Library Book Club

Join us for the Library Book Club!

Second Wednesday of the month @ 12:30pm in the Hood River Library Meeting Room

Welcome to the Hood River County Library’s official book club.

Discussion groups are held monthly throughout, and all are welcome to attend. Books are chosen month-to-month. To find the next read and all of our previous reads, click the lists below.

Meetings are hybrid, so folks are welcome both in-person and online.

Zoom Meeting

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86369626991?pwd=bllIOWtCRlVEK0wxcU9Wam1HMUtSdz09

Meeting ID: 863 6962 6991
Passcode: 081759

Please visit any of the library branches to check out the current selection or place a hold on the item by clicking on the titles below.

To place an item on hold, you will need your library barcode number and PIN. Your PIN is usually set to the last four digits of your phone number.

For further details, contact Mo Burford, 541-387-7060.

2024 Selections

1-10 Lessons in Chemistry (Bonnie Garmus)

2-14 The Lemon Tree: An Arab, A Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East (Sandy Tolman)

3-13 Horse (Geraldine Brooks)

4-10 Hood River Reads Selection

5-8 The House in the Cerulean Sea (T.J. Klune)

6-12 A Wolf Called Romeo (Nick Jans)

7-10 Onlookers: Stories (Ann Beattie)

8-14 Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI (David Grann)

9-11 The Personal Librarian (Marie Benedict/Victoria Christopher Murray)

10-9 Facing the Mountain (Daniel James Brown)

11-13 Maame (Jessica Brooks)

12-11 The Best Strangers in the World (Ari Shapiro)

2023 Selections

January 5: Something to Hold by Katherine Schlick Noe.
- The book is available at the circulation desk in Hood River as part of the Book Discussion Kit. You do not need your library card.
February 8: Life after Life by Kate Atkinson.
- The book is available at the circulation desk in Hood River as part of the Book Discussion Kit. You do not need your library card.
March 8: Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer.
April 12: Hood River Reads Selection
May 10: Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry Rachel Joyce
- The book is available at the circulation desk in Hood River as part of the Book Discussion Kit. You do not need your library card.
June 14: Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley.
- The book is available at the circulation desk in Hood River as part of the Book Discussion Kit. You do not need your library card.
July 12: Rules of Civility by Amor Towles.
August 9: Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond.
September 13: The Librarian Spy by Madeleine Martin.
October 11: The Music of Bees by Eileen Garvin.
November 8: The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh.
- The book is available at the circulation desk in Hood River as part of the Book Discussion Kit. You do not need your library card.
December 13: The Midnight Library by Matthew Haig.

2022 Selections

January 5: The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich
February 2: Nimona by Noelle Stevenson
March 2: The Only Woman in the Room by Marie Benedict
April 6: Hood River Reads Selection
May 4: Symphony for the City of the Dead by M.T. Anderson
June 1: Kindred by Octavia Butler
July 6: Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake
August 3: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
September 7: Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr
October 5: The Epic Crush of Genie Lo by F.C. Yee
November 2: Vesper Flights by Helen Macdonald
December 7: Mink River by Brian Doyle

2021 Selections

January 6: The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Michele Richardson
February 3: The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemison
March 3: Say Nothing by Patrick Keefe
April 7: Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy
May 5: There, There by Tommy Orange
June 2: The Lost Man by June Harper
July 7: Heart Berries by Terese Marie Mailhot
August 4: The Book of Joan by Lydia Yuknavitch
September 1: Norco 80 by Peter Houlahan
October 6: The Eighth Sister by Robert Dugoni
November 3: The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates
December 1: The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett

2020 Selections

January 2: The Hate U Give Angie Thomas
February 6: The Overstory by Richard Powers
March 5: A Woman of No Importance by Sonia Purnell
April 2: The Highest Tide by Jim Lynch
May 7: Washington Black by Esi Edugyan
June 4: And Now We Have Everything: On Motherhood Before I Was Ready by Meaghan O’Connell
July 2: The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K LeGuinn
August 6: Once Upon a River by Diane Setterfield
September 3: The Summer Before the War Helen Simonson
October 8: Washington Black by Esi Edugyan
November 5: Lathe of Heaven by Ursula Leguin
December 3: Circe by Madeline Miller

2019 Selections

January 3: Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
February 7: Devil’s Highway by Luis Alberto Urrea
March 7: The Alice Network by Kate Quinn
April 4: Temperance Creek by Pamela Royes
May 2 : We Were the Lucky Ones by Georgia Hunter
June 6: Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan
July 11: One hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
August 1: Freakonomics by Steven Levitt
September 5: Vox by Christina Dalcher
October 3: The Round House by Louise Erdrich
November 7: To the Bright Edge of the World by Eowyn Ivey
December 5: Educated by Tara Westover

2018 Selections

January 4 – Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein
February 1 – The Compassion Code by Laura Jack (Book Kit)
March 1 – Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
April 5 – Hood River Reads: Moreno. Prieto. Brown by Alejandro Jimenez
May 3 – Hood River Reads: Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
June 7 – The Big Burn by Timothy Egan
July 5 – Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
August 2 – Voyage of the Summer Sun by Robin Cody
September 6 – The Secret Keeper by Kate Morton
October 4 – Everybody’s Fool by Richard Russo
November 1 – Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver
December 6 by A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles

2016 Selections

January 7 – The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd
February 4 – Being Mortal by Atul Gawande (Nonfiction)
March 3- The Martian by Andy Weir
April 7 – Red Notice by Bill Browder (Nonfiction)
May 5 – Martin, Marten by Brian Doyle (Hood River County Reads 2016)
June 2 – Astoria: John Jacob Astor and Thomas Jefferson’s lost Pacific empire: a story of wealth, ambition, and survival by Peter Stark (Nonfiction)
July 7 – The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
August 4 – Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
September 1 – Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
October 6 – The Highest Tide by Jim Lynch
November 3 – The Millionaire and the Bard by Andre Mays (Nonfiction)
December 1 – All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

2017 Selections

January 5 – Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
February 2 – The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
March 2 – Blasphemy by Sherman Alexie
April 13 – Hood River Reads Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger
May 4 – Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
June 1: H is For Hawk by Helen Macdonald
July 6 – The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
August 10 – The Underground Girls of Kabul by Jenny Nordberg
September 7 – News of the World by Paulette Jiles
October 5 – Lab Girl by Hope Jahren
November 2 – The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
December 7 – Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman

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