Malcolm Book Club

upcoming Selections

December

December  5
4:30pm

This month we'll be discussing The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray.

January 2024

January 2
4:30pm

This month we'll be discussing The Second Life of Mirielle West with a special in-person visit from author Amanda Skenandore! 

February

February 6
4:30pm

This month we'll be discussing The Lonely Hearts Book Club by Lucy Gilmore.

Previous Selections

2023

• No meeting in January 2023
• Wish You Were Here by Jodi Picoult, February 7, 2023
• Love and Other Consolation Prizes by Jamie Ford, March 7, 2023
• Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner, April 4, 2023
• Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid, May 2, 2023
• West with Giraffes by Lynda Rutledge, June 6, 2023
• Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt, July 5, 2023
• No meeting in August 2023
• The Last Flight by Julie Clark, September 5, 2023
• Harry Truman's Excellent Adventure by Matthew Algeo, October 3, 2023
• The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin, November 7, 2023

2022

• No meeting in January 2022
• Under the Magnolias by T. I. Lowe, February 1, 2022
• Already Gone by Blake Pierce, March 1, 2022
• Oil and Marble by Stephanie Storey, April 5, 2022
• The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner, May 3, 2022
• No meeting in June 2022
• Searching for Sylvie Lee by Jean Kwok, July 5, 2022
• No meeting in August 2022
• 1979 by Val McDermid, September 6, 2022
• Canary in the Coal Mine, October 4, 2022
• The Dutch House by Ann Patchett, November 1, 2022 (note: meeting was cancelled)
• Fresh Water for Flowers by Valérie Perrin, December 6, 2022

2021

• Before She was Helen by Caroline B. Cooney, January 5, 2021
• Sold on a Monday by Kristina McMorris, February 2, 2021
• Deception by Gaslight by Kate Belli, March 2, 2021
• Carnegie's Maid by Marie Benedict, April 6, 2021
• I Know You Know by Gilly MacMillan, May 4, 2021
• The Arctic Fury by Greer Macallister, June 1, 2021
• No meeting in July 2021
• The Golden Son by Shilpi Somaya Gowda, August 3, 2021
• The Stranger Diaries by Elly Griffiths, September 7, 2021
• The Almost Sisters by Joshilyn Jackson, October 5, 2021
• Leaving Coy's Hill by Katherine Sherbrooke, November 2, 2021
• Nowhere Girl by Cheryl Diamond, December 7, 2021

2020

• No meeting in January
• Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng, February 4, 2020
• Next Year in Havana by Chanel Cleeton, March 3, 2020
• In the Midnight Room by Laura McBride, Spring 2020
• The Mountains Sing by Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai, June 2, 2020
• The Keeper of Lost Things by Ruth Hogan, July 7, 2020
• Such a Perfect Wife by Kate White, August 4, 2020
• If I Were You by Lynn Austin, September 1, 2020
• The Woman Who Smashed Codes by Jason Fagone, October 6, 2020
• The Last Flight by Julie Clark, November 3, 2020
• The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper by Hallie Rubenhold, December 1, 2020

2019

• No meeting in January
• Pachinko by Min Jin Lee, February 5, 2019
• The Girls in the Picture by Melanie Benjamin, March 5, 2019
• An American Marriage by Tayari Jones, April 2, 2019
• The Address by Fiona Davis, May 7, 2019
• Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann, June 4, 2019
• No meeting in July
• Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter, August 7, 2019
• The Alice Network by Kate Quinn, September 3, 2019
• A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles, October 1, 2019
• Born a Crime by Trevor Noah, November 5, 2019
• The Orphan Keeper by Camron Wright, December 3, 2019

2018

• The Lady and the Unicorn by Tracy Chevalier, February 6, 2018
• The Same Sky by Amanda Eyre Ward, March 6, 2018
• The Silent Wife by Kerry Fisher, April 3, 2018
• News of the World by Paulette Jiles, May 1, 2018
• The Hideaway by Lauren Denton, June 5, 2018
• No meeting in July
• Odd Child Out by Gilly Macmillan, August 1, 2018
• No meeting in September
• The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend by Katarina Bivald, October 2, 2018
• The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane by Lisa See, November 6, 2018
• The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East by Sandy Tolan, December 4, 2018

