Discussion Groups:  Share your love of literature and meet some new friends.  We list groups all over the county, from Bainbridge Island south to Port Orchard. There are groups meeting nearly every night of the week as well as morning and afternoon meetings.  Try one on for size! (Ed note- Many of the stores providing space for clubs also offer discounts to the members.) Clubs are listed in order of their regular monthly meeting day  Special holiday and events may change times and location for the most concise information contact the group sponsor or hosting location.

Nearly all branches of the Kitsap Regional Library have a book Discussion group. Some branches have more than one. Check with your local branch for more information or the KRL website.

Many of the Local bookstores also host groups either organized through the store or merely groups that meet on site. Other groups meet in coffee shops and other meeting places.

First Tuesday

Meeting continuously since 1992, our store-sponsored book group convenes in the bookstore on the first Tuesday of each month at 7pm to discuss the best in fiction & nonfiction, with the occasional classic thrown in for fun. Newcomers & drop-ins are always welcome! Eagle Harbor Book Company is located at 157 Winslow Way East on Bainbridge Island, a short walk from the Seattle ferry. For more information, please call 206 842 5332 or 360 692 2375 or visit the store’s website at www.eagleharborbooks

Topic for July 6th: The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid

Topic for August 3rd: Little Bee by Chris Cleave

Topic for September 7th: A Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrick

Topic for October 5th: Hotel on the corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford (This will be Bainbridge Library's ONE BOOK FOR BAINBRIDGE for the month of October!)

Topic for November 2nd Frankenstein by Mary Shelley Just in time for Halloween.

7 PM  Speculative Fiction Book Group at Eagle Harbor Books Inspired by discussions held in the SFWC (Speculative Fiction Writing Cooperative), a book group focusing on works of Speculative (and Science) Fiction has been born. We'll convene on the 1st Tuesday of every month at 7:00pm and, like our other in-store book groups, newcomers & drop-ins are always welcome. 

Topic for July 6th: The Gate to Women's Country by Sheri S. Tepper

Topic for August 3rd: The years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson

            Topic for July 7^th: A Reliable Wife

            Topic for August 4^th:  The Zookeeper's Wife

            Topic for September 1^st: The Spirit Catches You and You Fall"
A tragedy befalls a family of recent Hmong immigrants. Events are brought on in part through misunderstandings and a clash of cultures.

            Topic for July 7^th: "Can't Wait to Get to Heaven" by Fannie Flagg

            Topic for August 4^th:  Apples & Oranges by Marie Brenner

            Topic for September 1^{st :} Breakfast at Sally's by RichardLeMieux

Topic for July 7^th: An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England by Brock Clarke.

After serving 10 years in prison for accidentally burning down Emily Dickinson's historic house in Amherst, Sam Pulsifer is finally free to live his life—that is, until a copycat criminal begins torching the homes of other famous authors. Now Sam must find the identity of the arsonist before he is blamed for the crimes in this hilarious send-up of all things literary.

            Topic for August 4^th:  Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia by Elizabeth Gilbert.

A celebrated writer pens an irresistible, candid, and eloquent account of her pursuit of worldly pleasure, spiritual devotion, and what she really wanted out of life.

            Topic for September 1^st: Follow the River by James Alexander Thom

 6:30 PM Sylvan Way Book Group 6:30 PM  Location: Sylvan Way Library -- 1301 Sylvan Way, Bremerton 98310, 360-405-9100  

Topic for July 7^th: The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

            Topic for August 4^th:  Bold Spirit by Linda Laurence Hunt

            Topic for September 1^st: Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh

3:30 PM Teen Book Club New!!

Sylvan Way Library / 360-405-9100 / 1301 Sylvan Way - Bremerton, WA 98310-3466

New Book Club for Teens
Hey Teens! Love books? Join our new book club just for teens. First Meeting is on Friday, April 2. Help pick the books you want to read. Snacks provided.

Book Choice for March 9th: Evans Above by Rhys Bowen

7 PM A Good Yarn Bainbridge Island Library. 206-842-4162 / 1270 Madison N - Bainbridge Island, WA 98110

Next Meeting May 10th, 7-9 PM

Join the library knitting and needlework group – bring your work in progress. We look at new knitting books, and discuss what we’ve been reading, too. Meets the second Monday of each month.

6:30 PM New! Kingston Classic Book Discussion

Topic for April 19^th: continuing our discussion of Don Quixote by Miguel Cervantes.

 6 PM  New! Teen Book Posse Port Orchard Library

Topic for February 22^nd: We'll begin reading Lewis Carroll's surreal masterpiece, Alice in Wonderland, in preparation for the upcoming movie.

1:00 PM  Bainbridge Senior Center Book Club  Bainbridge Island Library -- 1270 Madison Avenue N., Bainbridge Island, 98110-2721, 206-842-4162

            Topic for July 20^th: : The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald.

            Topic for August 17^th: "The Lost City of Z: a Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon" by David Grann

            Topic for September21st: The House on Sugar Beach by Helene Cooper.

White House correspondent Helene Cooper's very personal memoir of growing up in an elite household in Liberia, until a political coup sends her family on the run first from Sugar Beach, then from Liberia to America. On the way, they must leave behind Cooper's best friend and foster sister, a member of Liberia's Basso tribe.

 Copies are available at Bainbridge Library.    Hosted by Julie O'Niell, and meeting at the Bainbridge Island Senior Center every third Tuesday. 

Topic for July 20^th: : 'Cross Creek' by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings.

