Book Discussions
Discover your next favorite read and connect with fellow book lovers at Cleveland Public Library's book discussions!
Join engaging novel conversations, covering a diverse selection of genres and themes to inspire, entertain, and enlighten.
Upcoming Events
All eventsBanned Book Club
We will read and discuss various banned or challenged books and graphic novels
August Wilson's Century Cycle: Fences
Celebrate one of the greatest projects in American literature and one of America's greatest playwrights. Between 1982 and 2005 playwright August Wilson showcased the African-American experience through ten plays, each set in a different decade of the 20th century. Join us on the last Tuesday of the month to read each play aloud together and discuss. This month we'll be reading Fences, written in 1985 and set in the 1950s.
Memoirs & True Lives
Join us monthly as we explore personal stories of empathy and reflection. Titles will be decided at the meeting. Book Club Schedule: January 15 February 19 March 19 April 16 May 28 June 25 July 23 August 20 September 17 October 29 November 24 December 17
Hope Collection Book Club
Join us for a meeting of the Hope Collection Book Club. Each month we'll meet to discuss a selection from the book collection for literacy-improving adults.
Monthly Book Discussion
Join us on the first Wednesday each month to share what you’re reading and to select a new title to discuss together next time.
Ohio Center for the Book's Get Graphic! Comics Discussion: Torso by Brian Michael Bendis
This year, the Ohio Center for the Book’s Get Graphic! Comics Discussions focus on Ohio creators. This month, we’re reading Torso by Brian Michael Bendis (Cleveland). Bendis’ Torso, the 1999 Eisner Award Winner for Comic Book Excellence, tells the graphic (in more ways than one) story of Eliot Ness’ investigation of the Torso Murders that rocked Cleveland in the 1930s. Discussions are held 6:00 pm the first Thursday of the month. Our conversation will take place at Forest City Brewery (2135 Columbus Road, Cleveland, OH 44113).
The Romantics Book Club
Life is never as intriguing and titillating as an enemies to lovers book. Join other romance book lovers the first Thursday of every month at various, unique locations throughout the city to discuss the romance tropes we all love to hate. June's pick is "Throttled" by Lauren Asher. For more information call Brooklyn Branch at 216-623-6920 or South Brooklyn Branch at 216-623-7067. This program occurs at a different location each month, please see in description below: January: Heated Rivalry by Rachel Reid Location: Merwin's Wharf Igloos (subject to change) February: Assistant to the Villain by Hannah Nicole Maehrer Location: Battr March: Go Luck Yourself by Sara Raasch Location: The Harp April: Battle of the Bookstores by Ali Brady Location: The Reading Room Bookstore May: Done & Dusted by Lyla Sage Location: Jolene's Honky Tonk June: Throttled by Lauren Asher Location: The Art Box July: First-Time Caller by B.K. Borison Location: Edgewater Book Box – Bring your own chair August: I Got Abducted by an Alien and Now I'm in a Rom-Com by Kimberly Lemming Location: Wade Oval Book Box September: If She Says Yes by Tasha L. Harrison Location: Brewnuts October: – Vow of Deception by by Rina Kent Location: Visible Voice Books November: Don't Want You Like a Best Friend by Emma Alban Location: Loganberry Books December: The Christmas Tree Farm by Laure Gilmore Location: The Arcade, Pizza216
Novels in Translation: We Do Not Part
Join the Ohio Center for the Book at Clevo Books (1026 Euclid Ave), a downtown Cleveland bookstore specializing in translated works of literature, for a discussion on We Do Not Part by Han Kang, and translated from the Korean by e. yaewon and Paige Aniyah Morris. From the publisher: One winter morning in Seoul, Kyungha receives an urgent message from her friend Inseon to visit her at the hospital. Inseon has injured herself in an accident, and she begs Kyungha to return to Jeju Island, where she lives, to save her beloved pet—a white bird called Ama. A snowstorm hits the island when Kyungha arrives. She must reach Inseon’s house at all costs, but the icy wind and squalls slow her down as night begins to fall. She wonders if she will arrive in time to save the animal—or even survive the terrible cold that envelops her with every step. Lost in a world of snow, she doesn’t yet suspect the vertiginous plunge into darkness that awaits her at her friend’s house. Blurring the boundaries between dream and reality, We Do Not Part powerfully brings to light the lost voices of the past to save them from oblivion. Both a hymn to an enduring friendship and an argument for remembering, it is the story of profound love in the face of unspeakable pain—and a celebration of life, however fragile it might be. Get this book.
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