Let’s talk about books! Whether you’re an avid reader or just looking to start a new reading adventure, our book clubs are the perfect place to connect with fellow book lovers. Registration is required – check out our Events Calendar to sign up. Pick up the next title at the Adult Services desk or download the eBook (when available).
Check out a list of all 2024 book club picks here.
A Novel Idea Book Club
A Novel Idea book club is for adults looking to read and discuss thought-provoking fiction and non-fiction. Meetings will be on the third Wednesday of every month at 2 PM.
September 18 at 2:00 PM: Hula by Jasmin ‘Iolani Hakes
Hi’i is proud to be a Naupaka, a family renowned for its contributions to hula and her hometown of Hilo, Hawaii, but there’s a lot she doesn’t understand. She’s never met her legendary grandmother and her mother has never revealed the identity of her father. Worse, unspoken divides within her tight-knit community have started to grow, creating fractures whose origins are somehow entangled with her own family history. In hula, Hi’i sees a chance to live up to her name and solidify her place within her family legacy. But in order to win the next Miss Aloha Hula competition, she will have to turn her back on everything she had ever been taught, and maybe even lose the very thing she was fighting for. Told in part in the collective voice of a community fighting for its survival, Hula is a spellbinding debut that offers a rare glimpse into a forgotten kingdom that still exists in the heart of its people.
Thrill Seekers Book Club
A book club for fans of mysteries, thrillers, and adventures – both fiction and non-fiction. Meetings will be on the second Monday of every month at 7 PM.
October 14 at 7:00 PM: The Final Girl Support Group by Grady Hendrix
In horror movies, the final girl is the one who’s left standing when the credits roll. The one who fought back, defeated the killer, and avenged her friends. The one who emerges bloodied but victorious, a victim and a hero. But after the sirens fade and the audience moves on, what happens to her? Lynnette Tarkington is a real-life final girl who survived a massacre twenty-two years ago, and it has defined every day of her life since. And she’s not alone. For more than a decade she’s been meeting with five other actual final girls and their therapist in a support group for those who survived the unthinkable, putting their lives back together, piece by piece. That is until one of the women misses a meeting and Lynnette’s worst fears are realized-someone knows about the group and is determined to take their lives apart again. But the thing about these final girls is that they have each other now, and no matter how bad the odds, how dark the night, how sharp the knife . . . they will never, ever give up
Book Club Kits
Have your own club? We’ve got the books! Our book club kits contain 10-12 copies of each book as well as discussion questions. New titles are added periodically throughout the year.
Kits must be picked up at the Plainfield Library – we cannot send them to other libraries to pick up. Contact the Adult Services Desk at info@papl.info if you have any questions or are interested in borrowing a kit.