The Santa Clarita Public Library is ready with lots of resources to help you make your book club meetings memorable.
Meetings
Books and Better Education Book Club (BABE)
BABE meets the 2nd Saturday of every month 10:30 am – 12:00 pm at The Old Town Newhall Library.
February – Less by Andrew Sean Greer
March – Wait Till Next Year by Doris Kearns Goodwin
April – The Choice: Embrace the Possible by Dr. Edith Eva Eger
May – Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
June – Educated, A Memoir by Tara Westover (Subject to change based on availability)
July – These is my Words by Nancy E. Turner
August – There, There by Tommy Orange
September – Pachinko by Gail Min Jin Lee
October – An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
November – Inheritance by Dani Shapiro
December – Holiday Party – No book selected
January 2020 – The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey
Canyon Country Adult Book Club
The Canyon Country Adult Book Club meets the 3rd Thursday of the month 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm at the Canyon Country Jo Anne Darcy Library.
February – Dona Barbara by Romulo Gallegos, translated by Robert Malloy
March – A Bridge Across the Ocean by Susan Meissner
April – Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance
May – (To be Determined)
June – Relish: My Life in the Kitchen by Lucy Knisley
July – Horoscopes for the Dead by Billy Collins
August – The Keeper of Lost Things by Ruth Hogan
September – The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
October – Pygmalion by Erin George Bernard Shaw
November – The Dressmaker of Khair Khana by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
December – The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
January 2020 – Slaughter House Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Up For Discussion – Valencia Library Reader’s Group
Up For Discussion meets the 1st Thursday of every month from 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm at the Valencia Library. For those 18 and older.
February – Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman
March – The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane by Lisa See
April – Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
May – The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
June – Calypso by David Sedaris
July – Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult (Subject to change due to July 4th holiday)
August – An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
September – Educated by Tara Westover
October – The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls
November – Atomic City Girls by Janet Beard
Worlds of Whimsy- A Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Club
Worlds of Whimsy meets the 3rd Thursday of each month 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm at the Valencia Library.
October – Meddling Kids by Edgar Cantero
November – Adaptation by Malinda Lo
December – Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones
February 2020 – The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N.K. Jemisin
March 2020 – The Witch Boy by Molly Ostertag
April 2020 – Santa Olivia by Jacqueline Carey
May 2020 – Equal Rites by Terry Pratchett
Book Club in a Bag Kits
Get a book-club-to-go with our Book Club in a Bag kits (serves 10-12) with multiple copies of a great read and some juicy conversation starters. Available at the Valencia Library, stop by to see what is currently available.
1. Olive Kitteridge (Fiction) Elizabeth Strout
2. Curious Incident of the Dog in the night-time (Fiction) Mark Hadden
3. In the Woods (fiction) Tana French
4. Stiff: the Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (Nonfiction) Mary Roach
5. Into the Wild (Nonfiction) Jon Krakauer
6. Snow Flower and the Secret Fan (Fiction) Lisa See
7. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Nonfiction) Rebecca Skloot
8. Case Histories (Fiction) Kate Atkinson
9. Beautiful Boy (Nonfiction) David Sheff
10. Juliet (Fiction) Anne Fortier
11. Mennonite in a Little Black Dress (Nonfiction) Rhoda Janzen
12. To Kill a Mockingbird (Fiction) Harper Lee
13. A Tale of Two Cities (Fiction) Charles Dickens
14. Orphan Master’s Son (Fiction) by Adam Johnson [Pulitzer Prize Winner 2013]
15. The Kill Room: A Lincoln Ryhme Novel (Fiction) by Jeffery Deaver
16. The Quickening Maze (Fiction) by Adam Foulds
17. The Lincoln Lawyer (Fiction) by Michael Connelly
18. The Lotus Eaters (Fiction) by Tatjana Soli
19. Norwegian Wood (Fiction) by Haruki Murakami
20. Twelve Years a Slave (Fiction) by Solomon Northup
21. The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka
22. The Lost City of Z by David Grann