BPL Loves Book Clubs!
Gathering people around the shared experience of a book is central to our mission. Reading as a social activity prompts a deeper relationship with the books we love.
Community Book Clubs
If you're not part of a book club already, BPL regularly hosts book discussion programming for all ages.
- When selecting your next book club pick, make sure the library has what you need! While BPL cannot buy or reserve titles for specific community book clubs, you can use our catalog to help you select your next book club read by checking the availability of certain titles and formats.
- Look in the catalog record for the number of copies currently available for checkout. You can also sort materials by the highest number of copies, in combination with other catalog filters (audience, subject, language, publication date and more).
- Ask our experienced staff for help choosing your next book club read! Visit your local library or use our free BookMatch service.
Upcoming Events
Book Discussion
Join our book discussion this month! We're reading On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, by Ocean Vuong. A letter from a son to a mother who cannot read. Written when the speaker, Little Dog, is in his late twenties, the letter unearths a family's history that began before he was born a history whose…
Teen Time: 1984 by George Orwell
Join us for a conversation about ANOTHER (sadly) prophetic and relevant dystopian novel, 1984 by George Orwell. Learn about the today's increasing censorship and what you can do about it. No need to have read the book! We will discuss the plot and important points and freedom of…
Teen Graphic Novel Book Club: Whistle: a New Gotham City Hero
Join BKLYN librarian Jessi G's monthly virtual book club for teens. We will read and talk about graphic novels, both fiction and non-fiction. For our May meeting and in honor of Jewish American Heritage Month, we'll discuss Whistle: a new Gotham City hero by E. Lockhart."Sixteen-year-old…
Adams Street Library Book Club
Join us for a lively discussion of our May 2025 book club selection, Real Estate by Deborah Levy. Copies available for pickup at the Adams Street Library or check out Libby for e-book and audiobook versions.
From the Publisher:
"Three bicycles. Seven ghosts. A crumbling apartment…
Sunset Park Book Discussion: Chronicle of a Death Foretold
Chronicle of a Death Foretold: a mystery novella from Gabriel García Márquez.
A man returns to the town where a baffling murder took place twenty-seven years earlier, determined to get to the bottom of the story.
Copies are available for checkout…
Marcy Library Book Club: "The Power Broker" by Robert Caro (session 3 of 4)
Join us for the third session of a four-part book club series tackling the Power Broker, Robert Caro’s behemoth biography of New York’s most powerful and notorious political boss, Robert Moses.
This event is open to adults and does not require registration. Please plan on having read at…
Book Club Discussion: Hum by Helen Phillips
Join our book discussion group on Hum by Helen Phillips! Share your thoughts on the book and get to know other readers in your community.
"In a near-future world addled by climate change and inhabited by intelligent robots called “hums,” May loses her job to artificial intelligence.…
Read-Aloud for Adults, followed by a discussion on short stories by Erma Bombeck
Join us at Dyker for a read aloud and discussion of short stories by Erma Bombeck
Book Discussion: The Quiet Librarian
This month, Park Slope Library's adult book discussion group is reading The Quiet Librarian by Allen Eskens.Library Journal says, Allen Eskens’ "novel alternates between two timelines: 1995 Bosnia and present-day Minnesota to tell the brutal story of war and its repercussions 30 years later.…