Adult Book Clubs

Next Meeting: Thursday, March 6th at 6 p.m. at the Amery Ale Works.

Book: Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi

A novel about faith, science, religion, and family that tells the deeply moving portrait of a family of Ghanaian immigrants ravaged by depression and addiction and grief, narrated by a sixth-year candidate in neuroscience at Stanford school of medicine studying the neural circuits of reward-seeking behavior in mice.
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Next Meeting: Tuesday, March 11th at 2 p.m. at the library
Book: The Long Call by Ann Cleeves

In North Devon, where two rivers converge and run into the sea, Detective Matthew Venn stands outside the church as his father’s funeral takes place. Once loved and cherished, the day Matthew left the strict evangelical community he grew up in, he lost his family too. Now, as he turns and walks away again, he receives a call from one of his team. A body has been found on the beach nearby: a man with a tattoo of an albatross on his neck, stabbed to death. The case calls Matthew back into the community he thought he had left behind, as deadly secrets hidden at its heart are revealed, and his past and present collide. MORE Catalog Record

Past Books

• 2025
  • January – The Boy from the Woods by Harlan Coben
  • February – Winter Counts by David Heska Wanbli Weiden
•  2024
  • January – Big Lies in a Small Town by Diane Chamberlain
  • February – Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz
  • March – The Keeper of Lost Causes by Jussi Adler-Olsen
  • April – The K Team by David Rosenfelt
  • May – The Cold Dish by Craig Johnson
  • June – Nothing Ventured by Jeffrey Archer
  • July – Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger
  • August – Spider Woman’s Daughter by Anne Hillerman
  • September – The Family Chao by Lan Samantha Chang
  • October – Wicked Autumn by G. M. Malliet
  • November – Daisy Darker by Alice Feeney
  • December – The Mistletoe Murder and Other Stories by P. D. James and Thin Ice by Paige Shelton
•  2023
  • February – The Maid by Nita Prose
  • March – The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
  • April – The Woman in the Library by Sulari Gentill
  • May – Nine Lives by Peter Swanson
  • June – The Plot by Jean Hanff Korelitz
  • July – And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
  • August – The Life We Bury by Allen Eskens
  • September – Still Life by Louise Penny
  • October – The Sisters Brothers by Patrick DeWitt
  • November – Before She Disappeared by Lisa Gardner
  • December – An Unwanted Guest by Shari Lapena

Do you enjoy reading non-fiction? Then this is the book club for you.

In most book clubs, the members all read and discuss the same book at a meeting. However, when it comes to non-fiction, it is often difficult to obtain multiple copies of the same book. So, this book club uses a thematic approach instead. Each month the members read a book of their own choice about a theme that the group agreed upon at the previous meeting. Then at the book club meeting, each member talks about their book and what they learned.

For February the theme is “couples”. Read any book about a couple (romantic, co-wokers, opponents, etc.) and join us to share what you discovered!

• Next Meeting: Thursday, February 27th from 2:00 – 3:30 p.m.
• Theme: Couples
• Meeting location: Makerspace Room on the lower level of the library

Questions? Contact Trevor Richards, the library’s Adult Services Librarian, at (715) 268-3431 or trichards@amerylibrary.org