Adult Book Group: In 2025, our monthly book group will read books to go along with our “Reading Adventurously” monthly reading challenges.
- January challenge: Adventure; book group Hidden Mountains: Survival and Reckoning After a Climb Gone Wrong by Michael Wejchert
- February challenge: Future; book group Psalm for the Wild Built by Becky Chambers
- March challenge: Published in 1975 or earlier; book group Death of a Bookseller by Bernard J. Farmer
- April challenge: Poetry, book group Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
- May challenge: Flowers
- June challenge: Beginnings and endings; book group Orbital by Samantha Harvey
- July challenge: Humor
- August challenge: Dog days; book group Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World by John Vaillant
- September challenge: books translated from language other than English; book group choose a recently published short cozy novel featuring cats, originally published in Japanese
- October challenge: short stories; book group The History of Sound and Six Walks by Ben Shattuck
- November challenge: memoirs; book group In the Country of Women by Susan Straight
- December challenge: light
One Book One Valley: A collaboration between 12 area libraries and White Birch Books independent bookstore. Events and book discussions take place in the fall.
Kids’ Book Clubs are held several times a year. See our Reading Clubs for Kids page for a list of clubs, and our calendar for upcoming Reading Club meetings.
Getting books for your book group: If you belong to a book group and have a Tamworth library card, you can ask to borrow multiple copies of a title for your group. We will request copies from other New Hampshire libraries through our interlibrary loan system. Note that new titles (less than six months from publication date) will not be available to borrow from other libraries.
Book group kits: New Hampshire Library Association has dozens of READS-to-Go kits, large tote bags that contain 15 copies of a discussable book, available for book groups to borrow. Learn more at https://readstogo.libcal.com/. Let us know if you’re interested in borrowing any of these kits.
Our library has multiple copies of the following titles, which may be borrowed as a set for your book group. Just let us know if you’d like to borrow any of these:
- Bloodchild and Other Stories by Octavia E. Butler
- Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
- Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor by Layla F. Saad
- Travels with Charley by John Steinbeck
- We Need to Talk: How to Have Conversations That Matter by Celeste Headlee