Adult Book Clubs
We have three book clubs to choose from:
- Books & Brews meets the first Thursday of each month at 6 p.m. at the Amery Ale Works. This club reads a variety of fiction books, and even non-fiction on occasion.
- Mystery Book Club meets the second Tuesday of each month at 2:00 p.m. at the library.
- Non-fiction Book Club meets the last Thursday of each month at 2:00 p.m. at the library
Books & Brews
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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Mystery Book Club
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 2025 – The Boy From the Woods by Harlan Coben
- February 2025 – Winter Counts by David Heska Wanbli Weiden
- 2024
- January 2024 – Big Lies in a Small Town by Diane Chamberlain
- February 2024 – Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz
- March 2024 – The Keeper of Lost Causes by Jussi Adler-Olsen
- April 2024 – The K Team by David Rosenfelt
- May 2024 – The Cold Dish by Craig Johnson
- June 2024 – Nothing Ventured by Jeffrey Archer
- July 2024 – Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger
- August 2024 – Spider Woman’s Daughter by Anne Hillerman
- September 2024 – The Family Chao by Lan Samantha Chang
- October 2024 – Wicked Autumn by G. M. Malliet
- November 2024 –Daisy Darker by Alice Feeney
- December 2024 – The Mistletoe Murder and Other Stories by P. D. James and Thin Ice by Paige Shelton
- 2023
- February 2023 – The Maid by Nita Prose
- March 2023 – The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
- April 2023 – The Woman in the Library by Sulari Gentill
- May 2023 – Nine Lives by Peter Swanson
- June 2023 – The Plot by Jean Hanff Korelitz
- July 2023 – And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
- August 2023 – The Life We Bury by Allen Eskens
- September 2023 – Still Life by Louise Penny
- October 2023 – The Sisters Brothers by Patrick DeWitt
- November 2023 – Before She Disappeared by Lisa Gardner
- December 2023 – An Unwanted Guest by Shari Lapena
Non-fiction Book Club
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