Book Group
The book group is currently on its summer hiatus. We meet September through May at 1:30pm on the 4th Wednesday of the month to discuss selected titles. Our group is open to the public. The group requests that members please read the book before attending. The Library will have copies of the discussion titles available for checkout about a month in advance. The 2026-2027 schedule will be announced in August. But in the meantime you can check out the titles that have been selected.
In no particular order:
● The Situation in Flushing by Edmund G. Love
● The Book of Lost Friends by Lisa Wingate
● West with Giraffes by Lynda Rutledge
● Everything I Never told You by Celeste Ng
● This is How it Always Is by Laurie Frankel
● Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife by Francesca Wade
● What we Can Know by Ian McEwan
● I Cheerfully refuse by Leif Enger
Other suggested titles:
● Dancing at the Rascal Fair by Ivan Doig
● The Searchers by Tana French
● The Correspondent by Virginia Evans
● My Friends by Fredrik Backman
● Bay of Spirits by Farley Mowat
● Euphoria by Lily King
● Dictionary of English Words
● James by Percival Everett
● I Who have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman
● The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka
● Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson
● The House on the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune
● Lazar by Nelio Biedermann
● Good People by Pameena Sabit
● Kindred by Octavia Butler
● Monsters in the Archives by Caroline Bicks
● Betrayal in Berlin by Steve Vogel
● Properties of Thirst by Marianne Wiggins
Book discussions will continue to be offered in a hybrid format in order to allow remote participation.
Please email director@leelanautownshiplibrary.org if have any questions or to request zoom link.


Reading List 2025-2026
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Sept 24 The Measure by Nikki Erlick
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Oct 22 The Lost Woman by Karen Mulvahill
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Nov 19 The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon
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Jan 28 The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store by James McBride
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Feb 25 The Art of Vanishing by Laura Smith
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March 18 English Creek by Ivan Doig
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April 22 Isola by Allegra Godman
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May 20 The Wedding People by Alison Espach
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Title selection for next term @ 1pm on May 20, 2026
Previous titles 2024-1995



Dracula by Bram Stoker The Music Shop by Rachel Joyce Life by Keith Richards Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver North woods by Daniel Mason My Grandmother asked me to tell you she's sorry by Fredrik Backman Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger


