Gibson’s supports readers in many ways!
We have an in-store book club which we encourage you to join. We also gather and coordinate information for dozens of local book clubs. We craft events of special interest to book clubs—for instance, publishers’ nights, in which major publishers send reps (via Zoom during the pandemic) to share their best new picks for book clubs.
If you’re in a club, please let us know what you’re reading and how to contact you! You can print and fill out this form (.pdf or .docx) to register your book club with us and to receive notice of exciting events you might like.
Now, here’s what we’re doing in the bookstore:
Our book club is open to all. We've chosen an eclectic, ambitious list of books for the coming year: join us for every meeting, or deal yourself in as the spirit moves you.
All meetings unless otherwise noted are on the first Monday of the month, and begin at 5:30pm est.
Schedule of book club meetings for 2022-2023 (see below for book info):
- September 12th, 2022: Forget the Alamo: The Rise and Fall of an American Myth, by by Bryan Burroughs, Chris Tomlinson, and Jason Stanford
- October 3, 2022: Parable of the Sower, by Octavia Butler
- November 7, 2022: Ring Shout, by P. Djeli Clark
- December 5, 2022: The Words In My Hands, by Asphyxia, and The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill
- January 9, 2023: West With Giraffes, by Lynda Rutledge
- February 6, 2023: The Sentence, by Louise Erdrich
- March 6, 2023: Taste: My Life Through Food, by Stanley Tucci
- April 3, 2023: Poetry
- May 1, 2023: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, by William Shakespeare
- June 5, 2023: The Lincoln Highway, by Amor Towles
- July 10, 2023: River of the Gods: Genius, Courage, and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile, by Candice Millard
- August 7, 2023: Pickapalooza for 2023/2024. Come help us choose next year's book club picks!
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