2022/23
September 2022 Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr
October Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
November Intimacies by Katie Kitamura
December The Guncle by Steven Rowley
January 2023 Normal People by Sally Rooney
February Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
March We Begin at the End by Chris Whitaker
April Salt Houses by Hala Alyan
May L.A. Weather by Maria Amparo Escandón
June Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt
2021/22
September 22, 2021: Caste, Isabel Wilkerson and The Vanishing Half, Brit Bennett
October 20, 2021: Hamnet, Maggie O'Farrell
November 17, 2021: Sharks in the Time of Saviors, Kawai Strong Washburn
December 15, 2021: The Flatshare, Beth O'Leary
January 19, 2022: The Glass Hotel, Emily St. John Mandel
February 16, 2022: Trust Exercise, Susan Choi
March 16, 2022: Women Talking, Miriam Toews
April 20, 2022: Klara and the Sun, Kazuo Ishiguro
May 18, 2022: Dept. of Speculation, Jenny Offill
June 15, 2022: Oona Out of Order, Margarita Montimore
2020/21
September 2020 (Summer Read): Min Jin Lee’s Pachinko
October 2020 Circe by Madeline Miller
November 2020 The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley by Hannah Tinti
December 2020 Tuesday Mooney Talks to Ghosts by Kate Racculia
January 2021 Lanny by Max Porter
Februry 2021 A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win WWII by Sonia Purnell
March 2021 Disappearing Earth by Julia Phillips
April 21 Case Histories by Kate Atkinson
May 19 House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
June 16 Once Upon a River by Diane Setterfield
2019/20
September 2019 (Summer Read): Carlos Ruiz Zafon’s The Shadow of the Wind
October 2019: Tommy Orange’s There There
November 2019: Charles Frazier’s Varina
December 2019: Gail Honeyman’s Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine
January 2020: Tara Westover’s Educated
February 2020: Andrew Sean Greer’s Less
March 2020: Sigrid Nunez’s The Friend (Discussion canceled due to COVID-19 shutdown)
April 2020: Ayobami Adebayo’s Stay with Me
May 2020: Matt Haig’s How to Stop Time
June 2020: Anthony Horowitz’s The Word is Murder
2018/19
September 2018 (Summer Reads): Jane Harper’s The Dry and Tana French’s In the Woods
October 2018: Christina Henriquez’s The Book of Unknown Americans
November 2018: Lisa Ko’s The Leavers
December 2018: Maria Semple’s Where’d You Go, Bernadette?
January 16, 2019 Gaiman, Neil. The Ocean at the End of the Lane
February 20, 2019 Grann, David. Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
March 20, 2019 Gyaasi, Ya. Homegoing
April 17, 2019 Jones, Tayari. An American Marriage
May 15, 2019 Saunders, George. Lincoln in the Bardo
June 19, 2019 Frankel, Laurie. This Is How It Always Is
2017/18
To be read over the Summer; to be discussed on September 20, 2017: FICTION DUO: UNEXPECTED JOURNEYS-
Emma Hooper’s Etta and Otto and Russell and James &
Rachel Joyce’s The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry.
October 18, 2017 Bradbury, Ray. Fahrenheit 451.
November 15, 2017 Woodson, Jacqueline. Another Brooklyn.
December 20, 2017 Zevin, Gabrielle. The Storied Life of A.J. Filkry
January 17, 2018 Albom, Mitch. The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto.
February 21, 2018 Viet Thanh Nguyen. The Sympathizer.
March 21, 2018 Johnson, Adam. The Orphan Master’s Son.
April 18, 2018 Barbery, Muriel. The Elegance of the Hedgehog.
May 16, 2018 David McCullough’s The Wright Brothers NONFICTION
June 19, 2018 Rothschild, Hannah. The Improbability of Love.
