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
Teen Graphic Novel Book Club: Brownstone
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 next meeting, we'll discuss Brownstone by Samuel Teer & Mar Julia"Almudena has always wondered about the dad she never met. Now, with her…
Book Discussion Group
Book Discussion Group: Join our book discussion group on Yellowface by R. F. KUANG. Share your thoughts on the book and get to know other readers in your community
Place your copy on hold with our online catalog or visit the branch to check it out. No need to finish the book beforehand.…
Adulting is Hard: Graphic Novel Book Club
Greetings, Graphic Novel Crew! AiHGNBC is back for 2025 and we're now at the new Library for Arts and Culture. We'll be starting at 4pm, roughly 1 hour after the branch closes to the public so REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. Call the branch if you have access issues the day of the event.
Whether…
Book Discussion: My Husband by Maud Ventura
This month, the Park Slope Library's adult book discussion group is reading My Husband by Maud Ventura.Kirkus says, "Ventura’s first novel explores love’s darker alleyways through the eyes of a 40-year-old Frenchwoman who's obsessed with her husband... A modern Emma Bovary aiming her…
Quiet Reading Party - B.Y.O.B. Style
“B” is for Book—Bring One in Any Language or Format!…
LGBTQ+ Book Discussion: Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl by Andrea Lawlor
Looking to meet other LGBTQ+ folks? We meet the first Tuesday of every month to discuss an LGBTQ+ work. For April, Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl, by Andrea Lawlor. In the irreverent pages of this novel, a shapeshifter in 1993 gets a crash course in gender and sexuality by inhabiting both…
Book Chat
Join us for Book Chat, an informal gathering where we talk about what we’re reading—no assigned books, no pressure, just great conversation. Whether you’re a lifelong reader or newly excited about reading, this is a space to share recommendations, discover new…
BPL Book Prize Book Club: The Wild Fox of Yemen
In honor of the 10-year anniversary of the Brooklyn Public Library Book Prize, we are celebrating all year-long with book clubs featuring past winners. This meeting, we will be discussing 2021 fiction/poetry winner The Wild Fox of Yemen: Poems by Threa Almontaser.
By turns…
Book Chat
Join us at Brooklyn Heights for our monthly Book Chat! Bring a book you've read recently that you'd like to tell other folks about, and hear what other people are reading. It's like a book club, except you can read whatever you want!
