Book Groups
Tuesday Night Book Group
What we read: We choose books that spark great conversations! Members recommend titles, and then we vote on them. New members are always welcome—just grab a copy of our next book and join in! Connect with us on Goodreads!
Register for the book club meetings online through the events calendar or call (586) 329-1261.
Here is a list of our Tuesday Night Book Group Titles 2017-2026
November 24th at 6:00 p.m.
The Last Kings of Hollywood: Coppola, Lucas, Spielberg―and the Battle for the Soul of American Cinema by Paul Fischer
Book Description:
The untold, intimate story of how three young visionaries―Francis Ford Coppola, George Lucas, and Steven Spielberg―revolutionized American cinema, creating the most iconic films in history while risking everything, redefining friendship, and shaping Hollywood as we know it.
In the summer of 1967, as the old Hollywood studio system was dying, an intense, uncompromising young film school graduate named George Lucas walked onto the Warner Bros backlot for his first day working as an assistant to another up-and-coming, largely-unknown filmmaker, a boisterous father of two called Francis Ford Coppola. At the exact same time, across town on the Universal Studios lot, a film-obsessed twenty-year-old from a peripatetic Jewish family, Steven Spielberg, longed to break free from his apprenticeship for the struggling studio and become a film director in his own right.
Within a year, the three men would become friends. Spielberg, prioritizing security, got his seven-year contract directing television. Lucas and Coppola, hungry for independence, left Hollywood for San Francisco to found an alternative studio, American Zoetrope, and make films without answering to corporate capitalism.
Based on extensive research and hundreds of original interviews with the inner circle of these Hollywood icons, The Last Kings of Hollywood tells the thrilling, dramatic inside story of how, over the next fifteen years, the three filmmakers rivalled and supported each other, fell out and reconciled, and struggled to reinvent popular American cinema. Along the way, Coppola directed The Godfather, then the highest-grossing film of all-time, until Spielberg surpassed it with Jaws ― whose record Lucas broke with Star Wars, which Spielberg surpassed again with E.T. By the early 1980s, they were the richest, best-known filmmakers in the world, each with an empire of their own. The Last Kings of Hollywood is an unprecedented chronicle of their rise, their dreams and demons, their triumphs and their failures ― intimate, extraordinary, and supremely entertaining.
As the novel unfolds, it becomes clear how much the people of Chicken Hill have to struggle to survive at the margins of white Christian America and how damaging bigotry, hypocrisy, and deceit can be to a community. When the truth is revealed about the skeleton, the boy, and the part the town’s establishment played in both, McBride shows that it is love and community—heaven and earth—that ultimately sustain us.
Murder & Booze Book Club
What We Read: We look for books that give us a lot to talk about! Mysteries, thrillers, true crime, and books with lots of twists and turns are ideal. Enjoy a cold one and grab an appetizer at a new location every month for our mystery, thriller, and true crime book club!
Registration is REQUIRED due to restaurant capacity!
Register for the book club meetings online through the events calendar or call (586) 329-1261.
Please check the calendar for dates.
Wednesday, November 11th at 6:00 p.m.
Still Life by Louise Penny
We are meeting at:
Bentley's Roadhouse
28410 S River Rd, Harrison Township, MI 48045
Registration is required due to restaurant capacity. Please register via our Events calendar or contact the library.
Book Description:
The discovery of a dead body in the woods on Thanksgiving Weekend brings Chief Inspector Armand Gamache and his colleagues from the Surete du Quebec to a small village in the Eastern Townships. Gamache cannot understand why anyone would want to deliberately kill well-loved artist Jane Neal, especially any of the residents of Three Pines - a place so free from crime it doesn't even have its own police force.
But Gamache knows that evil is lurking somewhere behind the white picket fences and that, if he watches closely enough, Three Pines will start to give up its dark secrets...
Please check back for 2027 titles.
Silent Book Club
What We Read: At Silent Book Club, there's no assigned reading. Bring whatever book you are reading and join an evening out with fellow book lovers. All readers are welcome - ebooks, audiobooks, textbooks, comic books... it's BYOBook.
At the beginning of each meeting we will have time to mingle followed by an hour of of silent reading.
Register for the book club meetings online through the events calendar or call (586) 329-1261.
Please check the calendar for dates.
Book Club Kit
HTPL is excited to be a lending partner of the 2026 Great Michigan Read.
Do you want to host a book club outside the library, but are not sure where to begin? Whether you’re part of an existing group or starting a new one, you can borrow a Book Club Kit from the library! Our kit includes everything you need to lead a book club discussion.
With the help of Michigan Humanities, HTPL's first Book Club Kit is now available for checkout! This year's Great Michigan Read is "Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant" by Detroit-born Curtis Chin.
Book Kits will come in a sturdy tote bag that include:
• 10 copies of Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant
• 1 pack of Conversation Cards with 40+ conversation prompts, facts, and extension ideas
Are these Kits only for established Library Book Clubs?
No! Anyone with a library card can check out a Book Club Kit.
How many copies of a title are included in each Book Club Kit?
The kit includes 10 copies of the book and a deck of conversation cards.
How do I place a Book Club Kit on hold?
The kit may be reserved through the online catalog or at the library.
How long can I keep a Book Club Kit?
Check out is 21 days to give your group plenty of time to read and discuss.
Can I renew a Book Club Kit?
Kits may be renewed twice if there are no holds.
The 2025–26 Great Michigan Read is presented by Michigan Humanities. Additional support is provided by national, statewide, and local partners, including the Library of Michigan and MSU Federal Credit Union. This program is made possible in part by a grant from Michigan Humanities, an affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities.