Here at GBPL we have the Open Book club. We always enjoy seeing new faces and everyone is welcome! Open Book Club meets on the third Tuesday of the month in the magazine area at 7pm. Copies of the book are usually available at the Welcome Desk or digitally through Libby, cloudLibrary, or hoopla.
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2025 Open Book Club Books
Mad Prairie by Kate McIntyre
January 21st
In this scary, funny, and slyly political short story collection, Kate McIntyre conjures a fever dream of contemporary Kansas. Boundaries between fantasy and reality blur, and grotesque acts birth strange progeny.
The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley
February 18th
To establish whether time travel is feasible—for the body, but also for the fabric of space-time, a “bridge” who lives with, assists and monitors the expat known as “1847” or Commander Graham Gore, falls fervently in love, with consequences she never could’ve imagined—ones that could change the future.
Babel by R. F. Kuang
March 18th
A Chinese boy orphaned by cholera and raised in Britain is trained to work at Oxford’s prestigious Royal Institute of Translation, the world’s center for translation and magic through silver-working, where he must choose between competing loyalties.
Song of the Six Realms by Judy I. Lin
April 15th
Seventeen-year-old musician Xue faces a lifetime of servitude until Duke Meng offers her freedom in exchange for serving as a musician in residence, but Xue soon discovers the Duke is a celestial ruler with ulterior motives and she must unlock her past to prevent an impending war in the Six Realms.
The Cartographers by Peng Shepherd
May 20th
When her estranged father is found dead with a seemingly worthless map hidden in his desk, cartographer Nell Young soon discovers the map is extremely valuable—and that a mysterious collector will stop at nothing to destroy it and anyone who gets in the way.
The Art Thief by Michael Finkel
June 17th
This riveting true story of art, crime, love and an insatiable hunger to possess beauty at any cost draws us into the strange and fascinating world of prolific art thief, Stéphane Breitwieser, who stole and kept more than 300 objects until one final act of hubris brought everything crashing down.
Sheets by Brenna Thummler
July 15th
Marjorie Glatt feels like a ghost. A practical thirteen-year-old in charge of the family laundry business, her daily routine features unforgiving customers, unbearable P.E. classes, and the fastidious Mr. Saubertuck who is committed to destroying everything she’s worked for.
The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett
August 19th
Investigating a seemingly impossible death, detective Ana Dolabra, whose brilliance is matched only by her eccentricities, and her new magically altered assistant, Din, who is trying to keep his own secrets safe from her piercing intellect, uncover a scheme that threatens the safety of the Empire itself.
A Death in Door County by Annelise Ryan
September 16th
A Wisconsin bookstore owner and hobbyist cryptozoologist agrees to help the local police chief after several bodies show up on the shores of Lake Michigan with giant bites from an unknown animal.
Lone Women by Victor LaValle
October 21st
In 1915, Adelaide Henry, after her secret sin killed her parents, sets out for Montana, dragging an enormous steamer trunk that’s locked at all times, to become one of the “lone women” taking advantage of the government’s offer of free land where she hopes to bury her past.
VenCo by Cherie Dimaline
November 18th
After finding a tarnished silver spoon humming with otherworldly energy, Métis millennial Lucky St. James, familiar with the magic of her Indigenous ancestors, and her cantankerous grandmother Stella are welcomed into the fold of Ven.Co—a network of witches working to return women to their rightful power.
A Most Agreeable Murder by Julia Seales
December 16th
A young woman growing up in a well-to-do family in Regency England hides her obsession with true crime from her etiquette-obsessed social circle joins forces with a detective when a wealthy bachelor drops dead at a ball.
