Are you a person 18 years-of-age and up who loves graphic novels? Want to meet up with other readers and discuss great comic book literature? Then join the Santa Clara City Library’s Graphic Novel Book Club for the 2025 season! We will enjoy celebrated comic creators, award winning titles, and a wide range of genres from around the world. Just bring your enthusiasm, curiosity, and an open mind!

The Graphic Novel Book Club meets every second Thursday of the month at 5PM at the Central Park Library's Board Room and also on Zoom.

To RSVP for the Zoom use this link: tinyurl.com/scclgnbookclub

Books can be found on the Santa Clara City Library online catalog (sclibrary.bibliocommons.com), through LINK+ (https://www.sclibrary.org/services/other-services/link), or as an ebook through Hoopla (https://www.sclibrary.org/books-more/digital-library). The selected titles for each month should be completed before each meeting. Reading ahead is encouraged!

About August's read:

"A boarding house full of druggies. A neglected housewife. A young girl who thinks she’s a superhero. A cop who wants to be left alone. And a Private Detective looking for a runaway girl. These stories collide one fateful summer in Where the Body Was, a tale of love and murder in the suburbs, told from a dozen different points of view. All the neighbors on the block have an opinion about the murder and how it happened, but which of them is telling the truth?

Starting with a map of the crime scene, this murder mystery follows the ripples of this killing as they echo through decades of love and loss and passion and violence.

Where the Body Was is a tour-de-force readers will be obsessed with from grandmasters Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips—the bestselling multiple Eisner award winning creators of Pulp, Reckless, Criminal, and the recent critical hit Night Fever."

GRAPHIC NOVEL BOOK CLUB 2025 SCHEDULE

JANUARY: It’s Not What You Thought It Would Be by Lizzy Stewart

FEBRUARY: Knock Out: The True Story of Emile Griffith by Reinhard Kleist

MARCH: Artificial by Amy Kurzweil

APRIL: The Three Escapes of Hannah Arendt by Ken Krimstein

MAY: Rare Flavours by Ram V

JUNE: So Long Sad Love by Mirion Malle

JULY: Land of the Dead by Brian McDonald

AUGUST: Where the Body Was by Ed Brubaker

SEPTEMBER: Impossible People by Julia Wertz

OCTOBER: The Road by Cormac McCarthy & Manu Larcenet

NOVEMBER: Polar Vortex by Denise Dorrance

DECEMBER: You and a Bike and a Road by Eleanor Davis