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At Library AF, we want to meet adult readers where they are now! Whether that be in our local libraries, out in the community, or from the comfort of home (👋🏻 virtual programs! 👋🏻).
For the young adult readers (and those still young at heart), join us for monthly book group discussions, lively pop culture banter, and other enjoyable non-traditional programs.
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Upcoming events (4+)
See all- Book Group: The Collectors: storiesSacramento LGBT Community Center, Sacramento, CA
The Library AF book group will be meeting IN PERSON for the rest of 2025. Please find us at the Sacramento LGBT Center in the Lambda Founder's Room on the 2nd Wednesday of each month from 6:30 - 7:30 p.m.
Our anthology pick for 2025 is a collection of short stories from some of the best YA authors in the game.
“From Michael L. Printz Award winner A.S. King and an all-star team of contributors including Anna-Marie McLemore and Jason Reynolds, an anthology of stories about remarkable people and their strange and surprising collections.
From David Levithan’s story about a non-binary kid collecting pieces of other people’s collections to Jenny Torres Sanchez's tale of a girl gathering types of fire while trying not to get burned to G. Neri's piece about 1970's skaters seeking opportunities to go vertical—anything can be collected and in the hands of these award-winning and bestselling authors, any collection can tell a story. Nine of the best YA novelists working today have written fiction based on a prompt from Printz-winner A.S. King (who also contributes a story) and the result is itself an extraordinary collection."
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- Silent Reading Group meetupRiver Bend Park, Sacramento, CA
Join Sacramento Public Library and the American River Parkway Foundation @ River Bend Park for book-based programming this summer!
The Silent Reading Group is designed to make space in our busy lives for reading and listening to books, meeting new people, and sharing a community space together. Bring the book currently holding your bookmark (or occupying your headphones) and spend some time enjoying your book and the outdoors. There will be time at the end of the silent reading session to chat with fellow readers and to explore the parkway at River Bend Park.
Please register to attend. Parking passes will be available, and instructions will be emailed to registrants prior to the program date.
- Book Group: Reader's Choice - Celebrity MemoirsSacramento LGBT Community Center, Sacramento, CA
The Library AF book group will be meeting IN PERSON for the rest of 2025. Please find us at the Sacramento LGBT Center in the Lambda Founder's Room on the 2nd Wednesday of each month from 6:30 - 7:30 p.m.
We are introducing a Reader's Choice Challenge annually (instead of every two years)! For 2025, I want you to pick up that celebrity memoir that's been sitting in your TBR pile for a while. We'll be sharing our selections round-robin style.
Questions to be shared closer to the program date.
Happy reading! 📖🔖🎧
- Book Group: Fahrenheit 451Sacramento LGBT Community Center, Sacramento, CA
The Library AF book group will be meeting IN PERSON for the rest of 2025. Please find us at the Sacramento LGBT Center in the Lambda Founder's Room on the 2nd Wednesday of each month from 6:30 - 7:30 p.m.
Our classic pick for 2025 is Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451. I do not recall reading this when I was in high school so I'm excited to pick this one up to discuss with this group.
“Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden. Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce, returning each day to his bland life and wife, Mildred, who spends all day with her television “family.” But when he meets an eccentric young neighbor, Clarisse, who introduces him to a past where people didn’t live in fear and to a present where one sees the world through the ideas in books instead of the mindless chatter of television, Montag begins to question everything he has ever known."
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