No Pressure Senior Book Club

Previous Selections

2026

• The Art Thief by Michael Finkel (January 21, 2026)
• The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden (February 18, 2026)
• Wish You Were Here by Jodi Picoult (March 18, 2026)
• The Maid by Nita Prose (April 15, 2026)
• Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann (May 20, 2026)
• Horse by Geraldine Brooks (June 17, 2026)
• The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins (July 15, 2026)
• The Dark Maestro by Brendan Slocumb (August 19, 2026)
• The Reading List by Sara Nisha Adams (September 16, 2026)

2025

• The Echo of Old Books by Barbara Davis (January 15, 2025)
• The Radium Girls by Kate Moore (February 19, 2025)
• The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon (March 19, 2025)
• Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus (April 16, 2025)
• The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood (May 21, 2025)
• All In by Billie Jean King (June 18, 2025)
• The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride (July 16, 2025)
• The Fox Wife by Yangsze Choo (August 20, 2025)
• Lula Dean’s Little Library of Banned Books by Kirsten Miller (September 17, 2025)
• Salt & Broom by Sharon Lynn Fisher (October 15, 2025)
• Lost in Time by A.G. Riddle (November 19, 2025)
• No meeting in December

2024

• The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson (January 17, 2024)
• Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng (February 21, 2024)
• Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel (March 20, 2024)
• Force of Nature by Jane Harper (April 17, 2024)
• The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane by Lisa See (May 15, 2024)
• Clock Dance by Anne Tyler (June 12, 2024)
• The Henna Artist by Alka Joshi (July 17, 2024)
• August meeting was cancelled
• Before the Fall by Noah Hawley (September 18, 2024)
• Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin (October 16, 2024)
• Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell (November 20, 2024)
• No meeting in December

2023

• Circling the Sun by Paula McLain (January 18, 2023)
• A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman (February 15, 2023)
• The Book of Two Ways by Jodi Picoult (March 15, 2023)
• The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson (April 19, 2023)
• The Mystery of Mrs. Christie by Marie Benedict (May 17, 2023)
• Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan (June 21, 2023)
• Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt (July 19, 2023)
• Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey (August 16, 2023)
• Tracy Flick Can't Win by Tom Perrotta (September 20, 2023)
• Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (October 18, 2023)
• The Virginian by Owen Wister (November 15, 2023)
• No meeting in December

2022

• The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson (January 19, 2022)
• Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro (February 16, 2022)
• The Guest List by Lucy Foley (March 16, 2022)
• The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai (April 20, 2022)
• Something in the Water by Catherine Steadman (May 18, 2022)
• The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See (June 15, 2022)
• The Feather Thief by Kirk Wallace Johnson (July 20, 2022)
• A Place for Us by Fatima Farheen Mirza (August 17, 2022)
• There There by Tommy Orange (September 21, 2022)
• The Midnight Library by Matt Haig (October 19, 2022)
• The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro (November 16, 2022)
• No meeting in December

2021

• Becoming by Michelle Obama (January 20, 2021)
• The Last Flight by Julie Clark (February 17, 2021)
• Afterlife by Julia Alvarez (March 17, 2021)
• The Overstory by Richard Powers (April 21, 2021)
• A Long Petal of the Sea by Isabel Allende (May 19, 2021)
• A Woman of No Importance by Sonia Purnell (June 16, 2021)
• Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens (July 21, 2021)
• Girl in Disguise by Greer Macallister (August 18, 2021)
• Born a Crime by Trevor Noah (September 15, 2021)
• The Princess Bride by William Goldman (October 20, 2021)
• The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend by Katarina Bivald (November 17, 2021)
• No meeting in December

2020

• The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin (January 15, 2020)
• The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah (February 19, 2020)
• No meetings in March to September
• News of the World by Paulette Jiles (October 21, 2020)
• The Only Woman in the Room by Marie Benedict (November 18, 2020)
• Mr. Timothy by Louis Bayard (December 16, 2020)

