Book Clubs
One staff member, with occasional help, orders and processes items for 17 local book clubs, most of which are year-round.
Find a book club to meet your interest and schedule!
Book Club Group Reminder
Books will typically be ready when your book club meets unless otherwise notified. Please pick up your books within 10 days of your meeting date or contact the library to make other arrangements.
Book choice may be changed due to unavailability of the item for requested date. If an alternate book title is chosen, the book club coordinator will be notified.
Book Clubs
- 50/50 Book Club
- Barnes Book Club
- Betty Lou Literary Society (Stone Lake BC #2)
- Birkie Girls #1 Book Club
- Blue Stockings Book Club
- Caribou Book Club
- Hayward Book Club
- Mix It Up
- Newcomers Book Club
- OMW Book Club
- Paws for Pages Book Club
- PEO Book Club
- Quiet Readers Book Club
- Read Book Society
- Serendipity Book Club
- SGBC
- St. Joseph’s Church- Friday Book Club
- Sunday Night Book Club
- United Methodist Church Book Club
- Women on the Edge Book Club
- WOWW1 Book Club
- WOWW2 Book Club
The Barnes Book Club
Meets monthly on the 4th Monday of the month in Barnes.
For the location, or to join, please contact the book club coordinator
Judy Wilcox
Phone NA
Email judywilcox69@gmail.com
Summer & Winter Group Size
Group Size: 10
*Please contact your book club coordinator if you would like items ordered for you in Book on Tape, Book on CD or Large Print format when those titles are available in those formats.
Barnes Book Choices
Jan. 24, 2022
Two Women by Velma Wallis
Feb. 28, 2022
Still Life by Louise Penny
March 28, 2022
Emma by Jane Austen
April 25, 2022
Sick Souls, Healthy Minds by Kaag
May 23, 2022
Color of Water by James McBride
June 27, 2022
Dewey: The Small-Town Cat Who Touched the World
by Viki Myron
July 25, 2022
Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
August 22, 2022
Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie
Sept. 16, 2022
Neither Wolf Nor Dog by Kent Nerburn
Oct. 24, 2022
State of Terror by Hilary Clinton and Louise Penny
Nov. 28, 2022
The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk
Dec. 2022 – No Book
Jan. 23, 2023
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
Feb. 27, 2023
Fer-de-France by Rex Stout
March 27, 2023
Down the Garden Path by Beverly Nichols
April 17, 2023
Poetry – No Book from library
May 22, 2023
Lord Jim by Joseph Con rad
June 26, 2023
All The Pretty Horses by Cormac, McCathy
July 24, 2023
Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker
August 28, 2023
The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
September 25, 2023
Review of author John Hershey
October 23, 2023
The Scent Keeper by Erica Bauermeister
The Birkie Girls
Meets the 3rd Wednesday in September through May.This group is closed to new members at this time.
Group Size: 4
For more information, please contact the Birkie Girls #1 book club coordinator:
Marilyn Konkler
Phone 651-238-0574
Email mkonkler55@gmail.com
Birkie Girls Book Choices
Jan. 19, 2022
The Rose Code by Kate Quinn
Feb. 16, 2022
A Sharp Solitude by Christin Carbo
March 16, 2022
Josephine Baker’s Last Dance by Sherry Jones
April 20, 2022
Facing the Mountain by Dan James Brown
Sept. 21, 2022
The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict
Oct. 19, 2022
The Sentence by Louise Erdrich
Nov. 16, 2022
Tobacco Wives by Adele Myers
Dec. 21, 2022
No Meeting
Jan. 19, 2023
Hero of the Empire by Candice Millard
Feb. 15, 2023
Eleanor in the Village by Jan Jarboe Russell
March 15, 2023
Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson
April 19, 2023
Echo Mountain by Lauren Wolk
May 17, 2023
The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt by Eleanor Roosevelt
June – Aug. No meetings
September 20, 2023
Remarkably Smart Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt
October 18, 2023
The Swimmers by Julie Otsuka
October 18, 2023
Rough Sleeper by Tracy Kidder
Blue Stockings Book Club
Meets in the afternoons on the 3rd Monday of every month at 1:30 pm.
