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.
April 2017 The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien
May 2017 Please Look After Mom by Kyung Sook Shin
June 2017 Homegoing by ykaa Gyasi
July 2017 Sweet Tooth by Ian McEwan
August 2017 13 Reasons Why by Jay Asher
September 2017 Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
October 2017 The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula LeGuin
November 2017 Lab Girl by Hope Jahren
December 2017 The Storied Life of A J Fikrey by Gabrielle Zevin
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.
Science Fiction Book Club
The Science Fiction Book Club meets the second Monday of each month 6:30 – 8:00 at Valencia Public Library.
February 13 Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? By Philip K. Dick
March 13 The Water Knife by Paolo Bacigalupi
April 10 Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie
May 8 Old Man’s War by John Scalzi
June 12 All The Birds in the Sky by Charles jane Anders
July 10 Feed by M.T. Anderson
August 14 The Long Earth by Terry Pratchett
September 11 The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
October 16 New York 2140 by Kim Stanley Robinson
November 13 Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
December 11 The Yiddish Policemen’s Union by Michael Chabon
January 8 The Speed of Dark by Elizabeth Moon
Canyon Country Adult Book Club
The Canyon Country Adult Book Club meets the second Tuesday of the month 6:15 PM – 7:45 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
