Adult Book Club

adult book club

Join us at our library for a monthly book discussion for adults!
Books are determined at each meeting held on the first Saturday of each month at 10 AM.

Join our TPPL Adult Book Club Facebook Group for updates and more discussions.

Upcoming 2025 Meetings

*Meetings are held on the
first Saturday of each month at 10 AM
unless otherwise noted.*

2025 Book Club Meetings & Books:

January 18: Book of your choice! Let’s talk about what each other has been reading!
February 8: Like Dandelion Dust by Karen Kingsbury
March 1: Redeeming Love by Francine Rivers
April 5: The Girl in Cabin 13 by A.J. Rivers
May 3: The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom
June 7: Hillbilly Elegy by JD Vance
July 12: The Anatomist's Wife by Anna Lee Huber
August 2: It Starts With Us by Colleen Hoover
September 6: Ghosts of Honolulu by Mark Harmon
October 4: Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder by Joanne Fluke
November 1: Strands of Truth by Colleen Coble
December 6: Saving My Assassin by Virginia Prodan

Previous Book club books

Truly Madly Guilty by Liane Moriarty
Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
Dear Edward by Ann Napolitano
Golden Girl by Elin Hilderbrand
The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave
What Lies Between Us by John Marrs
Water from my Heart by Charles Martin
The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
Hello, Summer by Mary Kay Andrews
It Ends With Us by Colleen Hoover
The Wedding Veil by Kristy Woodson Harvey
The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell by Robert Dugoni
The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Perfect Marriage by Jeneva Rose
Daisy Jones & the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
News of the World by Paulette Jiles
Rock Paper Scissors by Alice Feeney
Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
Burning Ground by D.A. Galloway
The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom
Run Rose Run by Dolly Parton & James Patterson
A Voice in the Wind by Francine Rivers
Home Front by Kristin Hannah
The Ride of Her Life by Elizabeth Letts
The Paris Daughter by Kristin Harmel
Someone Like You (The Baxters #30) by Karen Kingsbury
Dreamland by Nicholas Sparks
You Are Never Alone: Trust in the Miracle of God’s Presence & Power by Max Lucado
The Dead Romantics by Ashley Poston
Fatal Ground: Love, Betrayal & Death in Montana Territory (Frontier Traveler #2) by D.A. Galloway
The Women by Kristin Hannah
Don’t Look For Me by Wendy Walker
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
When the English Fall by David Williams

To reserve previous Adult Book Club books, click here.

Book Recommendations

You can reserve Adult Book Club book recommendations at our library here.

Mystery/Thriller

Still Life by Louise Penny
The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
One Little Lie by Colleen Coble
Then She Was Gone by Lisa Jewell
Verity by Colleen Hoover
Camino Island by John Grisham
Long Road to Mercy by David Baldacci
The Other Mrs. by Mary Kubica
Pretty Things by Janelle Brown
What Lies Between Us by John Marrs
Run Rose Run by Dolly Parton, James Patterson
Behind Closed Doors by B.A. Paris
My Sister's Grave by Robert Dugoni

Romance

Regretting You by Colleen Hoover
It Ends With Us by Colleen Hoover
28 Summers by Elin Hilderbrand
The Sea Glass Cottage by RaeAnne Thayne
Beautiful Storm by Barbara Freethy
Hello, Summer by Mary Kay Andrews
Layla by Colleen Hoover
Ugly Love by Colleen Hoover
The Accidental Bride by Denise Hunter

Western

William Johnstone
Dusty Richards

Fantasy

The Midnight Library by Matt Haig

Science Fiction

When the English Fall by David Williams

CLASSICS

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Call of the Wild by Jack London
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee

series

Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
The Twilight Saga by Stephenie Meyer
The Chesapeake Bay Saga by Nora Roberts
Aurora Teagarden by Charlaine Harris
Virgin River by Robyn Carr
The Broken Road by Richard Paul Evans
Cedar Cove by Debbie Macomber
The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson

local Books

*BOOKS THAT INCLUDE LOCAL INFORMATION/AREAS/PEOPLE*

Papaw's Tales by Chris Hollinghead
Where the Heart Is by Billie Letts
A History of Tellico Plains, TN by Charles Hall
Body Farm series by Jefferson Bass

Historical fiction

The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom
Redeeming Love by Francine Rivers
The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
The Book of Lost Names by Kristin Harmel
Necessary Lies by Diane Chamberlain
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
Becoming Mrs. Lewis by Patti Callahan
The Girls with No Names by Serena Burdick
The Dutch House by Ann Patchett
11/22/63 by Stephen King
Long Man by Amy Greene
The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson
The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins
The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah
The Wedding Veil by Kristy Woodson Harvey
Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid

religious fiction

A Long Time Comin' by Robin W. Pearson
The Letter Keeper by Charles Martin
Someone Like You by Karen Kingsbury
Water from my Heart by Charles Martin

NON-FICTION

You Were Made for This Moment by Max Lucado
The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom
Educated by Tara Westover
A Child Called "It" by Dave Pelzer
Run with the Horses: The Quest for Life at Its Best by Eugene H. Peterson
Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance
Hidden Valley Road by Robert Kolker
Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
Anxious for Nothing by Max Lucado
Girl, Wash Your Face by Rachel Hollis
It's Not Supposed to Be This Way by Lysa TerKeurst
Finding Me: A Memoir by Viola Davis
Dolly Parton, Songteller: My Life in Lyrics by Dolly Parton

Authors

Colleen Coble
Colleen Hoover
Charles Martin
Tarryn Fisher
Elin Hilderbrand
James Patterson
Max Lucado
John Grisham
David Baldacci
Francine Rivers
Sharon Sala
Dorothea Benton Frank
Mary Kay Andrews
John Marrs
Vince Flynn
Doreen Gray
Debbie Macomber
Tracie Peterson
Denise Hunter

Local authors

Tulli Cole
Chris Hollinghead
Jesse Hester
Kim Cousins
Dr. Phillip Swanson
Heidi McFarland

We Would Love to Have You Visit Soon! Happy Reading!

Hours

Sunday CLOSED
Monday 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Tuesday - Thursday 10:00 am - 5:00 pm
Friday 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Saturday 10:00 am - 2:00 pm

Holiday Closings

Address and Telephone

209 Cherohala Skyway
P.O. Box 658
Tellico Plains, TN, 37385

Phone: 423-253-7388
Fax: 423-253-6274

Email

Director - Nakienya Ledford
[email protected]