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All Library book discussions are free and open to the public. A limited number of Library copies of each selection are available for checkout on a first-come, first-served basis in print and/or as e-books. See below for a schedule of in-person meetings. Call the hosting branch for more information.
The Virtual Book Group is a monthly discussion group held by videoconference on the Microsoft TEAMS software platform. Unlimited e-book and online audiobook copies will be made available at the beginning of the month they're discussed. Click on "Virtual Book Group" below for more information.
If you have your own book club, Book Club in a Bag offers everything you need for a great discussion. All you need is a St. Lucie County library card to check out 12 copies, along with a set of discussion questions for an extended period of time. If you're interested, a one-time facilitator may be available to meet with your group. For more information or to reserve a title please call 772-462-2199. See below for a list of titles.
Join us for in-person Book Discussion Groups at the Library
Paula A. Lewis Branch - 2950 Rosser Blvd., Port St. Lucie, FL 34953
Lewis Branch Wednesday Afternoon Book Discussion Group
Wednesday, November 6 @ 2:00 PM
Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
Susan B. Kilmer Branch - 101 Melody Lane, Fort Pierce, FL 34950
Kilmer Branch Thursday Evening Book Discussion Group
Thursday, November 7 @ 6:00 PM
The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah
Kilmer Branch Thursday Morning Book Discussion Group
Thursday, November 21 @ 10:30 AM
How to Stop Time by Matt Haig
Kilmer Branch Page to Screen
Friday, November 15 @ 1:00 PM
The Boys in the Boat based on the book by Daniel James Brown.
Directed by George Clooney, this 1930s-set story is centered on the University of Washington's rowing team, from their Depression-era beginnings. Copies of the book are available for checkout. Read the book
at home, watch the movie at the library and join the discussion! Rated PG-13, 123 minutes.
Morningside Branch - 2410 Morningside Blvd., Port St. Lucie, FL 34952
Morningside Branch Tuesday Afternoon Book Discussion Group
Tuesday, November 12 @ 2:00 PM
The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin
Morningside Branch Mystery Lovers Book Discussion Group
Tuesday, November 26 @ 6:00 PM
Origin in Death by J.D. Robb
Lakewood Park Branch - 7650 Santa Brabara Drive, Fort Pierce, FL 34951
Lakewood Park Branch Thursday Afternoon Book Discussion Group
Thursday, November 14 @ 4:00 PM
Cross Creek by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Lewis Branch Book Discussion Group
The Lewis Book Discussion Group meets the first Wednesday of each month at 2 pm. For more information please call 772-871-5470.
Selections & Schedule
2024
January 3 - The Four Winds by Kristen Hannah
February 7 - Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano
March 6 - Hotel Du Lac by Anita Brookner
April 3 - The House of Eve by Sadeqa Johnson
May 1 - One Thousand White Women by Jim Fergus
June 5 - Still Life by Louise Penny
July 3 - Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann
August 7 - Origin by Dan Brown
September 4 - Still Alice by Lisa Genova
October 2 - The Sentence by Louise Erdrich
November 6 - Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
December 4 - Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt
Morningside Branch Book Discussion Group
The Morningside Book Discussion Group meets on the second Tuesday of each month at 2 pm. For more information please contact Sandy Henry-Gordon at henry-gordons@stlucieco.org or call 772-337-5632.
Selections & Schedule
2024
January 9 - Summer of ‘69 by Elin Hilderbrand
February 13 - And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini
March 12 - Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand
April 9 - Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
May 7 - Mad Honey by Jodi Picoult & Jennifer Finney Boylan
June 11 - Blackbird House by Alice Hoffman
July 9 - Night Passage by Robert B. Parker
August 6 - Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson
September 10 - The Muralist by B.A. Shapiro
October 8 - Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend by Katarina Bivald
November 12 - The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin
December 10 - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night by Mark Haddon
Morningside Branch Mystery Lovers Book Discussion Group
Meetings are held the 4th Tuesday of the month at 6 pm. For more information please contact Cassandra Chan at 772-337-5632 or chanc@stlucieco.org.
