Library Book Clubs

Book Clubs are where you can meet to discuss book selections (both fiction and nonfiction) with other people, and at the end of each meeting, determine the next month’s book selection.

If you are looking to start your own book club, the library can help:

• Download our booklet, “How to Start and Sustain a Book Club”. 
• Check out our “Books in a Bag” service.  Each bag contains 10 copies of a single title and other information about the author.

Or, join one of the many book clubs at various library locations and meeting times.  Below is a list of book clubs that typically meet at our libraries.  For more information, including current book selections, please see our Events Calendar.

Benjamin L. Hooks Central Library

Central Readers Club

• Meeting Time: 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM; 2nd Monday of each month.  Lobby level, Room L-56
• Contact: Alieo Jackson – (901) 415-2726 or (901) 415-2729; alieo.jackson@memphistn.gov

Central Library Daytime Books & Beyond Book Club

• Description: Books and Beyond features an author/speaker one month and reads and discusses a selected book (both fiction and non-fiction) the next month.
• Meeting Time: 10:15 AM – 12:00 NOON; 3rd Tuesday of each month (except July).
• Contact: Wang-Ying Glasgow – (901) 415-2709; wang-ying.glasgow@memphistn.gov

I Read That Movie @ the Library (a page-to-screen book club)

• Meeting Time: 2:00 PM – 5:00 PM; 3rd Saturday of each month
• Contact: Josh Thomas – (901) 415-2726; joshua.thomas@memphistn.gov

Bartlett Branch Library

Book Chat Club

• Meeting Time: 1:00 PM; 3rd Thursday (mostly); Every other month.
• Contact: Cathy Brooks – (901) 386-8968

Cordova Branch Library

Cordova Library’s First Tuesday Book Club

• Meeting Time:  10:30 AM, 1st Tuesday of each month.
• Contact: Hollye Ferguson – (901) 415-2526; hollye.ferguson@memphistn.gov

Cordova Library’s Third Tuesday Book Club

• Description:  Group run followed by a book discussion
• Meeting Time:  12:00 NOON – 2:00 PM, 3rd Tuesday of each month.
• Contact: Hollye Ferguson – (901) 415-2526; hollye.ferguson@memphistn.gov

Cordova Library’s A Lady and Her Novel

• Meeting Time:  6:00 PM – 8:00 PM, 2nd Tuesday of each month
• Contact:  Sarah Perpener – (901) 415-2764; sarah.perpener@memphistn.gov

Cordova Library’s NovelSpeak Book Club

• Meeting Time:  1:00 PM – 3:00 PM, 3rd Thursdays of even months of year
• Contact:  Andrea King – (901) 415-2764; andrea.king@memphistn.gov

East Shelby Branch Library

East Shelby Book Lovers Book Club

• Meeting Time: 1:30 PM; 3rd Tuesday of each month.
• Contact: Heather Remmert – (901) 681-8251; or call the East Shelby Library (901) 415-2767
• Book Club Link: Join Microsoft Teams Meeting

Gaston Park Branch Library

Gaston Park Library’s African-American Book Club

• Meeting Time:  2:00 PM – 4:00 PM; 3rd Saturday of each month.
• Contact:  Pam Madden – (901) 415-2769; pamela.madden@memphistn.gov

Levi Branch Library

Levi Book Club

• Meeting Time:  3:00 PM – 5:00 PM; Last Friday of each month.
• Contact:  Deborah Sturdivant – (901) 415-2773; deborah.sturdivant@memphistn.gov

North Branch Library

Wealth of Knowledge Women’s Book Club

• Meeting Time:  10:30 AM – 12:30 PM; 4th Saturday of each month.
• Contact:  Vanessa Luellen – (901) 415-2775; vanessa.luellen@memphistn.gov

Onyxx Sport Readers’ Club

• Meeting Time:  1:00 PM – 2:00 PM; 1st Month of every other month.
• Contact:  Johnnie Mosley – (901) 415-2775; johnnie.mosley@memphistn.gov

Renaissance Men’s Book Club

• Meeting Time:  2:00 PM – 4:00 PM; 3rd Saturday of each month.
• Contact:  Johnnie Mosley – (901) 415-2775; johnnie.mosley@memphistn.gov

Parkway Village Branch Library

Parkway Village Library Book Club

• Meeting Time:  2:00 PM – 4:00 PM; 3rd Wednesday of each month.
• Contact:  Susan Berry – (901) 415-2776; pkyref@memphistn.gov

Poplar-White Station Branch Library

Poplar-White Station Adult Book Club

• Meeting Time: 10:30 AM – 12:00 NOON; Generally the 4th Saturday of every other month.
• Contact:  Sandra VanVelsor – 901-365-0669; vanvelsors@gmail.com or (901) 415-2777

Raleigh Branch Library

Raleigh Readers Book Club

• Meeting Time: 5:30 PM – 6:30 PM; 2nd Thursday of each month.
• Contact: Jessica Lockett – (901) 415-2778; jessica.lockett@memphistn.gov

Randolph Branch Library

Randolph Readers Book Club

• Meeting Time: 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM; 2nd Monday of each month.
• Contact: Amanda Hill – (901) 415-2799; amanda.hill@memphistn.gov

South Branch Library

South Branch Book Club

• Meeting Time: 11:00 AM; 3rd Saturday of each month.
• Contact: Sharondra Hardrick – (901) 415-2773; sharondra.hardrick@memphistn.gov

Whitehaven Branch Library

Whitehaven Book Club

• Meeting Time: 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM; 1st Saturday of each month.
• Contact: Donna Windham – (901) 415-2781; donna.windham@memphistn.gov