Book Clubs
Connect with other readers in Berlin.
We reserve multiple copies of each book. Please visit the Reference Desk to pick up your copy!
Jump to:
- After-Hours Readers Retreat
- Book Clubs for Children
- Book Discussion with the Berlin Police Department
- Cookbook Club
- Empathy Book Club
- Saturday Morning Book Club
- Senior Center Book Club
Empathy Book Club
The Empathy Book Club features primarily biographies and nonfiction that help us enter into the lives and experiences of others. Our goal in reading and discussing these titles is increased understanding and empathy for others. This group usually meets on the second Tuesday of the month.
Empathy Book Club
Join us for a discussion of Solito by Javier Zamora. Contact the library for a copy of the book.
Empathy Book Club
Join us for a discussion of Being Heumann by Judith E. Heumann. Contact the library for a copy of the book.
Empathy Book Club
Join us for a discussion of Beautiful Country by Qian Julie Wang. Contact the library for a copy of the book.
Saturday Morning Book Club
Join us to discuss this month’s book! This group usually meets on the third Saturday of the month, with winter and summer breaks.
Saturday Morning Book Club
Join us for a discussion of How the Penguins Saved Veronica by Hazel Prior.
Saturday Morning Book Club
Join us for a discussion of Small Mercies by Dennis Lehane.
Saturday Morning Book Club
Join us for a discussion of Weyward by Emilia Hart.
Saturday Morning Book Club
Join us to discuss a banned or challenged book of your choice.
Saturday Morning Book Club
Join us for a discussion of The Life We Bury by Allen Eskens.
Saturday Morning Book Club
Join us for a discussion of The Collected Regrets of Clover by Mikki Brammer.
Saturday Morning Book Club
Join us for a discussion of Go As A River by Shelley Read. Contact the library for a copy of the book.
Saturday Morning Book Club
Join us for a discussion of Yellowface by R. F. Kuang. Contact the library for a copy of the book.
Saturday Morning Book Club
Join us for a discussion of Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger.
Saturday Morning Book Club
Choose your own uplifting or inspirational book to discuss!
Saturday Morning Book Club
Join us for a discussion of I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy. Contact the library for a copy of the book.
Saturday Morning Book Club
Read a book written by a Booker Prize or National Book Award nominated author.
Saturday Morning Book Club
Join us for a discussion of Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson.
Saturday Morning Book Club
Join us to discuss book of your choice—a book you should have read in high school, but never did!
Saturday Morning Book Club
Join us for a discussion of The Nature of Fragile Things by Susan Meissner.
Saturday Morning Book Club
Join us for a discussion of Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive by Stephanie Land. Contact the library for a copy of the book.
Saturday Morning Book Club
Join us to discuss a banned or challenged book of your choice.
Saturday Book Club
Join us for a discussion of True Biz by Sara Novic. Contact the library for a copy of the book.
Saturday Book Club
Join us for a discussion of The Authenticity Project by Clare Pooley.
Saturday Book Club
Join us for a discussion of The Violin Conspiracy by Brendan Slocumb.
Saturday Book Club
Join us for a discussion of Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy.
Saturday Book Club
Join us for a discussion of Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan.
Saturday Book Club
Join us for a discussion of The Reading List by Sara Nisha Adams.
Saturday Book Club
Join us for a discussion of These Silent Woods by Kimi Cunningham.
Saturday Book Club @ the coffee shop
Join us at Provision State Coffee to discuss The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett.
Saturday Book Club
Join us for a discussion of Boston Girl by Anita Diamant.
Saturday Book Club
Join us for a discussion of Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed by Lori Gottlieb.
Saturday Book Club
Join us for a discussion of A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles.
Saturday Book Club
Read a memoir or biography of your choice and discuss it with the group. We will meet outside in front of the library if the weather is nice!
Saturday Book Club
Join us for a discussion of The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot by Marianne Cronin.
Saturday Book Club
Join us online or in person for a discussion of The Push by Ashley Audrain.
Saturday Book Club
Join us online or in person for a discussion of Eternal by Lisa Scottoline.
Saturday Book Club
Join us online or in person to discuss One Day in December by Josie Silver.
Saturday Book Club
Join us online or in person to discuss Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng.
Saturday Book Club
Join us online or in person to discuss A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini.
Saturday Book Club
Join us online or in person to discuss The Fall of Marigolds by Susan Meissner.
Saturday Book Club
Join us for a virtual discussion of the book The Dutch House by Ann Patchett. Contact the library to reserve a copy of this book.
Saturday Book Club
Join us for a virtual discussion of the book Beartown by Fredrik Backman. Contact the library to reserve a copy of this book.
Saturday Book Club
Join us for a virtual discussion of the book Florence Adler Swims Forever by Rachel Beanland. Contact the library to reserve a copy of this book.
Saturday Book Club
Join us for a virtual discussion of the book Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson. Contact the library to reserve a copy of this book.
