Santa Clara Public Library

Are you a person 18 years-of-age and up who loves graphic novels? Want to meet up with other readers and discuss great comic book literature? Then join the Santa Clara City Library’s Graphic Novel Book Club for the 2022 season! We will enjoy celebrated classics, award winning titles, and a wide range of genres from around the world. Just bring your enthusiasm, curiosity, and an open mind!

The Graphic Novel Book Club meets every second Thursday of the month at 5PM on Zoom.

To RSVP for this event use this link: bit.ly/gnbookclub2022

Books can be found on the Santa Clara City Library online catalog (sclibrary.bibliocommons.com), through LINK+ (https://www.sclibrary.org/services/other-services/link), or as an ebook through Hoopla (https://www.sclibrary.org/books-more/digital-library). The selected titles for each month should be completed before each meeting. Reading ahead is encouraged!

About February's read:  "When Sabrina disappears, an airman in the U.S. Air Force is drawn into a web of suppositions, wild theories, and outright lies. He reports to work every night in a bare, sterile fortress that serves as no protection from a situation that threatens the sanity of Teddy, his childhood friend and the boyfriend of the missing woman. Sabrina’s grieving sister, Sandra, struggles to fill her days as she waits in purgatory. After a videotape surfaces, we see devastation shown through a cinematic lens, as true tragedy is distorted when fringe thinkers and conspiracy theorists begin to interpret events to fit their own narratives.

The follow-up to Nick Drnaso’s Beverly, winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Sabrina depicts a modern world devoid of personal interaction and responsibility, where relationships are stripped of intimacy through glowing computer screens. Presenting an indictment of our modern state, Drnaso contemplates the dangers of a fake-news climate. Timely and articulate, Sabrina leaves you gutted, searching for meaning in the aftermath of disaster." (via Goodreads)

GRAPHIC NOVEL BOOK CLUB 2022 SCHEDULE

JANUARY: Ghost World by Dan Clowes

FEBRUARY: Sabrina by Nick Drnaso

MARCH: Pride of Baghdad by Brian K. Vaughn

APRIL: The Best We Could Do by Thi Bui

MAY: The Sandman Vols. 1 & 2 by Neil Gaiman

JUNE: Daytripper by Fábio Moon and Gabriel Bá

JULY: Habibi by Craig Thompson

AUGUST: My Favorite Thing Is Monsters by Emil Ferris

SEPTEMBER: Y, The Last Man Vols. 1 & 2 by Brian K. Vaughan

OCTOBER: Killing and Dying by Adrian Tomine

NOVEMBER: Blacksad Vol. 1 by Juan Díaz Canales and Juanjo Guarnido

DECEMBER: The Underwater Welder by Jeff Lemire