Library Book Club

Join the Hood River Library Book Club

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

Love a great story and lively discussion? You’ve found your people. Our book club meets monthly to dive into carefully chosen reads—from compelling fiction to thought-provoking nonfiction.

How It Works

  • Monthly meetings with both in-person and Zoom options
  • Books chosen together by the group each year
  • All reading levels welcome—whether you’re a speed reader or savoring every page

Join Us Online Zoom Meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86369626991?pwd=bllIOWtCRlVEK0wxcU9Wam1HMUtSdz09

Meeting ID: 863 6962 6991
Passcode: 081759

Get the Book Browse our current and past selections below. Stop by any library branch to check out a copy, or place a hold online using your library barcode and PIN (typically the last four digits of your phone number). 


Questions?
Contact contact Renee Thessing, 541-387-7071.

2026 Selections

01-14 A Little Less Broken by Marion Schembari

02-11 My Grandmother Asked Me To Tell You She’s Sorry by Fredrick Backman

03-11 On Gold Hill by Jaclyn Moyer 

04-08 Miss Morgan’s Book Brigade by Janet Skeslien Charles

05-13 Demon Copperhead by Barara Kingsolver

06-10 Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism by Sarah Wynn-Williams

07-08 The Briar Club by Kate Quinn

08-12 Solito by Javier Zamora

09-09 Good Dirt by Charmaine Wilkerson

10-14 The Paris Library by Janet Skeslien Charles

11-11 The Color of Water: A Black Man’s Tribute to His White Mother by James McBride

12-09 How to Age Disgracefully by Clare Pooley

2025 Selections

1-8 West With Giraffes (Lydia Rutledge)

2-12 Unfamiliar Fishes (Sarah Vowell)

3-12 Beadworkers (Beth Piatote)

4-9 Thunderstruck (Erik Larsen)

5-14 Drive Your Plough over The Bones (Olga Tokarczuk)

6-11 Real Americans (Rachel Khong)

7-9 Fever in the Heartland: The Klu Klux Klan’s Plot to Take Over America, and the Women Who Stopped Them (Timothy Egan)

8-13 The Women’s March (Jennifer Chiaverini)

9-10 Crow Talk (Eileen Garvin)

10-8 Heaven and Earth Grocery Store (James McBride)

11-12 Yellowface (R.F. Kuang)

12-10 Dinners with Ruth (Nina Totenburg)

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

2021 Selections

2020 Selections
2019 Selections
2018 Selections
2016 Selections
2017 Selections
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