The DC Public Library offers a variety of book clubs for residents to gather and discuss their love of books. Below is a list of just some of the clubs offered. Please note that sometimes book club events are canceled or rescheduled due to unforeseen circumstances. Please check the calendar to make sure an event is scheduled on the date you wish to attend. You can also call the library where the event is scheduled.
Cleveland Park Library Mystery Book Club
This club meets the first Thursday of each month on the 2nd floor at Barnes & Noble, 12th and E streets N.W. The group chooses the books each month, two to three months in advance. All types of crime writing are considered, from cozies to noir. Monthly notice is sent by e-mail. You don't have to join the group to receive the e-mail. For more information, contact Barbara Gauntt at the Cleveland Park Neighborhood Library. Call 202-282-3072 for more information.
Francis Gregory Adult Book Club
This club for adults only meets every fourth Wednesday at Francis Gregory Neighborhood Library. Selections include fiction (mystery, romance, history, short stories, classics, etc.) and nonfiction (biography, travel, finance, etc.). The facilitator invites suggestions from customers, book club members and staff. Past selections include The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers, The Wake of the Wind by California Cooper and The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama. Call 202-645-4297 for more information.
Georgetown Book Club
We meet on the third Thursday of each month at 7:30 p.m. at the Georgetown Branch of DC Public Library. All books we read are available through the library system, so there is no need to purchase titles. Anyone who likes to read literary fiction and the occasional nonfiction title is welcome, as are suggestions for upcoming titles. For more information, visit our meetup page or e-mail Maria.Rosensweig@dc.gov.
Graphic Novel Book Club
The graphic novel book club meets monthly at the Georgetown Neighborhood Library on the first Thursday at 7 p.m. All are welcome! We read all types of graphic novels, from adult to children's content. We also read comics from DC and Marvel, as well as lesser-known graphic novel titles. For more information, please visit our meetup page, or call 202-727-0232.
Palisades Library Book Club
This club meets once a month on the third Tuesday at the Palisades Neighborhood Library. The club reads a wide variety of fiction and nonfiction with occasional forays into poetry and plays. Everyone makes suggestions, and the club chooses the selection by group consensus. For more information, contact the library at 202-282-3139.
Watha T. Daniel/Shaw History Book Club
The American History Book Club meets on the first and fourth Mondays of each month at Watha T. Daniel/Shaw Interim Library. We cover Presidents and Reformers through recent biographies. We discuss the new understanding of well known figures that emerage in the biographies. Each month we consider a new figure using these biographies. For more information, contact the library at 202-671-0265.
West End Book Club
This club meets at the West End Neighborhood Library the third Tuesday of every month. Call 202-724-8707 for more information.
The Georgetown Book Club will meet to discuss Jesmyn Ward's 2011 National Book Award-winning novel Salvage the Bones on Oct. 18 at 7:30 p.m.
Teenage Esch and her brothers have had difficult lives as the children of an alcoholic father in rural Mississippi, and now a big storm called Katrina is approaching their coastal town, promising to add even more complications to their family life. Everyone who has read the book is welcome to attend the discussion.
The West End Book Club will meet Tuesday, Oct. 16 at 12:30 p.m. in the small meeting room on the second floor to discuss Frankenstein, the gripping, spine-chilling classic by Mary Shelley.
It is often seen as both the first modern horror novel and the first science fiction novel. Copies are available at the reference desk. Please join us.
The Chevy Chase History/Biography Book Club selection is The Unknown Matisse and/or Matisse the Master, both by Hilary Spurling. Read one (or both!) biographies and come and discuss the life of this fascinating artist!
The October selection for the Chevy Chase Mystery Book Club is The Coroner's Lunch by Colin Cotterill.
The book takes place in Laos in 1975. The Communist Pathet Lao has taken over this former French colony. Dr. Siri Paiboun, a 72-year-old Paris-trained doctor, is appointed national coroner. Although he has no training for the job, there is no one else; the rest of the educated class has fled.
On Oct. 4, join us to discuss Still Life, the first in the Inspector Armand Gamache series, now in its eighth volume. The book won an impressive number of awards for first novel, including the New Blood Dagger from the Crime Writers' Association and was named one of the five Mystery/Crime Novels of the Decade by Deadly Pleasures magazine. The author went on to become the first writer to win the Agatha Award for Best Novel four times.
The Prohibition era was one of the most vibrant and socially complex eras of twentieth century United States history.
The September selection of the Chevy Chase Mystery Book Club is Dead Even by Brad Meltzer.
Sara Tate starts her job as a New York City assistant district attorney the day before massive budget cuts. To keep her job, she grabs a case slated for one of the DA office's hot shots, thinking it will be the kind of showpiece that will make her a hero. The next day, she learns that the defense attorney on the case is her husband, Jared Lynch.
Someone is pitting Sara and Jared against each other and both are being threatened: Win the case or your spouse dies.
Aya wants to grow up and be a doctor. She wants to help people, but her friends and relatives — another story!
Do you like to knit or crochet? Are you a reader? If so, then join our Knit & Lit Club.
We meet on Saturday afternoons at 3 p.m. for fun, conversation, and the chance to hang out. We are an informal group -- no registration required. Just show up. The club is open to all skill levels.
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