2019

• The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom (January 16, 2019)
• The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows (February 20, 2019)
• The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh (March 20, 2019)
• Shylock is My Name by Howard Jacobson (April 17, 2019)
• All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr (May 15, 2019)
• The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware (June 19, 2019)
• Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen by Mary Norris (July 17, 2019)
• Oil and Marble by Stephanie Storey (August 21, 2019)
• Goodbye, Vitamin by Rachel Khong (September 18, 2019)
• The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson (October 16, 2019)
• Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman (November 20, 2019)
• Little Women by Louisa May Alcott (December 18, 2019)

2018

• Life from Scratch: A Memoir of Food, Family, and Forgiveness by Sasha Martin (January 17, 2018)
• Bel Canto by Ann Patchett (February 21, 2018)
• Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett (March 21, 2018)
• Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand (April 18, 2018)
• The Round House by Louise Erdrich (May 16, 2018)
• Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain (June 20, 2018)
• One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd by Jim Fergus (July 18, 2018)
• The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho (August 15, 2018)
• Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston (September 19, 2018)
• Coconut Cowboy by Tim Dorsey (October 17, 2018)
• The Cuckoo's Calling by Robert Galbraith (November 21, 2018)
• The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot (December 19, 2018)

2017

• Same Kind of Different as Me by Ron Hall (January 18, 2017)
• The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein (February 15, 2017)
• My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry by Fredrik Backman (March 15, 2017)
• The Paris Architect by Charles Belfoure (April 19, 2017)
• I Know This Much is True by Wally Lamb (May 17, 2017)
• Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey: The Lost Legacy of Highclere Castle by Fiona, Countess of Carnarvon (July 19, 2017)
• The Vacationers by Emma Straub (August 16, 2017)
• The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving by Jonathan Evison (September 20, 2017)
• Nickel & Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America by Barbara Ehrenreich (October 18, 2017)
• True Evil by Greg Iles (November 10, 2017)
• The Boston Girl by Anita Diamant (December 20, 2017)

2016

• January meeting was cancelled
• The Little Girl Who Fought the Great Depression: Shirley Temple and 1930's America by John Kasson (February 17, 2016)
• The Silver Star by Jeanette Walls (March 16, 2016)
• The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York by Deborah Blum (April 20, 2016)
• The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler (May 18, 2016)
• The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce (June 15, 2016)
• The Light Between Oceans by M. L. Stedman (July 20, 2016)
• The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America by Erik Larson (August 17, 2016)
• Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng (September 21, 2016)
• The Girls of Atomic City by Denise Kiernan (October 19, 2016)
• Still Alice by Lisa Genova (November 16, 2016)
• The House of Silk by Anthony Horowitz (December 21, 2016)

2015

• Tenth of December by George Saunders (January 21, 2015)
• Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald by Therese Fowler (February 18, 2015)
• The Help by Kathryn Stockett (March 18, 2015)
• Where'd You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple (April 15, 2015)
• The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown (May 20, 2015)
• The Art Forger by B. A. Shapiro (June 17, 2015)
• August meeting cancelled due to Heritage Park Rec Center renovations
• Five Days at Memorial by Sheri Fink (September 16, 2015)
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey (October 21, 2015)
• The Husband's Secret by Liane Moriarty (November 18, 2015)
• The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin (December 16, 2015)

2014

• The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes (January 15, 2014)
• Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout (February 19, 2014)
• Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann (March 19, 2014)
• The Peach Keeper by Sarah Addison Allen (April 16, 2014)
• The Zookeeper's Wife by Diane Ackerman (May 21, 2014)
• The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce (June 18, 2014)
• Iron Lake by William Kent Krueger (July 16, 2014)
• A Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Marra (August 20, 2014)
• The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey (September 17, 2014)
• My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult (October 15, 2014)
• The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion (November 19, 2014)
• Heaven is for Real by Todd Burpo (December 17, 2014)

