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.

Here is the Zoom link:

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Passcode: 049790

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Zoom meeting link will also be shared via email close to the meeting date.

The Book Club meets the second Monday of the month from 7-8 PM except if it is 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 call 781-933-0148)

2025-2026

• September: All the Colors of the Dark by Chris Whitaker
• October: Women and Children First by Alina Grabowski
• November: Colored Television by Danzy Senna
• December: Foster by Claire Keegan
• January: The Extinction of Irena Rey by Jennifer (Translator) Croft
• February: Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson
• March: The Lion Women of Tehran by Marjan Kamali
• April: The Pelican Tide by Sharon J. Wishnow
• May: The Martha’s Vineyard beach and book club by Martha Hall Kelly
• June: Deer in the Road by Claudette Sabbag

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

Novel Ideas Book Club Picks September 2025-June 2026

SciFi Fantasy Book Club

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

2025-2026

• July: Witch King by Martha Wells
• August: Cascade Failure by L.M. Sagas
• September: The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi by Shannon Chakraborty
• October: Chilling Effect by Valerie Valdes
• November: Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse
• December: Boneshaker by Cherie Priest
• January: The Princess Bride by William Goldman
• February: Recursion by Blake Crouch
• March: In the Lives of Puppets by T.J. Klune
• April: A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine
• May: The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison
• June: How to Live Safely in a Science Fiction Universe by Charles Yu

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 2025-2026 Book Club List

• September:   Good Dirt by Charmaine Wilkerson
• October:  The Borrowed Life of Frederick Fife by Anna Johnston
• November:  The Four Queens of Crime by Roseanne Limoncelli
• December:  Three Days in June by Anne Tyler
• January:  Listen for the Lie by Amy Tintera
• February:Island of Sea Women by Lisa See
• March:  Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy
• April:  The Names by Florence Knapp
• May:  My Friends by Fredrik Backman
  

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.

2024/2025

• 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
• July 2024: Food 52 mighty salads: 60 new ways to turn salad into dinner-and make-ahead lunches , too
• July 2024: Sweeter off the vine: fruit desserts for every season
• August 2024: My Vermont table: recipes for all (six) seasons
• September 2024: Once upon a chef: weeknight/weekend
• October 2024: Every season is soup season: 85+ souper-adaptable  recipes to batch, share, reinvent and enjoy
• November 2024: Make it ahead: a Barefoot Contessa cookbook
• December 2024: I could nosh: classic Jew-ish recipes revamped
• January 2025: Skinnytaste simple: easy, healthy recipes with 7 ingredients or fewer
• February 2025: Magnolia table. Volume 3
• March 2025: Come hungry: salads, meals, and sweets for people who live to eat
• April 2025: Flour, too: indispensable recipes for the Cafe’s most loved sweets & savories
• May 2025: Sababa: fresh, sunny flavors from my Israeli kitchen
• June 2025: Tanya Holland’s California Soul: recipes from a culinary journey west
• July 2025: Open Kitchen: inspired food for casual gatherings

Cookin’ the Books: Lunchtime Edition – Cookbook Club

This book club is for those who love to cook and share recipes, but as an alternative to our evening club, this one meets during the day.

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 one Saturday a month, 11 AM-12 PM.

2025

• February 2025:  Sweet Home Cafe Cookbook: A Celebration of African American Cooking from the National Museum of African American History & Culture.
• April 2025: Dishoom: From Bombay with Love  by Shamil Thakrar, Kavi Thakrar, and Naved Nasir
• May 2025: Soframiz by Ana Sortun
• June 2025:  Baking Yesteryear by B. Dylan Hollis
• July 2025: Six Seasons: A New Way with Vegetables by Joshua McFadden