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 OPL board vice-president, Chrissy Bardo, 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 Green Mile by Stephen King // The setting is Cold Mountain Penitentiary that contains a group of convicted killers waiting to walk “the Green Mile”, the lime-colored linoleum corridor leading to a final meeting with Old Sparky, Cold Mountain’s electric chair. The guards have seen all kinds of strange and terrible things over the years but the new inmate is like nothing they have ever known.

  • Plainsong by Kent Haruf // This poignant novel weaves together the lives of a high school teacher, a pregnant teenage girl, and two elderly bachelor brothers, capturing the essence of human resilience and community across four generations.

  • Nein, Nein, Nein: One Man’s Tale of Depression, Psychic Torment, and a Bus Tour of the Holocaust by Jerry Stahl // Jerry Stahl tells his story of how he came to be on a bus trip tour of the holocaust by blending personal history with actual history and adding his own perspective mostly in the way of dark humor because, sometimes, that’s all there is.

  • The Book Haters’ Book Club by Gretchen Anthony // Over the Rainbow Bookshops’ co-owner, Elliot truly believed all it takes is the right book to turn a Book Hater into a Book Lover. his unexpected death opens the door for condo developers to convince his business partner to sell the store. The town and family come together to save their book store one way or another.

Past books include: Into Africa (McDonald & Coles); Extinction (Preston); Thanksgiving (Evanovich); Santa’s Little Yelpers (Rosenfelt); Camino Island (Grisham); Hillbilly Elegy (Vance)


“Murder on the Mind” Book Club

This murder mystery / psychological thriller book club for adults, led by assistant librarian Katie Simpson, 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!

  • The Crash by Freida McFadden // Tegan is eight months pregnant, alone, and desperately wants to put her crumbling life in the rearview mirror. So she hits the road, planning to stay with her brother until she can figure out her next move. But doesn’t realize she’s heading straight into a blizzard. Stranded in rural Maine with a dead car and broken ankle, Tegan is rescued by a couple who offers her a room in their warm cabin until the snow clears. But something isn’t right. As time ticks by, she comes to realize she is in grave danger. This safe haven isn’t what she thought it was, and staying here may have been her most deadly mistake yet.

  • The Woods by Harlan Coben // Paul Copeland, a New Jersey county prosecutor, is still grieving the loss of his sister from twenty years ago—the night she walked into the woods, never to be seen again. But now, a homicide victim is found with evidence linking him to the disappearance. The victim could be the boy who vanished along with Paul's sister. And, as hope rises that his sister could still be alive, dangerous secrets from his family's past threaten to tear apart everything Paul has been trying to hold together...

  • Worst Case Scenario by T.J. Newman // When a pilot suffers a heart attack at 35,000 feet, a commercial airliner filled with passengers crashes into a nuclear power plant in the small town of Waketa, Minnesota, which becomes ground zero for a catastrophic national crisis with global implications. The Interntaional Nuclear Event Scale tracks nuclear disasters. I has even levels. Level 7 is Major Accident, with only two on record: Fukushima and Chernobyl. There has never been a Level 8. Until now. In this heart-stopping thriller, ordinary people (power plant employees, firefighters, teachers, families, enighbors, and friends) are thrust into an extraordinary situation as they face the ultimate test of their lives.

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Past books include: Lock Every Door (Sager); A Flicker in the Dark (Willingham); Behind Closed Doors (Paris); Xmas Break (Rowney); A Good Girl's Guide To Murder (Jackson)