Henderson Libraries Book Club

May

Previous Selections

2021

• The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford by Ron Hansen, January 26, 2021
• An American Marriage by Tayari Jones, February 23, 2021
• West with the Night by Beryl Markham, March 23, 2021
• The Searcher by Tana French, April 27, 2021

2020

• Pachinko by Min Jin Lee, Janaury 28, 2020
• The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt, February 25, 2020
• Did not meet in March, April, or May 2020
• A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles, June 30, 2020
• The Woman Who Smashed Codes by Jason Fagone, July 28, 2020
• The Bear by Andrew Krivak, August 25, 2020
• Only the River by Anne Raeff, September 29, 2020
• The Revisioners by Margaret Wilkerson Sexton, October 27, 2020
• The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller, November 24, 2020
• No meeting in December

2019

• Carthage by Joyce Carol Oates, January 29, 2019
• The Dogs of Babel by Carolyn Parkhurst, February 26, 2019
• Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston, March 26, 2019
• Red Notice by Bill Browder, April 30, 2019
• Oil and Marble by Stephanie Storey, May 28, 2019
• Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds, June 25, 2019
• The Dry by Jane Harper, July 30, 2019
• No meeting in August
• The Dark Net by Jamie Barlett, September 24, 2019
• The Inn at Lake Devine by Elinor Lipman, October 29, 2019
• Circe by Madeline Miller, November 26, 2019
• No meeting in December

2018

• Ready, Player, One by Ernest Cline, January 30, 2018
• Faithful by Alice Hoffman, February 27, 2018
• And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini, March 27, 2018
• Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien, April 24, 2018
• Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann, May 29, 2018
• The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead, June 26, 2018
• Great Plains by Ian Frazier, July 31, 2018
• No meeting in August
• Sun, Sin & Suburbia by Geoff Schumacher, September 25, 2018
• Burial Rites by Hannah Kent, October 30, 2018
• Exit West by Mohsin Hamid, November 27, 2018
• No meeting in December

2017

• All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr, January 31, 2017
• The Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy, February 28, 2017
• Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead by Sheryl Sandberg. March 28, 2017
• Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather, April 25, 2017
• The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert, May 30, 2017
• Everyone Brave is Forgiven by Chris Cleave, June 27, 2017
• The Master by Colm Toibin, July 25, 2017
• No meeting, August 29, 2017
• The Point of Vanishing: A Memoir of Two Years in Solitude by Howard Axelrod, September 26, 2017
• Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger, October 24, 2017
• The Coroner's Lunch by Colin Cotterill, Novemebr 28, 2017

2016

• We Are Called to Rise by Laura McBride, January 27, 2016
• Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline, February 23, 2016
• Blood, Bones & Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef by Gabrielle Hamilton, March 29, 2016
• In One Person by John Irving, April 26, 2016
• The Boys in the Boat by Daniel Brown, May 31, 2016
• A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman, June 28, 2016
• Life From Scratch: A Memoir of Food, Family, and Forgiveness by Sasha Martin, July 26, 2016
• The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan, September 27, 2016
• American Ghost by Hannah Nordhaus, October 25, 2016
• Girlchild by Tupelo Hassman, November 29, 2016
• No meeting in December

2015

• Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter, January 27, 2015
• The Poisoner's Handbook by Deborah Blum, February 24, 2015
• Dirt Music by Tim Winton, March 31, 2015
• Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann, April 28, 2015
• Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver, May 26, 2015
• Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear, June 30, 2015
• Still Life with Bread Crumbs by Anna Quindlen, July 28, 2015
• Dataclysm by Christian Rudder, September 29, 2015
• The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin, October 27, 2015
• Mister Owita's Guide to Gardening by Carol Wall, November 24, 2015

2014

• Wild by Cheryl Strayed, January 28, 2014
• Butterfly's Child by Angela Davis-Gardner, February 25, 2014
• Full Body Burden: Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flatsby Kristen Iversen, March 25, 2014
• The Secret River by Kate Grenville, April 29, 2014
• The Hare with Amber Eyes by Edmund de Waal, May 27, 2014
• Arthur & George by Julian Barnes, June 24, 2014
• The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey, July 29, 2014
• Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel, September 30, 2014
• Twenty Miles from a Match: Homesteading in Western Nevada by Sarah Olds, October 21, 2014
• Night of Many Dreams by Gail Tsukiyama, November 25, 2014

