Book Clubs

Woburn Public Library Book Clubs are free and open to anyone interested in joining.

Novel Ideas: Fiction Book Club for Adults

Welcome to Book Club.  If this is your first time here, please consider joining us for great books and spirited discussions each month from September to June.  We plan to continue with a hybrid format in the fall.  Unless recommendations change again, there will be no need to sign up for the in person discussion.  Everyone may participate online via Zoom.

Zoom meeting link will be shared close to the meeting date.

The Book Club meets the second Monday of the month from 7-8 PM except if it’s a holiday and then we will meet the third Monday. The Book Club is free and open to everyone.

Questions or to be added to the participant directory: contact Hermayne Gordon ([email protected] or 781-933-0148)

2024-2025

• September: A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Erving
• October: Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil: a Savannah story by John Berendt
• November: Mrs. Quinn’s Rise to Fame by Olivia Ford
• December: Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
• January: The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store by James McBride
• February: Those Empty Eyes by Charlie Donlea
• March:  Trust by Hernan Diaz
• April:  The Lost Bookshop by Evie Woods
• May: Funny Story by Emily Henry
• June: The Women by Kristin Hannah

Below is a link to the selections along with meeting dates that you can print and save:

Novel Ideas Book Club Picks September 2024-June 2025

SciFi Fantasy Book Club

The SciFi Fantasy Book Club will meet on the first Wednesday of each month from 7-8 PM.

2024-2025

• July: Nettle & Bone by T. Kingfisher
• August: The Black God’s Drums by P. Djèlí Clark
• September: Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor
• October: The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi
• November: Bindle Punk Bruja by Desideria Mesa
• December: To Be Taught, If Fortunate by Becky Chambers
• January: The Empress of Salt and Fortune by Nghi Vo
• February: Hyperion by Dan Simmons
• March: Book of Night by Holly Black
• April: Shards of Honor by Lois McMaster Bujold
• May: The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna
• June: Dawn by Octavia Butler

Woburn Walkabout Book Club

A book club for walkers that love to read and readers that love to walk! Sounds like fun, right?  Why don’t you join us.  You can register here: WPL Events Calendar

We will walk at a moderate pace around Horn Pond while discussing the current month’s selection:

Our 2024-2025 Book Club List

• September:  Being Henry: The Fonz… and Beyond by Henry Winkler
• October: The Unmaking of June Farrow by Adrienne Young
• November: The Hazelbourne Ladies & the flying motorcycle club by Helen Simonson
• December: Vera Wong’s unsolicited advice for murderers by Jesse Q. Sutanto
• January: The Wedding People by Alison Espach
• February: Things don’t break on their own by Sarah Easter Collins
• March: Homecoming by Kate Morton
• April: Long Island by Colm Toibin
• May: Sandwich by Catherine Newman

Tok About Books – A Teen Book Club

Is that book continually popping up on your feed worth the hype? Or does it give the ick? Tok About Books is a teen book club for books trending on BookTok (TikTok), Bookstagram (Instagram), & BookTube (YouTube) to decide whether it’s a yah or a nah.

Tok About Books meets on the last Monday of each month from 4:30-5:30pm unless notified in advance, and is recommended for teens 13-18.

2024-2025 Books

• September: We Were Liars by e. lockhart
• October: A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson
• November: Divine Rivals by Rebecca Ross
• December: No book this month
• January: Powerless by Lauren Roberts
• February: If He Had Been with Me by Laura Nowlin
• March: Legendborn by Tracy Deonn
• April: Girl in Pieces by Kathleen Glasgow
• May: Caraval by Stephanie Garber
• June: You’ve Reached Sam by Dustin Thao

Cookin’ the Books – Cookbook Club

This book club is for those who love to cook and share recipes. You will pick a recipe from a chosen cookbook, prepare it and bring your dish  to the meeting to share with others.
The group discusses what they like and dislike about the recipes and the cookbook.
We meet monthly, on the last Wednesday of the month from 7:00 until 8:30.

2024:

• January 2024: Simply Julia: 110 easy recipes for healthy comfort food
• February 2024: What’s for dessert: simple recipes for dessert people
• March 2024: Milk Street: cook what you have: make a meal out of almost anything
• April 2024: Half baked harvest every day: recipes for balanced, flexible, feel-good meals
• May 2024: Smitten kitchen keepers: new classics for your forever files
• June 2024: That sounds so good: 100 real-life recipes for every day of the week