The Palos Verdes Library District offers four unique opportunities for you to connect with fellow book lovers!
- Silent Book Exchange - annotated book club. This book club encourages you, the reader, to engage with the book and with other readers through your own notes. Instead of meeting together as a group, your annotations within the book become discussions throughout the reading. Do this on your own time and return the annotated book.
- Malaga Cove Library Monthly Book Club - meets every first Saturday of the month at the Malaga Cove Library Community Room
- Miraleste Library Monthly Book Club - meets every second Saturday of the month at the Miraleste Library
- Page Against the Machine - meets every first Tuesday of the month at the Peninsula Center Library Purcell Meeting Room
- Agatha Christie Book Club- meets on select Fridays at the Peninsula Center Library Purcell Meeting Room
- Host Your Own Book Club - select from several titles with multiple copies each; all titles have discussion questions, literary reviews, and other resources to help jumpstart your book club!
Select from the following titles:
The Alchemist by Paulo Coehlho
Aria by Nazanine Hozar
Book Lovers by Emily Henry
Circe by madeline Miller
God of the Woods by Liz Moore
The Good Left Undone by Adrina Trigani
Happy Place by Emily Henry
The Housemaid by Freida McFadden
The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles
Mexican Gothic by Silvia Garcia-Moreno
Midnight Library by Matt Haig
Never Lie by Freida McFadden
Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
The Wager by David Grann
Each Kit includes a book, colored tabs, pen and highlighter. Check one out at the reference desk for more details.
Questions? Contact Leti at 310-377-9584 x210 or email: [email protected]
Each month, we will read and discuss a single book. At the end of each meeting, we will select titles for the next two months.
Meets every first Saturday of the month at 2:00 PM
Malaga Cove Library Community Room
2400 Via Campesina, Palos Verdes Estates 90274
Next meeting: Saturday, September 5, 2026
September's Title: My Ántonia by Willa Cather
2026 Reading List
- January 3, 2026: Tell Me Everything by Elizabeth Strout
- February 7, 2026: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- March 7, 2026: Astor: The Rise and Fall of an American Fortune by Anderson Cooper and Katherine Howe
- April 4, 2026: The Road from Coorain by Jill Ker Conway
- May 2, 2026: Memorial Days by Geraldine Brooks
- June 6, 2026: The Beautiful Mystery by Louise Penny
- July 11, 2026 (note date change due to library being closed on 4th of July): White Mulberry by Rosa Easton Kwon
- August 1, 2026: Any Human Heart by William Boyd
- September 5, 2026: My Ántonia by Willa Cather
- October 3, 2026: Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov
- November 7, 2026: The Correspondent by Virginia Evans
- December 5, 2026: The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
- January 2, 2027: In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez
- February 6, 2027: The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
Questions? Contact the Malaga Cove Library 310-377-9584 x551
Each month, we will read and discuss a single book.
Meets every second Saturday of the month at 1:00 PM
Miraleste Library
29089 Palos Verdes Drive East, Rancho Palos Verdes 90275
Next meeting: Saturday, September 12, 2026
September's title: Orbital by Samantha Harvey
2026 Reading List
- January 10, 2026: Beneath a Scarlet Sky by Mark Sullivan
- February 14, 2026: The Comfort of Crows by Margaret Renkl
- March 14, 2026: The Spy in Moscow Station by Eric Haseltine
- April 11, 2026: The Professor and the Madmen by Simon Winchester
- May 9, 2026: The Violin Conspiracy by Brendan Slocumb
- June 13, 2026: Blue Skies by T.C. Boyle
- July 11, 2026: Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
- August 8, 2026: God's Shadow by Alan Mikhail
- September 12, 2026: Orbital by Samantha Harvey
- October 10, 2026: The Sentence by Louise Erdrich
- November 14, 2026: American Spirits by Russell Banks
- December 12, 2026: [Share-a-Book/Pick-a-Book]
Questions? Contact the Miraleste Library 310-377-9584 x452
Everyone has a chance to talk about their favorite topical read from the previous month's assigned theme.
Meets every first Tuesday of the month
Peninsula Center Library Purcell Meeting Room
701 Silver Spur Rd., Rolling Hills Estates, 90274
Next meeting: Tuesday, September 1, 2026
Meets IN-PERSON at 11 am
September's theme: Libraries/Librarians— Read any book that’s central setting or theme is a library or main character is a librarian; or a book about libraries.
List of Recommended Titles
Questions? Contact Robert at 310-377-9584 x215 or email: [email protected]
Join us as we read books written by the all time best-selling novelist, Agatha Christie. We will be reading some of her most famous books, her biography and discuss what makes them so successful.
Meets on select Fridays at 4 pm - 5 pm from July to November 2026
Peninsula Center Library Purcell Meeting Room
701 Silver Spur Rd., Rolling Hills Estates, 90274
Next meeting: Saturday, August 28, 2026
August's title: The Secret Adversary (1922)
Reading List:
- July 17, 2026: The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920)
- August 28, 2026: The Secret Adversary (1922)
- September 25, 2026: Death on the Nile (1937)
- October 23, 2026: The Moving Finger (1942)
- November 20, 2026: An Elusive Woman: Agatha Christie biography (2022)
Select from a number of titles with multiple copies each; all titles have discussion questions, literary reviews, and other resources to help jumpstart your book club!