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.
January – The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey
February – Where the Crawdads Sign by Delia Owens
March – Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
April – This is Your Life, Harriet Chance! by Jonathan Evison
May – The Overstory by Richard Powers
June – Heartland by Sarah Smarsh
July – The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richards & The Giver of Stars by JoJo Moyes
August – Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
September – Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
October – Americanah by Chimamanda Adichie
November – Mama Day by Gloria Naylor
December – No Book
January 2021 – Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler
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.
January – Slaughter House Five by Kurt Vonnegut
February – Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate
March – Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
April – Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson
May – Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyou
June – The Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen by Hendrik Groen
July – 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos by Jordan B. Peterson
August – The Secret Wife by Gill Paul
September – Sold on a Monday by Kristina McMorris
October – Circe by Madeline Miller
November – There There by Thomas Orange
December – The Last Black Unicorn by Tiffany Haddish
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.
January – Little Paris Bookshop by Nina George
February – Becoming by Michelle Obama
March – Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
April – Lilac Girls by Martha Hall Kelly
May – Garbology by Edward Humes
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.
January – Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones
February – The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N.K. Jemisin
March – The Witch Boy by Molly Ostertag
April – Santa Olivia by Jacqueline Carey
May – Equal Rites by Terry Pratchett
August – (Book Schedule Changed)
September – Old Man’s War by Scalzi, John
October – So you want to be a wizard? by Diane Duane
November –Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
December –Finna by Nino Cipri
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