DPL Book Club
The DPL Book Club meets the 3rd Thursday of each month in the Staley Room from 1-2pm.
DPL Book Club Selections for 2026
January 15th - The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah
February 19th - The Underground Library by Jennifer Ryan
March 19th - The Good, Good Pig: The Extraordinary Life of Christopher Hogwood by Sy Montgomery
April 16th - Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
May 21st - The Happiest Man on Earth by Eddie Jaku
June 18th - A Fall of Marigolds by Susan Meissner
July 16th - We Are Not Like Them by Christine Pride & Jo Piazza
August 20th - Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate
September 17th - The River is Waiting by Wally Lamb
October 15th - Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
November 19th - Plainsong by Kent Haruf
December 17th - The Gown: a Novel of the Royal Wedding by Jennifer Robson
Previous Years Selections
Curious as to what we've read in the past? Check out past years selections below.
January 16 Shortest Way Home: One Mayor's Challenge and a Model for America's Future by Pete Buttigieg
February 20 Bitter River by Julia Keller
March 20 Aftershocks: a Memoir by Nadia Owusu
April 17 James by Percival Everett
May 15 A Fever in the Heartland: the Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them by Timothy Egan
June 26 Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano
July 17 Weyward: a novel by Emilia Hart
August 21 The Ice Cream Queen of Orchard Street: a novel by Susan Jane Gilman
September 18 The Destiny of the Republic: a Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President by Candice Millard
October 16 An Unfinished Love Story: a Personal History of the 1960s by Doris Kearns Goodwin
November 20 The Women by Kristin Hannah
December 18 The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer