Book Clubs

Davenport Public Library offers a variety of book clubs for adults.

Big/Little Book Club

Big/Little Book Club meets on the 2nd Thursday of the month at 6:30pm at the Eastern Branch. Littles (kids in 3rd through 5th grade) and their Bigs (adults or older siblings) read a book together and will discuss the book and do some book-related crafts and activities each event. Registration is required. Click here for more information.

Book Lovers

Romance readers! Join us for Book Lovers, a brand new book club featuring a variety of romance novels! Join us on the first Thursday night of each month at 6:30 at the Eastern Branch to discuss our favorite romance tropes and happily ever afters. A limited number of copies of the book will be available at the Eastern Branch on a first-come, first-served basis. This program is intended for adults; registration is appreciated but not required! Click here for more information

Brown Bag Book Club

Brown Bag Book Club is a traditional, casual-atmosphere discussion group that takes place during a late-lunch hour. Books are recently published adult fiction and nonfiction titles, as well as the occasional classic or backlist novel. It meets on the 4th Wednesday of the month at 1:00 pm at the Eastern Branch. Books can be signed out from the Eastern Branch on a first-come, first-serve basis. Click here for more information.

Online Reading Challenge (2025)

January 1 - December 31, 2025 | Ages 18+
Spend the year reading a different genre each month. Read the suggested title for the month, or choose one on your own. This reading challenge is low-pressure and ideal for someone who wants to read more.

Participate on Beanstack or use one of our challenge bookmarks. Bookmark logs are available at Library desks.

Overbooked

Do you love to read and wish you could talk to other people about what you read? Then join Overbooked! The club meets on the third Thursday of each month at 6:30 PM. A new book will be provided to you at each meeting. A variety of fiction, young adult fiction and non-fiction books will be read. Registration is required. Click here for more information.

June 26: Dinosaurs by Lydia Millet.
July 17: The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by Victoria Schwab
August 21: The Beekeeper's Apprentice by Laurie King
September 18: The Lamplighters by Emma Stonex
October 16: The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles
November 20: Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver
December 18: Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi

QCL Book Club

Join Morgan Ottier and Brittany Peacock monthly for QCL Book Club live on KWQC Channel 6 during Quad Cities today at 3pm. For more information about the books discussed. Click here for more information.

April: The Royal Librarian by Daisy Wood
May: This Summer Will Be Different by Carley Fortune
June: What Have We Done by Alex Finlay

Read With Pride

Celebrate the LGBTQ+ community every month with the Read with Pride book club! The club reads fiction and nonfiction titles by queer authors or featuring queer characters. The club meets the third Tuesday of the month at the Fairmount Branch at 6:30pm. Books are available on a first come, first serve basis at the Fairmount Branch service desk. This program is best suited to adults. Registration is required. Click here for more information.

See YA

Join the adult book club with a teen book twist. See why so many teen books are being turned into movies and are taking over the bestseller lists. Registration is not required. Books are available on a first-come, first-served basis at the Eastern Branch. The club meets the first Wednesday of the month at the Eastern Branch at 6:30pm. Click here for more information.

June 4: Brighter than the Sun by Daniel Aleman
July 2: The Cousins by Karen M. McManus
August 6: Red Rising by Pierce Brown
September 3: Man O’War by Cory McCarthy
October 1: A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson
November 5: Rez Ball by Byron Graves
December 3: Uglies by Scott Westerfeld

Shorts & Sweets

Discuss a new short story every month with a variety of different authors both current and classics. Shorts & Sweets meets at the Fairmount Branch every second Monday of the month at 10:00am. Click here for more information.

July 14: “Neighbors” by Diane Oliver (1967) Neighbors and Other Stories (2024) by Diane Oliver
August 11: “The Bear Came Over the Mountain” by Alice Munro (2011) Family furnishings : selected stories, 1995-2014 by Alice Munro
September 8: “Red Wind" by Raymond Chandler (1938)
October 13: “The Mezzotint” by Lisa Tuttle (2023) Riding the Nightmare (2023) by Lisa Tuttle
November 10: “The Library of Babel” by Jorge Luis Borges (1941) In the stacks : short stories about libraries and librarians (2002) edited by Michael Cart
December 8: “The Christmas Dance” by James McBride (2017) Five-Carat Soul (2017) by James McBride

West End Book Club

The West End Book Club reads a variety of fiction and nonfiction books. The club meets at the Fairmount Branch on the second Tuesday of each month. Registration is required. Click here for more information.

June 10: Beloved by Toni Morrison
July 8: Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
August 12: Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingslover
September 9: The Boston Girl by Anita Diamant
October 14: Lady Tan's Circle of Women by Lisa See
December 9: Distant Sons by Tim Johnston

Works Cited

Discuss scholarly topics and current events in a comfortable coffee shop atmosphere at our Eastern Branch. Use your Davenport Library card number to access the linked article below.

June 23, 6:30PM : Will the Humanities Survive ArtificiaI Intelligence?

July 21, 6:30PM : The Strange New Politics of Science

August 18, 6:30PM: Why Hawks Win. Foreign Policy, 158, 34–38.

September 13, 10AM
October 11, 10AM
November 8, 10AM

For more information, call (563) 326-7832.