Book Lists

2023 Book List

• January: How to Stop Time by Matt Haig
• February: Bittersweet by Susan Cain
• March: Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
• April: Remember by Lisa Genova
• May: Four Treasures of the Sky by Jenny Tinghui Zhang
• June: Beasts of a Little Land by Juhea Kim
• July: This Time Next Year We'll Be Laughing by Jacqueline Winspear
• August: When Two Feathers Fell from the Sky by Margaret Verble
• September: Hour of the Witch by Chris Bohjalian
• October: Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel
• November: Travels with George by Nathaniel Philbrick
• December: Best Books of 2023

2022 Book List

• January: The Light of Days by Judy Batalion
• February: City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert
• March: Of Women And Salt by Gabriela Garcia
• April: In Order to Live by Yeonmi Park
• May: The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah
• June: Farhrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
• July: Fuzz by Mary Roach
• August: The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden
• September: The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
• October: The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green
• November: Twelve Tribes of Hattie by Ayana Mathis
• December: Best Books of 2022

2021 Book List & Dates

• November 18th: Everything we've read since Feb 2020!
• December 16th: Favorite Book of All time!

2020 Book List & Dates

• January 13 &16: The little book of hygge : Danish secrets to happy living by Meik Wiking
• February 10 & 13: The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
• March 16 & 19: The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood
• April 13 & 16: Between the world and me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
• May 18 & 21: City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert
• June 15 & 18: A Map of Betrayal by Ha Jin 
• July 20 & 23: The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women by Kate Moore  
• August 17 & 20: Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
• September 21 & 24: Warlight by Michael Ondaatje
• Octobe 19 & 22r: The Immortalists: a novel by Chloe Benjamin
• November 16 & 19: Educated by Tara Westover
• December 14 & 17: No book – Social Hour! Happy Holidays!

2019 Book List

• January 14 & 17: Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
• February 11 & 14: An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
• March 18 & 21: How to Walk Away by Katherine Center
• April 22 & 25: I’ll Be Gone In The Dark by Michelle McNamara
• May 20 & 23: Commonwealth by Ann Patchett
• June 17 & 20: The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
• July 15 &  and 18: Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann
•  August 19 & 22: Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
• September 16 & 19: The Alice Network by Kate Quinn
• October 21 & 24: The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
• November 18 & 21: Educated: a Memoir by Tara Westover
• December 16 & 19: No book – Social Hour! Happy Holidays!

2018 Book List

• Hillbilly Elegy by J. D. Vance
• I Liked my Life by Abby Fabiaschi
• The Badass Librarians of Timbuktu: And Their Race to Save the World’s Most Precious Manuscripts by Joshua Hammer
• Anything is Possible by Elizabeth Strout
• Abide with Me by Elizabeth Strout
• My Name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout
• Neverhome by Hunt Laird
• Elizabeth is Missing by Emma Healey
• You Will Know Me by Megan Abbott
• Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell
• The Versions of Us by Laura Barnett
• Where’d You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple
• Five Days at Memorial by Sheri Fink

2017 Book List

• The Good Good Pig by Sy Montgomery
• Charcoal Joe by Walter Mosley
• The Pigeon Tunnel by John Le Carre
• My Grandmother Asked Me To Tell You She’s Sorry by Fredrik Backman
• Britt-Marie Was Here by Fredrik Backman
• A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
• The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
• The Paris Architect by Charls Belfoure
• Dead Wake by Erik Larson
• Family Tree by Susan Wiggs
• Maggie Smith by Michael Coveney
• LaRose by Louise Erdrich
• The Year of Yes by Shonda Rhimes

2016 Book List

• I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai
• The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro
• The Greatest Generation by Tom Brokaw
• The Heist by Janet Evanovich and Lee Goldberg
• The Unexpected Waltz by Kim Wright
• The Ship of Brides by Jojo Moyes
• The Girl You Left Behind by Jojo Moyes
• One Plus One by Jojo Moyes
• The Island at the Center of the World by Russell Shorto
• Longbourn by Jo Baker
• The Wrong Girl by Hank Phillippi Ryan
• The Astronaut Wives Club by Lily Koppel

