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Welcome
Welcome to Where the Wild Books Are!
If you love to read and share your opinions, this is the club for you. All Santa Fe College students, staff, and faculty are invited to join. We will meet asynchronously through an online discussion forum. There will be no set meeting times. You can participate in the club whenever you are able.
Where the Wild Books Are will read 3 different books (one young adult fiction, one adult fiction, and one on a monthly theme) per month. Each book will have a discussion board dedicated to it on our Where the Wild Books Are Goodreads group. You can pick any or all of the monthly books to read and discuss. Once the books for the month have been voted on, you'll can find the winner of each category posted here and on our Goodreads group.
December 2023 Reads
Below are the three books we'll be reading for December. Each one has a list of libraries that carry a copy of that book including print books, eBooks, and audio books. The public libraries listed are suggested based on the communities that Santa Fe College serves. Please note that you may not have the ability to borrow from any/all these libraries.
Also, please know that while any Florida resident can receive a library card from the Alachua County Library District, only Alachua County residents can borrow online resources like eBooks.
Adult Fiction
Homecoming by Called home to care for her grandmother after a fall, Jess, a journalist, discovers a book chronicling the police investigation into an old unsolved murder that has a shocking connection to her family.
Where to find a copy:
L.W. Tyree Library
Alachua County Library District
Clay County Public Libraries
Columbia County Public Library
New River Public Library Cooperative
Young Adult Fiction
Loveless by Georgia has parents who are still in love, two sets of grandparents that are still together, and a brother who married his girlfriend, but at eighteen she has never even kissed someone (not even her lesbian best friend, Felipa) or particularly even wanted to; at the prom afterparty she is surrounded by couples making out, and she really does not know what is wrong-- but in college she comes to understand herself as asexual/aromantic, and to capture the part of her identity that has always eluded her.
Where to find a copy:
L.W. Tyree Library
Alachua County Library District
Clay County Public Libraries
Monthly Theme: Banned Books
The Covenant of Water by From the New York Times-bestselling author of Cutting for Stone comes a stunning and magisterial epic of love, faith, and medicine, set in Kerala, South India, following three generations of a family seeking the answers to a strange secret
Where to find a copy:
L.W. Tyree Library
Alachua County Library District
Clay County Public Libraries
Columbia County Public Library
New River Public Library Cooperative