Are you a public or school library in Colorado that organizes and holds book club meetings at your facility for your patrons?
Are you in need of some additional book options for your book clubs?
The Colorado State Library wants to help! This website is your connection to plenty of books for your borrowing purposes. We have many titles to choose from and all the titles have five or more copies available. For a downloadable list of current titles, click here.
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The Colorado State Library would like to invite everyone to celebrate Black History Month with our newly updated Book Club Resource! Over the past year, we have refocused our energy toward making our book club collection more diverse and inclusive, so that readers from all cultures and backgrounds can find stories for them written by […]
The Colorado State Library’s Book Club Resource and Resource Kit Program will be taking a brief hiatus while our friends at the Colorado Library Consortium (CLiC) complete their AspenCat migration, which is scheduled to begin the first week of February. During this time, we will not be able to add or change any records, or […]
You’ve finally done it. You’ve formed your book club. Congratulations, because just getting more than two people together in a room that they’re not getting paid to be in is a feat all in itself. Whether you finally got all the names you needed on your library’s sign-up sheet, got a firm commitment from everyone […]
2019 is just around the corner and the Colorado State Library’s Book Club Resource wants to help your book club ring in the New Year right! Whether you want to focus on physical health, grow your mind, expand your global horizons, or just read more for fun, we have a title to inspire and prepare […]
The Colorado State Library’s Book Club Resource would like to thank everyone who participated in our partner library survey and to let you know that we heard you! According to your responses, the number one factor in your decision on a particular title is the number of copies available. So for the next several months, the […]
The Colorado State Library’s Book Club Resource is excited to announce the addition of five Spanish language titles to our book club catalog as one of many steps in our continued effort to best represent and serve the diverse and ever-changing population of our Colorado community! Our new titles include works from celebrated authors such as Julia […]
We at the State Library’s Book Club Resource are pleased to announce some exciting new additions to our Catalog! Not only are we adding almost twenty new titles to our collection, but we are also adding a new category to our online catalog with titles geared toward social justice and action reading groups as well […]
Dear Book Club Devotees – You might recall a post I made back in early September 2017 regarding the ownership of the Colorado Book Club Resource temporarily changing hands to me for an undetermined length of time while we found the perfect person to fill the recently vacated role of Consultant Support Specialist with the […]
Is the snow getting you down already? Well, then find a good book, five of your bestest new friends and make a book club happen. That’s the best way I can think of to make the unwanted weather pass on by. We have quite a few new titles added to our collection this week with […]
As we say goodbye to Arian – our Book Club Guru and all-round Girl Friday, we want to assure Book Club members that the service will continue on while we search for our new Guru. Our trusted Admin Team at the State Library is poised to jump in and take care of all lending and […]
We have 11 new titles that have been added to our collection this month! Please check them out. Every day brings new choices. -Martha Beck […]
Some libraries can seem mysterious (is yours?) and authors have been known to use it to their advantage in their novels. This one does just that with a dose of mythical realism that is both strange and beautiful. Sound appealing? Then consider this title for your next bookclub option! We have 6 copies. An enchanted collection of […]
Summer is here and relaxing with a good book is always a welcomed lazy, hot day activity, is it not? And while your body is hopefully enjoying a moment of lounging, your brain need not be. Perhaps consider sneaking in a little knowledge within your fiction. What about historical fiction? We have many titles of […]
Depression and anxiety hardly seem like topics that could be twisted into laugh out loud humor, but Jenny Lawson has a gift for such things. In her book Furiously Happy she exposes her struggles with the difficult reality of depression and anxiety preventing her from doing even the simplest things, as well as her often unique decisions […]
Feeling daydream-y and ready for summer reading with the influx of kids visiting your children’s/teens section at all hours of the day? We have a fantastical YA novel even the younger types may enjoy all about a lovely, sweet, lonely unicorn. These days it might be considered a wee bit of a classic for the younger types. The […]
Oh the tricky business of convincing pre-teens/teenagers that a book club could be a super fun, fantastic event. I am here to help! I have scrounged the internet for some interesting or helpful tips when considering a book club for the younger set. Have the kids/students pick out the book Keep the meeting relatively short, […]
Let’s honor the strong women in our collection! We have roughly 10 titles for your borrowing needs that celebrate brave, independent, and strong women. Some of these women wield their power subtly, others subversively, and yet others with confident grace. Enjoy the following quotes of these amazing fictional and real ladies. [Dr. Thomas] Mrs. Jessup […]
Colorado is a dog lover’s kingdom. This title in our collection is an ode to that overwhelming love we have for our doggies and how they are such an integral part of our family, be it small or large. This is a story about that special someone: the one you trust, the one you can’t […]
Ah…those books that we were required to read in high school English. The “classics.” Authors of a time gone by. Some were even controversial by society’s standards when they were published. All are worthy of conversations and discussions even today. We have seven such titles in our collection. Perhaps your bookclub would love to revisit some of […]
Kitchens of the Great Midwest (5 copies) is story about a single chef dad raising his daughter and how that lovely daughter acquires an amazing palate and becomes a fabulous, but mysterious chef in her own right. And of course…there are recipes in the book! I am sharing three found within this delectable story that […]
Graphic novels. A unique and fantastic way to get the older kids reading and discussing a story, especially when they are about noteworthy subjects such as war, disabilities, and civil rights. We now have three graphic novels to choose from (which is so exciting!). DOGS OF WAR: Dogs were often used in the time of war and […]