For more information, please contact your book club coordinators:
Jan Wege/Pat Dougher
Phone 715-634-8101/715-634-2149
Email muskymania@centurytel.net
Group Size
Dec.-Mar. : 7 total
Apr.-Nov. 7 : 10 total
Blue Stockings Book Choices
Jan. 3, 2022 Ida Tarbell, The Woman Who Challenged Big Business and Won by Emil Arnold McCully
Feb. 7, 2022 The Murmur of Bees by Sofia Seqovia
March 14, 2022 The Dutch House by Ann Pratchett
April 11, 2022 Figure Eight by Jeff Nania
May 9, 2022 The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris
June 13, 2022
Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy
July 18, 2022
The Woman in the Window by A. J. Finn
August 15, 2022
Spider Lake by Jeff Nania
Sept. 19, 2022
The Ride of Her Life by Elizabeth Letts
October 10, 2022
Dog Stars by Peter Heller
November 14, 2022
Under the Feet of Jesus by Helena Viramontes
Dec. 29, 2022
Where’d You Go Bernadette by Maria Semple
January 9, 2023
The River by Peter Heller
February 13, 2023
The Land Remembers by Ben Logan
March 13, 2023
The Moor’s Account by Laila Lalami
April 10, 2023
Mudbound by Hillary Jordan
May 8, 2023
Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
June 12, 2023
When She Woke by Hillary Jordan
July 11, 2023
Women Talking by Miriam Toews
August 14, 2023
Innocents by Micahel Crummey
September 12, 2023
Virgil Wander by Leif Enger
October 10, 2023
Still Life by Louis Penny
November 14, 2023
Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict
Bookworms on the Lake
Meets the 2nd Tuesday of each month
Closed Book Club
Group Size: 7
For more information, please contact your book club coordinator
Gina Watson
Phone 952-212-5382
Email ginawatsonmail@gmail.com
Bookworms on the Lake
Oct. 10, 2023 The Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult
November 14, 2023
Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
Caribou Book Club
Meets the first Thursday of each month
Open Book Club
Group Size: 9
For more information, please contact your book club coordinator
Lynn Syverson
Phone 715-699-0308
Email 6syversons@gmail.com
Caribou Book Choices
Jan. 2, 2022 The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
Feb. 3, 2022 Miracle Creek by Angie Kim
March 3, 2022 This is How It Always Is by Laurie Frankel
April 7, 2022 Nomadland by Jessica Bruder
May 5, 2022 You Should Have Known by Jean Hanff Korelitz
June 2, 2022
The Good Sister by Sally Hepworth
July 7, 2022
The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane by Lisa See
August 4, 2022
A Day Like This by Kelly McNeil
Sept 1, 2022
American Dirt by Jeaninie Cummins
Oct. 6, 2022
The Plot by Jean Hanff Korlitz
Nov. 3, 2022
I’m Fine and Neither Are You by Camille Pagan
Dec. 1, 2022
The Dinner by Hermann Koch
January 5, 2023
Summer House with Swimming Pool by Hermann Koch
February 2, 2023
The War I Finally Won by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
The War That Saved My Life by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
March 2, 2023
The Storied Life of AJ Fikry by Gaabrielle Zevan
April 16, 2023
A Woman of Intelligence by Karin Tanabe
May 4, 2023
Don’t Let’s Go To the Dogs Tonight by Alexandra Fuller
June 1, 2023
Cider House Rules by John Irving
July 6, 2023
The Second Life of Mirelle West by Amanda Skenandore
August 3, 2023
Olive, Again by Elizabeth Strout
September 7, 2023
The Story of Arthur Truluv by Elizabeth Berg
October 5, 2023
Sold on a Monday by Kristina McMorris
November 5, 2023
The Last Bookshop by Madeline Martin
Hayward Book Club
Meets on the third Thursday of the month: May-September
Group Size: 8
For more information, please contact your book club coordinator
Grace (Connie) Miller
Phone 715-462-3451
Hayward Book Choices
June 2, 2022
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
June 23, 2022
The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes
July 21, 2022
Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery & Jack London’s To Build a Fire
August 18, 2022
The Nature of Fragile Things by Susan Messner & The Telltale Heart by Edgar Allen Poe
September 15, 2022
The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah
June 1, 2023
Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
June 22, 2023
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
July 20, 2023
The Last Green Valley by Mark Sullivan
&
The Ransom of Red Chief by O. Henry
August 17, 2023
Lessons in Chemistry by Bonme Garnes (shared among members)
Fish Cheeks by Amy Tan (copy at the library)
Possible Alternate: The Beekeeper of Aleppo by Christy Lefteri
Alternate: The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
Mix It Up Book Club
– Looking for Members
Meets mid-month at the library in the months of May – Sept.
Group Size: 8
For more information, please contact your book club coordinator:
Allen Meyer
Phone: 303-810-8210
Email: allen.meyer@colorado.edu
Mix It Up Book Choices
August 17, 2022
Better Off Dead by Lee Child and Andrew Child
Sept. 14, 2022
Spider Lake by Jeff Nania
May 10, 2023
Messy Lives of Book People by Phaedra Patrick
June 14, 2023
Path Lit by Lightning by David Maraniss
July 15, 2023
Long Shadows by David Baldacci
August 9, 2023
Transcription by Kate Atkinson
September 20, 2023?
Stillhouse Lake by Rachel Caine
Newcomers Book Club
Meets on the 3rd Thursday of each month. Location changes monthly.
Book Club is closed due to maximum number of members.
For more information, please contact your book club coordinator:
Peggy Stewart
Phone 612-412-9241
Email randypeggy01@gmail.com
Newcomers Book Choices
November 18, 2021
The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson
December 23, 2021 – The Noel Letters by Richard Paul Evans
January 27, 2022 – The Story of Arthur Truluv by Elizabeth Berg
February 24, 2022 – The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson
March 24, 2022 The Other Americans by Laila Lalami
April 28, 2022 The Woman in the Photo by Mary Hogan
May 26, 2022 Echoes of My Soul by Robert Tannenbaum
June 15, 2022
The Perfect Horse by Elizabeth Letts
July 21, 2022
The Things We Lost to the Water by Eric Nguyen
August 18, 2022
Turtles All the Way Down by John Green
Sept. 15, 2022
The Dutch House by Ann Pratchett
Oct. 20, 2022
Caste by Isabel Wilkinson
Nov. 17, 2022
The Seven Days of Us by Francesca Hornak
Dec. 15, 2022
The Baker’s Secret by Stephen Kiernan
January 19, 2023
Last Green Valley by Mark Sullivan
February 16, 2023
Forty Autumns by Nina Willner
March 16, 2023
All Thirteen by Christina Soontornvat
April 19, 2023
The Eighty-Dollar Champion by Elizabeth Letts
May 18, 2023
World Played Chess by Robert Dugoni
June 21, 2023
The Firekeeper’s Daughter by Angeline Boulley
July 20, 2023
The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse by Louise Erdrich
August 17, 2023
The Women They Could Not Silence by Kate Moore
September 28, 2023
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
October 26, 2023
Dragonfly by Leila Meacham
OMW Book Club
Meets on the second Tuesday of the month.
Group Size: 5
For more information, please contact your book club coordinator:
Catherine Sebek
Phone 715-634-3667
Email catherine.sebek@gmail.com
OMW Book Choices
Sept. 10, 2021
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
Oct. 12, 2021
If You Cross the River by Geneivieve Damas
Nov. 9, 2021
The Night Watchman by Louise Erdich
Dec. 14, 2021 The Grammarians by Cathleen Shine
Jan. 11, 2022 Aviary by Deidre McNamer
February 2, 2022 The World That We Knew by Alice Hoffman
March 8, 2022 Writers and Lovers by Lily King
April 12, 2022 Midnight Library by Matt Haig
May 10,2022 The Stolen Lady by Laura Morelli
June 14, 2022 Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman
July 12, 2022
The Lager Queen of Minnesota by J. Rya Stradal
August 9, 2022
The Sentence by Louise Erdrich
September 13, 2022
The Indigo Girl by Natasha Boyd
October 11, 2022
Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles
November 8, 2022
Prague Sonata by Bradford Morrow
Dec. 13, 2022
Matrix by Lauren Geoff
January 10, 2023
Outlawed by Anna North
February 14, 2023
The Cartographers by Peng Shepherd
March 14, 2023
The Seed Keeper by Diane Wilson
April 11, 2023
Cher Ami and Major Whittlesey by Kathleen Rooney
May 9, 2023 – No Meeting
June 13, 2023
Fresh Water for Flowers by Valerie Perrin
July 11, 2023
Flying Solo by Linda Holmes (no audio CD – only e-audiobook)
August 8, 2023
Salt Houses by Hala Aylan
September 12, 2023
Less is Lost by Andrew Greer
October 10, 2023
west with Giraffes by Lynda Rutledge (Purchasing their own copies.)
