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Looking for a book club to join this fall?
Join us for one (or more!) of our ten book clubs meeting this November, in branches and online. Try our quarterly Cookbook Club at the Regency Branch, or our newly monthly ComiClub at the Willow Branch Branch, or one of our online book clubs via Facebook or Zoom. Fun fact: The New Leaf Book Club’s selection this month is written by a Jacksonville-raised author who graduated from Stanton College Prep!
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#Check out the list of book clubs below and join your fellow readers for a great chat!
Thursday, November 4 @ 6:30 pm Discovery Book Club at Pablo Creek
An Anonymous Girl, by Greer Hendricks
"When Jessica Farris signs up for a psychology study conducted by the mysterious Dr. Shields, she thinks all she'll have to do is answer a few questions, collect her money, and leave. But as the questions grow more and more intense and invasive and the sessions become outings where Jess is told what to wear and how to act, she begins to feel as though Dr. Shields may know what she's thinking...and what she's hiding.”
Monday, November 8 @ 7 pm LibraryU Book Club Online via Facebook
Learning to Speak Southern, by Lindsey Rogers Cook
“A searing Southern story about confronting the difference between the family you're born into and the family you choose.”
Friday, November 12 @ 1pm As the Page Turns Book Club at Mandarin
The Women's March, by Jennifer Chiaverini
“Inspired by actual events, this novel offers a fascinating account of a crucial but little-remembered moment in American history that follows three courageous women who bravely risked their lives and liberty in the fight to win the vote.”
Tuesday, November 16 @ 6 pm Nuts About Reading Book Club at West
“After his father dies and his mother disappears, Cornelius sets about reinventing himself--as Professor John Woman, a man who will spread Herman's teachings into the classrooms of his unorthodox southwestern university and beyond. But there are other individuals who are attempting to influence the narrative of John Woman, and who might know something about the facts of his hidden past.”
Tuesday, November 16 @ 6 pm ComiClub Graphic Novel Book Club at Willow Branch
Invincible: The Ultimate Collection Vol. 1, by Robert Kirkman
"The only difference between Mark and everyone else his age is that his father is the most powerful superhero on the planet, and as of late, Mark seems to be inheriting his father's powers. But that's only the beginning of his problems.”
Tuesday, November 16 @ 6:30 pm Cookbook Book Club at Regency
Cook Real Hawai’i, by Sheldon Simeon
“On two seasons of Top Chef, Sheldon Simeon established himself as a leading young, creative chef (he was both a finalist and Fan Favorite on both seasons). The role he is even more proud to fill, though, is as the storyteller of Hawaiian cuisine and the many cultures that have come together there to create it: the native Hawaiian traditions, Japanese influences, Portuguese cooking techniques, and dynamic flavors that are closest to Sheldon's heart."
Thursday, November 18 @7 pm Club 364.1 True Crime Book Club Online via Zoom
Devil in the Grove, by Gilbert King
“In 1949, Florida's orange industry was booming with cheap Jim Crow labor. When a white seventeen-year-old Groveland girl cried rape, vicious Sheriff McCall was fast on the trail of four young blacks who dared to envision a future for themselves. Then the Ku Klux Klan rolled into town, burning homes and chasing hundreds of blacks into the swamps. So began the chain of events that would bring Thurgood Marshall, the man known as ‘Mr. Civil Rights,’ into the fray.”
Saturday, November 27 @ 12:30 pm New Leaf Book Club at Highlands
The Final Revival of Opal and Nev, by Dawnie Walton
“An electrifying novel about the meteoric rise of an iconic interracial rock duo in the 1970s, their sensational breakup, and the dark secrets unearthed when they try to reunite decades later for one last tour.”
Saturday, November 27 @ 2:30 pm Mysterious Affairs with the Highlands Mystery Machine at Highlands
"A shooting lays bare the secrets harbored by five families in a sleepy suburban cul-de-sac in this riveting psychological thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of All the Wrong Places."
Tuesday, November 30 @ 6:45 pm Flamingo Book Club at Beaches
The Stationery Shop, by Marjan Kamali
"A novel set in 1953 Tehran, against the backdrop of the Iranian Coup, about a young couple in love who are separated on the eve of their marriage, and who are reunited sixty years later, after having moved on to live independent lives in America, to discover the truth about what happened on that fateful day in the town square."
