The library offers book discussion opportunities and many resources to assist book clubs, as well as hosting several clubs. Durham: "Durham Book Club" meets on the third Wednesday of the month at 12:30 p.m. For additional information, call 879-3835.
Oroville: "Thinking Readers" meets on the fourth Wednesday of the month at 10:30 a.m. and 7 p.m. The morning and evening clubs read different selections each month and they select from both fiction and non-fiction. For additional information, call 538-7642.
Paradise: "Library Book Group" meets on the last Wednesday of the month at 3 p.m. (Group does not meet in December). “sponsored since 1998 by the Paradise Friends of the Library”. For additional information, call 872- 6320.
Library Resources for Book Clubs
The Butte County Library would like to help support local book clubs with their reading material.
• The library has boxed sets of books with discussion questions available for community book clubs to borrow. Multiple copies of titles read by the library book clubs are available. Multiple copies of titles located in branch collections may be requested for a club. For more information or to request a boxed set, email lib@buttecounty.net.
• Nancy Pearl’s titles Book Lust and More Book Lust are available to assist clubs with their reading selections.
• Novelist is a great online database for book clubs to use to select titles, gather information about the authors, and select discussion questions.
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