Saturday Book Club
Join us for a virtual discussion of the book The Things We Cannot Say by Kelly Rimmer. Contact the library to reserve a copy of this book.
Saturday Book Club
Join us for a virtual discussion of the book From Scratch by Tembi Locke. Contact the library to reserve a copy of this book.
Saturday Book Club
Join us for a virtual discussion of the book From Scratch by Tembi Locke. Contact the library to reserve a copy of this book.
Saturday Book Club
Join us for a virtual discussion of the novel The Cactus by Sarah Haywood. Contact the library to reserve a copy of this book.
Saturday Book Club
Join us for a virtual discussion of the novel The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell by Robert Dugoni. Contact the library to reserve a copy of this book.
Saturday Book Club
Join us for a virtual discussion of the novel The Forgotten Seamstress by Liz Trenow.
Saturday Book Club
Join us for an online discussion of So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo.
Saturday Book Club
Join us for a discussion of Everything is Horrible and Wonderful by Stephanie Wittels Wachs.
Saturday Book Club Online
Join us online for a discussion of The Alice Network by Kate Quinn. Berlin residents can download this free eBook or audiobook on Hoopla.
Online Saturday Book Club
We miss our readers—so we’re taking our book club online! To participate in Facebook discussions, please join the book club’s Facebook group. If not, please email library@berlinpeck.org so we can send you the video chat invite!
This month's book is The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson.
Senior Center Book Club
Join us to discuss this month’s book! This group meets one Wednesday a month at the Berlin Senior Center.
Senior Center Book Club
Join us at the Senior Center for a discussion of Should We Stay or Should We Go? by Lionel Shriver. Contact the library for a copy of the book.
Senior Center Book Club
Join us at the Senior Center for a discussion of The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion. Contact the library for a copy of the book.
Senior Center Book Club
Join us at the Senior Center for a discussion of The Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Post by Allison Pataki. Contact the library for a copy of the book.
Senior Center Book Club
Join us at the Senior Center for a discussion of Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus. Contact the library for a copy of the book.
Senior Center Book Club
Join us at the Senior Center for a discussion of The Watergate Girl: My Fight For Truth And Justice Against A Criminal President by Jill Wine-Banks. Contact the library for a copy of the book.
Senior Center Book Club
Join us at the Senior Center for a discussion of Lillian Boxfish Takes A Walk by Kathleen Rooney. Contact the library for a copy of the book.
Senior Center Book Club
Join us at the Senior Center for a discussion of The Radcliffe Ladies' Reading Club by Julia Bryan Thomas. Contact the library for a copy of the book.
Senior Center Book Club
Join us at the Senior Center for a discussion of Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan. Contact the library for a copy of the book.
Senior Center Book Club
Join us at the Senior Center for a discussion of In Falling Snow by Mary-Rose MacColl. Contact the library for a copy of the book.
Senior Center Book Club
Join us at the Senior Center for a discussion of Honor by Thirty Umigar. Contact the library for a copy of the book.
Senior Center Book Club
Join us at the Senior Center for a discussion of Where The Forest Meets The Stars by Glendy Vanderah. Contact the library for a copy of the book.
Senior Center Book Club
Join us at the Senior Center for a discussion of West with Giraffes by Lynda Rutledge. Contact the library for a copy of the book.
Senior Center Book Club
Join us at the Berlin Senior Center for a discussion of the book Dutch Girl: Audrey Hepburn and World War II by Robert Matzen.
Senior Center Book Club
Join us at the Berlin Senior Center for a discussion of the book The Dutch House by Ann Patchett.
Senior Center Book Club
Join us at the Berlin Senior Center for a discussion of Love and Saffron by Kim Fay.
Senior Center Book Club
Join us at the Senior Center for a discussion of From Scratch by Tembi Locke.
Senior Center Book Club
Join us at the Senior Center for a discussion of The Paris Library by Janet Skeslien Charles.
Senior Center Book Club
Join us at the Senior Center for a discussion of The Paris Library by Janet Skeslien Charles.
Senior Center Book Club
Join us at the Berlin Senior Center to discuss The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison.
Senior Center Book Club
Join us for a discussion of Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race by Margot Lee Shetterly.
Senior Center Book Club
Join us at the Berlin Senior Center for a discussion of Did You Ever Have a Family by Bill Clegg.
Senior Center Book Club
Join us at the Berlin Senior Center for a discussion of A Redbird Christmas by Fannie Flagg.
Senior Center Book Club
Join us at the Berlin Senior Center for a discussion of Educated by Tara Westover.
Senior Center Book Club
Join us at the Berlin Senior Center for a discussion of The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett.
Senior Center Book Club
Join us at the Berlin Senior Center to discuss Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens. Contact the library for a copy of the book.
Senior Center Book Club
Join us for a virtual discussion of the book Plainsong by Kent Haruf. Contact the library to reserve a copy of this book.
Cookbook Club
Each month, Cookbook Club chooses a cookbook, chef, or special ingredient. Find your recipe, make the dish on your own—and then gather for a feast!
