Book Clubs
Want to join a Mayo Library book club? We have a few! Here are details on where they are held and what they are reading. If you are passionate about books and reading, you’re welcome to come along!
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Ballyhaunis
The Book Club meets once a month (usually the first Wednesday of the month) in Ballyhaunis Library at 8:00pm.
** The next meeting of Ballyhaunis Library Book Club will be on Wednesday, December 4 at 8pm. The book for discussion will be That they May Face the Rising Sun by John McGahern. **
Books previously discussed in Ballyhaunis Library Book Club:
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Before the Coffee gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi 2 starsOctober 2024
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes 4.5 starsSeptember 2024
The Hunter by Tana French 2.5 starsMay 2024
How to Build a Boat by Elaine Feeney 3.5 starsApril 2024
The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah 3 starsMarch 2024
Normal Rules Don't Apply by Kate Atkinson 3 starsFebruary 2024
So Late in the Day by Claire Keegan 3.5 starsJanuary 2024
The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas 3.5 starsDecember 2023
Dear Reader by Cathy Rentzenbrink 3 starsNovember 2023
Last Bus to Woodstock by Colin Dexter 3 starsOctober 2023
Did Ye Hear Mammy Died? by Seamas O'Reilly 4.5 starsSeptember 2023
The Red Bird Sings by Aoife Fitzpatrick 3.5 starsJuly/August 2023
Still Life by Sarah Winman 3.5 starsJune 2023
The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O’Farrell 4 starsMay 2023
This is Happiness by Niall Williams 4 starsApril 2023
The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak 3.5 starsMarch 2023
Dracula by Bram Stoker 3 starsFebruary 2023
The Maid by Nita Prose 3 ½ starsJanuary 2023
The Rose Code by Kate Quinn 4 starsDecember 2022
Trespasses by Louise Kennedy 4 starsNovember 2022
Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus 4 starsOctober 2022
Strange Flowers by Donal Ryan 3.5 starsMay 2020
The Guest List by Lucy Foley.April 2020
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles.March 2020
Fleishman is in Trouble by Taffy Brodesser-Akner 2.5 starsFebruary 2020
Case Histories by Kate Atkinson 4 stars
January 2020
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens 4 stars
December 2019
The Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter by Hazel Gaynor 3 stars
November 2019
The Salt Path by Raynor Winn. 4 starsOctober 2019
Fever by Mary Beth Keane. 4 stars
September 2019
Spill Simmer Falter Wither by Sara Baume 4 starsJune 2019
A Ladder to the Sky by John Boyne 3 starsMay 2019
The Dry by Jane Harper. 3 starsApril 2019
Rain on the Wind by Walter Macken. 4 starsMarch 2019
The Burgess Boys by Elizabeth Strout 4 starsFebruary 2019
Cassandra Darke by Posy Simmonds 3 starsJanuary 2019
The Ballad of Peckham Rye by Muriel Spark 2½ starsDecember 2018
The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom. 3 starsNovember 2018
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman. 4½ starsOctober 2018
Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult 4 starsSeptember 2018
The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris 3½ starsJune 2018
Everything I Never told You by Celeste Ng. 4 starsMay 2018
I Found My Tribe by Ruth Fitzmaurice 3 starsApril 2018
The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James 3 starsMarch 2018
The Scandal by Fredrik Backman 4 starsFebruary 2018
The Coroner's Daughter by Andrew Hughes 3½ starsJanuary 2018
Midwinter Break by Bernard MacLaverty 3½ starsDecember 2017
Holding by Graham Norton 4 starsNovember 2017
The Unseen by Roy Jacobsen 4 stars
October 2017
Sacred Country by Rose Tremain 3½ starsSeptember 2017
Anything is Possible by Elizabeth Strout 4 starsJune 2017
City of Thieves by David Benioff 3½ starsMay 2017
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy 3 starsApril 2017
Solar Bones by Mike McCormack 4 starsMarch 2017
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte 4½ starsFebruary 2017
The Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen, 831/4 Years Old by Hendirk Groen 4½ starsJanuary 2017
The Drowned Detective by Neil Jordan 2½ starsDecember 2016
My Name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout 4 starsNovember 2016
The Quality of Silence by Rosamund Lupton 3½ starsOctober 2016
Butcher's Crossing by John Williams 3 starsSeptember 2016
The Trouble with Goats and Sheep by Joanna Cannon 3 starsJune 2016
Behind the Scenes at the Museum by Kate Atkinson 3 starsMay 2016
The Children of the Rising by Joe Duffy 4 starsApril 2016
A Whole Life by Robert Seethaler 3½ starsMarch 2016
Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak 4 starsFebruary 2016
Without a Trace by Lesley Pearse 2½ starsJanuary 2016
The Ballroom Café by Ann O'Loughlin 2½ starsDecember 2015
Tender by Belinda McKeon 2½ stars
November 2015
All the Light we Cannont See by Anthony Doerr 4 starsOctober 2015
The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd 4 starsSeptember 2015
Us by David Nicholls 3 starsJuly 2015
Elizabeth is Missing by Emma Healey 3 stars
June 2015
