Book Club Books 2002-Present

2002

• • The Three Daughters of Madam Liang by Pearl Buck

  • The Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula LeGuin

  • Leave It to PSmith by P. G. Wodehouse

  • Obasan by Joy Kogawa

  • Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner

  • Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg

 2003

• • Touching the Void by Joe Simpson

  • Switch Bitch by Roald Dahl

  • East of Eden by John Steinbeck

  • The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith

  • Quattrocento by James McKean

  • Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver 

  • Call of the Wild by Jack London

  • Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

  • The Eustace Diamonds by Anthony Trollope

  • My Antonia by Willa Cather

  • Long Day's Journey into Night by Eugene O'Neill 

2004 

• • Take Me With You by Brad Newsham

  • Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia-Marquez

  • The Life of Pi by Yann Martel

  • Ramona by Helen Hunt Jackson

  • River of Red Gold by Naida West 

  • The Hemingway Book Club of Kosova by Paula Huntley 

  • Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi

  • My First Summer in the Sierra by John Muir

  • Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle

  • The Good Earth by Pearl Buck

  • The Clothes They Stood Up In by Alan Bennett

2005 

• •  Stones for Ibarra by Harriet Doerr

  • The Bird Artist by Howard Norman

  • Epitaph for a Peach by David Masumoto

  • To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

  • Good Grief by  Lolly Winston

  • Bones of the Earth by Michael Swanwick

  • Tales From Margaritaville by Jimmy Buffett

  • Madras on Rainy Days by Samina Ali

  • Cannery Row by John Steinbeck

  • Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

  • The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett

  • Rain of Gold by Victor Villasenor

  • The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

2006 

• • Learning to Bow by Bruce Feiler

  • The Night Listener by Armistaud Maupin

  • My Sister from the Black Lagoon by Laurie Fox 

  • Catch 22 by Joseph Heller 

  • The 8:55 to Baghdad by Andrew Eames 

  • Done for a Dime by David Corbett 

  • Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See 

  • The Human Comedy by William Saroyan 

  • Before and After by Rosellen Brown 

  • Old School by Tobias Wolff 

  • Murder in the Marais by Cara Black 

•  A Wild Ride Up the Cupboards by Ann Bauer

2007

• • The Lincoln Lawyer by Michael Connelly

  • The Monk Downstairs by Tim Farrington

  • Dancing Naked in Fuzzy Red Slippers by Carmen Rutlen

  • The Green Age of Asher Witherow by M. Allen Cunningham

  • You Just Don't Understand - Debroah Tannen

  • Small Island - Andrea Levy

  • Coffee Will Make You Black - April Sinclair

  • Water For Elephants - Sara Gruen

  • The Things They Carried - Tim O'Brien

  • Thirteen Moons by Charles Frazier

  • Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer

  • Restless by William Boyd

2008

•  In the Lake of the Woods by Tim O'Brien

  • The Distant Land of My Father by Bo Caldwell

  • Villa Incognito by Tom Robbins

  • The Measure of a Man by Sydney Poitier

  • Another Day in the Frontal Lobe by Katrina Firlik, MD

  • Atonement by Ian McEwan 

  • Cry, The Beloved County by Alan Paton

  • Merle's Door: Lessons from a Free-Thinking Dog by Ted Kerasote

  • Little Heathens by Mildred Armstrong Kalish

  • Chrysalis by Kim Todd

  • Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson 

• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon

2009

• • Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates

  • Not a Genuine Black Man by Brian Copeland

  • The Wayward Bus by John Steinbeck

  • Plum Island by Nelson DeMille

  • People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks

  • Mudbound by Hillary Jordan

  • Swing: A Mystery by Rupert Holmes

  • The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein

  • The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid

  • The Gun Seller by Hugh Laurie

  • Three novels by Graham Greene - The Quiet American, Our Man in Havana, and Travels With My Aunt

2010

• Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson 

• Loving Frank by Nancy Horan

• Boomsday by Christopher Buckley

• Shanghai  Girls by L isa See

• Zoli by Colum McCann

• The Annotated Alice: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through The Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll

