There are multiple active groups and clubs at the Dedham Public Library. Below are schedules and book information for each group.

The Library orders a handful of the book being discussed; the requested books can be picked up at the meeting location about a month prior to the discussion date. Other formats (audiobooks, e-books, large print) can be requested through the Minuteman Library Network catalog. 

Main Library Book Groups

The following book groups meet at the Main Library, 43 Church Street. Please note that some of these groups are combined for the summer. Please reach out to the specific staff member for questions or more information. 

The Millennial Book Group meets at the Main Library at 7 pm on the second Monday of the month. 

Contact Kate McFadden for questions, 781-751-9284.

Upcoming books: 

• October 19, 2026 - *Combined Millennial and History Lovers Book Group* A Mystery of Mysteries: The Death and Life of Edgar Allan Poe by Mark Dawidziak
• November 9, 2026 - The Measure by Nikki Erlick
• December 14, 2026 - Who is Government? : The Untold Story of Public Service by Michael M. Lewis

Other books that have been read:

• The Compound by Aisling Rawle
• Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law by Mary Roach
• The Searcher by Tana French
• It Rhymes withTakei by George Takei
• Heartwood by Amity Gaige
• How to Win an Information War: The Propagandist who Outwitted Hitler by Peter Pomerantsev
• Going Zero by Anthony McCarten
• The Favorites by Layne Fargo
• The Lion Women of Tehran by Marjan Kamali
• Nicked by M.T. Anderson
• The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman
• Wordslut by Amanda Montell
• My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
• The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters
• Hijab Butch Blues by Lamya H.
• Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson
• Monsters by Claire Dederer
• The Pull of the Stars: A Novel by Emma Donoghue

The LGBTQ+ Book Group meets at the Main Library at 7 pm on the third Thursday of the month. 

Contact Ari Pappas for questions, 781-751-9284.

Upcoming books:

• October 15, 2026 - A Place of Our Own: Six Spaces that Shaped Queer Women's Culture by June Thomas
• November 19, 2026 - Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters
• December 19, 2026 - When Brooklyn Was Queer by Hugh Ryan

Other books that have been read:

• Bury Your Gays by Chuck Tingle
• Trans History: From Ancient Times to the Present Day by Alex Combs and Andrew Eakett
• Hot Milk by Deborah Levy
• It Rhymes with Takei by George Takei
• Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree
• Another Appalachia: Coming up Queer and Indian in a Mountain Place by Neema Avashia
• Light From Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki
• Untamed by Glennon Doyle
• Some Strange Music Draws Me In by Griffin Hansbury
• We Could Be So Good by Cat Sebastian
• One Day I'll Grow Up and be a Beautiful Woman by Abi Maxwell
• Hi Honey, I'm Homo! by Matt Baume
• Compound Fracture by Andrew Joseph White
• Coming Home by Brittney Griner
• Only This Beautiful Moment by Abdi Nazemian
• Hijab Butch Blues by Lamya H
• My Darling Dreadful Thing by Johanna van Veen
• The Other Olympians by Michael Waters

Endicott Book Groups

The following book groups meet at the Endicott Branch Library, 257 Mount Vernon Street. Please reach out to the specific staff member for questions or more information.

The Endicott Book Group meets at the Endicott Branch at 6:30 pm on the first Tuesday of the month. 

Contact Abby Cooper at acooper@minlib.net for questions.

Upcoming books:

• October 6, 2026 - Weyward by Emilia Hart
• November 3, 2026 - The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon
• December 1, 2026 - Family of Spies: A World War II Story of Nazi Espionage, Betrayal, and the Secret History behind Pearl Harbor by Christine Kuehn

Other books that have been read:

• My Brilliant Friend: Book 1: Childhood, Adolescence by Elena Ferrante
• Neptune's Fortune : the Billion-Dollar Shipwreck and the Ghosts of the Spanish Empire by Julian Sancton
• The Stolen Queen by Fiona Davis
• The Good Left Undone by Adriana Trigiani
• The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce
• The Red Coat by Dolley Carlson
• When the Emperor was Divine by Julia Otsuka
• What You are Looking for is in the Library by Michiko Aoyama
• The Measure by Nikki Erlick
• The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
• The Friday Afternoon Club by Griffin Dunne
• The House of Doors by Tan Wan Eng
• Wild Game: My Mother, Her Lover, and Me by Adrienne Brodeur
• Unlikely Animals by Annie Hartnett
• Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng
• Small Mercies by Dennis Lehane
• The Borrowed Life of Frederick Fife by Anna Johnston
• The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters

Youth Book Groups

The Elementary Group meets at the Main Library at 5:30 pm on the fourth Tuesday of the month. For grades 2-3.

Contact Annabelle Ho for more information, 781-751-9284.

Upcoming books:

• *No Book Group for October; resumes in November
• November 24, 2026 - The Bad Guys by Aaron Blabey
• December 22, 2026 - The Absent Author by Ron Roy

Other books that have been read:

• The Haunted House Next Door by Andres Miedoso
• Magnolia Wu Unfolds It All by Chanel Miller
• Sidekicks by Dan Santat
• Sweetie by Kate Klimo
• Wrath of the Rain God by Karla Valenti
• Lunch Lady and the Cyborg Substitute by Jarrett J. Kroscozka
• I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 by Lauren Tarshis
• The Puzzling Fate of Millicent Graves by Dora M. Mitchell
• Bodega Cats: Picture Purrfect by Hilda Eunice Burgos
• Stitch: Reimagining Frankenstein by Pádraig Kenny

The Tween Graphic Novel Book Club meets at the Endicott Library at 3:30 pm on the first Monday of the month. For grades 4-8. 

Contact Jonah Smiley for more information, 781-751-9178.

Upcoming books: 

• November 2, 2026 - Evilish by Kennedy Tarrell

Other books that have been read:

• The Moth Keeper by Kay O'Neill
• How It All Ends by Emma Hunsinger
• Timid by Jonathan Todd
• The Cartoonists Club by Raina Telgemeier and Scott McCloud
• I Witnessed: the Lizzie Borden story by Jeramy Kraatz
• Very Bad at Math by Hope Larson
• Summer Vamp by Violet Chan Karim
• Art Club by Rashad Doucet
• Knots by Colleen Frakes
• How it All Ends by Emma Hunsinger
• The Moth Keeper by Kay O'Neil

The Teen Book Club meets at the Endicott Library at 3:30 pm on the second Monday of the month. For grades 9-12.

Contact Jonah Smiley for more information, 781-751-9178.

Upcoming books:

• Monday, October 20, 2025 - Aisle Nine by Ian X. Cho

Other books that have been read:

• Shut Up, This is Serious by Carolina Ixta

Other Book Groups