The Book Mouse takes pride in local book clubs. Here we provide local book club information, and their most recent picks.
Library Book Clubs
Marseilles Library Adult Book Club
meets: 2nd Thursday of every month
Susan Roush
(815) 795-4311
gvotava@marseilles.lib.il.us
10/11 Dandelion Summer
11/08 One Thousand White Women
12/13 The Christmas Wedding
1/08 No Meeting
2/12 My Name is Mary Sutter
3/12 Turn of Mind
4/09 The Lost Wife
5/14 The Lost Wife
June No Meeting
July No Meeting
August No Meeting
9/9 Reader's Choice
10/10 Secrets of Mary Bowser
Reddick Library Morning Book Club
meets: 4th Monday of every month at 10 am
Edith Crocker
(815) 431-0136
edreyn@core.com
10/22 Conspiracy of Friends
11/26 Majesty of the Law
01/28 Behind the Beautiful Forever
02/25 Where We Belong
03/25 My Last Skirt
04/22 Requiem
05/27 America, America
06/24 Killing Kennedy
Reddick Library Wednesday Book Club
Karen Werth
(815) 433-4142
ejkwerth@core.com
12/12 Paris Wife
1/11 Slavery by Another Name
2/13 Hellraisers
3/13 Art of Fielding
4/10 Night
5/08
6/12 Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
7/10 Bell Jar
8/14 Atonement
9/11 Persuasion
10/09 Light Between Oceans
11/13 Grapes of Wrath
12/11 Close to Shore
Reddick Books and Brew
Fourth Monday of the Month
10/25 Dark Places
11/29 Perks of Being a Wallflower
01/31 Survivor
02/28 The Letter
3/25 World War Z
04/25 Me Talk Pretty One Day
05/30 Upstate
Seneca Library 4th Wednesday Book Club
meets: 4th Wednesday of every month
Bonnie Anderson
(815) 357-6566
banderson@senecalibrary.net
10/24 Little Britches
11/28 The Heretic's Daughter
12/26 Five Skies
2/27 Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
3/27 the Lifeboat
4/24 The Long Winter
05/28 Olive Kitteridge
06/26 Thunderstruck
Seneca Library Mystery Group
Meets: 2nd Thursday
4/11 The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
05/9 Rain Fall
06/13 Death by Darjeeling
Friends of Streator Library Book Club
meets: 2nd Tuesday of every month
Ellen Park
(815) 672-2729
10/09 IN THE GARDEN OF BEASTS
11/13 CALAB'S CROSSING
12/11 SOCIAL
04/22 Man Hunt
05/09 Color Purple
06/10 Catcher in the Rye
07/09 Gone Girl
08/13 All Things New
Local Book Clubs
Bridges Book Club
meets: 3rd Thursday of every month
1pm at the Bridges Senior Center
ages 50+ welcome
Karen Super
(815) 431-8034
kmarie_61350@yahoo.com
10/18 A Thousand Splendid Suns
11/20 Skipping Christmas
12/18 No meeting
01/15 Anil's Ghost
2/15 No Meeting
03/21 Sworn to Silence
04/18 One Thousand White Women
05/16 A Conspiracy of Friends
06/20 The Twelve Tribes of Hattie
07/18 Turn of Mind
08/15 There is No Me Without You
09/19 The Art Forger
10/17 The Forgotten
11/21 The Christmas Wedding
01/16/14 Shadow Woman
02/20/14 Cross Roads
Book Bags
meets: Last Tuesday or Wednesday
Jan Hartman
(815) 434-6529
07/31 The Borrower
08/28 Miss Perrigren's School for
10/25 Dark Places
11/27 Lost in Shangri La
12/18 Mrs. Kennedy and Me
04/27 Light Between Oceans
05/23 Gone Girl
06/
First Congregational Church Book Club
meets: 3rd Firday of every month at 6:30 pm
Eileen Fesco
(815) 433-7323
bookmouse@sbcglobal.net
10/? Odd Thomas
11/16 Sarah's Key
12/21 No Book
01/11 The Giver
02/01 Murder at Spirit Falls
03/15 Under the Banner of Heaven
04/19 Weird Sisters
05/10 Meryl Streep Movie Club
06/14 The Handmaid's Tale
Monday Book Club
meets: 2nd Monday of every month
Christy Myer
(815) 434-5737
scmyers7@sbcglobal.net
10/8 In the Garden of Beasts
11/12 The Night Circus
12/? No Meeting
01/14/13 Shanghai Girls
04/8 Tin Ticket / Please Look After Mom
05/13 Gone Girl
06/10 Lone Wolf
Streator Book Club
meets: 4th Monday of every month
Cheri Lawrence
(815) 992-3464
cheriwidman@verizon.net
10/22 Let the Great World Spin
11/26 Infidel
12/24 Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake
04/22 Man Hunt: the Twelve Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer
05/20 Miss Dreamsville
06/27 Flight Behavior
Seneca 4th Wednesday Book Club
meets:4th Wednesday of every month
Dee Norris
salomadeenorris@gmail.com
10/24 Little Britches
11/28 The Heretic's Daughter
12/26 Five Skies
03/27 The Lifeboat
04/24 The Long Winter
WCMY Book Club
meets: last Tuesday of every month, live, on-air discussion,
9:15am-10am
10/30 When She Woke
11/27 Odds
12/25 No Book
01/29 Ms. Dreamsville...
02/26 Language of Flowers
03/26 Riding the Bus with My Sister
4/30 What My Mother Gave Me
05/28 Mrs. Somebody Somebody