Wild: A Journey from Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail Cheryl Strayed by Cheryl Strayed. 3½ starsMay 2015
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak 4 starsApril 2015
The Beginner's Goodbye by Anne Tyler 3 starsMarch 2015
A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki 3½ starsFebruary 2015
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte 4 starsJanuary 2015
Academy Street by Mary Costello 3½ starsDecember 2014
I Know why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou 3 stars
November 2014
The Cuckoo's Calling by Robert Galbraith 3 starsOctober 2014
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler 3 starsSeptember 2014
Small Island by Andrea Levy 4 starsAugust 2014
Unravelling Oliver by Liz Nugent 3½ starsJuly 2014
The Undertaking by Audrey Magee 4 starsJune 2014
Burial Rites by Hannah Kent 3 starsMay 2014
Longbourn : a novel of pride and prejudice below stairs by Jo Baker 3½ starsApril 2014
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck 4½ starsMarch 2014
Last Orders by Graham Swift. 2½ stars.February 2014
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque. 4 starsJanuary 2014
The Testament of Mary by Colm Tóibín. 3 starsDecember 2013
The Forgotten Waltz by Anne Enright. 2 starsNovember 2013
Call of the Lark : a memoir by Maura Mulligan 3 starsOctober 2013
Staring at Lakes : a memoir of love, melancholy and magical thinking by Michael Harding 3 starsSeptember 2013
Strumpet City by James Plunkett 5 starsAugust 2013
Seating Arrangements by Maggie Shipstead 2 starsJuly 2013
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce 4 starsJune 2013
The Snowman by Jo Nesbo 3 starsMay 2013
The Spinning Heart by Donal Ryan 3½ starsApril 2013
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain 4 starsMarch 2013
Lean on Pete by Willy Vlautin 4 starsFebruary 2013
The Dinner by Herman Koch 3 starsJanuary 2013
Sweetness in the Belly by Camilla Gibb 3½ starsDecember 2012
The Glass Castle by Jennnette Walls 4 starsNovember 2012
Serena by Ron Rash 4 starsOctober 2012
This Side of Brightness by Colum McCann 3 stars
September 2012
Burning Bright by Ron Rash 4 stars
August 2012
One Day by David Nicholls 3 starsJuly 2012
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 3½ starsJune 2012
Foster by Claire Keegan 3 starsMay 2012
The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka 3 starsApril 2012
Incendiary by Chris Cleave 3 starsMarch 2012
Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin. 4 starsFebruary 2012
Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence. 3½ starsJanuary 2012
The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt. 4 starsDecember 2011
The Vault by Ruth Rendell 2 starsNovember 2011
Mr. Golightly's Holiday by Salley Vickers 3 starsOctober 2011
Never Let me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro 3 starsSeptmeber 2011
When God was a Rabbit by Sarah Winman 3 starsAugust 2011
The Hungry Ghosts by Anne Berry 3 starsJuly 2011
The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery 4 starsJune 2011
Skippy Dies by Paul Murray 2 stars
May 2011
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson 3 starsApril 2011
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert 3 starsMarch 2011
Julius Winsome by Gerard Donovan 4 starsFebruary 2011
Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese 4 starsJanuary 2011
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd 3 stars
December 2010
Room by Emma Donoghue 4 starsNovember 2010
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith 4 starsOctober 2010
The Postmistress by Sarah Blake 3 stars
September 2010
Old School by Tobias Wolff 3 stars
August 2010
44 Scotland Street by Alexander McCall Smith 2½ starsJuly 2010
The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa 3½ starsJune 2010
The Constant Gardener by John Le Carre 3 starsMay 2010
That Old Cape Magic by Richard Russo 3 starsApril 2010
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout 4 stars
March 2010
Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann 3 stars
February 2010
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen 4 stars
January 2010
Molly Fox's Birthday by Deirdre Madden 2½ stars
December 2009
Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy 4½ starsNovember 2009
The House of Special Purpose by John Boyne 3 starsOctober 2009
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer 3 starsSeptember, 2009
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson 3½ starsAugust, 2009
Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver 4 stars
July, 2009
The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga 3 starsJune, 2009
The Road by Cormac McCarthy 4 stars
May, 2009
Stealing Water: A Secret life in a South African City by Tim Ecott 3½ starsApril, 2009
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole 3 starsMarch, 2009
The Almost Moon by Alice Sebold. 2½ starsFebruary, 2009
The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry. 4 stars
January, 2009
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. 4 stars -
Belmullet
The Book Club meets once a month in Belmullet Library at 7:00pm.
** The next meeting of Belmullet Library Book Club will be on Tuesday, December 3 at 7pm. The book for discussion will be Oryx & Crake by Margaret Atwood. **
Books previously discussed in Belmullet Library Book Club:
Star Rating (1-5)November 2024
Mornings in Jenin by Susan Abulhawa 4.5 stars - the group thought this was "Beautifully written, fantastic, heartbreaking and disturbing ... a book that won’t be forgotten."October 2024
Less by Andrew Sean Greer 2 starsAugust 2024
The Coast Road by Alan Murrin 4 starsJuly 2024
Long Island by Colm Tóibín 3 starsApril 2024
Before My Actual Heart Breaks by Tish Delaney 3 starsMay 2024
The Bee Sting by Paul Murray 3.5 starsJune 2024
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Castlebar
Castlebar Library Book Club meets on the second Tuesday of every month at 8pm upstairs in Castlebar Library. ** The December 2024 meeting of the Book Club will be on Tuesday, December 10 **
Currently Reading:
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote (for our December 2024 meeting)
Past reads:
Book Club previous selections (star rating 1 - 5)
November 2024
Intermezzo by Sally Rooney 4 starsOctober 2024
Howards End by E.M. Forster 4 starsSeptember 2024
The Country Girls Trilogy by Edna O'Brien 4 starsAugust 2024
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes 5 starsJuly 2024
The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams 3.5 starsJune 2024
Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton 3 starsMay 2024
The Pull of the Stars by Emma Donoghue 3 starsApril 2024
Good Behaviour by Molly Keane 5 starsMarch 2024
This Plague of Souls by Mike McCormack 3 starsFebruary 2024
Prophet Song by Paul Lynch 5 starsJanuary 2024
Various books of members own choice, including: Kala by Colin Walsh; Build Your House Around My Body by Violet Kupersmith; Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing by Matthew Perry; The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams; The Paris Wife by Paula McLain; A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley; Saturday by Ian McEwan; So Late in the Day by Claire Keegan; Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver; Old God’s Time by Sebastian Barry; Haven by Emma Donoghue; A Terrible Kindness by Jo Browning Wroe; The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society by Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows; Bleak House by Charles Dickens; Small Mercies by Dennis Lehane; Open Up by Thomas Morris; The Woman in Black and other Ghost Stories by Susan Hill (specifically “The Small Hand” story); Water by John Boyne; When All is Said by Anne Griffin; The Country Will Bring Us No Peace by Matthieu Simard; Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield; Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano; Beyond the Sea by Paul Lynch; The Stranger in the Seine by Guillaume Musso; When They See Me by Gill Perdue.December 2023
Marzahn, Mon Amour by Katja Oskamp 4 starsNovember 2023
How to Build a Boat by Elaine Feeney 3 starsOctober 2023
The Wren, The Wren by Anne Enright 3 starsSeptember 2023
The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende 4 starsAugust 2023
Drive Your Plow over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk 4 starsJuly 2023
The Red Bird Sings by Aoife Fitzpatrick 4 starsJune 2023
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy 4 starsMay 2023
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver 4 starsApril 2023
The Trees by Percival Everett 4 starsMarch 2023
Bournville by Jonathan Coe 3 starsFebruary 2023
Leviathan by Paul Auster 4 starsJanuary 2023
Various books of members' own choice, including Lucy by the Sea by Elizabeth Strout; Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo; Lessons by Ian McEwan; Leviathan by Paul Auster; We Don't Know Ourselves by Fintan O'Toole; A Ghost in the Throat by Doireann ni Ghriofa; The Tartar Steppe by Dinoa Buzzati; Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver; Young Mungo by Douglas Stuart; This is Happiness by William Wall; The Trust by Hernan Diaz; Time and Tide by Charlie Bird; The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O'Farrell; Notes from an Exhibition by Patrick Gale; Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry.December 2022
There's Been a Little Incident by Alice Ryan 3 starsNovember 2022
The Colony by Audrey Magee 5 starsOctober 2022
Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead 4 starsSeptember 2022
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Kiltimagh
Kiltimagh Library Book Club meets on the third Wednesday of every month at 7pm in the library (this is occasionally subject to change).
The September Bookclub was held in Kiltimagh Library on Wednesday, September 18th. Readers picked their own choice for this month's read, so there was variety of genres discussed. The main discussion took place on our Mayo author Colin Barrett's book Wild Houses. Stars varied from 2.5 stars to 4 stars on this novel! Other books discussed were M J Lee's Detective D I Ridpath series, which is a great series for anyone who likes whodunnits.
** The next meeting of Kiltimagh Book Club is on Wednesday, October 16, 2024 at 7pm and the book for discussion is The Hunter by Tana French. New members welcome. **
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Castlebar Library Book Club Previous Selections
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