Our book selection for 2025’s citywide read is Lula Dean’s Little Library of Banned Books!
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The provocative and hilarious summer read that will have book lovers cheering and everyone talking! Kirsten Miller, author of The Change, brings us a bracing, wildly entertaining satire about a small Southern town, a pitched battle over banned books, and a little lending library that changes everything.
Beverly Underwood and her arch enemy, Lula Dean, live in the tiny town of Troy, Georgia, where they were born and raised. Now Beverly is on the school board, and Lula has become a local celebrity by embarking on mission to rid the public libraries of all inappropriate books—none of which she’s actually read. To replace the “pornographic” books she’s challenged at the local public library, Lula starts her own lending library in front of her home: a cute wooden hutch with glass doors and neat rows of the worthy literature that she’s sure the town’s readers need.
What Lula doesn’t know is that a local troublemaker has stolen her wholesome books, removed their dust jackets, and restocked Lula’s library with banned books: literary classics, gay romances, Black history, witchy spell books, Judy Blume novels, and more. One by one, neighbors who borrow books from Lula Dean’s library find their lives changed in unexpected ways. Finally, one of Lula Dean’s enemies discovers the library and decides to turn the tables on her, just as Lula and Beverly are running against each other to replace the town’s disgraced mayor.
That’s when all the townspeople who’ve been borrowing from Lula’s library begin to reveal themselves. That's when the showdown that’s been brewing between Beverly and Lula will roil the whole town...and change it forever.
“Kirsten Miller has that rare ability to take a serious subject and make it very, very funny. I enjoyed this novel and you will too.”--James Patterson
Kirsten Miller grew up in a tiny town in the mountains of North Carolina and moved to New York City to attend Barnard College. After graduation, she spent two decades toiling away in the advertising industry. Today, she lives in Brooklyn with her teenage daughter. Kirsten is the author of over a dozen novels for young people, including the critically acclaimed Kiki Strike trilogy and How to Lead a Life of Crime. Lula Dean's Little Library of Banned Books is her second novel for adults. Her first, The Change, was a Good Morning America Book Club. Kirsten's third adult novel, The Women of Wild Hill, will be published in October, 2025.