Selections & Schedule
2024
January 23 - Damaged by Alex Kava
February 27 - Driftnet by Lin Anderson
March 26 - Death of a Macho Man by M.C. Beaton
April 23 - Flashback by Nevada Barr
May 28 - Criminal by Karin Slaughter
June 25 - Bad Blood by Dana Stabenow
July 23 - Red Sky at Night by James Hall
August 27 - Dirty Work by Stuart Woods
September 24 - Body Double by Tess Gerritsen
October 22 - Grave Secrets by Kathy Reichs
November 26 - Origin in Death by J.D. Robb
December 17 - Plum Pudding Murder by Joanne Fluke
Kilmer Branch Thursday Evening Book Discussion Group
The Kilmer Branch Thursday Evening Book Discussion Group meets on the first Thursday of each month at 6 pm. For more information please call 772-462-2199 or email Jenn Johnson at johnsonjen@stlucieco.org.
Selections & Schedule
2024
January 4 - The German Girl by Armando Lucas Correa
February 1 - The House of Eve by Sadeqa Johnson
March 7 - Mad Honey by Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Finney Boylan
April 4 - The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles
May 2 - Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann
June 6 - How to Stop Time by Matt Haig
July 11 - The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown
August 1 - Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
September 5 - Rough Sleepers by Tracy Kidder
October 3 - Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance
November 7 - The Four Winds by Kristen Hannah
December 5 - Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano
Kilmer Branch Thursday Morning Book Discussion Group
The Kilmer Branch Thursday Morning Book Discussion Group meets on the third Thursday of each month at 10:30 am. For more information please call 772-462-2199 or email Jenn Johnson at johnsonjen@stlucieco.org.
Selections & Schedule
2024
January 18 - Hotel Du Lac by Anita Brookner
February 15 - Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt
March 21 - Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann
April 18 - Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano
May 16 - Rough Sleepers by Tracy Kidder
June 20 - The Sentence by Louise Erdrich
July 18 - The Four Winds by Kristen Hannah
August 15 - You Could Make This Place Beautiful by Maggie Smith
September 19 - The Devil in White City by Erik Larson
October 17 - Mad Honey by Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Finney Boylan
November 21 - How to Stop Time by Matt Haig
December 19 - The Color of Water by James McBride
Lakewood Park Branch Friday Book Discussion Group
The Lakewood Park Branch Friday Book Discussion Group meets on the first Friday of each month at 3:30 pm. For more information please call 772-462-6870 or email bella@stlucieco.org.
Selections & Schedule
2024
January 11 - Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann
February 8 - Missing Person by Patrick Modiano
March 14 - The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown
April 11 - Postmortem by Patricia Cornwell
May 9 - A Land Remembered by Patrick Smith
June 13 - Rebecca by Daphne DuMaurier
July 11 - Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
August 8 - Skinwalkers by Tony Hillerman
September 12 - A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
October 10 - Light in the Ruins by Chris Bohjalian
November 14 - Cross Creek by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
December 12 - To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Online sign-up for the November meeting is available now.
The November title, My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante, is available with your library card in eBook form on Libby here. Find it on hoopla in eBook format here. The Microsoft TEAMS meetings will take place on Wednesday, November 27 at 2 and 7 pm. Each online group chat will be limited to 15 participants and facilitated by one of our librarians. To take part, check out one of the digital versions of the book and pre-register using our online form. If you have any problems accessing the book or have questions about the meeting, please call 772-871-5450 Tuesday through Saturday from 9 am to 5 pm for assistance. After you've registered, you'll receive an email with more information.
Virtual Book Group December Selection
The December title, Landline by Rainbow Rowell, is available with your library card in eBook form on Libby here. Find it on hoopla in audiobook format here. The Microsoft TEAMS meetings will take place on Wednesday, December 18 at 2 and 7 pm. Each online group chat will be limited to 15 participants and facilitated by one of our librarians.
