Ledding Book Club

We meet on the 4th Thursday of each month at 6pm in the Community Room. All are welcome! Contact Tara at goet@milwaukieoregon.gov with any questions.

Book Club Picks 2025

January 23
A Woman in the Polar Night by Christiane Ritter
This reissued memoir recounts a couple’s glacial adventures in the early 1930s.

February 27
The Other Americans by Laila Lalami
A riveting police procedural with a sensitive examination of contemporary life in California's Mojave Desert region.

March 27
The Red House Mystery by A.A. Milne
A classic Golden Age locked-room cozy mystery by the author of Winnie-the-Pooh.

April 24
A Little Less Broken by Marian Schembari
One woman’s decades-long journey to a diagnosis of autism, and the barriers that keep too many neurodivergent people from knowing their true selves.
(This is a local author who will be visiting the library on Saturday, April 19th at 2:00 PM)

May 22
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
Twin sisters, inseparable as children, ultimately choose to live in two very different worlds — one black and one white.

June 26
We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
Shirley Jackson's beloved gothic tale of a peculiar girl named Merricat and her family's dark secrets.

July 24
This is Happiness by Niall Williams
A funny and poignant story about a teenage boy sent from Dublin to a small Irish village to live with his grandparents.

August 28
All You Can Ever Know: A Memoir by Nicole Chung
This memoir is a nuanced and compassionate look at adoption, race in America and families in general.

September 25
Hold for Fall Author Series

October 23
Hold for Fall Author Series

November 20
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
A modern retelling of Charles Dickens’ classic novel David Copperfield and set in the mountains of southern Appalachia.

December 18
Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
A novella centered on Bill Furlong, a coal merchant in a rural Irish town in the 1980s, who faces a moral and social dilemma.