Book Clubs at Copperfield's

Recommended Book Club Books for July

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Book Clubs are a social phenonmenon and Copperfield's Books is pleased to be part of it. We offer a 20% discount on club selected titles to members of book clubs....all you have to do is register online so we know your club exists! We will work with your club leader to get your book selection and make sure your books are ordered in time for your meetings.

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New to Book Clubbing?

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Interested in starting your own club? You can start an in-store drop-in book club with Copperfield's Books or gather some folks for your own home club. Simply complete the registration form for our website and check the option to receive Book Club Information and you'll receive news about book clubs, including the annual Make a Club event where you have a chance to meet with like-minded readers and form a club.

In-Store Drop-In Book Clubs

You can drop-in on any of our in-store book clubs. Reading lists will be updated for 2010 by the end of this month. To receive your discount on the chosen title, please check in at the store where the book club is taking place.

Booklovers' Forum
meets in the Petaluma store the Second Wednesday of each month from 6:30-8:00pm. Book selection criteria: the book should be interesting to read and stimulate lively discussions.

Selections for 2010:
January 13 - Operating Instructions, Anne Lamott
February 10 - To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
March 10 - Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
April 14 - Out Stealing Horses, Per Petterson
May 12 - The Book of Daniel, E.L. Doctorow
June 9 - A Lesson Before Dying, Ernest Gaines
July 14 - A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole August 11 - The Good Soldier, Ford Maddox Ford
September 8 - Rabbit Run, John Updike
October 13 - Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife, Mary Roach
November 10 - I Served the King of England, Bohumil Hrabal
December 8 - The Valley of the Moon, Jack London

Mystery Book Club
has been meeting in the Montgomery Village store for over a decade. They read an eclectic assortment of mysteries and meet the Second Monday of each month from 7-8:30pm. Visit Santa Rosa Mystery Book Group website at www.srmystery.com.

Selections for 2010:
March - The Broken Shore, Peter Temple
April 11 - The 19th Wife, David Ebershoff
May 10 - Sun Storm, Asa Larsson
June 14 - The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Stieg Larsson
July 12 - A Savage Place, Robert B. Parker

Broads' Eye View Backlist Book Club
meets in the Sebastopol store the First Thursday of each month 6:30-8:30pm. Barbara Iannoli and Carolina Clare (former owners of North Light Books and now booksellers at the Copperfield's Books Sebastopol store), will be hosting a monthly book club in Sebastopol. Known as The Broads on their KRSH radio show, Barbara and Carolina are veteran book clubbers who know how to keep it lively and fun. Rather than focus on new titles, the Broads will be focusing on great backlist books (also available at Copperfield's Books, new and used & rare stores). Drop-ins okay.

Forthcoming books (order to be determined) are:
July 1 - Tinkers, Paul Harding
August 5 - Arms and the Women, Reginald Hill
September 2 - Lying Awake, Mark Salzman
October 7 - Whore's Child, Richard Presso
Heaven of Mercury, Brad Watson
Case Histories, Kate Atkinson
No Great Mischief, Alistair McLeod
Evensong, Gail Godwin
Country Life, Rachel Cusk
Have Mercy On Us All, Fred Vargas

Graphic Novel Book Club
will start up again soon. Usually meeting time is the Third Wednesday of each month at 6:30 pm. Graphic Novels discussed tend to be more literary and adult in nature. Recommended for ages 15 and up. For more information, please contact Ray at 707-762-0563

Selections for 2010:
Pending