Paws for Pages Book Club
The Humane Society Thrift Store Northwoods Book Club meets 2nd Friday of the month at the First Lutheran Church.
Group Size: 5 (Open to new members.)
For more information, please contact your book club coordinator:
Judy Berard
Phone 715-558-3860
Email berarddj@charter.net
Paws for Pages Book Choices
September 10, 2021
The Other Black Girl by Z.D. Harris
October 9, 2021
The Memory Keeper’s Daughter by Kim Edwards
Nov. 12, 2021
Roofwalker by Susan Power
Dec. 10, 2021 The Notorious RBG by Irin Carmon and Shana Knizhnik
Jan, 14, 2022 Walk with Me by Kate Larson
February 11, 2022 The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbary
March 11, 2022 Golden Girl by Elin Hildebrand
April 8, 2022 Bone Black by Bell Hooks
May 13, 2022 The Book of Hope by Jane Goodall
June 10, 2022
Run River by Joan Didion
July 8, 2022
The 1619 Project by Nikole Hannah-Jones
August 12, 2022
Woke Racism by John H. McWhorter – CANCELED
Sept. 9, 2022
Finding Dorothy by Elizabeth Letts
Oct. 14, 2022
Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
Nov. 11, 2022
The Aviator’s Wife by Melanie Benjamin
Dec. 9, 2022
Fire Keeper’s Daughter
Jan. 13, 2023
Crazy Brave by Joy Harjo
February 10, 2023
The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
March 10, 2023
Educated by Tara Westover
April 14, 2023
Secret Life of Albert Entwistle by Matt Cain
May 12, 2023
Ride of Her Life by Elizabeth Letts
June 9, 2023
The Tiger’s Wife by Tea Oberht
July 14, 2023
There’s A Word For That by Sloane Tanen
August 11, 2023
The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates
September 8, 2023
The Girls of Atomic City by Denise Kiernan
October 13, 2023
One in a Million Boy by Monica Wood
November 10, 2023
What Rose Forgot by Nevada Barr
PEO Book Club
PEO (Philanthropic Education Org)
Meets the last Thursday of the month
Group Size: 5
For more information, please contact your book club coordinator:
Carol Heinrich
Phone 715-634-3143
Email clhbirk10@gmail.com
PEO Book Choices
September 2, 2021
Death of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi
October 7, 2021
News of the World by Pauline Jiles
Nov. 4, 2021
When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Jiles
Dec. 2, 2021 Uncommon Types by Tom Hanks
Jan. 7, 2022 Finding Dorothy by Elizabeth Letts
Feb. 3, 2022 A Warrior of the People by Joe Starita
March 3, 2022 Yellow Crocus by Laila Ibrahim
April 7, 2022 The Cherry Harvest by Lucy Sanna
May 5, 2022 On Desperate Ground by Hampton Sides
June 2, 2022 Night Watchman by Louise Edrich
July 7, 2022
The Lions of Fifth Avenue by Fiona Davis
August 4, 2022
Hillbilly Elegy by J. D. Vance
Sept. 1, 2022
Miss Benson’s Beetle by Rachel Joyce
October 6, 2022
Forty Autumns by Nina Willner
November 3, 2022
Four Winds by Kristen Hannah
Dec. 1, 2022
Mrs. Roosevelt’s Confidante by Susan Elisa MacNeal
January 26, 2023
Becoming by Michelle Obama
February 23, 2023
Book Scavenger by Chambliss Bertman
March 30, 2023
The Story of Arthur Truluv by Elizabeth Berg
April 27, 2023
Rules of Civility by Amor Towles
May 25, 2023
Nomadland by Jessica Bruder
June 29, 2023
The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
July
No Meeting
August 31, 2023
Star of the North by David John
September 28, 2023
Citizens of London by Lynne Olson
October 26, 2023
Midnight Library by Matt Haig
Read Book Society
On break until April 2022
Meets on the second Wednesday of the Month.
Summer & Winter Group Size: 10 Members;
This is a closed book group.
