Plano Reads: June Book Clubs

What Are You Reading Now?

Monday, June 5 at 3pm 

Hybrid, meets in-person at Haggard Library and on Zoom 

Read and discuss great books you’ve read. Check out past recap book lists here on the blog. 

Second Tuesday Book Club

Tuesday, June 13 at 7pm 

Meets in-person at Schimelpfenig Library 

Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law by Mary Roach 

Print | Large Print | eBook | Playaway 

What’s to be done about a jaywalking moose? A grizzly bear caught breaking and entering? A murderous tree? As New York Times best-selling author Mary Roach discovers, the answers are best found not in jurisprudence but in science: the curious science of human-wildlife conflict, a discipline at the crossroads of human behavior and wildlife biology. Roach tags along with animal attack forensics investigators, human-elephant conflict specialists, bear managers, and “danger tree” faller-blasters. She travels from leopard-terrorized hamlets in the Indian Himalaya to St. Peter’s Square in the early hours before the Pope arrives for Easter Mass, when vandal gulls swoop in to destroy the elaborate floral display. Along the way, Roach reveals as much about humanity as about nature’s lawbreakers. Combining little- known forensic science and conservation genetics with a motley cast of laser scarecrows, langur impersonators, and mugging macaques, Fuzz offers hope for compassionate coexistence in our ever-expanding human habitat. 

Mystery Book Club

Thursday, June 15 at 7pm 

Hybrid, meets in-person at Davis Library and on Zoom 

Island Mysteries 

Read and discuss your favorite mystery featuring an island in the plot or setting. Need some ideas? Check out these titles to get started: 

• Deep Water by Emma Bamford, available as Print | eBook 
• Raven Black by Ann Cleeves, available as Print 
• I Know My Name by C.J. Cooke, available as Print 
• The Guest List by Lucy Foley, available as Print | Large Print | eBook | eAudiobook 
• Winter Water by Susanne Jansson, available as Print 
• Death in Rough Water by Francine Mathews, available as eBook 
• The Island by Adrian McKinty, available as Print | eBook 
• The Lost Island by Douglas Preston, available as Print | eAudiobook 

Brown Bag Book Club

Thursday, June 22 at 12pm 

Meets in-person at Parr Library 

Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir 

Print | eBook | Playaway | Spanish eAudiobook 

The sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission to save both humanity and the earth, Ryland Grace is hurtled into the depths of space when he must conquer an extinction-level threat to our species.