2024 

Jan. Horse: A Novel  (Geraldine Brooks)

Feb. The Pale-Faced Lie  (David Crow)

March James: A Novel  (Percival Everett)

April The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder  (David Grann)

May Whose Names Are Unknown: A Novel  (Sanora Babb)

June The Frozen River: A Novel  (Ariel Lawhon)

July Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind  (Yuval Noah Harari)

August

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Oct.

Nov.

Dec.

2024 

Jan. Lessons in Chemistry  (Bonnie Garmus)

Feb.

March Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, 

the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History  (S. C. Gwynne)

April The Thursday Murder Club  (Richard Osman)

May Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World  (John Valiant)

June The Covenant of Water: A Novel  (Abraham Verghese)

July A Friend Like Henry: The remarkable true story of an autistic boy and the dog that unlocked his world  (Nula Gardner)

August The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo: A Novel  (Taylor Jenkins Reid)

Sept. Parakeet: A Novel  (Marie-Helene Bertino)

Oct. The Women: A Novel  (Kristin Hannah)

Nov. The River We Remember  (William Kent Krueger)

Dec. The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession  (Michael Finkel)

2023

Dec. Our Missing Hearts: A Novel  (by Celeste Ng)

Nov. Remarkably Bright Creatures  (Shelby Van Pelt)

Oct. Lindbergh  (A. Scott Berg)

Sept. The Song of Achillies  (Madeline Miller)

August A Most Remarkable Creature  (Jonathan Meiburg)

July Brideshead Revisited  (Evelyn Waugh)

June Hamnet: A Novel of the Plague (Maggie O'Farrell)

May Wish You Were Here  (Jodi Picoult)

Apr. Island Queen: A Novel  (Vanessa Riley)

Mar. The Wasp That Brainwashed the Catepillar  (Matt Simon)

Feb.

Jan. Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country  (Pam Houston)

2022

Dec. 12 This Tender Land: A Novel (William Kent Krueger)

Nov. Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience  (Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi)

Oct. Life in a Jar: The Irena Sendler Project (Jack Mayer)

Sept. 12 Black Out: A Novel  (Marc Elsberg)

August 8 A Mother's Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy  (Sue Klebold)

July 11 The Lincoln Highway (Amor Towels)

June 13 The Bluest Eye  (Toni Morrison)

May 9 The World Without Us  (Alan Weisman)

April 11 Lillian Boxfish Takes A Walk (Kathleen Rooney)

March 14 The Last Thing He Told Me: A Novel  (Laura Dave)

Feb. 14 Pachinko  (Min Jin Lee)

Jan. 10 Hero of Two Worlds (Mike Duncan)

2021

Dec. 13 Christmas Gathering & Book Exchange

Nov. 8 Klara and the Sun: A Novel (Kazuo Ishiguro)

Oct. 11 West Wtih Giraffes (Lynda Rutledge)

Sept. 13 Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln (Doris Kearns Goodwin)

August 9 Caste: The Origins of Our Discontent (Isabel Wilkerson)

July The Watchman (Louise Erdrich)

June 14 Salt: A World History (Mark Kurlansky)

May 10 A Moveable Feast (Earnest Hemingway)

2020

October This is Happiness (Niall Williams)

Sept 14      Murmur of Bees (Sofia Segovia)

Aug 10          Ghost Map (Steven Johnson)

July 13:         Unsheltered  (Barbara Kingsolver)   

June 8:             The Library Book (Susan Orlean)

May 11:             The Dutch House (Ann Pachette)

April               Meeting Cancelled

March 9:         Let the Great World Spin (Colum McCann)

February 10: Island of Sea Women (Lisa See) 

January 13       Incarnations (Susan Barker)

2019

November 11 The Color of Water (James McBride)

October 14        The Audacity of Inez Burns  (Stephen Bloom) 

September 9     Rebecca  (Daphne DuMaurier)

August 12         The Overstory  (Richard Powers)

July 8                 Where the Crawdads Sing (Delia Owens)

June 10             The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane (Lisa See) 

May 13           Assassination Vacation (Sarah Vowell)

April 8:             Turtles All the Way Down (John Green)

March 11: The House Among the Trees (Julia Glass)

February 11:     Nightwoods (Charles Frazier)

January 14:       Before We Were Yours (Lisa Wingate)

2018

December 10:     Warlight (Michael Ondaatje)

November 12      Educated, A Memoir (Tara Westover)

October 8:           Rules of Civility(Amor Towles)

September 10:    Big Little Lies (Liane Moriarty)

August 13:          The Common Good (Robert B. Reich)

July 9:                 Last Days of Night (Graham Moore)

June 11               News of the World. (Paulette Jiles) 

May 14               No Time To Spare (Ursala LeGuin). 

April 9                The Killers of the Flower Moon (David Grann). 