• The Lost City of Z by David Grann

• Burned: A Memoir by Louise Nayer

• A Change in Altitude by Anita Shreve

• The Crying Tree by Naseem Rakha

• The  Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle

• Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel Gilbert

2011

• • 40 Signs of Rain by Kim Stanley Robinson

  • The Year of Fog by Michelle Richmond

  • 206 Bones by Kathy Reichs

  • A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway

  • Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese

  • Trial by Clifford Irving

  • Black and Blue by Anna Quindlen

  • The Help by Kathryn Stockett

  • Earth Abides by George R. Stewart

  • Still Alice by Lisa Genova

  • Ticket to Exile by Adam David Miller

  • Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay

2012

• • Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing

  • The Butterfly Mosque by G. Willow Wilson

  • Half Broke Horses by Jeannette Walls

  • Spies by Michael Frayn

  • The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

  • The 19th Wife by David Ebershoff

  • Tracks by Robyn Davidson

  • One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd by Jim Fergus

  • The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler

  • The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

  • American Dervish by Ayad Akhtar

2013

• • Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

  • The Long Walk by Brian Castner

  • The Old Patagonian Express by Paul Theroux

  • Caravans: A Novel of Afghanistan by James A. Michener

  • Let's Pretend This Never Happened (A Mostly True Memoir) by Jenny Lawson

  • Lost Horizon by James Hilton

  • True Grit by Charles Portis

  • 18% Gray by Zachary Karabashliev

  • The Round House by Louise Erdrich

  • Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri

  • The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak

2014

• • Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain

  • Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan

  • Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald

  • Me Before You by Jojo Moyes

  • The Sweet Hereafter by Russell Banks

  • Tales of Power by Carlos Castaneda 

  • I Shall Not Hate by Izzeldin Abuelaish

  • The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway

  • Hitler's Niece by Ron Hansen

  • Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

  • A Beautiful Place to Die by Malla Nunn

2015

• • Stealing Buddha's Dinner by Bich Minh Nguyen

  • We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo

  • A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

  • Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline

  • Apple Tree Yard by Louise Doughty

  • Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne

  • The Girl You Left Behind by Jojo Moyes

  • 11/22/63 by Stephen King

  • City by Clifford D. Simak

2016

• • Swift Justice: Murder and Vengeance in a California Town by Harry Farrell

  • Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

  • Sunday's Child by Tom Lewis

  • Man in the Woods by Scott Spencer

  • The Residence: Inside the Private World of the White House by Kate Anderson Brower

  • Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell 

  • The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown

  • Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John Le Carre

  • Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

• Snow Mountain Passage by James D. Houston

• The Circle by Dave Eggers

2017

• A Place to Stand by Jimmy Santiago Baca

• It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis

• The Lost Wife by Alyson Richman

  • The Dinner by Herman Koch

• The Man Who Knew Infinity by Robert Kanijel

• When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi

• Born A Crime by Trevor Noah 

• The Zookeeper's Wife by Diane Ackerman

• Hillbilly Elegy by J. D. Vance

• Z for Zachariah by Robert C. O'Brien

2018

• Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson

• Becoming Nicole by Amy Ellis Nutt

• Alex and Me by Irene Pepperberg

• Seductive Poison by Deborah Layton

• The Sellout by Paul Beatty

• A Curious Mind by Brian Grazer and Charles Fishman

• The Shadow District by Arnaldur Indridason

• Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo

• House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III

• The Perfectionists by Simon Winchester

• American Nations by Colin Woodard

2019

•   Silicon Valley Reads

  •   - Finding Samuel Lowe by Paula Williams Madison

•    - t's All Relative by A.J.Jacobs

•    - The Stranger in My Genes: A Memoir by Bill Griffeth

  •   Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams  A play

•   The Evolutionary Origins of Belief - Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast  by Lewis Wolper

•  How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of       Psychedelics  Teaches us about Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression  and Transcendence by  Michael Pollan

•   Educated, A Memoir By: Tara Westover

  •   Shot in the Buff, Murder in a Nudist Camp by Joan Dash

•  The Second Mountain, A quest for a moral life  by David Brooks. 

  •  The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom

  •  Lifeboat by Charlotte Rogan

• The Monk of Mokha  by Dave Eggers

2020

• Diuturnity’s Dawn by Alan Dean Foster

• Silicon Valley Reads.

  • - Alpha Girls, The Women Upstarts Who Took on Silicon Valley’s Male Culture  and Made the Deals of a Lifetime by Julie Guthrie

• - The Tenth Muse by Catherine Chung

• Enlightenment Now! By Steven Pinker

• The Rook by Daniel O’Malley

• My Cousin Rachel by Daphne Du Maurier

• Life and Death in Shanghai by Nien Cheng

• How to be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi

• Three Weeks with My Brother by Micah Sparks

2021

• The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes 

• Travels with Charley by John Steinbeck

• When Time Stopped by Ariana Neumann

•  Pearl Buck in China by Hilary Spurling

• Parable of the Sower  by Octavia E. Butler 

• Code Girls by Liza Mundy

• Nightwatchman by Louise Erdrich 

• Still Life by Louise Penny 

• Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell 

•  Miracle Country: A memoir of a Family and a Landscape by Kendra  Atleework 

• West of the Night by Beryl Markham 

2022

•   A Coffin for Dimitrious by Eric Ambler 

•   Enough About Me by Richard Lui 

•   The Authenticity Project by Clare Pooley.

•   Bridal Chair by Gloria Goldreich 

•   “The Alice Network” by Kate Quinn

•   'There Is No Place For You Here' by Fiona Hill

•    The Mist” by Ragnar Jonasson

•    Angle of Repose” by Wallace Stegner 

•     Nutshell by Ian McEwen 

•   What could be Saved  by Liese O'Halloran Schwarz

•    Western Tantra by James Beeby

•   Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana Jr.

2023

•   The Second Life by Mirielle West 

•    The Maid by Nita Prose 

•    Home Baked by Alia Volz   

•    The Naked Don’t Fear the Water By Matthieu Aikins 

•     Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

•    The Good Good Pig by Sy Montgomery 

•     The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell 

•     Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder  

•      Lost in Translation by Nicole Mones     

•      The Salt Path by Raynor Winn

•      Beloved by Toni Morrison 

2024

• The Light Pirate by Lily Brooks-Dalton   

•  Nightingale by Kristin Hannah 

• The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters     

• The Violin Conspiracy by Brendan Slocumb