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Previous Selections

2026

• Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver (January 27, 2026)
• Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi (February 24, 2026)
• All the Colors of the Dark by Chris Whitaker (March 31, 2026)
• A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping by Sangu Mandanna (April 28, 2026)
• The God of the Woods by Liz Moore (May 26, 2026)

2025

• There There by Tommy Orange (January 28, 2025)
• Romantic Comedy by Curtis Sittenfeld (February 25, 2025)
• And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie (March 25, 2025)
• The Art Thief by Michael Finkel (April 29, 2025)
• The Personal Librarian by Victoria Christopher Murray (May 27, 2025)
• All the Sinners Bleed by S.A. Cosby (June 24, 2025)
• The Sandcastle Girls by Chris Bohjalian (July 29, 2025)
• Yellowface by R.F. Kuang (August 26, 2025)
• The Fox Wife by Yangsze Choo (September 30, 2025)
• The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden (October 28, 2025)
• Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell (November 25, 2025)
• No meeting in December

2024

• West with Giraffes by Lynda Rutledge (January 30, 2024)
• Mad Honey by Jodie Picoult and Jennifer Finney Boylan (February 27, 2024)
• The Secret Life of Sunflowers by Marta Molnar (March 26, 2024)
• Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng (April 30, 2024)
• The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music by Dave Grohl (May 28, 2024)
• The Henna Artist by Alka Joshi (June 25, 2024)
• Happy Place by Emily Henry (July 30, 2024)
• August meeting was cancelled
• Tom Lake by Ann Patchett (September 24, 2024)
• Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman (October 29, 2024)
• The Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Post by Allison Pataki (November 26, 2024)
• No meeting in December

2023

• The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman (January 31, 2023)
• American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins (February 28, 2023)
• Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro (March 28, 2023)
• The Reading List by Sarah Nisha Adams (April 25, 2023)
• Unsheltered by Barbara Kingsolver (May 30, 2023)
• June meeting was cancelled
• Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt (July 25, 2023)
• Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid (August 29, 2023)
• The Princess Bride by William Goldman (September 26, 2023)
• No meeting in October
• The Splendid and the Vile by Erik Larson (November 28, 2023)
• No meeting in December

2022

• The Radium Girls by Kate Moore (January 25, 2022)
• The Dutch House by Ann Patchett (February 22, 2022)
• Less by Sean Andrew Greer (March 29, 2022)
• The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner (April 26, 2022)
• Rules of Civility by Amor Towles (May 31, 2022)
• Bad Blood by John Carreyrou (June 28, 2022)
• Anxious People by Fredrik Backman (July 26, 2022)
• The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett (August 30, 2022)
• The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan (September 27, 2022)
• Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (October 25, 2022)
• The Whistling Season by Ivan Doig (November 29, 2022)
• No meeting in December

2021

• The Assassination of Jesse James 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)
• Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens (May 25, 2021)
• Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson (June 29, 2021)
• Moon of the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice (July 27, 2021)
• Stiff by Mary Roach (August 31, 2021)
• The Hunting Party by Lucy Foley (September 28, 2021)
• The Mystery of Mrs. Christie by Marie Benedict (October 26, 2021)
• The Leavers by Lisa Ko (November 30, 2021)
• No meeting in December

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
• 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 in August
• 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 (November 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)
• No meeting in December

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)
• No meeting in December

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)
• No meeting in December

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)
• No meeting in December

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)
• No meeting in December

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)
• No meeting in December

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)
• No meeting in December