For more information, please contact your book club coordinator:
Read Book Choices
June 9, 2021
Find the Good by Heather Lende
July 14, 2021
This is How it Always is by Laurie Frankel
August 11, 2021 Hollow Kingdom by Jan Buxton
September 8, 2021 The Henna Artist by Alka Josh
Oct. 13, 2021
The Long Petal of the Sea by Isabel Allende
Nov. 10, 2021
The Firekeeper’s Daughter by Angeline Balley
Dec. 8, 2021
Fresh Water for Flowers by Valerie Pemn
May 12, 2022 Love and Ruin by Paula McClain
June 8, 2022
Breath by James Nestor
July 14, 2022
The Midnight Library by Haig
August 10, 2022
The Hate You Give by Angie Thomas
Sept. 14, 2022
Good Lord Bird by James McBride
October 12, 2022
Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
November 9, 2022
Virgil Wander by Leif Enger
January 11, 2023
Fifty Words for Rain by Sha Lennie
February – No Meeting
March 16, 2023
Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid
April 14, 2023
Peach Pilgrim by Peach Pilgrim
May 10, 2023
Rent Collector by Camron Wright
June 14, 2023
The Lager Queen of Minnesota by J. Ryan Stradal
July – No meeting
August 9, 2023
The Dog Stars by Peter Heller
September 13, 2023
Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer
October 10, 2023
Daisy Jones & the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
November14, 2023
A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
Serendipity Book Club
Meets on the 4th Thursday of the month at 1pm at Wesleyan Church in Hayward.
Group Size: 9
For more information, please contact your book club coordinator:
Sandy Fliess
Phone 715-634-1494
Email sandra045@centurytel.net
Serendipity Book Choices
Sept. 21, 2021
Warrior’s Song by Judith Pella (No Large Print)
Oct. 27, 2021
Peace Like a River by Leif Enger
Dec. 1, 2021 The Prayer Box by Lisa Wingate
Jan. 26, 2022 The Shepard’s Voice by Robin Hatcher
February 17, 2022 The Amethyst Heart by Penelope Stokes
March 23, 2022 Way of Women by Lauraine Snelling
April 27, 2022 A Promise Kept by Robin Lee Hatcher
May 25, 2022 Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Album
June 22, 2022
Room of Marvels by James Bryan Smith
July 27, 2022
Glory Road by Lauren K. Denton
August 24, 2022
The Hideaway by Lauren K. Denton
Sept. 28, 2022
This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger
Oct. 26, 2022
Have a Little Faith by Mitch Albom
December 7, 2022
Four Winds by Kristin Hannah
January 26, 2023
Why the Sky is Blue by Susan Meissner
February 22, 2023
Tending Roses by Lisa Wingate
March 22, 2023
For One More Day by Mitch Albom
April 26, 2023
Winter Garden by Kristin Hannah
May 24, 2023
Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline
June 28, 2023
A Perfect Day by Richard Paul Evans
July 26, 2023
The Sweetest Thing by Elizabeth Musser
August 23, 2023
The Hideaway by Hannah Alexander
September 28, 2023
One Light Still Shines by Marie Monville
October 25, 2023
Homefront by Kristen Hannah
SGBC Club
Meets on the last Monday of the month.
This is a closed group.
SGBC Book Choices
Oct 25, 2021
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
Nov/Dec 27, 2021
Above All Things by Tanis Rideout
Jan 31, 2022
My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell
Feb 28, 2022
Heavy: An American Novel by Kiese Laymon
March 28, 2022
American Oz by Michael Sean Comerford
April 25, 2022 The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict
May -June 13, 2022 Anxious People by Fredrik Bachman
July – August 29, 2022
Spilled Milk by K. L. Randis
Sept. 26, 2022
Broken by Jenn Lawson
Oct. 31, 2022
The Four Winds by Kristen Hannah
Nov. – Dec. 26, 2022
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg
Jan. 30, 2023
The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch
February 27, 2023
The Henna Artist by Alka Joshi
March 27, 2023
Beartown by Fredrik Backman
April 24, 2023
Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason
May/June 12, 2023
The Prayer Box by Lisa Wingate
July/August 4, 2023
Nowhere for Very Long by Brianna Madia
September 25, 2023
How To Be Perfect by Michael Schur
October 30, 2023
The Exiles by Christina Baker Kline
Alternates:
A Good Neighborhood by Therese Anne Fowler
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
St. Joseph’s Church – Friday Book Club
Meets the second Friday of the month depending on the church liturgical schedule, October through March.
Winter Group Size: 20
For more information, please contact the St. Joseph’s Church/First Friday book club coordinator:
Louise Vance
Phone 715-634-3895
Email louise.a.vance@gmail.com
Not currently meeting.
