Author: Cheridan Douglas

Solar Eclipse Watch Party

Solar Eclipse Watch Party

Free Glasses, Food, and Activities! All are welcome to join us. Glasses will be distributed on a first come, first serve basis and are provided for free thanks to generous support from the STAR Library Network.

Book Club: The Golden Spoon

Book Club: The Golden Spoon

April is Murder Mystery Month for the Lisle Free Library Book Club!   All readers are welcome to join our informal monthly book club meeting on Wednesday, 4/24 @ 6pm. This month’s book suggestion is “The Golden Spoon” by Jessa Maxwell. As always, there is 

Book Club: “Hell of a Book” by Jason Mott

Book Club: “Hell of a Book” by Jason Mott

February is Black Voices Month for the Lisle Free Library Book Club!
 
All readers are welcome to join our informal monthly book club meeting on Wednesday, 3/27 @ 6pm. This month’s book suggestion is “Hell of a Book” by Jason Mott. As always, there is no required reading to attend the meeting. Please email us at lislefreelibrary@gmail.com if you would like to attend virtually. Copies available at the circulation desk.
 
***2021 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER***

***THE NATIONAL BESTSELLER***

Winner of the 2021 Sir Walter Raleigh Award for Fiction, Joyce Carol Oates Literary Prize Finalist, 2022 Chautauqua Prize Finalist, Willie Morris Award for Southern Writing Shortlist, 2021 Aspen Words Literary Prize Shortlist, 2022 Maya Angelou Book Award Shortlist, 2022 Carnegie Medal Longlist

A Read With Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick!

An Ebony Magazine Publishing Book Club Pick! 

One of 
Washington Post‘s 50 Notable Works of Fiction | One of Philadelphia Inquirer‘s Best Books of 2021 One of Shelf Awareness’s Top Ten Fiction Titles of the Year | One of TIME Magazine’s 100 Must-Read Books | One of NPR.org’s “Books We Love” | EW’s “Guide to the Biggest and Buzziest Books of 2021” |One of the New York Public Library’s Best Books for Adults | San Diego Union Tribune—My Favorite Things from 2021 | Writer’s Bone’s Best Books of 2021 |Atlanta Journal Constitution—Top 10 Southern Books of the Year |One of the Guardian‘s (UK) Best Ten 21st Century Comic Novels One of Entertainment Weekly‘s 15 Books You Need to Read This June | On Entertainment Weekly‘s “Must List” | One of the New York Post‘s Best Summer Reading books | One of GMA’s 27 Books for June | One of USA Today‘s 5 Books Not to Miss | One of Fortune‘s 21 Most Anticipated Books Coming Out in the Second Half of 2021| One of The Root‘s PageTurners: It’s Getting Hot in Here | One of Real Simple‘s Best New Books to Read in 2021

An astounding work of fiction from New York Times bestselling author Jason Mott, always deeply honest, at times electrically funny, that goes to the heart of racism, police violence, and the hidden costs exacted upon Black Americans and America as a whole. 

In Jason Mott’s Hell of a Book, a Black author sets out on a cross-country publicity tour to promote his bestselling novel. That storyline drives Hell of a Book and is the scaffolding of something much larger and more urgent: Mott’s novel also tells the story of Soot, a young Black boy living in a rural town in the recent past, and The Kid, a possibly imaginary child who appears to the author on his tour.

As these characters’ stories build and converge, they astonish. For while this heartbreaking and magical book entertains and is at once about family, love of parents and children, art and money, it’s also about the nation’s reckoning with a tragic police shooting playing over and over again on the news. And with what it can mean to be Black in America.

Who has been killed? Who is The Kid? Will the author finish his book tour, and what kind of world will he leave behind?  Unforgettably told, with characters who burn into your mind and an electrifying plot ideal for book club discussion, Hell of a Book is the novel Mott has been writing in his head for the last ten years. And in its final twists, it truly becomes its title.

Book Club: “Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow” by Gabrielle Zevin

Book Club: “Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow” by Gabrielle Zevin

February is Romance Month for the Lisle Free Library Book Club! All readers are welcome to join our informal monthly book club meeting on Wednesday, 2/28 @ 6pm. This month’s book suggestion is “Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow” by Gabrielle Zevin. As always, there is 

Book Club: “The Starless Sea” by Erin Morgenstern

Book Club: “The Starless Sea” by Erin Morgenstern

All readers are welcome to join our informal monthly book club meeting on Wednesday, 1/31 @ 6pm. This month’s theme is fantasy with the book suggestion of “The Starless Sea” by Erin Morgenstern. As always, there is no required reading to attend the meeting. Please 

Book Club: Holiday Party 2023

Book Club: Holiday Party 2023

The Lisle Free Library Book Club would like to invite you to our Holiday Party on Wednesday, 12/27 starting at 6:00pm. If you would like to participate in the gift exchange, bring a wrapped book or gift. Also, food to share is welcome! 

The more the merrier! Bring a friend (or two)! You do not need to be a regular book club member to attend.

Happy Holidays, and we hope to see you there! 

Book Club: “Where the Crawdads Sing” by Delia Owens

Book Club: “Where the Crawdads Sing” by Delia Owens

All readers are welcome to join our informal monthly book club meeting on Wednesday, 9/27 @ 5:30pm. This month’s book suggestion is “Where the Crawdads Sing” by Delia Owens. As always, there is no required reading to attend the meeting. Please email us at lislefreelibrary@gmail.com 

Book Club: “The Jane Austen Society” by Natalie Jenner

Book Club: “The Jane Austen Society” by Natalie Jenner

All readers are welcome to join our informal monthly book club meeting on Wednesday, August 30th @ 5:30pm. This month’s book suggestion is “The Jane Austen Society” by Natalie Jenner. As always, there is no required reading to attend the meeting. Please email us at 

Summer Reading Program Event: Dan the Snakeman Show

Summer Reading Program Event: Dan the Snakeman Show

Join us Wednesday, July 12th at 7:00 pm at the Lisle Fire Hall for a Summer Reading Program special event – Dan the Snakeman’s “Reptile Show”! All ages are welcome to attend and test their daring! The audiences will be educated and awed by this wonderful show.

For more information, please call (607) 692-3115 or email lislefreelibrary@gmail.com

Book Club: “The Maid” by Nita Prose

Book Club: “The Maid” by Nita Prose

All readers are welcome to join our informal monthly book club meeting on Wednesday, July 26th @ 6:00pm. This month’s book suggestion is “The Maid” by Nita Prose. As always, there is no required reading to attend the meeting. Please email us at lislefreelibrary@gmail.com if