, literary fiction … even graphic novels.
There’s something for every reader, and participants can drop in for one session or attend them all!
Book Clubs are intellectually stimulating and a great way to connect to your library and community. To become a member, sign up here. You’ll receive reminders about upcoming sessions and updates on future dates and book selections.
Events are held in the Programs Studio inside the Children’s entrance to the Library on 4th and Walnut. Unless otherwise noted, they will be held on the first Wednesday of even numbered months.
Click here for titles and reviews from previous Book Clubs.
2026 Events
5:30pm, February 4, 2026
Here Beside the Rising Tide: A Novel by Emily Jane
Hosted by Information Systems Manager Will Duke
At age ten, Jenni Farrow and her new best friend, Timmy Caruso, enjoy a glorious summer on Pearl Island filled with fireworks, beach days, and carnival rides (not to mention that strange sea creature they rescue from a tide pool). Then, one late summer day, Timmy disappears.
Thirty years later, Jenni—now Jenn Lanaro, bestselling author of the Philipia Bay action-romance series—is desperate to escape the fatigue of her career and her soon-to-be-ex-husband. With her Pokémon-obsessed kids in tow, Jenn rents a summer house on Pearl Island. But shortly after she arrives, a boy emerges from the nighttime sea. His name, he says, is Timmy Caruso. He’s ten years old. He’s on a mission to save the world, and he needs her help. Find it in our collection here.
Read Will’s review of Here Beside the Rising Tide here.
5:30pm, April 1, 2026
The Antidote: A Novel by Karen Russell
Hosted by Director of Programs and Education Martha Williams
The Antidote opens on Black Sunday, as a historic dust storm ravages the fictional town of Uz, Nebraska. But Uz is already collapsing—not just under the weight of the Great Depression and the dust bowl drought but beneath its own violent histories. The Antidote follows a “Prairie Witch,” whose body serves as a bank vault for peoples’ memories and secrets; a Polish wheat farmer who learns how quickly a hoarded blessing can become a curse; his orphan niece, a basketball star and witch’s apprentice in furious flight from her grief; a voluble scarecrow; and a New Deal photographer whose time-traveling camera threatens to reveal both the town’s secrets and its fate. Find it in our collection here.
5:30pm, June 3, 2026
Title: To be determined
Host: To be determined
5:30pm, August 5, 2026
Title: To be determined
Host: To be determined
5:30pm, October 7, 2026
Title: To be determined
Host: To be determined
5:30pm, December 2, 2026
Title: To be determined
Host: To be determined
Click Here to Join the Club!
Sign up above to be part of one or all of our bi-monthly book discussions at The Community Library.
By joining the Book Club, you will receive one email reminder of an upcoming discussion three weeks before the event, and one “Save the Date” email announcing the next book shortly after every event.
Questions? Email Librarian Andrea Nelson here.
Want more? Read staff book reviews of Book Club titles here.
