Book Clubs

January 25^th The Survivors / Jane Harper
February 22^nd A Tree Grows In Brooklyn / Betty Smith
March 22^nd  The Lost Apothecary / Sarah Penner
April 26^th Fault Lines / Emily Itami​​​​​​​
May 24^th High Crimes: The Fate Of Everest In An Age Of Greed / Michael Kodas​​​​​​​
June 28^th The Guest Book / Sarah Blake

 

Make the Connection: A DEI Book Club (2023)

Make the Connection is a book club hosted by the Davenport Public Library that will spark engaging, insightful and necessary conversations surrounding issues related to diversity, equity, and inclusion. Meet us on the fourth Tuesday of the month at The Main Street location (321 N. Main St.) at 6:30 pm and join the conversation! Click here for more information.

January 24th Minor feelings : an Asian American reckoning / Cathy Park Hong
February 28th Are you my mother?  : a comic drama / Alison Bechdel 
March 28th This chair rocks : a manifesto against ageism / Ashton Applewhite
April 25th ​​​​​​​ Between the world and me/ Ta-Nehisi Coates​​​​​​​
May 23rd Talking to strangers : what we should know about the people we don't know / Malcolm Gladwell
June 27th NO BOOK CLUB THIS MONTH
July 25th ​​​​​​​How to be an antiracist / Ibram X. Kendi

Online Reading Challenge (2023)

The Online Reading Challenge is run entirely through the Info Cafe blog. Each month we read books centered around a theme. Each year is a little different, but the unchanging main principle of this book club is: No Pressure! There is no sign-up, no meetings to attend (although you're welcome to add any comments to the blog posts),  no shame in not finishing a book, or skipping a month (or two). You can read one of the suggested titles or something different or none at all! Read at your own pace, read what interests you, try something out of your usual reading zone or stick with what you like best. In other words, create a personalized book club with a bit of encouragement from the Reading Challenge! The theme for 2023 is Location! Location! Location! Click here for more information.

January  Revolution by Jennifer Donnelly (Paris)
February  The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller (Ancient Greece)
March  Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid (California)
April  Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo (India)
May  The Good Eggs by Rebecca Hardiman (Ireland)
June  The Light Between Oceans by ML Stedman (Australia)
July  The Dutch House by Ann Patchett (suburbia)
August  Fault Lines by Emily Itami (Japan)
September  The Lions of Fifth Avenue (New York City)
October  Burial Rites by Hannah Kent (Iceland)
November  Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi (Africa)
December  Next Year in Havana by Chanel Cleeton (Cuba)

Overbooked (2023)

Do you love to read and wish you could talk to other people about what you read? Then join the book club, Overbooked! We meet 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. Click here for more information.

January 19th Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan
February 16th Monday's Not Coming by Tiffany Jackson
March 16th Lady Killers: deadly women throughout history by Tori Telfer
April 20th The Round House by Louise Erdich
May 18th They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera
June 15th The Art Forger by B.A. Shapiro
 

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

January 9th: "Rip Van Winkle" (1819) by Washington Irving
February 13th: "Kavitha and Mustafa" (2015) by Slobha Rao
March 13th: "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" (1973) by Ursula K Le Guin
April 10th: "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber" (1936) by Ernest Hemmingway
May 8th: "An Interesting Social Study" (1967) by Kristin Hunter
June 12th: "Enlightenment" (2020) by William Pei Shih
July 10th: "Between Storms" (2018) by Walter Mosley
August 14th: "Cathedral" (1983) by Raymond Carver
September 11th: "Allog" (1999) by Edith Pearlman 

October 9th: "Lacrimosa" (2015) by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

November 13th "The Management of Grief" (1988) by Bharati Mukherjee

December 11th "A Christmas Tragedy" (1966) by Agatha Christie