Books & Brew meets at 6:30 pm on third Tuesdays at the library. We discuss a variety of books, while enjoying the company of other readers and our favorite brews (we provide tea, coffee, and assorted adult bevs).
Copies of the current book are available for checkout at the library, and are often also available as e-books or e-audiobooks through one of the library’s digital platforms.
Check out the club’s Facebook event, where you can interact with other readers and share content related to the books we’re reading.
2026 Reading List
January 20 – Alas, Babylon, by Pat Frank
A nuclear holocaust ravages the United States, bringing instant death for millions, and initiating a nightmare of hunger, sickness, and brutality. For one small Florida town, miraculously spared, the struggle is only just beginning, as the isolated survivors—men and women of all ages and races—find the courage to come together and confront the harrowing darkness.
Available on Hoopla (e-book)
February 17- Klara and the Sun, by Kazuo Ishiguro
From her place in the store, Klara, an Artificial Friend with outstanding observational qualities, carefully watches the behavior of browsing customers and passersby, hopeful that a customer will soon choose her. This book offers a look at how AI might play a role in our future, and explores the fundamental question: what does it mean to love?
Available on Libby (audio, e-book) and Palace Project (audio, e-book).
March 17 – Dr. No, by Percival Everett
In this satirical novel, math professor Wala Kitu—an expert in “nothing”—is drawn into a villain’s absurd plot to steal a shoebox of nothing from Fort Knox and erase a town. As he navigates espionage, philosophy, and buried American injustices, Kitu must outwit a wannabe Bond villain seeking revenge through the power of…nothing.
Available on Libby (audio) and Hoopla (audio).
April 21 – The Great Divide, by Cristina Henríquez
The Great Divide follows intersecting lives during the construction of the Panama Canal: a fisherman and his son at odds, a determined Barbadian teen seeking work, and a scientist battling malaria. Amid ambition and hardship, their paths cross in a sweeping story of resilience, sacrifice, and the overlooked people who shaped history.
Available on Libby (audio), Hoopla (audio, e-book), and Palace Project (e-book in English and Spanish).
May 12 (a week early this month) – Yellowface, by R. F. Kuang
White lies. Dark humor. Deadly consequences… Bestselling sensation Juniper Song is not who she says she is, she didn’t write the book she claims she wrote, and she is most certainly not Asian American—in this chilling and hilariously cutting novel that satirizes the publishing industry and grapples with questions of appropriation and the terrifying alienation of social media.
Available on Libby (audio), Hoopla (audio, e-book), and Palace Project (audio, e-book).
June 16 – The Seed Keeper, by Diane Wilson
This haunting novel spanning several generations follows a Dakhóta family’s struggle to preserve their way of life, and their sacrifices to protect what matters most.
Available on Libby (audio, e-book) and Hoopla (audio, e-book).
July 21 – In Other Lands, by Sarah Rees Brennan
When grumpy, nerdy Elliot falls into magic land, he’s appalled by the dearth of technology and the levels of fitness involved in swinging swords around. He’s a little enchanted by the elves and mermaids. Despite his aversion to war, work, and most people, he finds that two unlikely ideas, friendship and world peace, may actually be possible.
Available on Hoopla (audio, e-book).
August 18 – Replaceable You, by Mary Roach
This rollicking exploration of the quest to re-create the impossible complexities of human anatomy examines the fascinating, often bizarre world of medical innovation aimed at repairing or replacing parts of the human body. Roach investigates the science, ethics, and stories behind modern medicine’s quest to rebuild us.
Available on Palace Project (audio).
September 15 – Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury
Firemen don’t put fires out in this world where books are forbidden—they set them. Guy Montag works tirelessly to incinerate any books hidden in people’s homes, until he meets a solitary late-night pedestrian who is quietly nonconformist. Montag’s suppressed doubts begin to surface, and he decides to fight to preserve the hidden world of printed knowledge that still survives.
Available on Libby (audio, e-book), Hoopla (audio), and Palace Project (e-book).
October 20 – Lula Dean’s Little Library of Banned Books, by Kirsten Miller
In a small Georgia town, a battle over banned books erupts when, unbeknownst to her, a local crusader’s lending library is filled with the very titles she wants to ban. As people secretly read the controversial books, lives begin to change—sparking rebellion, unexpected alliances, and a showdown in a heated mayoral race.
Available on Libby (audio) and Hoopla (audio, e-book).
November 17 – Sweet Thursday, by John Steinbeck
This standalone sequel to Cannery Row returns to the weedy lots, junk heaps, and flophouses of Monterey in the years after WWII. We meet the denizens of a netherworld of laughter and tears—from a marine biologist returning from the war, to the new headmistress of the local brothel, to a bum struggling with his own demons.
December 15 (6pm – holiday party!) – Thornhedge, by T. Kingfisher
Raised by fairies, Toadling returns to the human world to offer a blessing of protection to a newborn child. Centuries later, a knight arrives to break a thorny curse—but it’s a curse Toadling will do anything to uphold. The classic Sleeping Beauty story is reimagined in this Hugo Award-winning novella.
Available on Hoopla (audio) and Palace Project (e-book).