2013

• State of Wonder by Ann Patchett (January 16, 2013)
• Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson (February 20, 2013)
• The Heretic's Daughter by Kathleen Kent (March 20, 2013)
• Winter Garden by Kristen Hannah (April 17, 2013)
• Little Bee by Chris Cleave (May 15, 2013)
• The Grilling Season by Diane Mott Davidson (June 19, 2013)
• The Beekeeper's Apprentice by Laurie R. King (July 17, 2013)
• Half Broke Horses by Jeannette Walls (August 21, 2013)
• The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (September 18, 2013)
• The Lace Reader by Brunonia Barry (October 16, 2013)
• A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens (November 20, 2013)
• River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey by Candice Millard (December 18, 2013)

2012

• The Children's Hour by Marcia Willett (January 18, 2012)
• North River by Pete Hamill (February 15, 2012)
• We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver (March 21, 2012)
• A Night to Remember by Walter Lord (April 18, 2012)
• Can't Wait to Get to Heaven by Fannie Flagg (May 16, 2012)
• Still Alice by Lisa Genova (June 20, 2012)
• Travels with Charley by John Steinbeck (July 18, 2012)
• Family Tree by Barbara Delinsky (August 15, 2012)
• The Sandalwood Tree by Elle Newmark (September 19, 2012)
• So Brave, Young, and Handsome by Leif Enger (October 17, 2012)
• My Life in France by Julia Child (November 21, 2012)
• The Saving Graces by Patricia Gaffrey (December 19, 2012)

2011

• The Year of Pleasures by Elizabeth Berg (January 19, 2011)
• Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen (February 16, 2011)
• The Great Train Robbery by Michael Crichton (March 23, 2011)
• The Invisible Wall by Harry Bernstein (April 20, 2011)
• Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons by Lorna Landvik (May 18, 2011)
• The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot (June 15, 2011)
• My Antonia by Willa Cather (July 20, 2011)
• Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman (August 17, 2011)
• Oxygen by Carol Cassella (September 21, 2011)
• The Whistling Season by Ivan Doig (October 19, 2011)
• Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks (November 16, 2011)
• The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid by Bill Bryson (December 21, 2011)

2010

• There's a (Slight) Chance I Might Be Going to Hell by Laurie Notaro (January 20, 2010)
• Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons (February 17, 2010)
• The Double Bind by Chris Bohjalian (March 17, 2010)
• The Lobster Chronicles by Linda Greenlaw (April 21, 2010)
• The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham (May 19, 2010)
• Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen (June 16, 2010)
• The Secret River by Kate Grenville (July 21, 2010)
• Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier (August 18, 2010)
• The Traveler's Gift by Andy Andrews (September 15, 2010)
• Evening Class by Maeve Binchy (October 20, 2010)
• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon (November 17, 2010)
• The 19th Wife by David Ebershoff (December 15, 2010)

2009

• Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult (February 18, 2009)
• Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford by Ron Hansen (March 18, 2009)
• Sunk Without a Sound by Brad Dimock (April 15, 2009)
• The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrow (May 20, 2009)
• The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls (June 17, 2009)
• The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield (July 15, 2009)
• These is My Words by Nancy E. Turner (August 19, 2009)
• A Patchwork Planet by Anne Tyler (September 16, 2009)
• Tender at the Bone by Ruth Reichl (October 21, 2009)
• Angels & Demons by Dan Brown (November 18, 2009)
• Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Ann Burns (December 16, 2009)

2008

• Gardinias for Breakfast by Robin Jones Gunn (January 16, 2008)
• The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon (February 20, 2008)
• In the Lake of the Woods by Tim O'Brien (March 19, 2008)
• Atonement by Ian McEwan (May 21, 2008)
• The Bright Forever by Lee Martin (June 18, 2008)
• Set This House in Order by Matt Ruff (July 16, 2008)
• Case Histories by Kate Atkinson (August 20, 2008)
• The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory (September 17, 2008)
• Absolutely American by David Lipsky (October 15, 2008)
• Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert (November 19, 2008)