Plano Reads: June Book Clubs
Summer is here, which means it’s a great time to pick up a new book. Whether you’re looking for your next beach read, hoping to pass the time on a road trip, or just hoping to escape the heat by curling up in your favorite chair inside, we have a title for you. Check out the latest reads with the Plano Public Library, available in multiple formats. Join us online on in person for our June discussions. Share your thoughts and socialize with fellow book lovers. See all 2023 book club picks here or keep reading for this month’s titles.
What Are You Reading Now?
Monday, June 5 at 3pm
Hybrid, meets in-person at Haggard Library and on Zoom
Read and discuss great books you’ve read. Check out past recap book lists here on the blog.
Chinese Book Talk 中文书谈论会
Thursday, April 13 at 7pm
Meets virtually on Zoom
Read and discuss great Chinese books you’ve read.
分享一本您读过的中文好书。
Second Tuesday Book Club
Tuesday, June 13 at 7pm
Meets in-person at Schimelpfenig Library
Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law by Mary Roach
Print | Large Print | eBook | Playaway
What’s to be done about a jaywalking moose? A grizzly bear caught breaking and entering? A murderous tree? As New York Times best-selling author Mary Roach discovers, the answers are best found not in jurisprudence but in science: the curious science of human-wildlife conflict, a discipline at the crossroads of human behavior and wildlife biology. Roach tags along with animal attack forensics investigators, human-elephant conflict specialists, bear managers, and “danger tree” faller-blasters. She travels from leopard-terrorized hamlets in the Indian Himalaya to St. Peter’s Square in the early hours before the Pope arrives for Easter Mass, when vandal gulls swoop in to destroy the elaborate floral display. Along the way, Roach reveals as much about humanity as about nature’s lawbreakers. Combining little- known forensic science and conservation genetics with a motley cast of laser scarecrows, langur impersonators, and mugging macaques, Fuzz offers hope for compassionate coexistence in our ever-expanding human habitat.
Mystery Book Club
Thursday, June 15 at 7pm
Hybrid, meets in-person at Davis Library and on Zoom
Island Mysteries
Read and discuss your favorite mystery featuring an island in the plot or setting. Need some ideas? Check out these titles to get started:
- Deep Water by Emma Bamford, available as Print | eBook
- Raven Black by Ann Cleeves, available as Print
- I Know My Name by C.J. Cooke, available as Print
- The Guest List by Lucy Foley, available as Print | Large Print | eBook | eAudiobook
- Winter Water by Susanne Jansson, available as Print
- Death in Rough Water by Francine Mathews, available as eBook
- The Island by Adrian McKinty, available as Print | eBook
- The Lost Island by Douglas Preston, available as Print | eAudiobook
Brown Bag Book Club
Thursday, June 22 at 12pm
Meets in-person at Parr Library
Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
Print | eBook | Playaway | Spanish eAudiobook
The sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission to save both humanity and the earth, Ryland Grace is hurtled into the depths of space when he must conquer an extinction-level threat to our species.
