Events › Unplugged Book Club

The Unplugged Book Club is a collaborative book discussion series between ODC Network and Herrick District Library. Throughout 2026, we invite you to read books related to disconnecting from unhealthy tech habits and reconnecting with our community and nature. 

Want to meet some of the authors? Join the ODC Network's Unplugged: Disconnect to Reconnect speaker series to meet Catherine Price (January 14), Katherine Martinko (February 12), Dr. Scott Sampson (March 3), and Lenore Skenazy (March 17).

About the Unplugged: Disconnect to Reconnect speaker series - ODC Network invites the West Michigan community to disconnect from overuse of technology and reconnect with nature and each other, while reintroducing the simple idea that outdoor and community connection is central to thriving people, thriving families, and thriving communities. Learn more at outdoordiscovery.org/unplugged

Here is our Unplugged Book Club lineup:

January 21^st, 6:30-7:30p at Herrick Main (classroom)

How to Break Up with Your Phone, Revised Edition by Catherine Price

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February 17^th, 6:30-7:30p at Herrick Main (classroom)

Childhood Unplugged by Katherine Martinko

(Bonus read: The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt)

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March 24^th, 6:30-7:30p at Herrick Main (classroom)

How to Raise A Wild Child by Dr. Scott Sampson AND Free-Range Kids by Lenore Skenazy

(Read one or both Unplugged speaker series titles for March.)

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 April 20^th, 6:30-8:00p at DeGraaf Nature Center (600 Graafschap Rd)

Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer (hosted jointly with the Environmental Book Club)

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 May 11^th, 6:30 – 7:30p at Herrick Main (classroom)

An Immense World by Ed Yong

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June 17^th, 6:30-7:30p at DeGraaf Nature Center (600 Graafschap Rd)

How to Know a Person by David Brooks

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July 13^th, 6:30-7:30p at Herrick Main (classroom)

A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson

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August 13^th, 10:00-11:00a Herrick Main (classroom)

Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport

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September 17^th, 6:30- 7:30p at Herrick North Branch

The Nature Fix by Florence Williams

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October 7^th, 6:00-7:00p at Herrick Main (classroom)

My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George 

(All ages, with Youth Services)

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November 10^th, 6:00-7:00p at Herrick Main (classroom)

Wild by Cheryl Strayed