2017

• The Shell Seekers by Rosamunde Pilcher, February 7, 2017
• The Marriage of Opposites by Alice Hoffman, March 7, 2017
• Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Burns, April 4, 2017
• The Accidental Empress by Allison Pataki, May 2, 2017
• The Lake House by Kate Morton, June 6, 2017
• No meeting in July.
• Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger, August 1, 2017
• The Swans of Fifth Avenue by Melanie Benjamin, September 12, 2017
• Cooking for Picasso by Camille Aubray, October 3, 2017
• Before the Fall by Noah Hawley, Noevember 7, 2017
• A Fall of Marigolds by Susan Meissner, December 5, 2017

2016

• Under the Wide and Starry Sky by Nancy Horan, January 5, 2016
• We are Water by Wally Lamb, February 2, 2016
• Memory Man by David Baldacci, March 1, 2016
• The Perfume Collector by Kathleen Tessaro, April 5, 2016
• Girl in Translation by Jean Kwok, May 3, 2016
• Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania by Erik Larson, June 7, 2016
• The Paris Architect by Charles Belfoure, July 5, 2016
• A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara, August 2, 2016
• Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man's Fight for Justice by Bill Browder, September 6, 2016
• The Edge of Lost by Kristina McMorris, October 4, 2016
• Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, November 1, 2016
• Best Boy by Eli Gottlieb, December 6, 2016

2015

• Twenty Miles from a Match by Sarah Olds, January 6, 2015
• The Art Forger by Barbara Shapiro, February 3, 2015
• Me Before You by Jojo Moyes, March 3, 2015
• Maya's Notebook by Isabel Allende, April 7, 2015
• The 100 Year Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window & Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson, May 5, 2015
• The Traitor's Wife by Allison Pataki, June 2, 2015
• Rules of Civility by Amor Towles, July 7, 2015
• The History of Us by Leah Stewart, August 4, 2015
• Fever by Mary Beth Keane, September 1, 2015
• The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd, October 6, 2015
• We are Called to Rise by Laura McBride, November 3, 2015
• The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion, December 1, 2015

2014

• The Chaperone by Laura Moriarty, January 7, 2014
• Girlchild by Tupelo Hassman, February 4, 2014
• The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce, March 4, 2014
• The Aviator's Wife by Melanie Benjamin, April 1, 2014
• Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twan Eng, May 6, 2014
• Tell the Wolves I'm Home by Carol Rifka Brunt, June 3, 2014
• Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline, July 5, 2014
• Bruno, Chief of Police by Martin Walker, August 5, 2014
• The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics by Daniel James Brown, September 2, 2014
• The Round House by Louise Erdrich, October 7, 2014
• A Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Marra, November 4, 2014
• The Rent Collector by Camron Wright, December 2, 2014

2013

• The Servant's Tale by Margaret Frazer, January 15, 2013
• The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton, Febraury 12, 2013
• Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague by Geraldine Brooks, March 5, 2013
• Manhunt: the 12-day Chase for Lincoln's Killer by James L. Swanson, April 2, 2013
• The Peach Keeper by Sarah Addison Allen, May 7, 2013
• The Sandalwood Tree by Elle Newmark, June 5, 2013
• The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes, July 2
• The Sandcastle Girls by Chris Bohjalian, August 6, 2013
• Turn of Mind by Alice LaPlante, September 3, 2013
• The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman, October 1, 2013
• Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald, November 5, 2013
• Wild: from Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed, December 3, 2013

2012

• Tortilla Curtain by T.C. Boyle, January 9, 2012
• Room by Emma Donoghue, February 13, 2012
• Somewhere Inside: One Sister's Captivity in North Korea and the Other's Fight to Bring Her Home by Lisa Ling and Laura Ling, March 12, 2012
• The Story of Beautiful Girl by Rachel Simon, April 9, 2012
• Winter's Bone by Daniel Woodrell, May 14, 2012
• The Paris Wife by Paula McLain, June 11, 2012
• State of Wonder by Ann Patchett, July 9, 2012
• Moloka'i by Alan Brennert, August 13, 2012
• The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot, September 11, 2012
• The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, October 16, 2012
• The Mistress of Nothing by Kate Pullinger, November 13, 2012
• Lost in Shangri-la by Mitchell Zuckoff, December 18, 2012

