Book Clubs
The library sponsors multiple book clubs and new members are always welcome in all clubs! Please see details below for book club selections and instructions on how to join each program.
Books and Bubbly Book Club
West – First Monday of the month at 7pm
Join staff member Jennifer Gotcher for our first book club at West! Please email Jennifer at [email protected] for more information or join us in the West meeting room.
See Books and Bubbly Book Club Selections
Date: June 2nd
Book: The First Ladies by Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray
Date: July 7th
Book: Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt
Date: August 4th
Book: West with the Night by Beryl Markham
Date: September 8th
Book: The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver
Date: October 6th
Book: My Darling Girl by Jennifer McMahon
Date: November 3rd
Book: We Lived on the Horizon by Erika Swyler
Date: December 1st
Book: Comfort & Joy by Kristin Hannah
Date: January 5th
Book: The Driving Lesson by Ben Rehder, with the author in attendance!
BYOB (Bring Your Own Book) Talk
Online – Fridays at 2pm
Join a staff member for a drop in casual group chat about what you’re currently reading, want to read, or just your favorite books! Please register for this group using Zoom.
Classics Book Club
Lakeway – Third Friday of the month at 10:30am
This book club explores what it means for a book to be considered a “classic.” Please email club leader Margaret Berggren at [email protected] for more information.
See Classics Book Club Selections
This book club will not meet in June, July, or August.
Book: Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K Jerome
Book: All the Kings Men by Robert Penn Warren
Book: Middlemarch by Mary Ann Evans under the pen name George Eliot
Book: The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare
Book: Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
Book: The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
Book: Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Book: Joy in the Morning by P.G. Wodehouse
Book: Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Friends Book Club
Lakeway – First Tuesday of the month at 10am
All are welcome to join us for the monthly Friends of the Library book club! Please email club leader Margaret at [email protected] for more information.
See Friends Book Club Selections
Date: June 3rd
Book: Family Family by Laurie Frankel
This book club will not meet in July or August.
Glass of Wine Book Club
Hybrid at Lakeway – Last Monday of the month at 7pm
One of the library’s longest running book clubs, the Glass of Wine book club selects popular, bestselling titles for discussion every month. Please email club leader Sandra at [email protected] for the unique Zoom link or join us in the Lakeway meeting room.
See Glass of Wine Book Club Selections
Date: June 30th
Book: Small Things like These by Claire Keegan
Date: July 28th
Book: The Cartographers by Peng Shepherd
Date: August 25th
Book: The Six: The Untold Story of America’s First Women Astronauts by Loren Grush
Date: September 29th
Book: The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson
Date: October 27th
Book: Starter Villain by John Scalzi
Date: November 17th
Book: Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
Date: December 29th
Book: The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
Silent Book Club at 5 Soul Wine Co.
5 Soul Wine Co. – First Thursday of the month from 5pm to 7pm
Silent Book Club is a global community of readers and introverts whose members gather in public to read together in quiet camaraderie. At Silent Book Club, there’s no assigned reading. All readers are welcome—eBooks, audiobooks, textbooks, comic books, etc. Please email Mariah for more information or join us at 5 Soul Wine Co. (4514 Bob Wire Rd, Spicewood, TX 78669)!
This book club reads titles that deal with current and historical social justice topics. Please email Morgan McMillian at [email protected] for more information and the unique Zoom link.
See Social Justice Book Club Selections
Date: June 5th
Book: The Ground Breaking: The Tulsa Race Massacre and an American City’s Search for Justice by Scott Ellsworth
Leader: Morgan
Date: July 3rd
Book: The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism by Tim Alberta
Leader: Fred
Texas My Texas Book Club
Hybrid at Lakeway – Second Monday of the month at 7pm
Explore the rich history and culture of the Lone State state with the Texas My Texas book club! Please email Elizabeth Walden at [email protected] for the unique Zoom link or join us in the Lakeway meeting room.
See Texas My Texas Book Club Selections
Date: June 9th
Book: Someone Always Nearby by Susan Wittig Albert
Leader: Helen K.
Date: July 14th
Book: Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History by S.C. Gwynn
Leader: Kathy B.
Date: August 11th
Book: Guide Me Home by Attica Locke
Leader: Jan W.
Date: September 8th
Book: Sea Stories: My Life in Special Operations by William H. McRaven
Leader: Linda S.
Date: October 13th
Book: The Dalhart Girls by Sandra Fox Murphy
Leader: Elizabeth W.
Date: November 10th
Book: The Lifeguards by Amanda Eyre Ward
Leader: Marcie H.
Date: December 8th
Book: Sundance, Butch, and Me: A Novel About Etta Place by Judy Alter
Leader: Chris F.
Social Justice Book Club
Hybrid at Lakeway – First Thursday of the month at 1pm