2015 Book List

• Faceoff by David Baldacci ed.
• Vatican Waltz by Roland Merullo
• Breakfast with Buddha by Roland Merullo
• A Little Love Story by Roland Merullo
• The Husband’s Secret by Liane Moriarty
• Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
• The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabriele Zevin
• The Men Who United the States by Simon Winchester
• Sweet Tooth by Ian McEwan
• In the Kingdom of Ice by Hampton Sides
• China Dolls by Lisa See
• Defending Jacob by William Landay
• The Opposite of Fate by Amy Tan
• The Postmistress by Sarah Blake

2014 Book List

• Caleb’s Crossing by Geraldine Brooks
• Shannon by Frank Delaney
• Bossypants by Tina Fey
• The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
• Code to Zero by Ken Follett
• The Art Forger by B. A. Shapiro
• Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson
• I’m a Stranger Here Myself by Bill Bryson
• In a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson
• The Supremes at Earl’s All-You-Can-Eat by Edward Kelsey Moor
• The Girls from Ames by Jeffrey Zaslow
• The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey
• Happier at Home by Gretchen Craft Rubin

2013 Book List

• Still Life by Louise Penny
• The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court by Jeffrey Toobin
• Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
• The Last Time I Saw You by Elizabeth Berg
• Terminal Freeze by Lincoln Child
• Surely you’re joking, Mr. Feynman: Adventures of a Curious Character by Richard Feynman
• What Do You Care What Other People Think?: Further Adventures of a Curious Character by Richard Feynman
• The Pleasure of Finding Things Out: The Best Short Works of Richard P. Feynman by Richard Feynman
• A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
• On Agate Hill by Lee Smith
• North River by Pete Hamill
• Zero Day by David Baldacci
• Travels with Charley by John Steinbeck

2012 Book List

• The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
• Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
• Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
• The Surgeon by Tess Gerritsen
• The Lady and the Unicorn by Tracy Chevalier
• Remarkable Creatures by Tracy Chevalier
• The Virgin Blue by Tracy Chevalier
• Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
• The Zookeeper’s Wife: A War Story by Diane Ackerman
• Leap of Faith: Memoirs of an Unexpected Life by Queen Noor
• The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara
• The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
• American Gods by Neil Gaiman

2011 Book List

• Little Bee by Chris Cleave
• Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford
• The Help by Kathryn Stockett
• The Weight of Water by Anita Shreve
• Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
• Before You Know Kindness by Christopher Bohjalian
• The Double Bind by Christopher Bohjalian
• Midwives by Christopher Bohjalian
• The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
• Orange is the New Black: My Year in a Women’s Prison by Piper Kerman
• The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton
• The Piano Teacher by Janice Y.K. Lee
• Sarah’s Key by Tatiana de Rosnay

2010 Book List

• Ten Little Indians by Sherman Alexie
• The Heretic’s Daughter by Kathleen Kent
• The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
• In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex by Nathaniel Philbrick
• The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
• The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver
• I Know This Much Is True by Wally Lamb
• The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch
• Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane
• Loving Frank by Nancy Horan

2009 Book List

• The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
• The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak
• The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
• Nature Girl by Carl Hiaasen
• The Color of Water by James McBride
• The Monsters of Templeton by Lauren Groff
• Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey
• Here If You Need Me by Kate Braestrup
• A Dog’s Life by Peter Mayle
• The White Darkness by Geraldine McCaughrean

2008 Book List

• Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
• Baker Towers by Jennifer Haigh
• The Ghost by Robert Harris
• Tender at the Bone by Ruth Reichl
• Garlic and Sapphires by Ruth Reichl
• Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
• Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
• Dress Your Family in Corderoy and Denim by David Sedaris
• When You are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris
• Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell
• A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka
• Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell
• Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
• Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi

2007 Book List

• Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris
• A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
• The Tortilla Curtain by T.C. Boyle
• Pompeii: A novel by Robert Harris
• How to Be Good by Nick Hornby
• Truth and Beauty by Ann Patchett
• Crow Lake by Mary Lawson