Monthly Book Discussion
The Monthly Book Discussion mixes good books and good conversation! This group meets at 1:00 pm on the third Tuesday of each month in the Library Community Room. Books are available for purchase at a reduced cost or can be checked out when available. For more information, contact Mindy Farmer at 515-465-3569 or mindy.farmer@perryia.org.
Tuesday, January 20th | 1:00 pm - Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt
2026 Book Selections
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APRIL 21st
The Quiet Librarian (All Iowa Reads Selection)
by Allen Eskens
OverDrive/Libby: Ebook and Audiobook
Past Book Selections
2025 Book Selections
JANUARY 2025
by Viktor E. Frankl
OverDrive/Libby: Ebook
Hoopla: Audiobook
FEBRUARY 2025
by Percival Everett
Overdrive/Libby: Ebook and Audiobook
MARCH 2025
by Robert Harris
OverDrive/Libby: Ebook and Audiobook
APRIL 2025
(All Iowa Reads Selection)
by Tim Johnston
OverDrive/Libby: Ebook and Audiobook
MAY 2025
Time and Again
by Jack Finney
Hoopla: Audiobook
JUNE 2025
by Clare Pooley
Libby/Overdrive: Ebook and Audiobook
JULY 2025
by Yaa Gyasi
Libby/Overdrive: Ebook and Audiobook
AUGUST 2025
by Muriel Barbery
Libby/Overdrive: Ebook
Hoopla: Ebook
SEPTEMBER 2025
by Jeannette Wells
Libby/Overdrive: Ebook and Audiobook
Hoopla: Ebook
OCTOBER 2025
by Richard Estep
NOVEMBER 2025
by Alexei Navplany
2024 Book Selections
JANUARY 2024
This is How it Always Is
by Laurie Frankel
FEBRUARY 2024
Tell Me Everything
by Erika Krouse
MARCH 2024
The Dictionary of Lost Words
by Pip Williams
APRIL 2024 (ALL IOWA READS SELECTION)
The Seed Keeper
by Diane Wilson
MAY 2024
Braiding Sweetgrass
by Robin Wall Kimmerer
JUNE 2024
Nineteen Minutes
by Jodi Picoult
JULY 2024
The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
by Timothy Egan
AUGUST 2024
The Kitchen House
by Kathleen Grissom
SEPTEMBER 2024
Storm Lake: A Chronicle of Change, Resilience, and Hope from a Heartland Newspaper
By Art Cullen
OCTOBER 2024
Lawn Boy (Banned Book)
by Jonathan Evison
NOVEMBER 2024
Demon Copperhead
by Barbara Kingsolver
2023 Book Selections
January 2023
The Age of Acrimony: How Americans Fought to Fix Their Democracy, 1865-1915
by Jon Grinspan
February 2023
We Heard it When We Were Young
by Chuy Renteria
March 2023
Brothers on Three: A True Story of Family, Resistance, and Hope on a Reservation in Montana
by Abe Streep
April 2023
How High We Go in the Dark
by Sequoia Nagamatsu
May 2023
Mornings in Jenin
by Susan Abulhawa
June 2023
Two Old Broads: Stuff You Need to Know That You Didn't Know You Needed to Know
by M.E. Hecht
July 2023
The Heart's Invisible Furies
by John Boyne
August 2023
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders & the Birth of the FBI
by David Grann
September 2023
These Silent Woods
by Kimi Cunningham Grant
October 2023
Not Me
by Michael Lavigne
November 2023
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
by Benjamin Franklin
Banned Book Selection
Book Selections 2022
January 2022
The Hate U Give
by Angie Thomas
February 2022
Bet the Farm
by Beth Hoffman
March 2022
The Spanish Daughter
by Lorena Hughes
April 2022
The Butterfly Effect
by Rachel McKenny
May 2022
The Sweetness of Water
by Nathan Harris
June 2022
The Art of Gathering
by Priya Parker
July 2022
An Unusual Boy
by Fiona Higgins
August 2022
Learning to See
by Elise Hooper
September 2022
The Book of Lost Names
by Kristen Harmel
October 2022
Just Mercy
by Bryan Stevenson
November 2022