Baxter County Library has two on-going book clubs: Issues and Viewpoints and All Booked.
Multiple copies of each book are located behind the Circulation Desk and can be checked out for one week. You can read ahead or stay up to date!
All Booked and Issues and Viewpoints
Meeting Times
Virtual All Booked: 3rd Tues. each month at 6pm on Zoom
Issues and Viewpoints: 1st Wed. each month at 1:30pm In-Person
What are they like?
All Booked: An easy going book club that reads mostly fictional picks featuring romance and mysteries with some biographies thrown in!
Issues and Viewpoints: An open forum on books exploring current issues and sometimes controversial views in a respectful environment.
What are they reading in 2022?
Virtual All Booked:
January 18: Relatable by Rachel Dealto
February 15: Things You Save in a Fire by Katherine Center**
March 15: Gold Dust Woman by Stephen Davis (Stevie Nicks Bio)
April 19: The Guest List by Lucy Foley**
May 17: Grandma Gatewood's Walk by Ben Montgomery**
June 21: All Booked will not meet
July 19: The Rosie Project by Graeme Simison**
August 16: The Martian by Andy Weir**
September 20: The Cookbook Club by Beth Harbison**
October 18: Home Before Dark by Riley Sager**
November 15: The Midnight Library by Matt Haig**
December 20: All Booked will not meet
**Available on the Libby App
Issues and Viewpoints:
January: Into the Abyss: An Extraordinary True Story – by Carol Shaben
February: American Wolf: A True Story of Survival and Obsession in the West – by Nate Blakeslee
March: Ashley's War: The Untold Story of a Team of Women Soldiers on the Special Ops Battlefield – by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
April: Bag Man: The Wild Crimes, Audacious Cover-up, and Spectacular Downfall of a Brazen Crook in the White House – by Rachel Maddow & Michael Yarvitz
May: Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man – by Emmanuel Acho
June: The Tree Where Man Was Born – by Peter Matthiessen
July: A Sand County Almanac – by Aldo Leopold
August: The Autobiography of an Execution – by David R. Dow
September: Lab Girl – by Hope Jahren
October: A Warrior of the People: How Susan La Flesche Overcame Racial and Gender Inequality to Become America's First Indian Doctor – by Joe Starita
November: The Eagles of Heart Mountain: A True Story of Football, Incarceration, and Resistance in World War II America – by Bradford Pearson