Libraries aren’t just about books. Sometimes a library can be a great place to meet like-minded people, foster new interests, and socialize a bit. We have many clubs that give Yorkville patrons great opportunities to have fun with new people.
Book Clubs
The Yorkville Library offers six book clubs for adults. Click the link above to check out our book clubs and what they’ve been reading.
Roaming Readers Walking Club
Threads & More
Do you crochet, knit, needlepoint, sew, or quilt? If so, get together with fellow “threaders” for a creativity blast! Come work on your unfinished projects, show off finished projects, and check out what other people are doing. “Threads & More” group is an informal friendly group that welcomes all interest and abilities. The group meets on the first Tuesday of each month. This program is for adults 18 and older.
Dungeons & Dragons Clubs
Join the YPL Dungeons & Dragons group every Thursday in the Adult Services department. We are a friendly group of players with a variety of experience levels – from dungeon masters who’ve played for years to brand new gamers trying things out for the first time.
The current campaign is full. If you are interested in joining the group, please contact Adult Services Director Mike Curtis to get on the waiting list for when a new spot or a new game open up.
The YPL Magic the Gathering Club
Until supplies run out, new players joining the Magic: the Gathering group will receive free cards and game materials.
Monday Movie Madness
Enjoy a free afternoon movie with your friends on the last Monday of each month. Click here to see upcoming movies.
| Date | Title | Stars | Description |
| July 28, 2025 | One Life | Anthony Hopkins, Johnny Flynn, Helena Bonham Carter | This drama is based on the true story of Sir Nicholas Winton and his heroic deeds during World War II. As a young British broker, he traveled to Prague in 1938, three months after the war broke out. He found destitute Jews who fled Nazi persecution in Austria and Germany. Families were willing to send their children away before the borders closed. Nicholas helped them ship the children out, but in his older years, he is haunted by the thought that he didn’t do enough to help more children. |
| August 25, 2025 | Here | Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, Kelly Reilly, Michelle Dockery, Paul Bettany | Reuniting the director, writer and stars of Forrest Gump, Here is an original film about multiple families and a special place they inhabit. The story travels through generations, capturing the most relatable of human experiences |
| September 29, 205 | Twisters | Daisy Edgar-Jones, Glen Powell, Anthony Ramos, Brandon Perea, Maura Tierney | Kate Carter, a former storm chaser haunted by a devastating encounter with a tornado during her college years who now studies storm patterns on screens safely in New York City is lured back to the open plains by her friend to test a groundbreaking new tracking system. There, she crosses paths with a charming and reckless social-media superstar who thrives on posting his storm-chasing adventures with his raucous crew, the more dangerous the better. |
| October 27, 2025 | Bob Trevino Likes It | Barbie Ferreira, John Leguizamo, French Stewart, Lauren ‘Lolo’ Spencer | When lonely 20-something Lily Trevino accidentally befriends a stranger online who shares the exact same name as her own self-centered father, encouragement and support from this new Bob Trevino could change her life for the better. Inspired by a true story. |
| November 24, 2025 | The Color Purple: Musical | Halle Bailey, Taraji P. Henson, Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, Elizabeth Marvel | Musical adaptation of Alice Walker’s novel about the life-long struggles of an African American woman living in the south during the early 1900s. |
| December 29, 2025 | A Complete Unknown | Timothée Chalamet, Edward Norton, Elle Fanning, Monica Barbaro, Nick Offerman | A young Bob Dylan shakes up the folk music scene when he plugs in his electric guitar at the Newport Folk Festival in 1965. |
| January 26, 2026 | Fly Me to the Moon | Scarlett Johansson, Channing Tatum, Woody Harrelson, Anna Garcia, Stephanie Kurtzuba | FLY ME TO THE MOON is a sharp, stylish comedy-drama set against the high-stakes backdrop of NASA’s historic Apollo 11 moon landing. Brought in to fix NASA’s public image, sparks fly in all directions as marketing maven Kelly Jones (Johansson) wreaks havoc on launch director Cole Davis’s (Tatum) already difficult task. When the White House deems the mission too important to fail, Jones is directed to stage a fake moon landing as back-up and the countdown truly begins… |
