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

•  A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles

• My Life on the Road by Gloria Steinem.

• The Many Lives of Mama Love by Lara Love Hardin.  

•   The Huntress by Kate Quinn

•   Running with Sherman by Christopher McDougall

•  Remarkably Bright Creatures By Shelby Van Pelt

•   Rebecca’s Tale by Sally Beauman

2025

• Rebel With A Clause by Ellen Jovin

• The Worlds I See by Dr Fei-Fei Li 

•  The Librarian of Burned Books by Brianna Labuskes

•   An Anonymous Girl by Sarah Pekkanen and Greer Hendriks

• Book James: A Novel by Percival Everett and Dominic Hoffman

• The Wild Silence by Raynor Winn 

•   Solito by Javier Zamora 

• The Caretakers by Ron Rash

• The Dalai Lama’s Cat by David Michie

•  Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer

2026  

         Lost Horizons by James Hilton

         The Only woman in the Room by Benedict, Marie      

         Master Slave Husband Wife by Ilyon Woo

          The Moon is Down by John Steinbeck  

            Iona Iverson’s Rules for Commuting. By Clare Pooley