Book Clubs

Online Reading Challenge (2024)

The Online Reading Challenge is runs through the Info Cafe blog and the Beanstack app. Each month we read books centered around a theme. Each year is a little different, but the unchanging main principle of this book club is: No Pressure! There is no sign-up, no meetings to attend (although you're welcome to add any comments to the blog posts), no shame in not finishing a book, or skipping a month (or two). You can read one of the suggested titles or something different or none at all! Read at your own pace, read what interests you, try something out of your usual reading zone or stick with what you like best. In other words, create a personalized book club with a bit of encouragement from the Online Reading Challenge! The theme for 2024 is Decades! Click or tap here for more information.


September: Firekeeper's Daughter by Angeline Boulley (2000s to Present)
October: Klara and the Sun by Kasuo Ishiguro (Future)
November: Pachinko by Min Jin Lee (Spanning Decades/Time)
December: The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai (Dual Timelines)

Overbooked (2024)

Do you love to read and wish you could talk to other people about what you read? Then join Overbooked! The club meets on the third Thursday of each month at 6:30 PM. A new book will be provided to you at each meeting. A variety of fiction, young adult fiction and non-fiction books will be read. Registration is required. Click here for more information.

December 19: The Impossible Knife of Memory by Laurie Halse Anderson
January 16: The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
February 20: Normal People by Sally Rooney
March 20: I'll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara
April 17: How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu
May 15: Please Ignore Vera Dietz by A.S. King
June 12: The Kindest Lie by Nancy Johnson

QCL Book Club (2024)

Join Morgan Ottier and Brittany Peacock monthly for QCL Book Club  live on KWQC Channel 6 during Quad Cities today at 3pm. For more information about the books discussed. Click here for more information.

November 4: The Girls in Navy Blue by Alix Rickloff
December 3: The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah

Read With Pride (2024)

See YA (2024)

January 13: Better Living Through Algorithms by Naomi Kritzer (2023)
winner of the 2024 Hugo Award for Best Short Story
February 10: Jack and Della by Marilynne Robinson (2020)
Published in: The New Yorker, 7/20/2020
March 10: Sea Oak by George Saunders (2001)
Pastoralia by George Saunders (2001)
April 14: The Garden of Time by J.G. Ballard (1962)
May 12: The Statement of Jared Johnson by Geraldine Bonner (1899)
The Penguin book of murder mysteries (2023) edited by Michael Sims​​​​​​​​​​​​​​