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 April's read: "When a great antiquities collector is forced to donate his entire collection to the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Nili Broshi sees her last chance to finish an archaeological expedition begun decades earlier―a dig that could possibly yield the most important religious artifact in the Middle East. Motivated by the desire to reinstate her father’s legacy as a great archaeologist after he was marginalized by his rival, Nili enlists a ragtag crew―a religious nationalist and his band of hilltop youths, her traitorous brother, and her childhood Palestinian friend, now an archaeological smuggler. As Nili’s father slips deeper into dementia, warring factions close in on and fight over the Ark of the Covenant!

Backed by extensive research into this real-world treasure hunt, Rutu Modan sets her affecting novel at the center of a political crisis. She posits that the history of biblical Israel lies in one of the most disputed regions in the world, occupied by Israel and contested by Palestine. Often in direct competition, Palestinians and Israelis dig alongside one another, hoping to find the sacred artifact believed to be a conduit to God. Two time Eisner Award winner Rutu Modan’s third graphic novel, Tunnels, is her deepest and wildest yet. Potent and funny, Modan reveals the Middle East as no westerner could."

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