St. Joseph Book Choices
January 2, 2022
Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate
February 4, 2022
All Thirteen by Christina Soontornvat
March 4, 2022 Book at the Church
April 1, 2022 Treasure in Clay: The Autobiography of Fulton J. Sheen
Oct. 7, 2022
Sold on a Monday by Kristina McMorris
Nov. 4, 2022
Big Russ and Me by Tim Russert
Dec.2, 2022
River of Fire – My Spiritual Journey by Helen Perejen
January 6
Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell by Robert Dugoni
February 3, 2023
American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins
March 3, 2023
Jesus – A Pilgrimage by James Martin
October 6, 2023
The Reading List by Sara Nisha Adams
November 3, 2023
Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Carter
Sunday Night Book Club
Meets on the 1st Sunday of the month.
Group Size: 11
For more information, please contact your book club coordinator:
Katie Kelley
Phone 715-634-5838
Sunday Night Book Choices
Oct. 3, 2021
Being Heumann by Judith Huemann
Nov. 7, 2021 Caste by Apeirgon by Colum McCann
Dec. 5, 2021 – Code Talker by Joseph Bruchac
Jan. 2, 2022 – Movie made from a book
Feb. 6, 2022 – The Secret to Superhuman Strength
March 6, 2022 – Don’t Lets Go to the Dogs Tonight by Alexandre Fuller
April 3, 2022 Of Women and Salt by Gabriela Barcia
May 1, 2022 Hollywood Park by Michael Jollett
June 5, 2022 Firmin by Sam Savage
July 6, 2022
Dear Edward by Ann Napolitano
August 7, 2022
Klar and The Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
Sept. 4, 2022
The Invisible Life of Addie Larue by Victoria Schwab
October 2, 2022
Anxious People by Fredrik Backman
November 6, 2022
The Big Short by Michael Lewis
December 4, 2022
Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson
January 8, 2023
Movie – Where the Crawdads Sing
February 5, 2023
All Over But the Shoutin by Rick Braggs
March 5, 2023
The Plot by Jean Korelitz
April 2, 2023
River of the Gods by Candice Millard
May 7, 2023
Code Name Helene by Ariel Lawhon
June 4, 2023
Stamped by Jason Reynolds
July 2, 2023
Shoe Dog by Phil Knight
August 6, 2023
Unlikely Adventures of the Shergill Sisters by Balli Kaur Jaswal
September 3, 2023
We Ride on Sticks by Quen Barry
October 1, 2023
The Last Castle by Denise Kierman
November 5, 2023
Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
United Methodist Church Book Club
Meets on the last Friday of the month (unless a holiday).
Summer & Winter Group Size: 10
For location, or to join, please contact the United Methodist book club coordinator:
Carole Loveland
Phone 715-462-9436
United Methodist Book Choices
September 24, 2021
This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger
October 29, 2021
The Book Women of Troublesome Creek by Michele Richardson
November 26, 2021
The Skylark’s Secret by Fiona Valpy
December 31, 2021
Last Correspondent by Soraya Lane
Jan. 28, 2022 The Word is Murder by Anthony Horowitz
Feb. 25, 2022 The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict
March 25, 2022 Stay by Catherine Ryan Hyde
April 29, 2022 The Night Watchman by Louise Erdich
May 27, 2022 The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
June 24, 2022 Miss Benson’s Beetle by Rachael Joyce
July 29, 2022
Mrs. Roosevelt’s Confidante by Susan MacNeal
August 26, 2022
Homefront by Kristina Hannah
September 30, 2022
Salt to the Sea by Rita Sepetys
October 28, 2022
A Libertarian Walks Into a Bear by Matthew Hongoltz-Hetlin
November 25, 2022
Anxious People by Fredrick Backman
Dec. 30. 2022
A Woman of No Importance by Sonia Purnell
January 26, 2023
The Gown by Jennifer Robson
February 24, 2023
This Is How It Always Is by Laurie Frankel
March 31, 2023
The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivy
April 28, 2023
Our Woman in Moscow by Bretriz Williams
May 26, 2023
Born A Crime by Trevor Noah
June 20. 2023
A House Without Windows by Nadi Hashimi
July 28, 2023
Secret Daughter by Shilipi Somaya Gowda
August 25, 2023
The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
September 29, 2023
When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka
October 27, 2023
The Leiser Seeker by Michael Zadoorian
WOWW1 Book Club
Meets on the third Monday of the month at 1 pm at Caribou Coffee.
