Our book clubs are always open to new members. Check our events calendar for meeting dates and book titles.
Lima Clubs:
New!
Voices
A new book club celebrating multiculturalism and diversity.
Lady Tan's Circle of Women by Lisa See: Saturday, March 30@11a in the Memorial Book Room
Gender Outlaw by Kate Bornstein & S. Bear Bergman: Saturday, April 20@11a in the Memorial Book Room
Never Whistle at Night by Stephen Graham Jones, Shane Hawk & Theodore C. Van Alst Jr.: Saturday, May 30@11a in the Memorial Book Room
Happy Bookers
This long-standing book group reads a variety of titles including fiction and non-fiction.
The Midnight Library by Matthew Haig: Tuesday, January 16@4p in the Memorial Book Room
Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus: Tuesday, February 18@4p in the Memorial Book Room
A Land Remembered by Patrick Smith: Tuesday, March 19@4p in the Memorial Book Room
The Diversity Delusion: How Race and Gender Pandering Corrupt the University and Undermine Our Culture by Heather MacDonald: Tuesday, April 16@4p in the Memorial Book Room
This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger: Tuesday, May 21@4p in the Memorial Book Room
People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks: Tuesday, June 18@4p in the Memorial Book Room
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho: Tuesday, July 16@4p in the Memorial Book Room
The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams: Tuesday, August 20@4p in the Memorial Book Room
Dust Child by Nguyen Phan Que Mai: Tuesday, September 17@4p in the Memorial Book Room
The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon by Stephen King: Tuesday, October 15@4p in the Memorial Book Room
Page Turners
From the new bestsellers to old familiar favorites, we'll read and discuss a variety of genre fiction.
Wrong Place Wrong Time by Gillian McAllister: Wednesday, March 20@1 & 5:30p in the Auditorium
The Hexologists by Josiah Bancroft: Wednesday, April 17@1 & 5:30p in the Auditorium
American Girl by Wendy Walker: Wednesday, May 15 @1 & 5:30p in the Auditorium
Europa Deep by Gary Gibson: Wednesday, June 19@1 & 5:30p in the Auditorium
Geneva by Richard Armitage: Wednesday, July 17@1 & 5:30p in the Auditorium
Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman: Wednesday, August 21@1 & 5:30p in the Auditorium
Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie: Wednesday, September 18@1 & 5:30p in the Auditorium
How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe by Charles Yu: Wednesday, October 16@1 & 5:30p in the Auditorium
The Last Ranger by Peter Heller: Wednesday, November 20@1 & 5:30p in the Auditorium
The Eight Reindeer of the Apocalypse by Tom Holt: Wednesday, December 18@1 & 5:30p in the Auditorium
Louisiana Longshot by Lana DeLeon: Wednesday, January 15@1 & 5:30p in the Auditorium
Jurassic Park by Michael Chrichton: Wednesday, February 19@1 & 5:30p in the Auditorium
Elida Branch:
*Sponsored by the Lima Library Association
Reading Cafe Book Club
Join us on the 2nd Wednesday of each month at the Elida Branch for book discussion.
Monthly book selections can be picked up at the Elida location or you can pick up your own copy
Spencerville Branch
*Sponsored by the Lima Library Association
2nd Wednesday Book Club
If you love to read books that keep you on the edge of your seat, then you won't want to miss this book club. We meet the 2nd Wednesday of each month at 10:30 a.m. in the Spencerville Branch meeting room. Bring your own refreshment.
Cairo Branch
*Sponsored by the Lima Library Association
Reading Between the Spines Book Club
Join us for this new book club at the Cairo Branch. Pick up the next book club selection today!
Call for more information about the next book club.
Trying to find something good for your own personal book club to read? Try one from our Book Club shelf!
