Library Book Clubs.

The Orangeville Library hosts two book clubs that adults are welcome to join. Learn more below and sign up through our online form here.


“Bookish Banter” Book Club

This all-genres book club for adults meets the second Wednesday of each month at 6pm in the Orangeville Library. The group is led by Chrissy Bardo (OPL board vice-president) and reads a variety of genres including historical fiction, biography, fantasy, mystery, young adult, and more. Sign up online here or contact the Library (email or 570-683-5354) for more information!

  • The March meeting has been cancelled. We will be discussing both March and April books at our April 8th meeting.

  • Note: We will be discussing both March and April books at this meeting.

    Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein // Historical Fiction, Young Adult // A British spy plane crashed in Nazi-occupied France. A female pilot is taken into custody by the Gestapo. They give her a choice to reveal her mission or face execution.

    Deception Point by Dan Brown // Science Fiction, Thriller // When a new NASA satellite spots evidence of an astonishingly rare object buried deep in the Arctic ice, the floundering space agency proclaims a much-needed victory… a victory that has profound implications for US space policy and the impending presidential election.

  • Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt // After Tova Sullivan’s husband died, she began working the night shift at the Sowell Bay Aquarium, mopping floors and tidying up. Keeping busy has always helped her cope, which she’s been doing since her eighteen-year-old son, Erik, mysteriously vanished on a boat in Puget Sound over thirty years ago. Tova becomes acquainted with curmudgeonly Marcellus, a giant Pacific octopus living at the aquarium. Marcellus knows more than anyone can imagine but wouldn’t dream of lifting one of his eight arms for his human captors—until he forms a remarkable friendship with Tova.

  • Bones of the Lost by Kathy Reichs // #1 New York Times bestselling author Kathy Reichs returns with her sixteenth riveting novel featuring forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan, whose examination of a young girl killed in a hit and run in North Carolina triggers an investigation into international human trafficking.

Past books include: The Green Mile (King); Plainsong (Haruf); Nein, Nein, Nein (Stahl); The Book Haters' Book Club (Anthony); The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store (McBride); A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking (Kingfisher); Amish Snow White (Emma); Home Before Dark (Sager); Pines (Crouch); Kitchen Privileges: A Memoir (Clark); It Had To Be You (Clark & Burke)


“Murder on the Mind” Book Club

This murder mystery / psychological thriller book club for adults, led by Katie Simpson (OPL staff), meets the first Wednesday of the month at 6pm in the Orangeville Library. Sign up online here or contact the Library (email or 570-683-5354) for more information!

  • It’s Not Her by Mary Kubica // Courtney Gray’s peaceful vacation turns into a nightmare when she discovers her brother and sister-in-law dead in their lakeside cottage. Her niece Reese is missing. Her nephew Wyatt is asleep upstairs—unharmed. As police swarm the quiet resort, dark truths about Courtney’s family—and the town itself—begin to surface. Is Reese a victim…or the killer?

  • That’s Not My Name by Megan Lally // A teen wakes up on the side of a dirt road with no memory of how she got there—or who she is. A passing officer takes her to the police station when a frantic man arrives. He’s been searching for her for hours. He has her school ID, her birth certificate, and even family photos. He is her father, and her name is Mary. Or so he says.

  • The Chamber by Will Dean // Six experienced saturation divers are locked inside a hyperbaric chamber. Calm and professional, they know that rapid decompression would be fatal and so they work in shifts, breathing helium and surviving in hot, close quarters. Then one of them is found dead in his bunk. With four days of decompression to go before the locked hatch can be safely opened, the group must watch one another’s backs at all times. Will any of them still be alive by the time the four days is up or will paranoia, exhaustion, suspicion, and pressure destroy them all?

  • The Last Housewife by Ashley Winstead // While in college in New York, Shay Evans and her best friends met a captivating man who seduced them with a web of lies about the way the world works. By senior year, Shay and her friend Laurel were the only ones who managed to escape. Now eight years later, Shay’s built a new life in a tiny Texas suburb. But when she hears the horrifying news of Laurel’s death—delivered, of all ways, by her favorite true crime podcast crusader—she begins to suspect that the past she thought she buried is still very much alive, and the predators more dangerous than ever.

  • In His Wake by Chad Zunker // The death of reporter Dean Dawson’s estranged father in a boating accident leaves Dean and his brothers with mixed emotions. When a presidential candidate is assassinated in Austin, Dean is contacted by April North, his former girlfriend and an associate of Dean’s father at a powerhouse law firm. A cryptic text she wasn’t supposed to see on her boss’s phone not only implicates the firm in the assassination but also suggests that Dean’s father may still be very much alive.

Past books include: Lock Every Door (Sager); A Flicker in the Dark (Willingham); Behind Closed Doors (Paris); XmasBreak (Rowney); A Good Girl's Guide To Murder (Jackson); The Crash (McFadden); The Woods (Coben); Worst Case Scenario (Newman); You Killed Me First (Marrs); If Something Happens To Me (Finlay); Blood Sugar (Rothchild); We Were Liars (Lockhart); The Escape Room (Goldin); Gone for Good (Schaffhausen); An Anonymous Girl (Greer & Pekkanen); Murder on the Christmas Express (Benedict); His & Hers (Feeney); The Butcher (Hillier)