Event List

This month's  Alpha Book Club selection is 1943 coming-of-age story, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith! All are welcome to join and registration is not required. Yo...

Looking for a book club with no assigned reading or focused discussions? Then joining a Silent Book Club may be for you! The Rock Island Public Library is excited to host the Quad ...

Join us for a new year of our Teen Graphic Novel Book Club! This time we'll be discussing Satoko and Nada Volume 1 by Yupechika. Whether you've read this book or are just inte...

Looking to join a book club? We would love to have you join our Southwest Book Club! This month, we will be discussing The Women by Kristin Hannah.Women can be heroes. Wh...

This month's banned book selection is "I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter," by Erika L. Sanchez.It is easy to lose yourself in this heart warmingly poignant contemporary n...

This month's  Alpha Book Club selection is 2006 nonfiction work, The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl by Tim...

Looking for a book club with no assigned reading or focused discussions? Then joining a Silent Book Club may be for you! The Rock Island Public Library is excited to host the Quad ...

Join us for a new year of our Teen Graphic Novel Book Club! This time we'll be discussing the National Book Award winning A First Time for Everything by Dan Santat. Whether yo...

Join us as we discuss Lessons In Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus! Reserve a copy through our library system HERE. This group meets at the Watts-Midtown Library in the Norm & Ja...

This month's banned book selection is "Flamer," by Mike Curato.It's the summer between middle school and high school, and Aiden Navarro is away at camp. Everyone's going throu...

Looking to join a book club? We would love to have you join our Southwest Book Club! This month, we will be discussing Banyan Moon by Thao Thai.  When Ann Tran ...

Join us for a group book discussion in one of Rock Island's most beautiful parks, Longview Park! This month's selection is Atomic Habits by James Clear. You can obtain a physi...

Join us as we discuss Bruno, Chief of Police by Martin Walker! Reserve a copy through our library system HERE. This group meets at the Watts-Midtown Library in the Norm & ...

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The banned book to read for this month's discussion is "Looking for Alaska," by John GreenBefore. Miles “Pudge” Halter is done with his safe life at home. His whole life has been o...

Join us for a group book discussion in one of Rock Island's most beautiful parks, Longview Park! This month's selection is The Wright Brothers by David McCullough. You can obt...

Join us as we discuss Clark and Division by Naomi Hirahara! Reserve a copy through our library system HERE. This group meets at the Watts-Midtown Library in the Norm & Jan...

Looking for a book club with no assigned reading or focused discussions? Then joining a Silent Book Club may be for you! The Rock Island Public Library is excited to host the Quad ...

Connect with other readers to discuss books.

"Dreaming In Cuban" by Cristina Garcia is our pick for July.This is the first novel written by author Cristina García, and was a finalist for the National Book Award. This novel mo...

Join us for a group book discussion in one of Rock Island's most beautiful parks, Longview Park! This month's selection is The Small and The Mighty by Sharon McMahob. You can ...

Join us as we discuss Every Day is a Gift by Tammy Duckworth! Reserve a copy through our library system HERE. This group meets at the Watts-Midtown Library in the Norm & J...

Looking for a book club with no assigned reading or focused discussions? Then joining a Silent Book Club may be for you! The Rock Island Public Library is excited to host the Quad ...

Connect with other readers to discuss books.

"The Fixer" by Bernard Malamud is an older book, winner of the 1967 National Book Award for Fiction and the 1967 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Now it is on the banned books list.Russ...

Looking to join a book club? We would love to have you join our Southwest Book Club! This month, we will be discussing The God of the Woods by Liz Moore. Early morni...

Join us as we discuss Good Poems by Garrison Keillor! Reserve a copy through our library system HERE. This group meets at the Watts-Midtown Library in the Norm & Janet Mol...