Santa Clara Public Library

THIS MONTH'S SESSION IS CANCELLED. WE HOPE TO SEE YOU NEXT MONTH. 

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 October's read:

"In Emily Carroll's haunting adult graphic novel horror story A Guest in the House, a young woman marries a kind dentist only to realize that there’s a dark mystery surrounding his former wife’s death.

After many lonely years, Abby’s just gotten married. She met her new husband―a recently widowed dentist―when he arrived in town with his young daughter, seeking a new start. Although it’s strange living in the shadow of her predecessor, Abby does her best to be a good wife and mother. But the more she learns about her new husband’s first wife, the more things don’t add up. And Abby starts to wonder . . . was Sheila’s death really by natural causes? As Abby sinks deeper into confusion, Sheila’s memory seems to become a force all its own, ensnaring Abby in a mystery that leaves her obsessed, fascinated, and desperately in love for the first time in her life.

Emily's masterful balance of black and white, surreal colors, rich textures, and dramatic lettering is assured to bring this story to life and give readers a chill up their spine as they read."

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 Dīnā Muḥammad

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