RCPL Book Club: Book Bites

Font Size: + -

Feedback Print

The RCPL Adult Book Club is currently being restructured. It will relaunch September 2026.

The RCPL Adult Book Club is open to all adults in the community. We invite adults to join us by reading the book and coming to discuss the book with other club members.

Books for 2026

JAN	Broke in America by Joanne Samuel Goldblum	Poverty in America Awareness Month
FEB	The World Doesn't Require You by Rion Amilcar Scott	Black History Month
MAR	Absolution by Alice McDermott	Women's History Month
APR	We're Not Broken: Changing the Autism Conversation by Eric Garcia	Autism Awareness Month
MAY	They Called Us Enemy by George Takei	Asian Pacific Heritage Month
JUN	Summer Fun by Jeanne Thornton	LGBTQ+ Pride Month
JUL	CANCELLED The Collected Schizophrenias by Esmé Weijun Wang	Disability Pride Month
AUG	TBD	Senior Citizen Month
SEP	TBD	Banned Book Week
OCT	TBD	Hispanic Heritage Month
NOV	TBD	Native American Heritage Month
DEC	No book club this month

Books for 2025

JAN	Poverty, by America by Matthew Desmond	Poverty in America Awareness Month
FEB	The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride	Black History Month
MAR	On Girlhood: 15 Stories From the Well-Read Black Girl Library edited by Glory Edim	Women's History Month
APR	Golem Girl by Rita Lehrer
MAY	All the Flowers Kneeling by Paul Train	Asian Pacific Heritage Month
JUN	A Carnival of Snackery: Diaries (2003-2020) by David Sedaris	LGBTQ+ Pride Month
JUL	My Name is Emilia del Valle by Isabel Allende
AUG	Old in Art School: A Memoir by Nell Painter	Senior Citizen Month
SEP	Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi	Banned Book Week
OCT	Velvet Was the Night by Silva Moreno Garcia	Hispanic Heritage Month
NOV	Whiskey Tender by Deborah Jackson Taffa	Native American Heritage Month
DEC	No book club this month

Books for 2024

JAN	Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, by Matthew Desmond	Poverty in America Awareness Month
FEB	The Yellow House, by Sarah M. Broom	Black History Month
MAR	Once I Was You, by Maria Hinojosa	Women's History Month
APR	The Other Americans, by Laila Lalami	Arab American Heritage Month
MAY	A Tale for the Time Being, by Ruth Ozeki	Asian Pacific Heritage Month
JUN	Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, by Benjamin Alire Saenz	LGBTQ+ Pride Month
JUL	Year of the Tiger: An Activist’s Life, by Alice Wong	Disability Independence Day
AUG	Oh William!, by Elizabeth Strout	Senior Citizen Month
SEP	The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain	Banned Book Week
OCT	Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories, by Sandra Cisneros	Hispanic Heritage Month
NOV	The Night Watchman, by Louise Edrich	Native American Heritage Month
DEC	No Book Club this month

Books for 2023

JAN	At Home: A Short History of Private Life, Bill Bryson
FEB	The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story	Black History Month
MAR	East of Eden, by John Steinbeck
APR	Stillness is the Key, by Ryan Holiday
MAY	August-Osage County, by Tracy Letts
JUN	Call Us What We Carry, by Amanda Gorman
JUL	Collected Fictions, by Jorge Luis Borges
AUG	Old Filth, by Jane Gardam	Senior Citizen Month
SEP	The Undocumented Americans, by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio	Hispanic Heritage Month
OCT	The Bluest Eye, by Toni Morrison	Banned Book Week
NOV	Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light, by Joy Harjo	Native American Heritage Month
DEC	No Book Club this month

Books for 2022

JAN	Life and Other Shortcomings, by Corie Adjmi
FEB	Clark and Division, by Naomi Hirahara
MAR	Talking to Strangers, byMalcom Gladwell
APR	An Ideal Husband, by Oscar Wilde
MAY	The Liar’s Dictionary, by Eley Williams
JUN	Memorial Drive: A Daughter’s Memoir, by Natasha Tretheway
JUL	Best American Short Stories 2018, edited by Roxane Gay
AUG	The Lincoln Highway, by Amor Towles
SEP	Angela's Ashes, by Frank McCourt
OCT	The Round House, by Louise Erdrich
NOV	Fences, by August Wilson
DEC	No Book Club this month