C.C. Mellor is home to three book clubs, each with their own theme and meeting location. There are no requirements to join any group, but you can contact the facilitator for more information on each group. If you need help acquiring the book for any group, ask a staff member at any branch, and they’ll help you order one to your preferred pickup location.
Drop Dead Book Club
First Wednesdays at 7 p.m. at CCM Edgewood
1 Pennwood Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15218
Contact: Valerie Miller, valbiddle@hotmail.com & Ralph Melton, ralph@chezmelton.org
Since 2003, the Drop Dead Book Club has read a mystery every month. The atmosphere is informal, with facilitators but no discussion leader. Books are chosen by consensus.
▼ Click here to view our book schedule.
Date | Title | Author |
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Jan 3 | Murder In an Irish Village | Carlene O’Connor and J. D. Robb |
Feb 7 | Find Her | Lisa Gardner |
Mar 6 | Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice For Murderers | Jesse Q. Sutanto |
Apr 3 | The Only One Left | Riley Sager |
May 1 | Pretty Girls | Karin Slaughter |
For a complete list of past and future books and meeting dates, please visit the Drop Dead Book Club website.
Fourth Tuesday Book Club
Fourth Tuesdays at 1 p.m. at CCM Forest Hills.
4400 Greensburg Pike, Pittsburgh, PA 15221
Contact: Cameron Bloom, bloomc@ccmellorlibrary.org
The 4th Tuesday Book Club reads books on a wide variety of subjects and genres: fiction and nonfiction, classic and contemporary. Join us for lively discussions on–you guessed it–the 4th Tuesday of every month in the Community Room beside the CCM Forest Hills Library.
▼ Click here to view our book schedule.
Date | Title | Author |
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Jan 23 | When Smoke Ran Like Water | Devra Lee Davis |
Feb 27 | Cloud Cuckoo Land | Anthony Doerr |
Mar 26 | The Splendid and the Vile | Erik Larson |
Apr 23 | Horse | Geraldine Brooks |
May 28 | American Sirens | Kevin Hazzard |
Jun 25 | Free Food for Billionaires | Min Jin Lee |
Jul 23 | Killer of the Flower Moon | David Grann |
Aug 27 | Demon Copperhead | Barbara Kingsolver |
Sep 24 | River of Doubt | Candice Miller |
Oct 22 | Missing Hearts | Celeste Ng |
Nov 26 | Differ We Must | Steven Inskeep |
Dec 24 | Lessons in Chemistry | Bonnie Garmus |
Century Book Club
Third Wednesdays at 7 p.m. on Zoom
Contact: Cameron Bloom, bloomc@ccmellorlibrary.org
Click here to join Zoom Meeting
Meeting ID: 851 9143 0785
Passcode: 635567 (“Mellor,” for the pre-keyboard phone crowd)
Originally started to commemorate CCM’s centennial in 2018, the Century Book club reads books from each decade of the 20th and 21st centuries in sequence. Past selections have been fiction, nonfiction, drama, short stories, and more.
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Date | Title | Author | Year |
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Jan 17 2024 | Coraline | Neil Gaiman | 2002 |
Feb 21 2024 | The Round House | Louise Erdrich | 2012 |
Mar 20 2024 | I Can’t Wait to Call You My Wife | Rita Roberts | 2022 |
Apr 17 2024 | The Souls of Black Folk | W.E.B. DuBois | 1903 |
May 15 2024 | The Custom of the Country | Edith Wharton | 1913 |
Jun 19 2024 | The Inimitable Jeeves | P.G. Wodehouse | 1923 |
Jul 17 2024 | The Thin Man | Dashiell Hammett | 1933 |
Aug 21 2024 | A Tree Grows in Brooklyn | Betty Smith | 1943 |
Sept 18 2024 | The Narrows | Ann Petry | 1953 |
Oct 16 2024 | A Wrinkle in Time | Madeleine L’Engle | 1963 |
Nov 20 2024 | Sula | Toni Morrison | 1973 |
Dec 18 2024 | The Best of Simple | Langston Hughes | 1983 |
Jan 15 2025 | Parable of the Sower | Octavia Butler | 1993 |
Feb 19 2025 | The Kite Runner | Khaled Hosseini | 2003 |
Mar 19 2025 | Mr. Loverman | Bernardine Evaristo | 2013 |