You do not need to be an experienced cook, just an enthusiastic one.
Cookbook Club
This month’s cookbook is Every Season is Soup Season by Shelly Westerhausen Worcel with Wyatt Worcel.
Cookbook Club Cookie Swap!
Cookie swap is back! Bring 3-4 dozen cookies of one type, a container to bring cookies home, and one photocopy of your recipe.
Cookbook Club
This month’s cookbook is Celebrate With Babs: Holiday Recipes & Family Traditions by Barbara Costello.
Cookbook Club
This month’s cookbook is The Complete Autumn & Winter Cookbook by America's Test Kitchen.
Cookbook Club
This month’s cookbook is Bring It!: Tried and True Recipes for Potlucks and Casual Entertaining by Ali Rosen.
Cookbook Club
This month’s cookbook is Salad Freak: Recipes to Feed a Healthy Obsession by Jess Damuck.
Cookbook Club
This month’s cookbook is The Beach House Cookbook: Easy Breezy Recipes With a Southern Accent by Mary Kay Andrews.
Cookbook Club
This month’s cookbook is The Weekday Vegetarians by Jenny Rosenstrach.
Cookbook Club
This month’s cookbook is Dinner Then Dessert: Satisfying Meals Using Only 3, 5, or 7 Ingredients by Sabrina Snyder with Jenny Wapner.
Cookbook Club
This month’s cookbook is Copycat Restaurant Favorites by Taste of Home.
Cookbook Club
This month’s cookbook is Modern Comfort Food by Ina Garten.
Cookbook Club
This month’s cookbook is Indian(-ish) by Priya Krishna.
Cookbook Club
This month’s cookbook is Simple Thai Food by Leela Punyaratabandhu.
Cookbook Club Cookie Swap!
Cookie swap is back! Bring 3-4 dozen cookies of one type, a container to bring cookies home, and one photocopy of your recipe.
Cookbook Club
This month’s cookbook is Boards: Stylish Spreads for Casual Gatherings by Elle Simone Scott and Steve Klise from America's Test Kitchen.
Cookbook Club
This month’s cookbook is Mastering the Art of French Cooking by Julia Child.
Cookbook Club
This month’s cookbook is The Pretty Dish by Jessica Merchant.
Cookbook Club
This month’s cookbook is The Kitchen Garden Cookbook.
Cookbook Club
This month’s cookbook is The Complete Summer Cookbook from America's Test Kitchen.
Cookbook Club
This month’s cookbook is The Complete Salad Cookbook from America's Test Kitchen.
Cookbook Club
This month's cookbook is Italian American: Red Sauce Classics and New Essentials by Angie Rito.
Cookbook Club
March's cookbook is Cook This Book by Molly Baz.
Cookbook Club
This month's cookbook is Baking with Dorie by Dorie Greenspan.
Cookbook Club
This month's cookbook is Smitten Kitchen Keepers: New Classics for Your Forever Files by Deb Perelman.
Cookbook Club
Our August cookbook is The Farmers Market Cookbook by Julia Shanks and Brett Grohsgal.
Cookbook Club
Pick a recipe from Magnolia Table: A Collection of Recipes for Gathering by Joanna Gaines and discuss it with fellow cooking enthusiasts.
Cookbook Club Online
Pick a recipe and join us to discuss it online! June's cookbook will be Healthyish by Lindsay Maitland Hunt.
Online Cookbook Club
Since we missed the March Cook Book Club, we thought it would be fun to help you stay connected with fellow cooking enthusiast by doing an online video chat for Cookbook Club.
To participate in Facebook discussions, please join the book club’s Facebook group. If not, please email library@berlinpeck.org so we can send you the video chat invite!
Cookbook Club: Cookie Swap
Bring 3-4 dozen cookies of one type, a container to bring cookies home and a copy of your recipe. We encourage you to use a recipe from one the library's many great cookie cookbooks!
After-Hours Readers Retreat
This after-hours book club helps you carve out time to read without interruptions from daily life, and lets you enjoy the company of fellow book lovers… without the pressure of deadlines or discussions.
After-Hours Reader’s Retreat
Join us for 30 minutes of social time (with snacks and mocktails!) followed by 45 minutes of quiet reading and a 15 minute wrap-up.
Book Discussion with the Berlin Police Department
Join us for a quarterly book discussion with an officer from the Berlin Police Department.
Book Discussion with the Berlin Police Department
NEW DATE. Join Officer Aimee Krzykowski and Librarian Carrie Tyszka to discuss Craig & Fred: A Marine, a Stray Dog, and How they Rescued Each Other by Craig Grossi.
Book Discussion with the Berlin Police Department
This month's book is At the Edge of the Haight by Katherine Seligman.
Book Clubs for Children
Books & Bites Book Club
For grades 5-7. Each month, we read a great book! Join us for games, crafts, and snacks.
Copies are available in the Children’s Department.