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 July's read: "Tien and his mother may come from different cultures—she’s an immigrant from Vietnam still struggling with English; he’s been raised in America—but through the fairy tales he checks out from the local library, those differences are erased.
 
But as much as Tien’s mother’s English continues to improve as he reads her tales of love, loss, and travel across distant shores, there’s one conversation that still eludes him—how to come out to her and his father. Is there even a way to explain what he’s going through in Vietnamese? And without a way to reveal his hidden self, how will his parents ever accept him?
 
This beautifully illustrated graphic novel speaks to the complexity of family and how stories can bring us together even when we don’t know the words."

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