Book Clubs
BoCo Eclectic Readers | Blue Ridge Library
- True Crime meets the 3rd Monday of each month at 6:30 PM
- General Fiction meets the 4th Thursday of each month at 1:00 PM
Date | True Crime: 3rd Mondays |
September 18 | Serial Killers |
October 16 | When Moms Kill |
November 20 | The Victims |
December 18 | Those Who Forgive |
Date | General Fiction: 4th Thursdays |
September 28 | Anxious People by Frederik Backman |
October 26 | Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt |
November 30 | The Measure by Nikki Erlick |
December 28 | Last Chance Library by Freya Sampson |
January 25 | Daisy Jones & the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid |
February 23 | Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson |
BoCo Eclectic Readers | Buchanan Library
- Meets the 1st Wednesday of each month at 12:00 PM.
We will have a recommended reading list and participants may choose what they want to read.
September: Carnival Stories |
State Fair by Earlene Fowler |
The Ladies of the Secret Circus by Constance Sayers |
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen |
Swamplandia! by Karen Russell |
The Museum of Extraordinary Things by Alice Hoffman |
County Fair: nostalgic blue ribbon winning recipes from America’s small towns by Liza Gershman |
A Southerly Course: Recipes & Stories from Close to Home by Martha Hall Foose |
October: Appalachian stories during the Revolutionary War |
King’s Mountain: a ballad novel by Sharyn McCrumb |
King’s Mountain: the epic of the Blue Ridge “mountain men” in the American Revolution by Hank Messick |
Among the King’s Soldiers by Gilbert Morris |
Fair and Tender Ladies by Lee Smith |
Victuals by Ronni Lundy |
Appalachian Cooking by John H. Tullock |
November: Ginger Gungas |
A celebration of family recipes. |
December: Digging into life stories, mindfulness, and sharing |
Dinner with Buddha by Roland Merullo |
At Home in the World by Thich Nhat Hanh |
Nothing to do, Nowhere to go by Thich Nhat Hanh |
You are Here by Thich Nhat Hanh |
BoCo Eclectic Readers | Eagle Rock Library
- Meets the 4th Thursday of each month at 11:00 AM.
Month | Book Titles |
September | The Lioness by Chris Bohjalian |
October | Other Birds by Sarah Addison Allen |
November | Beloved by Toni Morrison |
December | News of the World by Paulette Jiles |
January | Carnegie’s Maid by Marie Benedict |
February | The Paris Library by Janet Skeslien Charles |
BoCo Eclectic Readers | Fincastle Library
- Meets the 2nd Wednesday of each month at 10:30 AM.
- Meets the 1st Thursday evening of each mont at 6:30 PM.
Date | Book Titles for 2nd Wednesday at 10:30 AM |
September 13 | The Reading List by Sara Nisha Adams |
October 11 | People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks |
November 8 | The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon |
December 13 | The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield |
January 9 | The Book of Speculation by Erika Swyler |
February 12 | The Cartographers by Peng Shepherd |
Date | Book Titles for 1st Thursday at 6:30 PM |
September 7 | The Overstory by Richard Powers |
October 5 | Piranesi by Susanna Clarke |
November 2 | Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi |
December 7 | The Invisible Life of Addie Larue by V.E. Schwab |
January 4 | Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir |
February 1 | The Violin Conspiracy by Brandon Slocumb |