March 12.          Frozen in Time (Mitchel Zukoff) 

February 12.      Beneath a Scarlet Sky (Mark Sullivan)

January 8          A Gentleman in Moscow (Amor Towles) 

2017

December 11 The Art of Racing in the Rain: by Garth Stein

November 13 1984: George Orwell  

Sept/October    Alexander Hamilton: Ron Chernow 

August 14 Born a Crime: Trevor Noah

July 10              The Warmth of Other Suns: Isabel Wilkerson

June 12             The Nix: Nathan Hill

May 8                Red Notice:  Bill Browder

April 10             The Man Without a Shadow, Joyce Carol Oates 

March 13 The Boys in The Boat  Daniel James Brown

February 13 Dead Wake, Erik Larsen

January 6          Nutshell, I. McEwan

2016

December 12    Gardens of Water, by A. Drew

November 14   Elephant Company, by V. Croke.

October 10       Hillbilly Elegy,, by  J. D. Vance

September 12 Station Eleven, by Emily St. John Mandel,

August 8         Empires of Sand, by David Ball,

July 11              The Wedding of the Waters, by Peter Bernstein,

June 13            Cleopatra: A Life, by Stacy Schiff, 

May 9               The Japanese Lover, Isabel Allende,

April 11       Destiny and Power:  by John Meachum

March 14      The Invention of Wings  by Sue Monk Kidd

February     The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah

January       The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer,

2015

December    REMEMBERING LAUGHTER by Wallace Stegner

November    TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD by Harper Lee.

October    RULES FOR OLD MEN WAITING by Peter Pouncey. 

September     THE REVENANT by Michael Punke. 

August     ALL THE LIGHT WE CANNOT SEE by Anthony Doerr. 

July    THE EIGHTY-DOLLAR CHAMPION: SNOWMAN, by Elizabeth Letts.

June     WE ARE ALL COMPLETELY BESIDE OURSELVES by Karen J Fowler 

May   SUSPENDED SENTENCES by Patrick Modiano,

Apr.     LIAR, TEMPTRESS, SOLDIER, SPY: Karen Abbott. 

Mar.    THE NARROW ROAD TO THE DEEP NORTH by Richard Flanagan.

Feb.     LILA by Marilynne Robinson. 

Jan.     UNBROKEN: Laura  Hillenbrand. 

2014

Dec.      THE GOOD LORD BIRD by James McBride. 

Nov.     109 EAST PALACE: R Jennet  Conant. 

Sept.    THE GOLDFINCH by Donna Tartt. 

Aug.     EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, S.C. Gwynne. 

July      WHERE THE BLUEBIRD SINGS TO THE LEMONADE SPRINGS: Wallace Stegner. 

May      THE END OF YOUR LIFE BOOK CLUB by Will Schwalbe. 

Apr.      SHORT NIGHTS OF THE SHADOW CATCHER: Timothy Egan. 

Feb.       AND THE MOUNTAINS ECHOED by Khaled Hosseini. Fiction, 

Jan.      DEAR LIFE: STORIES by Alice Munro. Fiction

2013  

Dec.    No book discussion; annual get-together and discussion of forthcoming books.

Nov.    LEONARDO AND THE LAST SUPPER by Ross King.

 Oct.     THIS HOUSE OF SKY: LANDSCAPES OF A WESTERN MIND by Ivan Doig. 

Sept.       THE HAJ by Leon Uris. 

Aug.    AFTER THE MUSIC STOPPED: Alan Blinder. 

Jul.       FLIGHT BEHAVIOR by Barbara Kingsolver. 

 Jun.      THE STORYTELLER by Jodi Picoult. 

 May      CADILLAC DESERT: THE AMERICAN WEST & ITS DISAPPEARING WATER by Mark Reisner.                                       

Apr.     THE ROUND HOUSE by Louise Erdrich.

Mar.    THE SOCIAL ANIMAL: by David Brooks. 

 Feb.    THE BARTENDER'S TALE by Ivan Doig.  Discussion leaders: Joyce & Ron Spinelli

 Jan.   THE CIRCUIT: STORIES FROM THE LIFE OF A MIGRANT CHILD by Francisco  Jimenez

          THE ARRIVAL by Shaun Tan       Discussion leader:Susan Erickson

2012

Dec.    REMEMBERING: A NOVEL by Wendell Berry. 

 Nov.     ABSOLUTELY TRUE DIARY OF A PART-TIME INDIAN by Sherman Alexie 

Oct.      THE WORK OF WOLVES by Kent Meyers.

Sept.     DESTINY OF THE REPUBLIC by Candace Millard. Discussion leader: Susan Erickson

Aug.    THE YELLOW HOUSE: VAN GOGH, GAUGUIN, AND NINE TURBULENT WEEKS IN ARLES   by Martin Gayford. 

Jul.      THE SENSE OF AN ENDING by Julian Barnes. 

Jun.     THE RIVER OF DOUBT: THEODORE ROOSEVELT'S DARKEST JOURNEY by Candace Millard.

May     THE FAULT IN OUR STARS by John Green. 

 Apr.       IN THE GARDEN OF THE BEASTS: Erik Larson.  

Mar.    Members' choice of reading about U.S. Constitution. Discussion leader: Jeannette Johnson

Feb.      OLIVE KITTERIDGE by Elizabeth Strout. Discussion leader: 

Jan.     THE BELIEVING BRAIN: by Michael  Shermer. Discussion 

 2011

Oct.    TRUE STORY OF HANSEL & GRETEL by Louise Murphy.