2011

• Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout, January 10, 2011
• Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, And One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference by Warren St. John, February 14, 2011
• Oxygen by Carol Cassella, March 14, 2011
• Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson, April 11, 2011
• The Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford, May 9, 2011
• Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese, June 13, 2011
• The Last Resort: a Memoir of Zimbabwe by Douglas Rogers, July 11, 2011
• Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafron, August 8, 2011
• The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, September 12, 2011
• Winter Garden by Kristin Hannah, October 10, 2011
• The Invisible Bridge by Julie Orringer, November 14, 2011
• Mao's Last Dancer by Cunxin Li, December 12, 2011

2010

• Evening Class by Maeve Binchy, January 11, 2010
• Julie and Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously by Julie Powell, February 8, 2010
• The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson, March 8, 2010
• Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay, April 12, 2010
• Wisdom of Our Fathers by Tim Russert, May 10, 2010
• Still Alice by Lisa Genova, June 14, 2010
• Mistress of the Art of Death by Ariana Franklin, July 12, 2010
• People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks, August 9, 2010
• The Virgin of Small Plains by Nancy Pickard, September 20, 2010
• The Heretic's Daughter by Kathleen Kent, October 11, 2010
• Provenance: How a Con Man and a Forger Rewrote the History of Modern Art by Laney Salisbury and Aly Sujo, November 10, 2010
• The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley, December 8, 2010

2009

• Loving Frank by Nancy Horan, January 12, 2009
• The Invisible Wall by Harry Bernstein, February 9, 2009
• Family Tree by Barbara Delinksy, March 9, 2009
• The Lace Reader by Brunomia Barry, April 13, 2009
• The Zookeeper's Wife by Diane Ackerman, May 11, 2009
• So Brave, Young, and Handsome by Leif Enger, June 8, 2009
• Beneath a Marble Sky by John Shors, July 13, 2009
• The Middle Place by Kelly Corrigan, August 10, 2009
• Five Quarters of the Orange by Joanne Harris, September 14, 2009
• Ultramarathon Man by Dean Karnazes, October 12, 2009
• The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows, November 9, 2009
• Miracle at St. Anna by James McBride, December 14, 2009

2008

• The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards, January 14, 2008
• Eat, Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert, February 11, 2008
• Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult, March 10, 2008
• Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett, April 14, 2008
• The Year of Living Biblically by A.J. Jacobs, May 12, 2008
• Peace Like a River by Leif Enger, June 9, 2008
• Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides, July 14, 2008
• Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson, August 11, 2008
• In the Woods by Tana French, September 8, 2008
• Marley & Me by John Grogan, October 13, 2008
• Straight Man by Richard Russo, November 10, 2008
• The Nine Tailors by Dorothy Sayers, December 8, 2008

2007

• The Lobster Chronicles: Life on a Very Small Island by Linda Greenlaw, January 8, 2007
• The Road by Cormac McCarthy, February 12, 2007
• Saving Fish from Drowning by Amy Tan, March 12, 2007
• The World is Flat by Thomas Friedman, April 9, 2007
• Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See, May 14, 2007
• One Thousand White Women: the Journals of May Dodd by Jim Fergus, June 11, 2007
• The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe vs. Wade by Ann Fessler, July 9, 2007
• Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen, August 13, 2007
• The Secret River by Kate Grenville, September 10, 2007
• The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom, October 8, 2007
• The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East by Sandy Tolan, November 5, 2007
• The Birth House by Ami McKay, December 10, 2007

2006

• Under the Banner of Heaven by John Krakauer, January 9, 2006
• The Romanov Prophecy by Steve Berry, February 13, 2006
• Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi, March 13, 2006
• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon, April 10, 2006
• The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls, May 8, 2006
• The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffeneger, June 12, 2006
• These is My Words by Nancy E. Turner, July 10, 2006
• Shadow Divers by Robert Kurson, August 14, 2006
• Women of the Silk by Gail Tsukiyama, September 11, 2006
• Digging to America by Anne Tyler, October 9, 2006
• Funny in Farsi: a Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America by Firoozeh Dumas, November 13, 2006
• Pope Joan by Donna Woolfolk Cross, December 11, 2006

2005

• War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells, April 11, 2005
• The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver, May 9, 2005
• Bel Canto by Ann Patchett, June 13, 2005
• The Archer's Tale by Bernard Cornwell, July 11, 2005
• The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, September 12, 2005
• The Lady and the Unicorn by Tracy Chevalier, October 10, 2005
• Holidays on Ice by David Sedaris, November 14, 2005