            Topic for August 17^th: 'Cross Creek' by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings.

            Topic for September21st: 'Saving Grace' by Elizabeth Edwards.

Call the library for more information. Newcomers always welcome!

 6:30 PM  Ship's Log Readers Port Orchard Library -- 87 Sidney Avenue, Port Orchard 98366-5249, 360-876-2224. 

Topic for Tuesday April 20^th: : 'Ghost at the Table' by Suzanne Berne
When the Fiske family of Concord, Massachusetts, come together to celebrate Thanksgiving, it proves that you can always be persuaded to doubt your own certainties but never your own lies. Amidst the pumpkins pies and the frozen turkey, two sisters, whether they like it or not, are forced to confront some stark misinterpretations of their family history.

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Third Wednesday

            Topic for July 21^st: Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, by Lisa See

            Topic for August18th:An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England, by Brock Clarke

            Topic for September15th: The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, by David Wroblewski

Topic for July 21^st: Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford

When artifacts from Japanese families sent to internment camps during World War II are uncovered during renovations at a Seattle hotel, Henry Lee embarks on a quest that leads to memories of growing up Chinese in a city rife with anti-Japanese sentiment

            Topic for August18th: The Soloist by Steve Lopez  Los Angeles columnistSteve Lopez tells the true story of his unusual friendship with former Julliard musician Nathaniel Ayers who struggles with homelessness and schizophrenia.

             Topic for September15th: Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian by Sherman AlexieNotes

Arnold Spirit, a 14-year-old cartoonist from the Spokane Indian reservation, finds himself an outcast in his community when he transfers to a rich, white school in Alexie's humorous but compassionate semi-autobiographical novel about the power of friendship to both hurt and heal.

 7 PM Harvard Shelf Classics Book Group  Bainbridge Public Library, 1271 Madison Ave N. Small conference Room downstairs

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Join facilitator Joan Ewing for a discussion of the great works or literature. A different selection will be read each month. For more information, please call 206.780.0699.

 6:30 PM Book and Wine Club Liberty Bay Books in Poulsbo
WINE AND BOOK CLUB Please join us on the 3rd Wednesday evening every month for wine and book club. The cost is $5/per person to cover the wine supplied by Thats-A-Some Italian Restaurant.   Hope you join us.

Topic for June 23rd: We're heading to Germany for wine and reading. The Appointment by Nobel Prize winner Herta Muller is the fiction choice. Rieslings will be the wine choice. Plan to join us. Cost $5 per person

2 PM Book Buzz  New!!! Teens

Location Silverdale Library. 360-692-2779 / 3450 NW Carlton - Silverdale, WA 98383-8325

Bring your book buzz and feed your need. What are you reading right now? Love it? Hate it? Talk it up! Have a snack! Decide if we want to pick a book to read together, or keep buzzing about whatever we're reading.

We ALWAYS welcome new members! Call 360-297-4043, or just show up!

            Topic for June 28^th: : The Zookeeper's Wife, by Diane Ackerman

Topic fur July 26^th: The Absolutely True Diary of a part-Time Indian, by Sherman Alexie

Topic for August 23^rd: River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey, by Candice Millard

            Topic For September 27^th: An arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England, by Brock Clarke

5:30 PM LGBTQ Lesbian and Gay Book Group

Topic for June 28^th: "Tipping the Velvet" by Sarah Waters.

"This lush tale fearlessly and feverishly exposes the political, social and sexual subversions of Victorian-era gender-benders: sapphists, libertines and passing women. Set in 1890s London against a backdrop of music halls and socialist demonstrations, Waters's debut is an engrossing story of a "tommish" woman battered and buoyed by the mores of the times."

Topic fur July 26^th: "Away" by Amy Bloom

Amy Bloom’s fifth novel features a 22-year-old Jewish immigrant in New York City in 1924. She gets a seamstress job at the Goldfadn Yiddish Theatre, where she becomes the mistress of both a handsome actor and his very connected father, Reuben. She leaves NYC in search of her young daughter traveling to Seattle and across the Alaskan wilderness. Her travels encompass prison, prostitution, and poetry.

Topic for August 30th: "Stone Butch Blues" by Leslie Feinberg.

"This compelling first novel follows the sexual travails of lesbian Jess Goldberg. At its start she is a girl who feels confused by strict ideas about gender and who wonders if she might be a "he-she" since people often ask whether she is a boy or a girl. Constantly searching, she quickly moves from trying on her father's suits to visiting bars and transforming herself into a full-blown 'butch'"

            Topic For September 27^th: "Birds in Fall" by Brad Kessler.

"One fall night, an innkeeper on a remote island in Nova Scotia watches an airplane plummet to the sea. As the search for survivors envelops the island, the mourning families gather at the inn, waiting for news of those they have lost. Here among strangers, they form an unusual community, struggling for comfort and consolation."

Everyone Welcome!

Topic for July 27th: A Wrongful Death by Kate Wilhelm

7:00 PM  Circulo de Lectores Iberoamericanos (Spanish Book Club) Bainbridge Island Library -- 1270 Madison Avenue N., Bainbridge Island, 98110-2721, 206-842-4162

Topic for June 24^th: Virgen de los Sicarios (Fernando Vallejo) - Colombia

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Topic for August 26^th: El beso de la mujer arana (Manuel Puig) - Argentina

Topic for September 23^rd: La muerte de Artemio Cruz (Carlos Fuentes) Mexico

Held in the Ihland Way Meeting Room.