CANCELLED - CENTRAL: The Graphic Novel Book Club - The Road by Cormac McCarthy & Manu Larcenet

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CANCELLED - CENTRAL: The Graphic Novel Book Club - The Road by Cormac McCarthy & Manu Larcenet

* Date: 10/09/2025 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
* Location: Central Park Library - Board Room
2635 Homestead Rd.
Santa Clara, California 95051 [ http://www.google.com/maps?f=l&hl=en&q=2635+Homestead+Rd.+%2c+Santa+Clara%2c+California+95051 ]

 Adult graphic novel book club 2025 

*THIS MONTH'S BOOK CLUB IS CANCELLED.*

Are you a person 18 years-of-age and up who loves graphic novels? Want to meet up with other readers and discuss great comic book literature? Then join the Santa Clara City Library’s Graphic Novel Book Club for the 2025 season! We will enjoy celebrated comic creators, award winning titles, and a wide range of genres from around the world. Just bring your enthusiasm, curiosity, and an open mind!

The Graphic Novel Book Club meets *every second Thursday of the month at 5PM at the Central Park Library's Board Room and also on Zoom*.

To RSVP for the Zoom use this link: tinyurl.com/scclgnbookclub [ http://tinyurl.com/scclgnbookclub ]

Books can be found on the Santa Clara City Library online catalog (sclibrary.bibliocommons.com [ https://sclibrary.bibliocommons.com/ ]), through LINK+ [ https://linkencore.iii.com/iii/encore/search/C__S()__Orightresult__U?lang=eng&suite=def ] (https://www.sclibrary.org/services/other-services/link), or as an ebook through Hoopla [ https://www.hoopladigital.com/ ] (https://www.sclibrary.org/books-more/digital-library). The selected titles for each month should be completed before each meeting. Reading ahead is encouraged!

About October's read:

The first-ever graphic novel adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s Pulitzer Prize–winning postapocalyptic classic, The Road, approved and authorized by McCarthy and illustrated by acclaimed cartoonist Manu Larcenet.

"Superb. A suitably dark graphic treatment of McCarthy’s postapocalyptic masterpiece." (Kirkus)

"The story of a nameless father and son trying to survive with their humanity intact in a postapocalyptic wasteland where Earth’s natural resources have been diminished, and some survivors are left to raise others for meat, The Road is one of Cormac McCarthy’s bleakest and most prescient novels.

Dedicated to his son, John Francis McCarthy, McCarthy’s The Road is one of his most personal novels. Ranked 17th on The Guardian’s 100 Best Novels of the 21st century, it was the recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for literature, and the James Tait Black Memorial Award, the Believer Award, and it was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award.

This first official graphic novel adaptation of McCarthy’s work is illustrated by acclaimed French cartoonist Manu Larcenet, who ably transforms the world depicted by McCarthy’s spare and brutal prose into stark ink drawings that add an additional layer to this haunting tale of family love and human perseverance."

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*GRAPHIC NOVEL BOOK CLUB 2025 SCHEDULE*

JANUARY: It’s Not What You Thought It Would Be by Lizzy Stewart [ https://sclibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/search?query=It%E2%80%99s%20Not%20What%20You%20Thought%20It%20Would%20Be%20by%20Lizzy%20Stewart&searchType=smart ]

FEBRUARY: Knock Out: The True Story of Emile Griffith by Reinhard Kleist [ https://sclibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/search?query=Knock%20Out%3A%20The%20True%20Story%20of%20Emile%20Griffith%20by%20Reinhard%20Kleist&searchType=smart ]

MARCH: Artificial by Amy Kurzweil [ https://sclibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/search?query=Artificial%20by%20Amy%20kurzweil&searchType=smart ]

APRIL: The Three Escapes of Hannah Arendt by Ken Krimstein [ https://sclibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/search?query=The%20Three%20Escapes%20of%20Hannah%20Arendt%20by%20Ken%20Krimstein&searchType=smart ]

MAY: Rare Flavours by Ram V [ https://sclibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/search?query=Rare%20Flavours%20by%20Ram%20V&searchType=smart ]

JUNE: So Long Sad Love by Mirion Malle [ https://sclibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/search?query=So%20Long%20Sad%20Love%20by%20Mirion%20Malle&searchType=smart ]

JULY: Land of the Dead by Brian McDonald [ https://sclibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/search?query=Land%20of%20the%20Dead%20by%20Brian%20McDonald&searchType=smart ]

AUGUST: Where the Body Was by Ed Brubaker [ https://sclibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/search?query=Where%20the%20Body%20Was%20by%20Ed%20Brubaker&searchType=smart ]

SEPTEMBER: Impossible People by Julia Wertz [ https://sclibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/search?query=Impossible%20People%20by%20Julia%20Wertz&searchType=smart ]

OCTOBER: The Road by Cormac McCarthy & Manu Larcenet [ https://sclibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/search?query=The%20Road%20by%20Cormac%20McCarthy%20%26%20Manu%20Larcenet&searchType=smart ]

NOVEMBER: Polar Vortex by Denise Dorrance [ https://sclibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/search?query=Polar%20Vortex%20by%20Denise%20Dorrance&searchType=smart ]

DECEMBER: You and a Bike and a Road by Eleanor Davis [ https://sclibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/search?query=You%20and%20a%20Bike%20and%20a%20Road%20by%20Eleanor%20Davis&searchType=smart ]

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