2016/17
September 19, 2016 Kate Morton’s The Lake House
October 19, 2016 Doug Most’s The Race Underground: Boston, New York, and the Incredible Rivalry That Built America’s First Subway NONFICTION
November 16, 2016 Graeme Simsion’s The Rosie Project
December 21, 2016 Erika Swyler’s The Book of Speculation
January 18, 2017 Celeste Ng’s Everything I Never Told You
February 15, 2017 Lily King’s Euphoria
March 15, 2017 Michael Blanding’s The Map Thief: The Gripping Story of an Esteemed Rare-Map Dealer Who Made Millions Stealing Priceless Maps NONFICTION.April 19, 2017 Stephen Kiernan’s The Hummingbird
May 17, 2017 Fredrik Backman’s A Man Called Ove
June 21, 2017 Kristin Hannah’s The Nightingale
2015/16
September 16, 2015 Kate Atkinson’s Life After Life
October 21, 2015 William Kent Krueger’s Ordinary Grace
November 18, 2015 Denise Kiernan’s The Girls of Atomic City. Nonfiction
December 16, 2015 Jill McCorkle’s Life After Life
January 20, 2016 Daniel Brown’s The Boys in the Boat Nonfiction
February 17, 2016 Brian Payton’s The Wind is Not a River
March 16, 2016 Dinaw Mengestu’s How to Read the Air
April 20, 2016 Patry Francis’s The Orphans of Race Point BALLOT.
May 18, 2016 Elena Ferrante’s My Brilliant Friend
June 15, 2016 Anthony Doerr’s All the Light We Cannot See
2014/15
September 17, 2015 Alice Munro’s Dear Life & George Saunders’ The Tenth of December
October 15, 2014 Carol Brunt’s Tell the Wolves I’m Home.
November 19, 2014 Sonia Sotomayor’s My Beloved World. Nonfiction.
December 17, 2014 Robin Sloan’s Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore.
January 21, 2015 Helen Simonson’s Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand.
February 18, 2015 Katherine Boo’s Beyond the Beautiful Forevers. Nonfiction
March 18, 2015 Christina Baker Kline’s The Orphan Train.
April 15, 2015 Louise Erdrich’s The Round House.
May 20, 2015 JoJo Moyes’s Me Before You
June 17, 2015 B.A. Shapiro’s The Art Forger.
2013/14
September 18, 2013 Something About This Generation:
Sheila Weller’s Girls Like Us: Carole King, Joni Mitchell And Carly Simon–and the Journey of a Generation & Gail Collins’s When Everything Changed:The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present. Both Nonfiction.
October 16, 2013 Jenna Blum’s Those Who Save Us
November 20, 2013 Roland Merullo’s The Talk-Funny Girl
December 18, 2013 Susan Cain’s Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Can’t Stop Talking. Nonfiction.
January 15, 2014 Kathleen Grissom’s The Kitchen House
February 19, 2014 Ellis Avery’s The Last Nude
March 19, 2014 Laura Harrington’s Alice Bliss
April 16, 2014 Jess Walter’s Beautiful Ruins.
May 21, 2014 Mitchell Zuckoff’s Lost in Shangri-La: The Epic Story of World War II Plane Crash Into the Stone Age. Nonfiction
June 18, 2014 M.L. Stedman’s The Light Between Oceans
2012/13
September 19, 2012. David McCullough’s John Adams. NONFICTION
October 17, 2012 Amor Towles’s The Rules of Civility
Rebecca Skloot’s The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Nonfiction
December 19, 2012 Geraldine Brooks’s Caleb’s Crossing
January 16, 2013 Ann Patchett’s State of Wonder
February 20, 2013 Stacy Schiff’s Cleopatra Nonfiction
March 20, 2013 Toni Morrison’s A Mercy
April 17, 2013 Tom Perrotta’s The Leftovers
May 15, 2013 Paula McLain’s The Paris Wife
June 19, 2013 Erin Morgenstern’s The Night Circus
2011/12
September 21, 2011. Michael Chabon’s The Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
October 29, 2011. Garth Stein’s The Art of Racing in the Rain
November 16, 2011. Lisa Genova’s Still Alice
December 21, 2011. Peter Carey’s Parrot and Olivier in America. HISTORICAL FICTION.
January 18, 2012. Abraham Verghese’s Cutting for Stone
February 15, 2012. Chris Cleave’s Little BeeMarch 21, 2012. Linda Greenhouse’s Becoming Justice Blackmun: Harry Blackmun’s Supreme Court Journey. NONFICTION
April 18, 2012. Jamie Ford’s On the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
May 16, 2012. Owen Sheers’ Resistance
2010/11
September 15, 2010. Janet Wallach’s Desert Queen recounts the extraordinary life of Gertrude Bell, an English adventurer–adviser to kings, ally of Lawrence of Arabia–who explored the Arab world and helped create the modern Middle East. 2005. NONFICTION.
October 20, 2010. Simon Winchester’s Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded, August 27, 1883 NONFICTION.
November 17, 2010. Gaile Parkin’s Baking Cakes in Kigali
December 15, 2010. Richard Russo’s That Old Cape Magic
January 19, 2011. David Liss’s The Coffee Trader
February 16, 2011. Malcom Gladwell’s Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking. NONFICTION.
March 16, 2011. Russell Banks’ Affliction
April 20, 2011. Kathryn Stockett’s The Help
May 18, 2011. Thrity Umrigar’s The Space Between Us
June 15, 2011. Elizabeth Strout’s Olive Kitteridge.
2009/10
September 16, 2009–Isabel Allende’s The Chilean series: The House of Spirits, Daughter of Fortune and Portrait in Sepia. These selections are read over the summer and discussed in September.
October 21, 2009. Mark Kurlansky’s Salt: A World History NON-FICTION
November 18, 2009. Kate Christensen’s The Epicure’s Lament
December 16, 2009. Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows’s The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society.
January 20, 2010. Anne-Marie MacDonald’s Fall on Your Knees.
February 17, 2010. Junot Diaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
March 17, 2010. Chris Bohjalian’s Skeletons at the Feast.
April 21, 2010. Nancy Horan’s Loving Frank.
May 19, 2010 Alan Weisman’s The World Without Us. NON-FICTION
July 21, 2010. Claire Messud’s The Emperor’s Children
2008/09
September 17, 2008–Jennifer Haigh: Mrs. Kimble and Baker Towers.
October 15, 2008. Roland Merullo’s Revere Beach Elegy: A Memoir of Home and Beyond. NON-FICTION
November 19, 2008. Lee Smith’s On Agate Hill
December 17, 2008. Diane Setterfield’s Thirteenth Tale.
January 21, 2009. Orhan Pamuk’s Snow.
February 18, 2009. Leif Enger’s Peace Like a River
March 18, 2009. Lisa See’s Snow Flower and the Secret Fan.
April 15, 2009. Marisha Pessl’s Special Topics in Calamity Physics
May 20, 2009. Nicole Krauss’s History of Love.
July 15, 2009. Doris Kearns Goodwin’s Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln. (NON-FICTION)
2007/08
September 19, 2007–Austen Envy: Jane Austen’s Persuasion, Karen Joy Fowler’s The Jane Austen Book Club, and Laurie Horowitz’s The Family Fortune.
October 17, 2007. Julia Glass’s Three Junes.
November 28, 2007. Erik Larson’s The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and the Madness at the Fair that Changed America. (NON-FICTION).
December 19, 2007. Elizabeth Gilbert’s Eat, Pray, Love:
January 16, 2008. Kim Edward’s The Memory Keeper’s Daughter.
February 20, 2008. Jodi Picoult’s My Sister’s Keeper.
March 19, 2008. Kiran Desai’s Inheritance of Loss.
April 16, 2008. Marilynne Robinson’s Gilead.
May 21, 2008. Sara Gruen’s Water for Elephants.
July 16, 2008. Gregory Maguire’s Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West.
2006/07
September 20, 2006–Village Vignettes: Joanne Harris’s Five Quarters of the Orange and Rosina Lippi’s Homestead.
October 18, 2006. Carlo Eire’s Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy (NON-FICTION/MEMOIR).
