The library currently has two adult book groups. The Bookies have been meeting for over 25 years and meet the third Thursday of the month at 7 pm. Currently meeting virtually. The M.A.D. About Books group is newer and meets the first Thursday of each month at 7 pm. Currently meeting virtually with plans to meet at the Zelienople Community Park gazebo during the Summer months. Both groups work from a list of books chosen by the group members. Each member takes a turn hosting the meeting when their book choice is discussed. Snacks are always included. We read a variety of fiction with the occasional nonfiction title thrown in and read at least one classic novel a year. Participants do not have to purchase books. We borrow them from other libraries. We also play one murder mystery game a year. Field trips related to our books are also occasionally planned. If you are interested in joining a book group, please leave your contact info with the staff.
Titles to be discussed in 2022 include:
For the Bookies:
- The Language of Flowers/Vanessa Diffenbaugh
- Melchizedek/Ellen Gunderson Traylor
- Fever/John G. Fuller
- State of Terror/Louise Penny and Hillary Clinton
- The Sentence/Louise Erdrich
- This Tender Land/William Kent Krueger
- The Last Bookshop in London/Madeline Martin
- Interior Chinatown/Charles Yu
- The Personal Librarian/Marie Benedict
- Raft of Stars/Andrew J. Graff
- Rust/Eliese Colette Goldbach
- The Picture of Dorian Gray/Oscar Wilde
- The Bohemians/Jasmine Darznik
- Women of the Bible/Shannon Bream
Other novels of interest: Cloud Cuckoo Land
The M.A.D. about Books group:
- One Thousand White Women: the journals of May Dodd/Jim Fergus
- The Personal Librarian/Marie Benedict
- The Alice Network/Kate Quinn
- Circle of Influence/Annette Dashofy
- The Ringmaster’s Wife/Kate Cambron
- Station Eleven/Emily St. John Mandel
- Rules of Civility/Amor Towles
- The Lincoln Highway/Amor Towles
- The Johnstown Flood/David McCullough
- Crazy Rich Asians/Kevin Kwan