This book group meets on the third Wednesday of each month except December. Please check the calendar for upcoming titles.
| 2019 | ||
| January | Badani, Sejal | Trail of Broken Wings |
| February | Sagan, Carl | Contact |
| 2018 | ||
| January | Demick, Barbara | Nothing to Envy |
| February | Dickens, Charles | David Copperfield |
| March | Ruskovich, Emily | Idaho |
| April | Backman, Fredrik | Britt-Marie Was Here |
| May | Cash, Wiley | The Last Ballad |
| June | Kidder, Tracy | Hometown |
| July | Favorite children’s chapter book | |
| August | Winters, Ben H. | Underground Railroad |
| September | Philbrick, Nathaniel | Heart of the Sea |
| October | Basu, Shrabani | Victoria & Abdul |
| November | McKay, Ami | The Witches of New York |
| 2017 | ||
| January | Dykstra, Natalie | Clover Adams |
| February | Bohjalian, Chris | Sandcastle Girls |
| March | Classic Fairy Tales | |
| April | Benjamin, Melanie | Aviator’s Wife |
| May | Belfer, Lauren | And After the Fire |
| June | Kallos, Stephanie | Sing Them Home |
| July | Picoult, Jodi | The Storyteller |
| August | Alvarez, Julia | In the Time of Butterflies |
| September | Gawande, Atul | Being Mortal |
| October | Moore, Kathleen Dean | Piano Tide |
| November | Hiaasen, Carl | Tourist Season |
| 2016 | ||
| January | Doerr, Anthony | All the Light We Cannot See |
| February | Steinbeck, John | Sweet Thursday |
| March | Bateson, Mary Catherine | Composing a Further Life |
| April | Remarque, Erich Maria | All Quiet on the Western Front |
| May | Reader’s choice | |
| June | McLain, Paula | The Paris Wife |
| July | Swyler, Erika | Book of Speculation |
| August | Sloan, Robin | Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore |
| September | Bohjalian, Chris/Fitzgerald, F. Scott | The Double Bind/The Great Gatsby |
| October | Les Becquets, Diane | Breaking Wild |
| November | Bingham, Harry | Talking to the Dead |
| 2015 | ||
| January | Wallach, Janet | Desert Queen |
| February | Costello, Mark | Big If |
| March | Winchester, Simon | The River at the Center of the World |
| April | Brooks, Malcolm | Painted Horses |
| May | Steinbeck, John | The Winter of our Discontent |
| June | Atkinson, Kate | Life After Life |
| July | Taylor, Alan | The Divided Ground |
| August | Mason, Jamie | Three Graves Full |
| September | Shacochis, Bob | The Woman Who Lost Her Soul |
| October | Fey, Tina | Bossypants |
| November | Ehrlich, Gretel | A Match to the Heart |
| 2014 | ||
| January | Cash, Wiley | A Land More Kind Than Home |
| February | Benioff, David | City of Thieves |
| March | Riley, Rhonda | The Enchanted Life of Adam Hope |
| April | Merullo, Roland | Talk Funny Girl |
| May | Moore, Liz | Heft |
| June | McCann, Colum | TransAtlantic |
| July | Schwarz, Christina | The Edge of the Earth |
| August | Reader’s choice | Reader’s choice |
| September | McKibben, Bill | Wandering Home |
| October | Kidder, Tracy | Strength in What Remains |
| November | Austen, Jane | Northanger Abbey |
| 2013 | ||
| January | Larson, Erik | In the Garden of Beasts |
| February | Vreeland, Susan | The Passion of Artemisia |
| March | Cronin, Justin | The Passage |
| April | Pelletier, Cathie | Once Upon a Time on the Banks |
| May | Woodrell, Daniel | Winter’s Bone |
| June | ||
| July | Winspear, Jacqueline | Maisie Dobbs |
| August | Parks, Brad | The Girl Next Door |
| September | Shapiro, Barbara A. | The Art Forger |
| October | O’Melveny, Regina | The Book of Madness and Cures |
| November | Walton, Jo | Among Others |
| 2012 | ||
| January | Donoghue, Emma | Room |
| February | Silko, Leslie Marmon | Gardens in the Dunes |
| March | Pirsig, Robert M. | Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance |
| April | Skloot, Rebecca | Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks |
| May | Stegner, Wallace | Recapitulation |
| June | Vreeland, Susan | Clara and Mr. Tiffany |
| July | Dubus, Andre, III | Townie |
| August | Kamensky, Jane | Blindspot |
| September | McCracken, Elizabeth | The Giant’s House |
| October | Poe, Edgar Allen | Tales of Terror and Detection |
| November | Ephron, Nora | I Feel Bad about my Neck |
| December | Franklin, Ariana | City of Shadows |
| 2011 | ||
| January | Zusak, Markus | The Book Thief |
| February | Tinti, Hannah | The Good Thief |
| March | Wood, Patricia | Lottery |
| April | Kingsolver, Barbara | The Lacuna |
| May | Dillard, Annie | Pilgrim at Tinker’s Creek |
| June | Dickens, Charles | A Tale of Two Cities |
| July | French, Tana | Faithful Place |
| August | Blake, Sarah | Postmistress |
