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)

• 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.

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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