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 2021 – Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler
February – Anxious People by Fredric Backman
March – Eat Joy by Natalie Eve Garret – One City, One Story
April – The Humans by Matt Haig
May – Last Flight by Julie Clark
June – Meet me at the Museum by Ann Youngson
July – Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk by Kathleen Rooney
August – Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli
September – The Tiger’s Wife by Tea Obreht.
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
Romance Reads Book Club
The Romance Reads Book Club meets the 3rd Wednesday of the month from 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm via Zoom.
September & October – The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang
November – Get a Life Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert
December – The Weekend Wedding Assistant by Rachel Gladstone
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 – The Red Pyramid by Rick Riordan
February – The Rise of Kyoshi by F.C. Yee
March – The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle
April – The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers
May – Stardust by Neil Gaiman
August – The Princess Bride by William Goldman
September – All Systems Red by Martha Wells
October – Beasts of Burden: Animal Rites by Jill Thompson
November – Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
December – Terrier by Tamora Pierce
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