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Afterlife (fiction), Julia Alvarez, 2020
All the King’s Men (fiction), Robert Penn Warren, 1946
All the Light We Cannot See (fiction), Anthony Doerr, 2014
American Dervish (fiction), Ayad Akhtar, 2012
An American Marriage (fiction), Tayari Jones, 2018
And the Mountains Echoed, (fiction), Khaled Hosseini, 2013
The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet (nonfiction), John Green, 2021
The Art Forger (fiction), B.A. Shapiro, 2012
The Art of Racing in the Rain (fiction), Garth Stein, 2008
Atonement (fiction), Ian McEwan, 2001
Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo” (biography), Zora Neale Hurston, 2018
Becoming Nicole: The Transformation of an American Family (biography), Amy Ellis Nutt, 2016
Becoming (nonfiction), Michelle Obama, 2018
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity (nonfiction), Katherine Boo, 2012
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End (nonfiction), Atul Gawande, (2014)
Between the World and Me (nonfiction), Ta-Nehisi Coates, 2015
Big Little Lies (fiction), Liane Moriarty, 2014
Black Man in a White Coat (nonfiction), Damon Tweedy, 2015
Blackbird House (fiction), Alice Hoffman, 2004
Black Cake (fiction), Charmaine Wilkerson, 2022
A Book of American Martyrs (fiction), Joyce Carol Oates, 2017
The Book of Unknown Americans (fiction), Cristina Henríquez, 2014
The Book Thief (fiction), Markus Zusak, 2005
The Boys in the Boat (nonfiction), Daniel James Brown, 2013
Brooklyn (fiction), Colm Toibin, 2009
Can’t Wait to Get to Heaven (fiction), Fannie Flagg, 2006
Caste: The Origins of our Discontents (nonfiction), Isabel Wilkerson, 2020
The Children Act (fiction), Ian McEwan, 2014
Circling the Sun (fiction), Paula McLain, 2015
Claire of the Sealight (fiction), Edwidge Danticat, 2013
The Color of Water (nonfiction), James McBride, 1995
The Cove (fiction), Ron Rash, 2012
Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter (fiction), Tom Franklin, 2010
Cross Creek (nonfiction), Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, 1942
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night–Time (fiction),Mark Haddon, 2003
The Day the World Came to Town (nonfiction), Jim Defede, 2003
Defending Jacob (fiction), William Landry, 2012
Demon Copperhead: A Novels (fiction), Barbara Kingsolver, 2022
The Devil in White City (nonfiction), Erik Larson, 2003
The Dictionary of Lost Words (fiction), Pip Williams, 2021
Don’t Stop the Carnival (fiction), Herman Wouk, 1965
Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America (nonfiction), Beth Macy, 2018
Educated (nonfiction), Tara Westover, 2017
Emma (fiction), Jane Austen, 1815
Everything I Never Told You (fiction), Celeste Ng, 2014
The Faith Club (nonfiction), Ranya Idliby and Suzanne Oliver , 2006
Faithful Place (fiction),Tana French, 2010
First Ladies (nonfiction), Margaret Truman, 1996
The German Girl (fiction), Armando Lucas Correa, 2016
The Girls at 17 Swann Street (fiction), Yara Zgheib, 2019
The Glass Castle (biography), Jeanette Walls, 2005
Go Set a Watchman (fiction), Harper Lee, 2015
Gone Girl (fiction), Gilliam Flynn, 2012
Gorky Park (mystery), Martin Cruz Smith, 1981
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (fiction), Mary Ann Shaffer, 2008
H is for Hawk (nonfiction), Helen Macdonald, 2015
Hidden Figures (nonfiction), Margot Lee Shetterly, 2016
Hillbilly Elegy (nonfiction), J.D. Vance, 2016
Homegoing (fiction), Yaa Gyasi, 2016
Honor (fiction), Thrity N. Umrigar, 2022
Hotel Du Lac (fiction), Anita Brookner, 2016
Hour of the Witch (fiction), Chris Bohjalian, 2021
The House of Eve (fiction), Sadeqa Johnson, 2023
House of Sand and Fog (fiction), Andre Dubus, 1999
How to Stop Time (fiction), Matt Haig, 2018
How We Fight for Our Lives (nonfiction), Saaed Jones, 2019
Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (biography), Rebecca Skloot, 2010
The Immortalists (fiction), Chloe Benjamin, 2018
In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss (nonfiction), Amy Bloom, 2022
Inside the O’Briens (fiction), Lisa Genova, 2015
The Invention of Wings (fiction), Sue Monk Kidd, 2014
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue (fiction), V.E. Schwab, 2020
The Japanese Lover (fiction), Isabel Allende, 2016
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption (nonfiction), Bryan Stevenson, 2015
Killers of the Flower Moon (nonfiction), David Grann, 2017
The Kitchen House (fiction), Kathleen Grissom, 2010
Klara and the Sun (fiction), Kazuo Ishiguro, 2021
The Kommandant’s Girl (fiction), Pam Jenoff, 2007
A Land Remembered (fiction), Patrick Smith, 1984
The Language of Flowers (fiction), Vanessa Diffenbaugh, 2011
The Leavers (fiction), Lisa Ko, 2017
Lessons in Chemistry (fiction), Bonnie Garmus, 2022
Life After Life (fiction), Jill McCorkle, 2013
Light Between Oceans (fiction), M.L. Stedman, 2012
Light in the Ruins (fiction), Chris Bohjalian, 2013
The Lincoln Highway (fiction), Amor Towles, 2021
The Line Becomes a River (nonfiction), Francisco Cantú, 2018
Little Fires Everywhere (fiction), Celeste Ng, 2017
Live by Night (fiction), Dennis Lehane, 2012
Loving Frank (fiction), Nancy Horan, 2007
Mad Honey (fiction), Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Finney Boylan, 2022
The Maid (fiction), Nita Prose, 2021
Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand (fiction), Helen Simonson, 2010
Making Rounds with Oscar (nonfiction), David Dosa, 2010
A Man Called Ove (fiction), Fredrik Backman, 2015
The Memory Keeper’s Daughter (fiction), Kim Edwards, 2005
The Middlesteins (fiction), Jami Attenberg, 2012
Miss Dreamsville and the Collier County Women’s Literary Society (fiction), Amy Hill Hearth, 2012
Molokai (fiction), Alan Brennert, 2003
Mom & Me & Mom (biography), Maya Angelou, 2013
Moonglow (fiction), Michael Chabon, 2016
The Muralist (fiction), B.A. Shapiro, 2015
My Sister’s Keeper (fiction), Jodi Picoult, 2004
Next Year in Havana (fiction), Chanel Cleeton, 2019
The Nickel Boys (fiction), Colson Whitehead , 2019
The Night Passage (mystery), Robert B. Parker, 2001
Night Road (fiction), Kristin Hannah, 2011
Nomadland (nonfiction), Jessica Bruder, 2017
Norwegian By Night (fiction), Derek Miller, 2012
An Object of Beauty (fiction), Steve Martin, 2010
The Old Man and the Sea (fiction), Ernest Hemingway, 1952
Ordinary Grace (fiction), William Kent Krueger, 2013
Only Child (fiction), Rhiannon Navin, 2018
Orphan Train (fiction), Christina Baker Kline, 2013
Origin (fiction), Dan Brown, 2017
Pachinko (fiction), Min Jin Lee, 2018
Palm Trees in the Snow (fiction), Luz Gabás, 2017
Peace Like a River (fiction), Lief Enger, 2001
The Pecan Man (fiction), Cassie Dandridge Selleck, 2012
The Perfume Thief (fiction), Timothy Schaffert, 2021
A Piece of the World (fiction), Christina Baker Kline, 2017
Postmortem (mystery), Patricia Cornwell, 1990
Project Hail Mary (science fiction), Andy Weir, 2023
The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend (fiction), Katarina Bivald, 2015
Rebecca (fiction), Daphne DuMaurier, 1938
Remarkably Bright Creatures (fiction), Shelby Van Pelt , 2022
Returned (fiction), Jason Mott, 2013
Room (fiction), Emma Donoghue, 2010
The Rosie Effect(fiction), Graeme Simsion, 2014
The Rosie Project (fiction), Graeme Simsion, 2013
Rough Sleepers (nonfiction), Tracy Kidder, 2023
Salvage the Bones (fiction), Jesmyn Ward, 2011
Secret Daughter (fiction), Shilpi Somaya Gowda, 2010
A Secret Kept (fiction), Tatiana de Rosnay, 2009
The Sense of an Ending (fiction), Julian Barnes, 2011
The Sentence (fiction), Louise Erdrich, 2021
Shutter Island, (fiction), Dennis LeHane, 2003
The Sparrow (fiction), Mary Doria Russell, 1996
State of Wonder (fiction), Ann Patchett, 2011
Stay with Me (fiction), Ayobami Adebayol, 2017
Still Alice (fiction), Lisa Genova, 2007
Still Life (fiction), Louise Penny, 2008
The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry (fiction), Gabrielle Zevin, 2014
Summer of ‘69 (fiction), Elin Hilderbrand, 2019
The Supremes at Earl’s All-You-Can-Eat (fiction), Edward Kelsey Moore, 2013
The Sweetness of Water (fiction), Nathan Harris, 2021
Take My Hand (fiction), Dolen Perkins-Valdez, 2022
The Tattooist of Auschwitz (fiction), Heather Morris, 2019
The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane (fiction), Lisa See, 2017
Tell the Wolves I’m Home (fiction),Carol Rifka Brunt, 2012
Their Eyes Were Watching God (fiction), Zora Neale Hurston, 1937
There There (fiction), Tommy Orange, 2018
To Kill a Mockingbird (fiction), Harper Lee, 1960
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow (fiction), Gabrielle Zevin, 2022
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (fiction), Betty Smith
True Biz: A Novel (fiction), Sara Novic, 2022
The Truth According to Us (fiction), Annie Barrows, 2015
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption (biography), Laura Hillenbrand, 2010
The Underside of Joy (fiction), Sere Prince Halverson, 2012
An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness (nonfiction), Kay Redfield Jamison, 1997 *
Vera: A Novel (fiction), Carol Edgarian, 2021
Violeta: A Novel (fiction), Isabel Allende, 2021
Warlight (fiction), Michael Ondaatje, 2018
We Were the Lucky Ones (fiction), Georgia Hunter, 2017
When Breath Becomes Air (nonfiction), Paul Kalanithi, 2016
Where The Crawdads Sing (fiction), Delia Owens, 2018
White Houses (fiction), Amy Bloom, 2017
The Wicked Girls (fiction), Alex Marwood, 2012
Wide Sargasso Sea (fiction), Jean Rhys, 1966
The Wife, the Maid, and the Mistress (fiction), Ariel Lawhon, 2014
You Could Make This Place Beautiful (nonfiction), Maggie Smith, 2023
Operating since 2006, the St. Lucie County Library System’s Book Club in a Bag program serves 55 or more book discussion groups each year and has an average circulation of over 300 book kits per year. There are over 200 titles currently available and each year the Library, in collaboration with generous donors, adds 12-15 new book kits.
If you'd like to help this program grow, $150 will cover the cost of a new Book Club in a Box kit. Please note the following guidelines for your donation.
- Titles selected must meet the same standards and criteria that we use to select all of our books.
- We invite you to pick a title from our wish list. We always have more great books on the list than our budget allows, and would be happy to share the list upon request.
- If you do not find a suitable title on our list, our team of Book Club Kit selectors welcome the chance to discuss and consider your suggestions.
- Occasionally a book club would like to add a title through the donation of multiple copies already purchased by its members. While this is not our preferred method of expanding our collection we’d be happy to consider such a donation. Prior to donating the books, please discuss your title with the Book Group Coordinator.
We hope you will consider donating the $150 cost of a new kit. Please make your check payable to The Friends of St. Lucie County Library Association. Should you wish your donation to be acknowledged we would be happy to insert a bookplate in each of the 12 copies of the book.