Library Book Club
Our book club meets at the Library on the third Tuesday evening and third Thursday morning of every month and is open to all community members 18 and older. We read a variety of discussion-worthy fiction and nonfiction.
For more information contact the library Outreach Coordinator at outreach@plattevillepubliclibrary. org
2026
January: Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt
February: The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World by Robin Wall Kimmerer
March: Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
April: Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe
May: Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar
June: The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook by Hampton Sides
July: The God of the Woods by Liz Moore
August: A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck by Sophie Elmhirst
September: Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy
October: Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection by John Green
November: The Wedding People by Alison Espach
December: Book Potluck
2025
January: Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
February: The Woman They Could Not Silence by Kate Moore
March: The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride
April: The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir by Kao Kalia Yang
May: Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow: A Novel by Gabrielle Zevin
June: A Fever in the Heartland by Timothy Egan
July: Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
August: Crying in H Mart: A Memoir by Michelle Zauner
September: James by Percival Everett
October: Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space by Adam Higginbotham
November: North Woods: A Novel by Daniel Mason
December: Book Potluck
2024
January: Afterlives by Abdulrazak Gurnah
February: The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man: A Memoir by Paul Newman
March: Trust by Hernan Diaz
April: How Civil Wars Start: And How to Stop Them by Barbara F. Walter
May: Black Cake: A Novel by Charmaine Wilkerson
June: The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder by David Grann
July: Hello Beautiful: A Novel by Ann Napolitano
August: Old Babes in the Wood: Stories by Margaret Atwood
September: Our Missing Hearts: A Novel by Celeste Ng
October: Swamp Story: A Novel by Dave Barry
November: A Brave and Lovely Woman: Mamah Borthwick and Frank Lloyd Wright by Mark Borthwick
December: Book Potluck
2023
January: Down the River Unto the Sea by Walter Mosley
February: The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich
March: Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist by Judith Heumann
April: French Braid by Anne Tyler
May: The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles
June: The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green
July: Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel
August: The Chosen and the Beautiful by Nghi Vo
September: How the Word is Passed by Clint Smith
October: The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner
November: Kindred (graphic novel adaptation) by Octavia E. Butler
December: Book Potluck
2022
January: The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson
February: Nomadland by Jessica Bruder
March: Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
April: Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb
May: The Storied Life of AJ Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin
June: Caste by Isabelle Wilkerson
July: Anxious People by Fredrik Backman
August: A Bookshop in Berlin by Francoise Frenkel
September: The Mystery of Mrs. Christie by Marie Benedict
October: The Unwinding of the Miracle by Julie Yip-Williams
November: All Adults Here by Emma Straub
December: Book Potluck
2021
January: Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don’t Know by Malcolm Gladwell
February: The Lager Queen of Minnesota by J. Ryan Stradal
March: All You Can Ever Know by Nicole Chung
April: The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates
May: Untamed by Glennon Doyle
June: Normal People by Sally Rooney
July: They Called Us Enemy by George Takei
August: Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
September: White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo
October: Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid
November: Hidden Valley Road by Robert Kolker
December: Book Potluck
2020
January: Becoming by Michelle Obama
February: Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris
March: Death and Life of the Great Lakes by Dan Egan
April: Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
May: The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century by Kirk Wallace Johnson
June: Turtles All the Way Down by John Green
July: Maid by Stephanie Land
August: The Dreamers by Karen Thompson Walker
September: The Inheritance by Dani Shapiro
October: The Word is Murder by Anthony Horowitz
November: Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil DeGrasse Tyson
December: Book Potluck
2019
January: Visiting Tom: A Man, a Highway, and the Road to Roughneck Grace by Michael Perry
February: Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
March: Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone by Brene Brown
April: Less by Andrew Sean Greer
May: I’ll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman’s Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer Michelle McNamara
June: Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein
July: The Personality Brokers: The Strange History of Myers-Briggs and the Birth of Personality Testing by Merve Emre
August: The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
