The Intergenerational Book Club meets every 3rd Tuesday of the month at 2:30 pm, in the main reading room. The current year’s book selections are listed below. Bookmarks with the current list are also available at the circulation desk. The library has a copy of each book and additional copies are available through interlibrary loan.

History of IGBC:

In October 2010 a group of Thomaston Library staff and volunteers joined several Georges Valley High School teachers to create an intergenerational book club called Bookwomen Unite! The group met both at the Library and at the high school and received financial support to purchase books that would encourage young women to join older women in discussions of both teen and adult titles. When the school populations in RSU 13 were redistributed in 2011, the group evolved into the Intergenerational Book Club. On the third Tuesday of every month, the Intergenerational Book Club, a group of people of all ages from Thomaston and from surrounding communities, comes together at the library to share their opinions and ideas about the book selection. Titles include Fiction, Biography and other non-fiction, Maine authors and subjects, adult and young adult levels. All are welcome to join.

2025 IGBC Book List:

• January 21: The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year by Margaret Renkl
• February 18: The Road to Dalton by Shannon Bowring
• March 18: How to Read a Book by Monica Wood
• April 15: Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt
• May 20: National Populism: The Revolt Against Liberal Democracy by Matthew Goodwin & Roger Eatwell
• June 17: The Hero of This Book by Elizabeth McCracken
• July 15: The Echo of Old Books by Barbara Davis
• August 19: The Queens of Crime by Marie Benedict
• September 16: The Wrong Way Home by Kate O’Shaughnessy
• October 21: Absolution by Alice McDermott
• November 18: Trust by Hernan Diaz
• December 16: James by Percival Everett

The Mystery Book Club was born out of a shared love of the mystery genre among many of the members of the Let’s Talk About It Book Club. Everyone is welcome to join, and it meets on the second Thursday of every month at 2 pm. For more information,  contact the library at library@thomastonmaine.gov.

The group decides each month what they will read for the following month. For more information about the current selection, please contact the library.

The Pop-Up Book Club began as a limited series book group meeting outside at the library’s gazebo during the summer  at Thomaston Public Library to celebrate fun “beach reads” with informal discussion. We were having such a great time when the weather turned cold that we brought the group indoors and continued! We meet on the first and third Thursdays of every month.

The group has developed into a chance for everyone to share what they have been reading lately and whether they enjoyed it or not. If you struggle with assigned reading in a traditional book club, our Pop-Up Book Club might be for you! Fair warning: your to-read list may expand exponentially after our discussions. For more information, please contact the Library at (207) 354-2453 or library@thomastonmaine.gov