Book Buddies will meet on the last Thursday of each month from 6-7pm at the S.W. Smith Memorial Public Library.
Titles are available in the library, or on Libby as an e-book!
If you want to join the Book Buddies Book Club virtually, please email Director Imani Klein a day before the meeting: swsmith@swsmithlibrary.org.
Book Buddies is open to adult readers.
June 25 @ 6:00pm
The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches
by Sangu Mandanna
A warm and uplifting novel about an isolated witch whose opportunity to embrace a quirky new family—and a new love—changes the course of her life.
As one of the few witches in Britain, Mika Moon knows she has to hide her magic, keep her head down, and stay away from other witches so their powers don’t mingle and draw attention. And as an orphan who lost her parents at a young age and was raised by strangers, she’s used to being alone and she follows the rules… with one exception: an online account, where she posts videos “pretending” to be a witch. She thinks no one will take it seriously.
But someone does. An unexpected message arrives, begging her to travel to the remote and mysterious Nowhere House to teach three young witches how to control their magic. It breaks all of the rules, but Mika goes anyway, and is immediately tangled up in the lives and secrets of not only her three charges, but also an absent archaeologist, a retired actor, two long-suffering caretakers, and… Jamie. The handsome and prickly librarian of Nowhere House would do anything to protect the children, and as far as he’s concerned, a stranger like Mika is a threat. An irritatingly appealing threat.
As Mika begins to find her place at Nowhere House, the thought of belonging somewhere begins to feel like a real possibility. But magic isn’t the only danger in the world, and Mika will need to decide whether to risk everything to protect a found family she didn’t know she was looking for…
Images and description courtesy of https://sangumandanna.com/irregular-witches
July: TBA
orbiting jupiter
Gary D. Schmidt
January 29, 2026
The Invisible Husband of Frick Island
Colleen Oakley
February 26, 2026
The Phoenix Crown
Kate Quinn & Janie Chang
March 26, 2026
Never Whistle At Night
Ed. by Shane Hawk & Theodore C. Van Alst Jr.
April 30, 2026
Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology
Edited by Shane Hawk & Theodore C. Van Alst Jr.
April 30, 2026
The Peculiar Gift of July
by Ashley Ream
May 28, 2026
Solito
Javier Zamora
January 30, 2025
The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams
February 27, 2025
Kindred
Octavia E. Butler
March 27, 2025
Holmes is Missing
James Patterson
April 24, 2025
The Bear
Andrew Krivak
May 29, 2025
The Blue Hour
Paula Hawkins
June 26, 2025
How To Solve Your Own Murder
Kristin Perrin
July 31
The Frozen River
Ariel Lawhon
August 28th
Listen for the Lie
Amy Tintera
September 25
Six Crimson Cranes
Elizabeth Lim
October 30
The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
Stuart Turton
December 4