Do you love discussing a good book with a friend? If so, please visit one of Seymour Library’s book clubs. Upcoming meeting times and book selections are listed below. Feel free to come to a book club meeting even if you didn’t make it all the way through the book.
Coffee and Crime
Ready to start sleuthing? Find out WHODUNIT during Coffee and Crime Book Club!
- Coffee and Crime Book Club focuses on mysteries and crime fiction.
- One author or series is chosen for each meeting and members pick any title to read.
- The club meets on the second Tuesday of the month at noon. Topics are chosen at each meeting for the upcoming month.
- Please email Mary (mlovell at seymourlib.org) for more information.
July 12 at noon: the Jane Whitefield series by Thomas Perry.
The next meeting will be on the library’s front lawn or in the IDEA Lab if it rains.
Tea and Tales
Love historical fiction? Try Tea & Tales Book Club!
- Tea & Tales Book Club reads a mix of historical fiction and classics (and sometimes even drinks tea!).
- This club meets on the third Tuesday of each month in person.
- Please email Jackie (jkolb at seymourlib.org) for more information.
June 21 at 12 pm: “The Truth of Who You Are” by Sheila Myers
July 19 at 12 pm: To be announced.
Read More Book Club
- Our evening group, Read More Book Club, picks titles in support of the library’s reading challenge.
- The club meets on the fourth Wednesday (unless noted otherwise) of the month online.
- Please email Lisa Carr (lcarr at seymourlib.org) for a Zoom meeting invitation.
Thursday, June 30th at 7 pm: “A book with an LGBTQ+ Protagonist,” or “An audiobook.”
This month the club will be meeting in person on a Thursday. Please email (lcarr at seymourlib.org) or call the library for the meeting location.
Coffee and Conversation Book Club
*Coffee and Conversation Book Club is back and it has gone virtual!*
- The Coffee and Conversation Book Club reads a wide assortment of books, fiction and nonfiction, and meets the last Thursday of the month at 10:30 a.m. via Zoom.
- Please email Mary (mary at seymourlib.org) for a Zoom meeting invitation.
July 28 at 10:30 am: We Are Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler
History Book Club – on hiatus
The History Book Club reads nonfiction that focuses on local, American, and world history. The group meets the third Saturday of the month at 11 a.m.
Past Selections
June 2022
Coffee & Conversation – the Good Sister by Sally Hepworth
Coffee & Crime – the Deborah Knott series by Margaret Maron
May 2022
Coffee & Conversation – Miss Benson’s Beetle by Rachel Joyce
Coffee & Crime the Alex Delaware series by Jonathan Kellerman.
Read More – “A book with a flower on the cover,” or “A book with a color in the title.”
Tea & Tales – The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah
April 2022
Coffee & Conversation – The Exiles by Christina Baker Kline.
Coffee & Crime the Peter Diamond series by Peter Lovesey.
Tea & Tales – The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett.
Read More – “A Translated Book,” or “A Book Set in a Different Country.”
March 2022
Coffee & Conversation – Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk by Kathleen Rooney.
Coffee & Crime – The Inspector Irene Huss series by Helene Tursten.
Tea & Tales – Miss Benson’s Beetle by Rachel Joyce.
Read More – “A Book About Or By A Woman In STEM” (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math), or “A Book That Takes Place In The Past.”
February 2022
Coffee & Conversation – Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi.
Coffee & Crime – Will Rees series by Eleanor Kuhns.
Read More – A book that was recommended to you or the first book you touch with your eyes closed.
Tea & Tales – The Exiles by Christina Baker Kline.
January 2022
Coffee & Conversation – The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by Victoria Schwab.
Coffee & Crime – The Dave Robicheaux series by James Lee Burke.
Read More – A book featuring family or a picture book.
Tea & Tales – The Horse Dancer by Jojo Moyes.
December 2021
Holiday-themed mysteries.
The Nature of Fragile Things by Susan Meissner.
The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead.
Read More Book Club – A book published in 2021.
November 2021
Burren Mysteries series by Cora Harrison.
The Kitchen Front by Jennifer Ryan.
A book about food.
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owen.
October 2021
The Royal Spyness series by Rhys Bowen.
The Broken Girls by Simone St. James (also available on Overdrive).
The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune.
September 2021
The Rowland Sinclair series by Sulari Gentill. The series features gentleman artist and amateur sleuth Rowland Sinclair who solves crime in 1930s Australia.
City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert.
A book featuring friends.
August 2021
The Reverend Mother series by Cora Harrison.
Saving CeeCee Honeycutt by Beth Hoffman.
July 2021
The Doc Ford series by Randy Wayne White.
Daisy Jones & the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid. When singer Daisy Jones meets Billy Dunne of the band The Six, the two rising 70s rock-and-roll artists are catapulted into stardom when a producer puts them together, a decision that is complicated by a pregnancy and the seductions of fame.
June 2021
The Clare Fergusson and Russ Van Alstyne series by Julia Spencer-Fleming.
The Orphan Collector by Ellen Marie Wiseman. As the Spanish influenza spreads through the city of Philadelphia in the fall of 1918, the life of German immigrant Pia Lange is changed forever when Bernice Groves spirits away Pia’s infant twin brothers in an attempt to transform them into “true Americans.” Read the ebook on Hoopla.