November 15, 2006. Philip Roth’s The Plot Against America.
December 20, 2006. Tobias Wolff’s Old School.
January 17, 2007. John Perkin’s Confessions of an Economic Hit Man. (NON-FICTION)
February 28, 2007. Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged.
March 21, 2007. Jhumpa Lahiri’s Interpreter of Maladies.
April 25, 2007. Bharati Mukherjee’s Desirable Daughters.
May 16, 2007. Dai Sijie’s Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress.
June 20, 2007. Jonathan Safran Foer’s Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close.
2005/06
September 21, 2005–Reading Lolita & Gatsby in Wakefield: Azar Nafisi’s Reading Lolita in Tehran: Memoir in Books NON-FICTION.
Also read with F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. and Vladimir V. Nabokov’s Lolita.
October 19, 2005. Tracy Kidder’s Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, A Man Who Could Cure the World. (NON-FICTION).
November 16, 2005. Ann Patchett’s Bel Canto.
December 21, 2005. Jasper Fforde’s The Eyre Affair.
January 18, 2006. Jim Fergus’s One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd.
February 15, 2006. Milan Kundera’s Unbearable Lightness of Being.
March 15, 2006. Anchee Min’s Red Azalea. (NON-FICTION/MEMOIR)
April 26, 2006. Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner.
May 17, 2006. Mark Haddon’s The Curious Incident of the the Dog in the Night-time.
June 21, 2006. T.C. Boyle’s Tortilla Curtain. While l
2004/05
September 22, 2004–Feeding the Hungry Heart: Selections from MFK Fisher’s The Art of Eating (1954 & 1976).
Also read: Comfort Me With Apples: More Adventures at the Table.
October 20, 2004. Sue Monk Kidd’s The Secret Life of Bees.
November 17, 2004. Anne Fadiman’s The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures. (NON-FICTION).
December 15, 2004. India Knight’s My Life on a Plate.
January 19, 2005. Donna Woolfolk Cross’s Pope Joan. C
February 16, 2005. Italo Calvino’s If On a Winter’s Night a Traveler.
March 16, 2005. Ian McEwan’s Antonement. (NOT IN NOBLE)
April 27, 2005. Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s 100 Years of Solitude. The story of a century lived in the mythic village of Macondo, somewhere in South America. The Buendia family struggles to create a life in a place where everything is larger than life and the rain never stops. (1971)
May 18, 2005. George Howe Colt’s The Big House: A Century in the Life of an American Summer Home (NON-FICTION)
June 15, 2005. Yann Martel’s Life of Pi.
2003/04
September 17, 2003–Cape Exploration: Alice Hoffman’s Illumination Night.
October 15, 2003. Colum McCann’s This Side of Brightness.
November 19, 2003. Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice.
December 17, 2003. Kent Haruf’s Plainsong.
January 21, 2004. Bob Smith’s Hamlet’s Dresser: A Memoir. (NON-FICTION)
February 25, 2004. Richard Russo’s Straight Man.
March 17, 2004. Lois Lowry’s The Giver.
April 21, 2004. Jonathan Franzen’s The Corrections.
May 19, 2004. Bob Greene’s Duty: A Father, His Son, and the Man Who Won the War. (NON-FICTION)
June 16, 2004. Geraldine Brooks’ Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague.
2002/03
September 18, 2002–Thematic group: Tracy Chevalier’s Girl With a Pearl Earring and Susan Vreeland’s Girl in Hyacinth Blue. And…if you can find & fit them in: Harriet Scott Chessman’s Lydia Cassat Reading the Morning Paper, and/or Katharine Weber’s The Music Lesson.
October 16, 2002 Maya Angelou’s I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. (MEMOIR)
November 20, 2002 Julia Alvarez’s In the Time of the Butterflies.
December 18, 2002 Adriana Trigiani’s The Big Stone Gap.
January 15, 2003 Myla Goldberg’s Bee Season.
February 26, 2003 Andre Dubus III’s The House of Sand and Fog.
