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 2024 season! We will enjoy celebrated comic creators, 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 at the Central Park Library's Board Room and also on Zoom.

To RSVP for the Zoom 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 September's read:

"A brilliantly original debut graphic novel that imagines a fantastical alternate Cairo where wishes really do come true. Shubeik Lubeik—a fairy tale rhyme that means “your wish is my command” in Arabic—is the story of three people who are navigating a world where wishes are literally for sale. • A Best Book of the Year: The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, NPR

Three wishes that are sold at an unassuming kiosk in Cairo link Aziza, Nour, and Shokry, changing their perspectives as well as their lives. Aziza learned early that life can be hard, but when she loses her husband and manages to procure a wish, she finds herself fighting bureau­cracy and inequality for the right to have—and make—that wish. Nour is a privileged college student who secretly struggles with depression and must decide whether or not to use their wish to try to “fix” this depression, and then figure out how to do it. And, finally, Shokry must grapple with his religious convictions as he decides how to help a friend who doesn’t want to use their wish. Deena Mohamed brings to life a cast of characters whose struggles and triumphs are heartbreaking, inspiring, and deeply resonant.

Although their stories are fantastical—featuring talking donkeys, dragons, and cars that can magically avoid traffic—each of these people grapples with the very real challenge of trying to make their most deeply held desires come true."

GRAPHIC NOVEL BOOK CLUB 2024 SCHEDULE

JANUARY: Roaming by Jillian Tamaki & Mariko Tamaki

FEBRUARY: The Talk by Darren Bell

MARCH: The Many Deaths of Laila Starr by Ram V

APRIL: Ephemera: A Memoir by Briana Loewinsohn

MAY: Family Style by Thien Pham

JUNE: Flung Out of Space by Grace Ellis

JULY: The Man in the McIntosh Suit by Rina Ayuyang

AUGUST: Yellow Cab by Chabouté

SEPTEMBER: Shubeik Lubeik by Deena Mohamed

OCTOBER: A Guest In the House by Emily Carroll

NOVEMBER: Days of Sand by Aimée de Jongh

DECEMBER: What Is Home, Mum? by Sabba Khan