Join us for a special History Book Club session on Tuesday, Feb. 12. We will be discussing the book On Saudi Arabia by Karen Elliott House at the Smithsonian Sackler Museum.
Book Clubs
The DC Public Library offers a variety of book clubs for residents to gather and discuss their love of books. Below is a list of just some of the clubs offered. Please note that sometimes book club events are canceled or rescheduled due to unforeseen circumstances. Please check the calendar to make sure an event is scheduled on the date you wish to attend. You can also call the library where the event is scheduled.
Cleveland Park Library Mystery Book Club
This club meets the first Thursday of each month on the 2nd floor at Barnes & Noble, 12th and E streets N.W. The group chooses the books each month, two to three months in advance. All types of crime writing are considered, from cozies to noir. Monthly notice is sent by e-mail. You don't have to join the group to receive the e-mail. For more information, contact Barbara Gauntt at the Cleveland Park Neighborhood Library. Call 202-282-3072 for more information.
Francis Gregory Adult Book Club
This club for adults only meets every fourth Wednesday at Francis Gregory Neighborhood Library. Selections include fiction (mystery, romance, history, short stories, classics, etc.) and nonfiction (biography, travel, finance, etc.). The facilitator invites suggestions from customers, book club members and staff. Past selections include The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers, The Wake of the Wind by California Cooper and The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama. Call 202-645-4297 for more information.
Georgetown Book Club
We meet on the third Thursday of each month at 7:30 p.m. at the Georgetown Branch of DC Public Library. All books we read are available through the library system, so there is no need to purchase titles. Anyone who likes to read literary fiction and the occasional nonfiction title is welcome, as are suggestions for upcoming titles. For more information, visit our meetup page or e-mail Maria.Rosensweig@dc.gov.
Graphic Novel Book Club
The graphic novel book club meets monthly at the Georgetown Neighborhood Library on the first Thursday at 7 p.m. All are welcome! We read all types of graphic novels, from adult to children's content. We also read comics from DC and Marvel, as well as lesser-known graphic novel titles. For more information, please visit our meetup page, or call 202-727-0232.
Palisades Library Book Club
This club meets once a month on the third Tuesday at the Palisades Neighborhood Library. The club reads a wide variety of fiction and nonfiction with occasional forays into poetry and plays. Everyone makes suggestions, and the club chooses the selection by group consensus. For more information, contact the library at 202-282-3139.
Watha T. Daniel/Shaw History Book Club
The American History Book Club meets on the first and fourth Mondays of each month at Watha T. Daniel/Shaw Interim Library. We cover Presidents and Reformers through recent biographies. We discuss the new understanding of well known figures that emerage in the biographies. Each month we consider a new figure using these biographies. For more information, contact the library at 202-671-0265.
West End Book Club
This club meets at the West End Neighborhood Library the third Tuesday of every month. Call 202-724-8707 for more information.
Published on Monday, January 28, 2013
'145th Street Short Stories'
Published on Friday, January 25, 2013
Join daBook Club for a discussion of some of the great stories in this collection of shorts Walter Dean Myers. These stories all take place on the 145th block in Harlem and feature characters like Big Joe, who wants to attend his own funeral, fine Peaches and her girl, Squeezie, Monkeyman, and Benny, a fighter on the way to a knockout.
145th Street Short Stories is sure to get a few laughs, though at times it is wrenchingly sad; it's guaranteed to be a great read!
After the book discussion, we'll have a pizza party!
What's Your Favorite?
Published on Tuesday, January 15, 2013
The West End Book Club will meet Tuesday, Jan. 22 at 12:30 p.m. to discuss individual favorites or recently read works, fiction or nonfiction.
Each person will have 5-10 minutes to speak and share likes/dislikes about any particular title of interest and to recommend it or not.
Refreshments will be served.
Possible titles for reading and discussion for the rest of the year also will be discussed. Please join us!
Mystery Book Club Selection for February
Published on Friday, January 11, 2013
On Feb. 7, join us to discuss The Boy in the Suitcase by Danish authors Lene Kaaberbol and Agnete Friis.
Sent to retrieve a suitcase from a public locker in the Copenhagen train station, Nina Borg, a Red Cross nurse, wife and mother who is a compulsive do-gooder, finds a surprise inside the suitcase: a 3-year-old boy, drugged, but alive. In an increasingly desperate trek across Denmark, Nina tries to figure out who the boy is, where he belongs and who exactly is trying to hunt him down.
'Last Man In Tower'
Published on Friday, January 11, 2013
Aravind Adiga, winner of the Man Booker prize for The White Tiger, is back with another biting, insightful novel about the desire for power and money, and how this impacts people and the
Published on Thursday, January 10, 2013
Come join us Feb. 7 at 7 p.m. for a discussion of the graphic novel Are You My Mother by Alison Bechdel.
A story about another story, this memoir follows a mother and lesbian daughter’s interactions as the daughter airs the family’s dirty laundry. Follow along as the author hilariously embarks on a quest for answers concerning the mother-daughter gulf.
Join us for a lively discussion, pizza, and soda! We will meet in the lower level conference room.
Published on Thursday, January 10, 2013
“Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.”
-- Nicole Krauss, The History of Love
Published on Tuesday, January 8, 2013
Follow Celeste Tyree to Pineyville, Miss., in Freedom Summer 1964 as she leaves the University of Michigan and her middle-class existence to embark on a journey that will change her life forever.
Celeste has volunteered to help organize the voter registration project. Shuck, Celeste's father, is a bar owner and ex-numbers man living in Detroit, fearful of his daughter's latest venture. His fears increase when a young girl whom Celeste has befriended goes missing.
'The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court'
Published on Thursday, December 13, 2012
The Supreme Court's secretive nature lends it an aura of mystery not shared by the other branches of American government. Reports on the goings-on of the court rarely go beyond the hearings themselves; everything else is sheer speculation and few are the brave who would dare risk this at the cost of never again being given a viable quote by a justice.
Published on Tuesday, December 11, 2012
Come join us on Jan. 3 at 7 p.m. for a discussion of the graphic novel Daytripper by Fábio Moon and Gabriel Bá.
In every chapter of this book, the main character, Brás, dies. Each chapter picks up at a different point in his life where he lives and dies again. Follow along as Brás finds variety and meaning in his daily interactions and lives life to the fullest, because at any moment he could die.
Come discuss this thought-provoking graphic novel and get a slice of pizza and some soda.
