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 2023 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: tinyurl.com/scclgnbookclub

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 January's read: "Madrid in the eighties, and Barcelona ten years later. In these two vibrant locales, Castaways follows the relationship between Alejandra and Julio against the backdrop of these poetic urban spaces where dreams, love, and uncertainty intertwine. Drawn to one another but constantly pushed or pulled in different directions by work, family, and life, Alejandra and Julio circle in and out of each other's lives, while first denying and then coming to accept the fact that by the time they are ready to love one another, the chance has already passed.

Intensely emotive and poignant, this stunning graphic novel from Laura Pérez and Pablo Monforte depicts themes of maturity, responsibility, and human connection." (via Dark Horse)

GRAPHIC NOVEL BOOK CLUB 2023 SCHEDULE

JANUARY: Castaways by Laura Pérez & Pablo Monforte

FEBRUARY: The Waiting by Keum Suk Gendry-Kim

MARCH: Lore Olympus Vol. 1 by Rachel Smythe

APRIL: Tunnels by Rutu Modan

MAY: It's Lonely At The Centre Of The Earth by Zoe Thorogood

JUNE: Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands by Kate Beaton

JULY: The Magic Fish by Trung Le Nguyen

AUGUST: Always Never by Jordi Lafebre

SEPTEMBER: Salamandre by I.N.J. Culbard

OCTOBER: Cats of the Louvre by Taiyo Matsumoto

NOVEMBER: Keeping Two by Jordan Crane

DECEMBER: Bubble by Jordan Morris