Daylight Book Club

We meet on the first Thursday of each month at 11am in the Ledding Library. All are welcome!

Questions? Contact librarian Christine Mackie at mackiec@milwaukieoregon.gov or 503.786.7539.

Upcoming Picks:

November 2, 2023:

Red at the Bone: A Novel by Jacqueline Woodson

An unexpected teenage pregnancy pulls together two families from different social classes and explores their histories, reaching back to the Tulsa race massacre of 1921.

December 7, 2023:

A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail by Bill Bryson

Part comic travelogue, part natural history, part moving plea for conservation, this is the tale of two friends hiking the 2,100 mile length of the Appalachian Trail.

January 4, 2024:

I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith

Through six turbulent months of 1934, a teenaged writer fills three notebooks with sharply funny yet poignant entries about her home, a ruined Suffolk castle, and her eccentric and penniless family. 

February 1, 2024:

Inland: A Novel by Téa Obreht

Set in the lawless, drought-ridden lands of the Arizona Territory in 1893, this is the extraordinary story of an unflinching frontierswoman, her troubled youngest son, a mysterious beast, and an outlaw who can see spirits.

March 7, 2024:

Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted by Suleika Jaouad

A writer describes her harrowing fight against leukemia and how she learned to live again after her recovery.

April 4, 2024:

The Guest by Emma Cline

A young woman causes chaos and pretends to be someone she isn’t in this spellbinding novel set in the rarified world of Long Island over Labor Day.