Downtown Book Club - It's All Downtown

Welcome to your new favorite book club! Join the Downtown Springfield Association and the Springfield-Greene County Library District every second Thursday of the month at 6 p.m. for the Downtown Book Club.

December 2024 Pick:

Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan

Description

It is 1985 in a small Irish town. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal merchant and family man faces into his busiest season. Early one morning, while delivering an order to the local convent, Bill makes a discovery which forces him to confront both his past and the complicit silences of a town controlled by the church.

Already an international bestseller, Small Things Like These is a deeply affecting story of hope, quiet heroism, and empathy from one of the most critically lauded and iconic writers.

Content Warnings:

Religious bigotry
Suicidal ideation & mentions of suicide

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Arsenic and Adobo by Mia P. Manansala

Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas

One Two Three by Laurie Frankel

The Reading List by Sara Nisha Adams

Firekeeper’s Daughter by Angeline Boulley

One to Watch by Kate Stayman-London

The Seed Keeper by Diane Wilson

Homegoing by Yaa Gysai

The Bad Muslim Discount by Syed M. Masood

Queerly Beloved by Susie Dumond

Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands by Kate Beaton

The Black Kids by Christina Hammonds Reed

Olga Dies Dreaming by Xóchitl González

The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna

A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers

How to Excavate a Heart by Jake Maia Arlow

Unsolicited Advice for Murderers by Jesse Q. Sutanto

We Deserve Monuments by Jas Hammonds

Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt

Where You See Yourself by Claire Forrest

Next Year in Havana by Chanel Cleeton

Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender

When Women Were Dragons by Kelly Barnhill

Turtles All The Way Down by John Green

All My Rage by Sabaa Tahir

A Special Place for Women by Laura Hankin

Lobizona by Romina Garber

Need a copy of this month’s book?

Visit the Park Central Branch of the Springfield-Greene County Library District to grab a copy! Put your request in now, because it may take about a week to get your copy.