Book Clubs
Davenport Public Library offers a variety of book clubs for adults.
Between the Lines Book Club (2023)
The Between The Lines Book Club meets on the 2nd Wednesday of the month at 6:30pm at Davenport Public Library | Eastern to discuss recently published adult fiction and nonfiction titles. Books can be signed out from Eastern on a first-come, first-serve basis. Click here for more information.
January 11th: The House Of The Spirits / Isabelle Allende
February 8th Miracle Creek / Angie Kim
March 8th Tiny Beautiful Things / Cheryl Strayed
April 12th Once There Were Wolves / Charlotte McConaghy
May 10th The Song Of Achilles / Madeline Miller
June 14th Minor Feelings / Cathy Park Hong
Brown Bag Book Club (2023)
The Brown Bag Book Club meets on the 4th Wednesday of the month at 1:00 pm at Davenport Public Library | Eastern to discuss recently published adult fiction and nonfiction titles. Books can be signed out from Eastern on a first-come, first-serve basis. Click here for more information.
February 22nd A Tree Grows In Brooklyn / Betty Smith
March 22nd The Lost Apothecary / Sarah Penner
April 26th Fault Lines / Emily Itami
May 24th High Crimes: The Fate Of Everest In An Age Of Greed / Michael Kodas
June 28th 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
Shorts & Sweets (2023)
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
West End Book Club (2023)
The West End Book Club reads a variety of fiction and nonfiction books. We meet at Davenport Public Library | Fairmount on the second Tuesday of each month. Join us for lively discussions and interesting reads! Space is limited so registration is required. Click here for more information.
January 10th American Spy by Lauren Wilkinson
February 14th Mrs. Everything by Jennifer Weiner
March 14th The Venice Sketchbook by Rhys Bowen
April 11th Our Darkest Night by Jennifer Robson
May 9th Code Girls by Liza Mundy
June 13: The Overnight Guest by Heather Gudenkauf
For more information, call (563) 326-7832.