Some book clubs read chick lit and drink wine. The Plumb Library Just the Facts book club is more of the trail mix munching kind – at least when the selection is about a 1,000 mile trek up the Pacific Crest Trail.

Nonfiction groups, said Library Director and book club discussion leader Gail Roberts, tend to be few and far between.

The Just the Facts group is smaller and less formal than its fiction-reading counterpart, Café Parlez, but for those who think of nonfiction as too newsy and people who read it as boring, it only takes a few minutes with the Just the Facts group to dispel that stereotype.

In fact, the members are a fairly rowdy and occasionally irreverent bunch.

In October, which also happens to be National Book Club Month, the group discussed “Wild” by Cheryl Strayed, in which a woman works out her demons hiking through California.

From the outset, opinions differ.

“I loved the book. I loved Cheryl,” says Leith Patnaude.

Judy Besse chimes in, “I don’t like her. I could have thrown her off the cliff.”

“I heard quite enough about her feet,” says Win Sharples. “She’s lucky she didn’t get bumped off. Her eating habits were appalling.”

There are no lags in conversation with this group, but Roberts tries to keep the members “on the trail” with a list of questions that reflect the major and minor themes in the book.

The members discuss everything from Strayed’s choice in footwear to whether or not she needed an editor.

There is one point that everyone can agree on when it comes to the author’s haphazardly prepared hike – she was woefully unprepared.

Otherwise, the club members don’t feel the need to come to a consensus. It’s enough have a good-nature discussion, and the group is respectful of everyone’s ideas – though Roberts tries to steer clear of religion.

Roberts makes her selections for the club a year in advance based on titles she’s read or that have come highly recommended from others.

So far, only two books, “Moby Duck” and “Bowling Alone” have gotten a universal thumbs down from the group, inciting “an open rebellion” said Roberts.

And everyone has a different reason for coming to the club, from picking apart the psychological aspects of the characters to experiencing other cultures.

For Linda Medeiros, chair of the Friends of the Library, the book selections have changed her perspective on reading.

“It really broadened my horizons with books. I was a romance reader, I read mysteries, really fluffy kinds of books,” she said. “I realized through the book club....that there are so many more books out there that I like.”

Just the Facts will discuss “Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity” by Katherine Boo on Thursday, Nov. 21 at 6:30 p.m. Copies of the book are available at the library desk.