# Celebrate Reading this March
Did you know? March 3-9 is Celebrate Reading Week in Jacksonville! This year's theme, Where the Wild Books Are, is designed to take our City's youngest readers on adventures with fictional and real-life animals to show them just how exciting reading and learning can be!
If you're a parent, you know how important it is for your kids to see you reading for enjoyment. But as adults, we're all reading role models!
So, in addition to attending all of these fun, bookish programs and events as a family: What better way to model reading for the next generation of bookworms and support literacy for all ages than to join a Library Book Club?! And with so many book clubs to choose from, in libraries across Jacksonville, you'll find one that's the right fit in no time!
Never miss out! Get book club emails, program reminders and more!
# Adult Reading Challenge
We've got a fresh new set of 16 Jax Stacks Reading Challenge categories for 2024! While many of the categories are designed to broaden your reading horizons and get you to try something new, others are going to match up with books you're probably planning to read anyway. Either way, you'll have fun and read some great books! To make it easy, we've printed up Jax Stacks Bookmarks to help you keep track of the categories you've crossed off. Pick one up at your local library.
Get monthly Jax Stacks book recommendations to fulfill your chosen categories on our blog or by email or by requesting a personalized booklist.
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# Jax Stacks Virtual Book Club
We will discuss: "A book you read as a child" on Tuesday, March 5 at 6:30 p.m., live on Zoom. Note: No specific book is required to be read for this book club but it is a way for you to get (and give) extra book recommendations! Come talk about the books you're reading; it might just help another reader!
Event full? Click here to find more upcoming JaxStacks Book Club meetings.
# This Month's Book Club Picks
# Discovery Book Club
If you're looking to explore different genres or take a chance on something new, this is the book club for you!
# Pablo Creek Regional Library
Discussing Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
# Comic Club - Graphic Novel Book Club
Whether you can name every Robin from memory or you liked that one episode of Watchmen on HBO, the ComiClub is here for you!
# Willow Branch Library
Discussing Chew Volume 1: Taster's Choice and Chew Volume 2: International Flavor by John Layman and Rob Guillory
# As the Page Turns
Looking for something new to read? Explore mysteries, historical fiction, romance, science fiction, and more!
# TEMPORARY LOCATION CHANGE:
# South Mandarin Branch Library
Discussing Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
# Starfish Book Club
Like fiction and nonfiction books? Why settle for just one? We'll take an extra look at the subjects of our reading to guide the discussion.
# Beaches Branch Library
Discussing Mother May I by Joshilyn Jackson
# Tangled Webb Book Club
Get caught up in a good book at Webb! We read and chat about a variety of fiction titles.
# Webb Wesconnett Library
Discussing Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
# Novel Pursuits Book Club
Have books, will travel... to wherever our fiction collection takes us! Meets the third Saturday of the month.
# San Marco Branch Library
Discussing The Bangalore Detectives Club by Harini Nagendra
# Nuts About Reading
Read and chat about a variety of fiction and nonfiction titles on the third Tuesday of the month.
# West Branch Library
Discussing The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich
# From Books to Film
Is the book REALLY always better than the movie? We read a book and watch the movie (on our own) and discuss them both.
# Southeast Regional Library
Discussing In the Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel Philbrick
# New Leaf Book Club
Bringing together readers with different and shared interests... Each month, we discuss a title to get you thinking.
# Highlands Regional Library
Saturday, March 23 @ 12:30 p.m.
Discussing Tiny Beautiful Things by Cheryl Strayed
# Shelf Conscious Book Club
Whether you’re an avid reader or struggle to find the time to complete just one book, you are welcome here!
# Maxville Branch Library
Discussing The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green
# Flamingo Book Club
Spread your wings with a diverse selection of fiction, nonfiction, and some Florida-based literature.
# Beaches Branch Library
Discussing Verity by Colleen Hoover
# Club 364.1
Do you enjoy real-life crime stories? 364.1 is the Dewey Decimal number for True Crime books! Meets the fourth Thursday of the month.
# Meeting online via Zoom
Discussing The Case of the Murderous Dr. Cream by Dean Jobb
