Call-in Book Club Series
TBP Book Club is currently a call-in format. We will give you a phone number to call and join us via conference call. The only technology you need to join the Book Club is a telephone!
When you are ordering a title for TBP Book Club, let us know so we can get the title out to you as soon as possible. All selected titles are also available for download from BARD. Whether ordering or downloading, please let us know if you plan on joining our book club discussion.
Please contact a Reader's Advisory Librarian at 1-800-252-9605 or at tbp.ral@tsl.texas.gov with any questions or to RSVP.
See the previous titles our Book Club has read
Upcoming English Book Club Titles
**Dates subject to change**
July 24, 2018 (Tuesday), 7:00-8:00 p.m. Central
MY GRANDMOTHER ASKED ME TO TELL YOU SHE'S SORRY: A NOVEL, by Fredrik Backman
Seven-year-old Elsa is acknowledged as weird. The grandmother she lives with is flat-out crazy, but she shares tales of the fairyland of Miamas. When her grandmother dies, Elsa is entrusted with delivering letters of apology and learns about her place in the world. Translated from the original 2013 Swedish edition. 2014. DB 83204
September 20, 2018 (Thursday), 7:00-8:00 p.m. Central
HIDDEN FIGURES: THE AMERICAN DREAM AND THE UNTOLD STORY OF THE BLACK WOMEN MATHEMATICIANS WHO HELPED WIN THE SPACE RACE, by Margot Lee Shetterly
Daughter of a NASA engineer profiles the black women who worked for NASA, and its predecessor NACA, as human computers. Discusses their lives prior to joining NACA/NASA, the challenges they faced due to gender and race discrimination, and their impact on the space program. Basis for the 2016 movie. 2016. BR 21798; DB 86234
2018 ENGLISH BOOK CLUB SELECTIONS
** Dates subject to change **
January 25, 2018 (Thursday), 7:00-8:00 p.m. Central
STRANGER IN THE WOODS: THE EXTRAORDINARY STORY OF THE LAST TRUE HERMIT, by Michael Finkel
In 1986, twenty-year-old Christopher Knight drove to Maine and disappeared into the forest. He did not speak to another human being until he was arrested for stealing food nearly thirty years later. Discusses his survival in the wilderness in the intervening decades. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. Bestseller. 2017. DB 87555
March 20, 2018 (Tuesday), 7:00-8:00 p.m. Central
HILLBILLY ELEGY: A MEMOIR OF A FAMILY AND CULTURE IN CRISIS, by J. D. Vance
Memoir of growing up in the Ohio Rust Belt in a family culture rooted in Scots-Irish Appalachia. Explores political themes affecting these community cultures through the lens of personal and familial experiences. Discusses what it took to go from nearly failing high school to graduating from Yale Law School. Some strong language. Bestseller. 2016. DB 85796; LB 08948
May 17, 2018 (Thursday), 7:00-8:00 p.m. Central
NEWS OF THE WORLD: A NOVEL, by Paulette Jiles
1870. Captain Kidd rides across Texas delivering the news of the day. He is asked to take ten-year-old Johanna Leonberger, recently rescued from a Kiowa tribe, to her family near San Antonio. The captain must deal with Johanna's inability to reacclimate to white culture. Some violence and some strong language. 2016. BR 21741; DB 86668; DX 86668
July 24, 2018 (Tuesday), 7:00-8:00 p.m. Central
MY GRANDMOTHER ASKED ME TO TELL YOU SHE'S SORRY: A NOVEL, by Fredrik Backman
Seven-year-old Elsa is acknowledged as weird. The grandmother she lives with is flat-out crazy, but she shares tales of the fairyland of Miamas. When her grandmother dies, Elsa is entrusted with delivering letters of apology and learns about her place in the world. Translated from the original 2013 Swedish edition. 2014. DB 83204
September 20, 2018 (Thursday), 7:00-8:00 p.m. Central
HIDDEN FIGURES: THE AMERICAN DREAM AND THE UNTOLD STORY OF THE BLACK WOMEN MATHEMATICIANS WHO HELPED WIN THE SPACE RACE, by Margot Lee Shetterly
Daughter of a NASA engineer profiles the black women who worked for NASA, and its predecessor NACA, as human computers. Discusses their lives prior to joining NACA/NASA, the challenges they faced due to gender and race discrimination, and their impact on the space program. Basis for the 2016 movie. 2016. BR 21798; DB 86234
November 8, 2018 (Thusday), 7:00-8:00 p.m. Central
BEFORE WE WERE YOURS, by Lisa Wingate
The five Foss children are left alone at home in 1930s Mississippi and subsequently kidnapped by notorious child dealer Georgia Tann. In the present day, Avery Stafford meets elderly May--who used to be Rill Foss and is the sister of Avery’s Grandma Judy. Avery investigates her family’s history. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2017. DB 88202; DX 88202