The Santa Clarita Public Library is ready with lots of resources to help you make your book club meetings memorable.
Meetings
Up For Discussion – Valencia Library Reader’s Group
The Valencia Library Reader’s Group meets the first Thursday of every month from 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm in the meeting room for those 18 and older.
March 2018 Being mortal: medicine and what matters in the end by Gawande, Atul
April 2018 Hillbilly elegy: a memoir of a family and culture in crisis by Vance, J. D.
May 2018 A Gentleman in Moscow: a novel by Towles, Amor
June 2018 A Truck full of Money by Kidder, Tracy
July 2018 Are we smart enough to know how smart animals are? by Waal, F. B. M de (Frans B. M.)
August 2018 The immortalists by Benjamin, Chloe
September 2018 Anasi boys by Gaiman, Neil
October 2018 Loving Frank: a novel by Horan, Nancy
November 2018 The Ministry of Utmost Happiness: a novel by Roy, Arundhati
December 2018 Sourdough: a novel by Sloan, Robin
Newhall Library Saturday Morning Book Club
The Newhall Library Saturday Morning Book Club meets the second Saturday of every month 10:30 – 12:00 in the meeting room.
February 2018 – Marjorie Morningstar by Herman Wouk
March 2018 – Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
April 2018 – The Path Between the Seas by David McCullough
May 2018 – The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
June 2018 – A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
Science Fiction Book Club
The Science Fiction Book Club meets the second Monday of each month 6:30 – 8:00 at Valencia Public Library.
Feb. 12, 2018 Neuromancer by William Gibson
March 12, 2018 Lock In by John Scalzi and Ready Player One by Earnest Cline
April 9, 2018 The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
May 14, 2018 The Fifth Wave by Rick Yancey
June 11, 2018 The Just City by Jo Walton
July 9, 2018 The Three-body Problem by Cixin Liu
Canyon Country Adult Book Club
The Canyon Country Adult Book Club meets the third Thursday of the month 4:30 PM – 6:00 PM
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