Book Clubs
Join the Discussion
Book Talk meets monthly on the last Monday of the month at 10:00 am.
This group gathers in the library's meeting room for discussion. Everyone welcome.
Join us in our love of books!
We’ll provide a reading suggestion for each month. You pick your own book to read.
Monthly Reading Themes for 2025
January: Beaches/Ocean
February: War
March: Biography
April: Different Culture
May: Historical
June: All read the same title
July: Read the Book From Your Favorite Movie
August: Font on the Cover is a Primary Color
September: Direction in the Title
October: Audiobook
November: Iowa Setting
December: Told in Verse
Past Book Club selections can be found here.
Oelwein Reads
Thursday, September 25th at 6:00. p.m.
Oelwein Reads Book Club meets at Ampersand located at 110 South Frederick Ave.
This book club will focus on books about Iowa or the Midwest.
The book selected is State Fair by Phil Stong.
Brief summary:
State Fair is a 1932 novel by Phil Stong about an Iowa farm family's visit to the Iowa State Fair, where the family's two teenage children each fall in love, but ultimately break up with their respective new loves and return to their familiar life back on the farm.
For more information on Book Talk contact Deann at the library.
319-283-1515 or email at dfox@oelwein.lib.ia.us