2013

• The Piano Teacher by Janice Y.K. Lee, January 29, 2013
• A Visit From the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan, February 26, 2013
• In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin by Erik Larson, March 26, 2013
• River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey by Candice Millard, April 30, 2013
• State of Wonder by Ann Patchett, May 28, 2013
• The Tortilla Curtain by T.C. Boyle, June 25, 2013
• Mao's Last Dancer by Cunxin Li, July 30, 2013
• The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane by Katherine Howe, September 24, 2013
• The Last Resort: A Memoir of Zimbabwe by Douglas Rogers, October 29, 2013
• So Brave, Young, and Handsome by Leif Enger, November 26, 2013

2012

• Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War by Karl Marlantes, January 31, 2012
• When Religion Becomes Evil by Charles Kimball, February 28, 2012
• Going Home by Doris Lessing, March 27, 2012
• Outcasts United: a Refugee Soccer Team, an American Town by Warren St. John, April 24, 2012
• Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier, May 29, 2012
• Shadow Divers: the True Adventures of Two Americans Who Risked Everything to Solve One of the Last Mysteries of World War II by Robert Kurson, June 26, 2012
• Exodus by Leon Uris, July 31, 2012
• Still Alice by Lisa Genova, September 25, 2012
• Spice: The History of Temptation by Jack Turner, October 30, 2012
• American Shaolin by Matthew Polly, November 27, 2012

2011

• The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope by William Kamkwamba, January 25, 2011
• The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson, February 22, 2011
• Mary Todd Lincoln: A Biography by Jean H. Baker, March 29, 2011
• The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai, April 26, 2011
• Without Reservations by Alice Steinbach, May 31, 2011
• Saving Fish From Drowning by Amy Tan, June 28, 2011
• Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson, July 26, 2011
• The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot, September 27, 2011
• Friendly Fallout 1953 by Ann Ronald, October 25, 2011
• The Beekeeper's Apprentice by Laurie R. King, November 29, 2011

2010

• One Thousand White Women: The Journals of Mary Dodd by Jim Fergus, January 26, 2010
• The Women by T.C. Boyle, February 23, 2010
• Pavilion of Women by Pearl S. Buck, March 30, 2010
• Wicked Women by Fay Weldon, April 27, 2010
• Heretic's Daughter by Kathleen Kent, May 25, 2010
• Women of the Silk by Gail Tsukiyama, June 29, 2010
• Ahab's Wife by Sena Jeter Naslund, July 27, 2010
• The 19th Wife by David Ebershoff, September 28, 2010

2009

• A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini, January 27, 2009
• Bad Monkeys by Matt Ruff, February 24, 2009
• Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi, March 31, 2009
• In the Woods by Tana French, April 28, 2009
• Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson, May 26, 2009
• Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling by Ross King, June 30, 2009
• The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer, July 28, 2009
• Ultramarathon Man by Dean Karnazes, September 29, 2009
• Here be Dragons by Sharon Kay Penman, October 27, 2009
• The Liar's Club by Mary Karr, November 24, 2009

2008

• Crashing Through by Robert Kurson, January 29, 2008
• Death of an Ordinary Man by Glen Duncan, February 26, 2008
• The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory, March 25, 2008
• Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky, April 29, 2008
• Locust by Jeffrey Lockwood, June 5, 2008
• Miracle at St. Anna by James McBride, June 24, 2008
• The Year of Living Biblically by A.J. Jacobs, October 28, 2008

2007

• Bel Canto by Ann Patchett, January 30, 2007
• In the Lake of the Woods by Tim O'Brien, February 27, 2007
• Winter's Bone by Daniel Woodrell, April 24, 2007
• The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson, July 31, 2007
• The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova, September 25, 2007
• The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Ablom, October 30, 2007
• Death of an Ordinary Man by Glen Duncan, November 27, 2007