September: The Library Book by Susan Orlean
October: There, There by Tommy Orange
November: Being Mortal by Atul Gawande
December: Book potluck
2018
January: Beartown by Fredrik Backman
February: Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah
March: Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
April: Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women by Kate Moore
May: Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue
June: On the Road by Jack Kerouac
July: Caroline by Sarah Miller
August: Bellevue: Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at America’s Most Storied Hospital by David Oshinsky
September: Educated by Tara Westover
October: The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
November: When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
December: Book Potluck
2017
January: Challenger Deep by Neal Shusterman
February: Hillbilly Elegy by J. D. Vance
March: The Gustav Sonata by Rose Tremain
April: Lab Girl by Hope Jahren
May: Multiple Choice by Alejandro Zambra
June: Evicted by Matthew Desmond
July: Swing Time by Zadie Smith
August: The Red Parts: Autobiography of a Trial by Maggie Nelson
September: Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
October: The Empathy Exams by Leslie Jamison
November: Chronicle of a Last Summer by Yasmine El Rashidi
December: When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
2016
January: Where’d You Go Bernadette by Maria Semple
February: The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown
March: The Tiger’s Wife by Tea Obreht
April: Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
May: Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng
June: The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness by Sy Montgomery
July: Girl Waits with Gun by Amy Stewart
August: Lafayette in the Somewhat United States by Sarah Vowell
September: A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler
October: The Art of Memoir by Mary Karr
November: The Tsar of Love and Techno by Anthony Marra
December: Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
2015
January: End of your life book club by Will Schwalbe
February: March by E. L. Doctorow
March: Against Medical Advice by James Patterson
April: Come Home by Lisa Scottoline
May, June, July: No meeting
August: I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai
September: The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd
October: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
November: All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
December: Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
2014
January: The Longest Road by Philip Caputo
February: The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey
March: Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
April: Weight of Silence by Heather Gudenkauf
May: Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
June: Ape House by Sara Gruen
July: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou, Maya
August: Left Neglected Lisa Genova
September: My Beloved World by Sonia Sotomayor
October: Change in Altitude by Anita Shreve
November: Quiet: Power of Introverts in a World that Can’t Stop Talking by Susan Cain
December: Family Tree by Barbara Delinsky
2013
January: Having Our Say by Sarah Delany
February: Straight Man by Richard Russo
March: Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt
April: Before I go to Sleep by S.J. Watson
May: Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo
June: Dovekeepers by Aice Hoffman
July: Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake by Anna Quindlen
August: Caleb’s Crossing by Geraldine Brooks
September: All Over but the Shoutin’ by Rick Bragg
October: Aviator’s Wife by Melanie Benjamin
November: Little Heathens by Mildred Armstrong Kalish
December: Rules of Civility by Amor Towles
2012
January: Lost in Shangri-La by Mitchell Zuckoff
February: Double Bind by Chris Bohjalian
March: Freakonomicsby Steven Levitt
April: Loving Frank by Nancy Horan
May: Founding Mothers by Cokie Roberts
June: Shipping News by Annie Proulx
July: Measure of a Man by Sidney Poitier
August: Eventide by Ken Haruf
September: Seabiscuit by Laura Hillenbrand
October: Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
November: Coop by Michael Perry
December: Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon by Stephen King
2011
January: Night by Elie Wiesel
February: Little Bee by Chris Cleave
March: Outliners by Malcolm Gladwell
April: Amateur Marriage by Anne Tyler
May: Stiff by Mary Roach
June: Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
July: Fast Food by Eric Schlosser
August: Widowers Tale by Julia Glass
September: I Feel Bad About My Neck by Nora Ephron
October: A Secret Kept by Tatiana De Rosnay
November: Kabul Beauty School by Deborah Rodriguez
December: Room by Emma Donoghue
2010
January: Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder
February: Guernsey Literary and Potatoes Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer
March: Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
April: Still Alice by Lisa Genova
May: Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
June: Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
July: Girls From Ames by Jeffrey Zaslow
August: Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
September: Liars Club by Mary Karr
October: Weight of Water by Anita Shreve
November: Girl Named Zippy by Haven Kimmel
December: Homer and Langley by E. L. Doctorow
2009
September: Last Lecture by Randy Pausch
October: The Help by Kathryn Stockett
November: Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson
December: Snow Flower and Secret Fan by Lisa See