Are you new to town? Are you looking to join a book club? The Austin Public Library has the story for you:

All of these selections can be found or ordered from APL locations. Please join us for a lively discussion of some fascinating books!

Book Clubs for Teens@APL
The Wired for Youth program hosts Young Adult (YA) Book Club discussions at various library locations. Check HERE for YA Book Club schedule.

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Austin Public Library Book Clubs for ages 18 and older:

Downtown Book Clubs

Graphic Novels @ Halcyon Coffee
Meeting Day: Third Wednesday of each month from 7 to 8 p.m.
Place:
Halcyon Coffee, 218 W. 4th St.
Contact:
(512) 974-7400

What Graphic Novels @ Halcyon Coffee is reading

• March 24 (4th Wed.) - Black Hole by Charles Burns
• April 21 - Sandman, vol. 1, Preludes and Nocturnes by Neil Gaiman
• May 19 - Ghost World by Daniel Clowes

Hampton Branch at Oak Hill Book Club
Meeting day:
Third Monday of each month from 7 to 8 p.m.
Place:
5125 Convict Hill Rd., Austin, Texas 78749
Contact:
(512) 974-9900

What the Hampton Branch at Oak Hill is Reading:

• March 15 - Possession by A.S. Byatt
• April 19 - Eye of the Leopard by Henning Mankell
• May 17 - The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
• June 21 - A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
• July 19 - Lolita by Vladimer Nabokov
• August 16 - Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
• September 20 - The miracle at Speedy Motors by McCall Smith, Alexander
• October 18 - The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
• November 15 - Get A Life by Nadine Gordimer
• December 13 (2nd Monday) - The Perfect Spy by John Le Carre

Little Walnut Creek Branch Book Club
Meeting:
Monthly from 7 to 8:30 p.m.
Place:
835 W. Rundberg Ln., Austin, Texas 78758
Contact:
(512) 974-9860

What Little Walnut Creek is Reading:

• March 22 - Say You’re One of Them by Uwem Akpan
• April 26 - True Fires by Susan Carol McCarthy
• June 7 - Strength in What Remains by Tracy Kidder
• July 19 - The Forever War by Dexter Filkins

Manchaca Road Book Club
Meeting day:
Third Wednesday of each month from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m.
Place:
5500 Manchaca Rd, Austin, Texas 78745
Contact:
(512) 974-8700

What Manchaca Road is Reading:

• March 17 - Loving Frank by Nancy Horan
• April 21 - Three Cups of Tea and Stones Into Schools by Greg Mortenson
• May 19 - On Thousand White Women: The Journal of May Dodd by Jim Fergus

Oak Springs Branch Book Club
Meeting day:
First Tuesday of each month at 7 p.m.
Place:
3101 Oak Springs Dr., Austin, TX 78702
Contact:
(512) 974-9920

What Oak Springs Branch is Reading:

• April 6: The Rope Walk by Carrie Brown
• May 4: How to Get What You Want and Want What You Have by John Gray
• June 1: Peace Like a River by Leif Enger
• July 6: America's Song by Stuart Murray

Old Quarry Branch Book Club
Meeting day:
Second Tuesday of each month from 7 to 8:30 p.m.
Place:
7051 Village Center Dr., Austin, Texas 78731
Contact:
(512) 345-4435

What Old Quarry Branch is Reading:

• March 9 - Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
• April 13 - The Heart of The Matter by Graham Greene
• May 11 - Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
• June 8 - Ravelstein by Saul Bellow

Pleasant Hill Branch Mystery Book Club
Meeting day:
Third Tuesday of each month from 7 to 8:30 p.m.
Place:
211 E. William Cannon Dr., Austin, Texas
Contact:
(512) 974-3940

What Pleasant Hill is Reading:

• March 16 - Death of Riley by Rhys Bowen
• April 20 - Mallory's Oracle by Carol O'Connell

Spicewood Springs Branch Book Club
Meeting day:
Third Tuesday of each month from 1:30 to 3:00 p.m.
Place:
8637 Spicewood Springs Rd., Austin, Texas 78759
Contact:
(512) 974-3800

What Spicewood Springs is Reading:

• March 16 – STILL ALICE – Lisa Genova
• April 20 – PAULA by Isabel Allende
• May 18 – CUTTING FOR STONE by Abraham Verghese
• June 15 – OMNIVORE’S DILEMMA Michael Pollan

Spicewood Springs Branch Mystery Book Club
Meeting Day:
First Wednesday of each month from 7 to 8:30 p.m.
Place:
8637 Spicewood Springs Rd., Austin, Texas 78759
Contact:
(512) 974-3800

What mystery is Spicewood Springs Branch reading:

• March 3 – CASE OF THE MISSING SERVANT by Tarquin Hall
• April 7 – THE SWEETNESS AT THE BOTTOM OF THE PIE by Alan Bradley
• May 5 – SKULL MANTRA by Eliot Pattison
• June 2 –RAVEN BLACK by Ann Cleeves

University Hills Branch Book Club
Meeting Day:
Second Thursday of each month from 7:00 to 8:30 p.m.
Place:
4721 Loyola Ln., Austin, Texas 78723
Contact:
(512) 974-9940

What University Hills is Reading:

• March 11 -Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson
• April 8 -Amigoland by Oscar Casares
• May 13 -The Shack by William P. Young
• June 10 -Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay
• July 8 -The Help by Kathryn Stockett

Windsor Park Branch Book Club
Meeting Day:
Second Tuesday of each month from 7 to 8:30 p.m.
Place:
5833 Westminster Dr., Austin, Texas 78723
Contact:
(512) 974-9840

What Windsor Park is Reading:

• March 9 - The Wordy Shipmates by Sarah Vowell
• April 13 - Amigoland by Oscar Casares
• May 11 - Elegance of the Hedgehog by by Muriel Barbery
• June 8 - Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why by Bart D Erhman
• July 13 - A Death in the Family by James Agee
• August 10 - A world Lit Only by Fire: the Medieval Mind and the Renaissance Portrait of an Age by William Manchester
• September 14 - Goodbye Columbus: and 5 Short Stories by Philip Roth
• October 12 - Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature by Steven Pinker
• November 9 - Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
• December 14 -The Ascent of Money:a Financial History of the World by Niall Furgeson
• January 11 -The Death of Vishnu by Minil Suri

Citywide Book Club
Mayor's Book Club: Keep Austin Reading, sponsored by the Austin Public Library. Annual Citywide book club.
Place:
Click HERE for the 2010 Mayors Book Club
Contact:
(512) 974-7400