This book group has changed it’s meeting times from the third Wednesday of each month to the fourth Tuesday of each month (except December). Please check in Upcoming Events for the latest title selection!
| 2021 | ||
| June | Coates, Ta-Nehisi | The Water Dancer |
| July | Wilkerson, Isabel | The Warmth of Other Suns |
| August | Montgomery, Cy | Choice of book by the author |
| September | See, Lisa | Shanghai Girls |
| October | Horwitz, Tony | Spying on the South |
| 2020 | ||
| January | Grann, David | Killers of the Flower Moon |
| February | Quinn, Kate | The Huntress |
| March | Lee, Min Jin | Pachinko |
| 2019 | ||
| January | Badani, Sejal | Trail of Broken Wings |
| February | Sagan, Carl | Contact |
| March | Tartt, Donna | The Goldfinch |
| April | Towles, Amor | A Gentleman in Moscow |
| May | Ozeki, Ruth | A Tale for the Time Being |
| June | Morine, David | Two Coots in a Canoe |
| July | Dalai Lama | The Book of Joy |
| August | Shakespeare, William | The Tempest |
| September | Picoult, Jodi | A Spark of Light |
| October | O’Brien, Keith | Fly Girls |
| November | Atwood, Margaret | Hag-Seed |
| 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 |
