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 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 February's read: "The Waiting is the fictional story of Gwija, told by her novelist daughter Jina. When Gwija was 17 years old, after hearing that the Japanese were seizing unmarried girls, her family married her in a hurry to a man she didn't know. Japan fell, Korea gained its independence, and the couple started a family. But peace didn’t come. The young family of four fled south. On the road, while breastfeeding and changing her daughter, Gwija was separated from her husband and son.

Then seventy years passed. Seventy years of waiting. Gwija is now an elderly woman and Jina can’t stop thinking about the promise she made to help find her brother."

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