| September | Smith, Patti | Just Kids |
| October | Verghese, A. | Cutting for Stone |
| November | Janzen, Rhoda | Mennonite in a Little Black Dress |
| 2010 | ||
| January | Guterson, David | The Other |
| February | Phillips, Arthur | The Egyptologist |
| March | Lee, Harper | To Kill A Mockingbird |
| April | Munro, Alice | Hateship, Friendship Courtship, Loveship, Marriage |
| May | Bauermeister, Erica | The School of Essential Ingredients |
| June | Stout, Elizabeth | Olive Kitteridge |
| July | Brooks, Geraldine | March |
| August | Horwitz, Tony | Confederates in the Attic |
| September | Ehrenreich, Barbara | Bright-sided |
| October | Jordan, Hillary | Mudbound |
| November | Atwood, Margaret | The Year of the Flood |
| 2009 | ||
| January | Turner, Nancy | These Is My Words |
| February | Perrotta, Tom | The Abstinence Teacher |
| March | Esquivel, Laura | Like Water For Chocolate |
| April | Fadiman, Anne | The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down |
| May | Capote, Truman | In Cold Blood |
| June | Updike, John | Rabbit, Run |
| July | Agee, Jonis | The River Wife |
| August | McInerney, Monica | The Faraday Girls |
| September | Gates, Henry Louis, Jr. | Colored People |
| October | Conroy, Pat | Beach Music |
| November | Martel, Hilary | Eight Months on Ghazzah Street |
| 2008 | ||
| January | Banks, Russell | The Darling |
| February | Eggers, Dave | What Is the What |
| March | Maugham, Somerset | The Painted Veil |
| April | Gilbert, Elizabeth | Eat, Pray, Love |
| May | Lewis, C.S. | The Screwtape Letters |
| June | Dallas, Sandra | Tallgrass |
| July | Coelho, Paulo | The Alchemist |
| August | Mortenson, Greg | Three Cups of Tea |
| September | Ackerman, Diane | The Zookeeper’s Wife |
| October | Lippman, Laura | What the Dead Know |
| November | McEwan, Ian | On Chesil Beach |
| 2007 | ||
| January | Shreve, Anita | Light On Snow |
| February | Kress, Nancy | Beggars In Spain |
| March | Kelly, James Patrick | Burn |
| April | Roach, Mary | Stiff: the Curious Life of Human Cadavers |
| May | LeGuin, Ursula K. | The Left Hand of Darkness |
| June | Rule, Rebecca | The Best Revenge |
| July | Tolan, Sandy | The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East |
| August | Gaiman, Neil | Anansi Boys |
| September | Atkinson, Kate | Case Histories |
| October | Bradbury, Ray | Fahrenheit 451 |
| November | Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher | A Midwife’s Tale |
| 2006 | ||
| January | Courtney, Bryce | The Power of One |
| February | Kawabata, Yasunari | Snow Country |
| March | Achebe, Chinua | Things Fall Apart |
| April | Roy, Arundhati | The God of Small Things |
| May | Williams, Niall | The Fall of Light |
| June | Cisneros, Sandra | Caramelo |
| July | Winterson, Jeanette | The Passion |
| August | Lamb, Wally | I Know This Much is True |
| September | Hall, Donald | Here At Eagle Pond |
| October | Goodman, Ellen | I Know Just What You Mean |
| November | Pamuk, Orhan | Snow |
| 2005 | ||
| January | Krakauer, Jon | Into the Wild |
| February | Kurson, Robert | Shadow Divers |
| March | Simpson, Joe | Touching the Void |
| April | Newby, Eric | A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush |
| May | Jones, Ben | The Rope Eater |
| June | Markham, Beryl | West with the Night |
| July | Krakauer, Jon | Under the Banner of Heaven |
| August | Karr, Mary | Liar’s Club |
| September | Russo, Richard | Nobody’s Fool |
| October | Reichs, Kathy | Deja Dead |
| November | Ehrenreich, Barbara | Nickel and Dimed |
| 2004 | ||
| January | Gibbons, Stella | Cold Comfort Farm |
| February | McDermott, Alice | Charming Billy |
| March | Kesey, Ken | One Flew Over the Cukoo’s Nest |
| April | Shulman, Alix Kates | Drinking the Rain |
| May | Wicker, Christine | Lily Dale: The Town that Talks to the Dead |
| June | Orlean, Susan | The Orchid Thief |
| July | Morrison, Tony | Beloved |
| August | Robinson, Marilyn | Housekeeping |
| September | Jen, Gish | Typical American |
| October | King, Stephen | Salem’s Lot |
| November | Proulx, Annie | Heart Songs |
| 2003 | ||
| January | Reichl, Ruth | Tender at the Bone |
| February | Ward, Jane | Hunger |
| March | Trillin, Clavin | The Tummy Trilogy |
| April | Volk, Patricia | Stuffed: Adventures of a Restaurant Family |
| May | Schiavelli, Vincent | Bruculinu, America |
| June | West, Michel Lee | Consuming Passions |
| July | ||
| August | Reichl, Ruth | Comfort Me with Apples |
| September | Russo, Richard | Empire Falls |
| October | Metalious, Grace | Peyton Place |
| November | McMurtry, Larry | The Last Picture Show |
