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 2026

January:Book has a dust jacket
February: Iowa Ties
March: A guide to...
April: All read the same book
May: Author's initials are the same
June: Murder to solve
July: Pioneer time period
August: Biography
September: A book from your ancestry
October: A book that costs you nothing
November: Based on a true story
December: Day of the week in the title
 

Oelwein Reads
Thursday, May 28th at 6:00. p.m.

Oelwein Reads Book Club will meet at the library.
This book club will focus on books about Iowa or the Midwest.  
The book selected is Time & Chance: an Iowa Murder Mystery commissioned by Iowa Public Radio (KUNI) and edited by Barbara Lounsberry. 

Book summary: 

Time & Chance is a serial novel written by 17 Iowa writers and  is set in a fictional small Iowa  town (Bella) dealing with the controversy of a new gambling boat.