Past book club titles include:
The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek, by Kim Richardson
The Name of the Rose, by Umberto Eco
The Silent Patient, by Alex Michaelides
Someone Knows My Name, by Lawrence Hill
Courting Mr. Lincoln, by Louis Bayard
The Little Old Lady Who Broke All the Rules, by Catharina Ingelman-Sundberg
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine, by Gail Honeyman
Silent Witnesses: The Often Gruesome but Always Fascinating History of Forensic Science, by Nigel McCrery
The Nickel Boys, by Colson Whitehead
Love Lies: A True Story of Marriage and Murder in the Suburbs, by Amanda Lamb
The Trial of Lizzie Borden, by Cara Robertson
A Gentleman in Moscow, by Amor Towles
And Then There Were None, by Agatha Christie
As Bright as Heaven, by Susan Meissner
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End, by Atul Gawande
Below Stairs, by Margaret Powell
Educated: a memoir, by Tara Westover
Letters from Skye, by Jessica Brockmole
Lizzie’s War, by Tim Farrington
Murder at the Brightwell, by Ashley Weaver
Peace Like a River, by Leif Enger
Persuasion, by Jane Austen
The House at Riverton, by Kate Morton
The Remains of the Day, by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Secrets We Kept, by Krystal Sital
The Seven and a Half Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle, by Stuart Turton
Their Eyes Were Watching God, by Zora Neale Hurston
This Side of Murder, by Anna Lee Huber
Whistling Past the Graveyard, by Susan Crandall
Revolutionary Road, by Richard Yates
When Books Went to War, by Molly Manning
Hillbilly Elegy, by JD Vance
Above Suspicion, by Joe Sharkey
Confessions of a Master Jewel Thief, by Bill Mason
I Am a Pencil, by Sam Swope
Girl in the Dark, by Anna Lyndsey
Head Case, by Cole Cohen
At Home, by Bill Bryson
Outcasts United, by Warren St. John
The Boys in the Boat, by James Brown
The Great Detective, by Zach Dundas
Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey, by Fiona Carnarvon
Run, Don't Walk, by Adele Levine
Upstairs at the White House, by JB West
The Stranger in the Woods, by Michael Finkel
Killers of the Flower Moon, by David Grann
Cleopatra, by Stacy Schiff
After Visiting Friends, by Michael Hainey
The Mockingbird Next Door, by Marja Mills
Growing Up Amish, by Ira Wagler
I Am Malala, by Malala Yousafzai
Say You're One of Them, by Uwem Akpan
And Only to Deceive, by Tasha Alexander
A Man Called Ove, by Fredrick Backman
Quicksand, by Carolyn Baugh
The Other Einstein, by Marie Benedict
Year of Wonder, by Geraldine Brooks
The Good Earth, by Pearl S. Buck
The Girl With All the Gifts, by Mike Carey
The Fiction Class, by Susan Breen
The Sittaford Mystery, by Agatha Christie
The Zahir, by Paulo Coelho
One Vacant Chair, by Joe Coomer
The Saffron Kitchen, by Yasmin Crowther
The Hours, by Michael Cunningham
London is the Best City in America, by Laura Dave
The Madonnas of Leningrad, by Debra Dean
The Language of Flowers, by Vanessa Diffenbaugh
The Tea Rose, by Jennifer Donnelly
The Life We Bury, by Allen Esken
Middlesex, by Jeffrey Eugenides
The Universe Versus Alex Woods, by Gavin Extence
The Yellow House, by Patricia Falvey
Tender is the Night, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Crime and Poetry, by Amanda Flower
A Plain Death, by Amanda Flower
A Plain Disappearance, by Amanda Flower
A Plain Scandal, by Amanda Flower
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, by Jamie Ford
The Jane Austen Book Club, by Karen Joy Fowler
Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter, by Tom Franklin
Freedom, by Jonathan Franzen
The Graveyard Book, by Neil Gaiman
Love in the Time of Cholera, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
North and South, by Elizabeth Gaskell
Flora, by Gail Godwin
The Kitchen House, by Kathleen Grissom
Water for Elephants, by Sara Gruen
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, by Mark Haddon
Austenland, by Shannon Hale
Midnight in Austenland, by Shannon Hale
The Anatomist's Wife, by Anna Lee Huber
Between, Georgia, by Joshilyn Jackson
Gods in Alabama, by Joshilyn Jackson
Mudbound, by Hillary Jordan
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, by Rachel Joyce
A Separation, by Kate Kitamura
The Good Girl, by Mary Kubica
Last Train to Istanbul, by Ayse Kulin
Girl in Translation, by Jean Kwok
The Bottoms, by Joe R. Landsdale
Go Set a Watchman, by Harper Lee
The Giver, by Lois Lowry
I Let You Go, by Clare Mackintosh
Life of Pi, by Yann Martel
The Road, by Cormac McCarthy
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, by Carson McCullers
Saturday, by Ian McEwan
Shadow Baby, by Alison McGhee
Circling the Sun, by Paula McLain
The Paris Wife, by Paula McLain
A Fall of Marigolds, by Susan Meissner
All the Bright Places, by Jennifer Niven
The Things They Carried, by Time O'Brien
The Dogs of Babel, by Carolyn Parkhurst
Out of Darkness, by Ashley Hope Perez
Gilead, by Marilynne Robinson
Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk, by Kathleen Rooney
A Thread of Grace, by Mary Doria Russell
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, by Lisa See
The Pecan Man, by Cassie Dandridge Selleck
Where'd You Go, Bernadette, by Maria Semple
The Thirteenth Tale, by Diane Setterfield
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, by Betty Smith
The Light Between Oceans, by ML Stedman
Tortilla Flat, by John Steinbeck
The Art of Racing in the Rain, by Garth Stein
The Story Hour, by Thrity Umrigar
The Dirty Girls Social Club, by Alisa Valdes
Beautiful Ruins, by Jess Walter
The Legacy, by Katherine Webb
Eyes On You, by Kate White
The Wrong Man, by Kate White
Another Brooklyn, by Jacqueline Woodson