Closed Book Group
Summer Group Size: 13
Winter Group Size: 7
For more information, please contact your book club coordinator:
Barb Jabrosky
Phone 715-462-3461
Email bjabrosky@gmail.com
WOWW1 Book Choices
September 20, 2021
This Tender Land by William Kent Kreuger
October 18, 2021
Population 485 by Michael Perry
November 22, 2021
The Book of Two by Jody Picoult
December 20, 2021
Women in Sunlight by Francis Mayes
January 17, 2022
Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
February 21, 2022 Rules of Civility by Amor Towles
March 21, 2022 We Were The Lucky Ones by Georgia Hunter
April 18, 2022 If You Find Me by Emily Murdoch
May 16, 2022 The Secret of Clouds by Alyson Richman
June 20, 2022
The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes
July 18, 2022
Envy by Sandra Brown
August 15, 2022
The Hearts Invisible Furies by John Boyce
September 19, 2022
The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell by Robert Augoiu
October 17, 2022
Firekeeper’s Daughter by Angeline Boulley
November 21, 2022
The Perfect Girl by Gilly MacMillan
December 19, 2022
Sold on a Monday by Kristina McMorris
January 16, 2023
Unknown Beloved by Amy Harmon
February 20. 2023
West With Giraffes by Lynda Rutledge
March 20, 2023
Last Bookshop in London by Madeline Marting
April 17, 2023
Sold on a Monday by Kristina McMorris
May 15, 2023
The Memory House by Rachelle Hauck
June 19, 2023
Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles
July 17, 2023
American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins
August 21, 2023
What the Wind Knows by Amy Harmon
September 18, 2023
The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
October 16, 2023
Diamond Eye by Kate Quinn
WOWW2 Book Club
Meets the third Wed of the month at the Hayward Library.
Summer Group Size: 13
Winter Group Size: 13
For more information, please contact your book club coordinator:
Kay Hucker
Phone 715-462-3783
Email kayhucker@yahoo.com
WOWW2 Book Choices
September 15, 2021 All 13 by Christine Soontornvat
October 20, 2021 A Sharp Solitude by Christine Carbo
November 17, 2021 The Book of Lost Friends by Lisa Wingate
December 15, 2021 Northernmost by Peret Guye
January 19, 2022 The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Olsuka
February 16, 2022 The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell by Robert Dugoni
March 16, 2022 Coroner’s Lunch by Colin Cotterill
April 20, 2022 Elephant Company by Vicki Constantine Croke
May 17, 2022 The Paris Library by Janet Skeslien Charles
June 15, 2022
The Only Woman in the Room by Marie Benedict
July 20, 2022
The Girl Who Wrote in Silk by Kelli Estes
August 17, 2022
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
September 21, 2022
Beartown by Frederick Backman
October 19, 2022
How Stella Learned to Talk by Christina Hunger
November 16, 2022
A Woman of No Importance by Virginia Hall
Dec. 21, 2022
The German Midwife by Mandy Robotham
January 18, 2022
Sold on a Monday by Kristina McMorris
February 15, 2023
Woman Behind the New Deal by Kirstin Downey
March 15, 2023
The Book of Joy by Tutu/Lama/Abrams
April 19, 2023
Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman
May 17. 2023
The Paris Architect by Charles Before
June 21, 2023
The Distance Between Us by Reyna Grande
July 19, 2023
The Barbizon by Paulina Bren
August 16, 2023
Facing the Mountain by Daniel James Brown
September 20, 2023
The Reading List by Sara Adams
October 18, 2023
Dune by Frank Hebert
Sherman & Ruth Weiss
Community Library
P.O. Box 917
10788 State Hwy 22/77
Hayward, WI 54843
phone 715-634-2161
fax 715-634-5257
Hours
Monday 10am-5pm
Tuesday 10am-7pm
Wednesday 10am-5pm
Thursday 10am-5pm
Friday 10am-5pm
Saturday 10am-1pm
Curbside pickup is available during library hours. Call ahead at 715-634-2161.
Library Closures
- New Year's Day
- Memorial Day
- Independence Day
- Labor Day
- Thanksgiving
- Christmas Eve Day
- Christmas Day
- December 26
- New Year's Eve Day