March 19, 2003 Eudora Welty’s The Optimist’s Daughter.
April 16, 2003 Adele Crockett Robertson’s The Orchard. (NON-FICTION/MEMOIR)
May 21, 2003 Amy Tan’s The Bonesetter’s Daughter.
June 18, 2003 Graham Greene’s The End of the Affair.
2001/02
September 18, 2002 Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway and Michael Cunningham’s The Hours.
October 17, 2001 Elizabeth Gilbert’s Stern Men.
November 14, 2001 Dick Lehr’s Black Mass: The Irish Mob, The FBI and a Devil’s Deal. NON-FICTION.
December 19, 2001 Alice Mattison’s The Book Borrower.
January 16, 2002 Harriet Doerr’s Stones for Ibarra.
February 27, 2002 Dave Egger’s A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius. NON-FICTION/MEMOIR.
March 20, 2002 Laura Cunningham’s Sleeping Arrangements: A Memoir.
April 24, 2002 Chang-Rae Lee’s Gesture Life.
May 15, 2002 Gail Tsukiyama’s Samurai’s Garden.
June 19, 2002 Kazuo Ishiguro’s When We Were Orphans.
2000/01
September 20, 2000–A Thematic Group of Three: Truman Capote’s The Grass Harp, Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird & Marilynne Robinson’s Housekeeping.
October 18, 2000 E. Annie Proulx’s The Shipping News.
November 15, 2000 Helen Fremont’s After Long Silence: A Memoir. NON-FICTION.
Looking for something like this book? Check out The Nazi Officer’s Wife: How One Jewish Woman Survived the Holocaust by Edith Hahn Beer, and/or To See You Again: A True Story of Love in a Time of War by Betty Schimmel.
December 13, 2000 Louisa May Alcott’s Long Fatal Love Chase.
January 17, 2001 Anita Diamant’s The Red Tent.
February 28, 2001 Blanche Wiesen Cook’s Eleanor Roosevelt, 1884-1933. NON-FICTION/BIOGRAPHY.
March 21, 2001 Susan Minot’s Evening.
April 25, 2001 Louise Erdrich’s Love Medicine.
May 16, 2001 Anna Quindlen’s One True Thing.
June 20, 2001 Elinor Lipman’s The Inn at Lake Devine.
1999/00
September 15, 1999 An historical mystery trilogy–Margaret Lawrence’s Hearts and Bones, Blood Red Roses, and The Burning Bride.
October 20, 1999 Margaret Atwood’s The Robber Bride.
November 17, 1999 Sebastian Junger’s A Perfect Storm. NON-FICTION
December 15, 1999 Pearl Cleage’s What looks Like Crazy On an Ordinary Day.
January 26, 2000 Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things.
February 16, 2000 Mitch Albom’s Tuesdays With Morrie. NON-FICTION
March 15, 2000 Carol Shields’ The Stone Diaries.
April 26, 2000 Arthur Golden’s The Memoirs of a Geisha
May 17, 2000 John Steinbeck’s The Winter of Our Discontent.
June 21, 2000 Kate Chopin’s The Awakening.
1998/99
September 16, 1998 Charles Dickens’s Tale of Two Cities & Baroness Emmusku Orczy’s The Scarlet Pimpernel.
October 21, 1998 Keri Hulme’s The Bone People.
November 18, 1998 Jonathan Harr’s A Civil Action. NON-FICTION
December 16, 1998 Olive Ann Burns’s Cold Sassy Tree.
January 20, 1999 John Irving’s A Prayer for Owen Meany.
February 17, 1999 A.S. Byatt’s Possession: A Romance.
March 17, 1999 Wallace Stegner’s Angle of Repose.
April 28, 1999 Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior. NON-FICTION/MEMOIR
May 19, 1999 James McBride’s The Color of Water. NON-FICTION/MEMOIR
June 16, 1999 Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina.
Previous titles discussed in 1998 were Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson, The Weight of Water by Anita Shreve, and Bastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison.
