BOOK GROUP from 2014
2023
Jan - Lily King - EUPHORIA
Feb - Tiya Miles -ALL THAT SHE CARRIED: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, A Black Family's Keepsake
Mar - David McCullough - THE PIONEERS
Apr - David Guterson - SNOW FALLING ON CEDARS
May - Jane Harper - THE DRY
June - Daniel Defoe- MOLL FLANDERS
July - Diane Les Becquets - THE LAST WOMAN IN THE FOREST
August - Jonathan Harr - THE LOST PAINTING
September - Margaret Drabble - THE PEPPERED MOTH
October - Nial Williams - THIS IS HAPPINESS
November - Barbara Kingsolver - DEMON COPPERHEAD
December - David Grann - KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON
2022
Jan- Helena Worthen -POWER DESPITE PRECARITY: Strategies for the Contingent Faculty Movement in Higher Education
Feb - Maggie O'Farrell - HAMNET
Mar - Honore de Balzac - PERE GORIOT
Apr - Kim Stanley Robinson - THE MINISTRY FOR THE FUTURE
May - Mikhail Sholokov - AND QUIET FLOWS THE DON
June - Jeanine Cummins - AMERICAN DIRT
August - Roberto Lovato - UNFORGETTING
Sept - Daniel James Brown - THE BOYS IN THE BOAT
Oct - Michael Lewis - THE PREMONITION
Nov - Wallace Stegner - CROSSING TO SAFETY
Dec - Louise Erdrich - THE NIGHT WATCHMAN
2021
Jan - George R. Stewart - EARTH ABIDES
Feb - Charles Dickens - THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD
Mar - Robin D.G. Kelley - HAMMER AND HOE: ALABAMA COMMUNISTS DURING THE GREAT DEPRESSION
Apr -Derek B. Miller - NORWEGIAN BY NIGHT
May - Nella Larsen - QUICKSAND
June - George Eliot - MIDDLEMARCH
July - James Baldwin - THE FIRE NEXT TIME
August - Barack Obama - A PROMISED LAND
Sept - Ralph Ellison - THE INVISIBLE MAN
Oct - Jane Austen - PERSUASION
Nov - Emma Donoghue - THE PULL OF THE STARS
Dec - Kazu Ishiguro - KLARA AND THE SUN
2020
Jan - Julia Flynn Siler - THE WHITE DEVIL'S DAUGHTERS: THE WOMEN WHO FOUGHT SLAVERY IN SAN FRANCISCO'S CHINATOWN
Feb - Delia Owens - WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING
Apr - Celeste Ng - LITTLE FIRES EVERYWHERE
May - Trevor Noah - BORN A CRIME
June - Katherine Anne Porter - PALE HORSE, PALE RIDER
August- Nancy MacLean - DEMOCRACY IN CHAINS: THE DEEP HISTORY OF THE
RADICAL RIGHT'S STEALTH PLAN FOR AMERICA
September- Maggie Doherty - THE EQUIVALENTS: A STORY OF ART, FEMALE FRIENDSHIP,
AND LIBERATION IN THE 1960's
October - Virginia Woolf - ORLANDO
November - Tillie Olsen - TELL ME A RIDDLE
December - Tove Jansson - THE SUMMER BOOK
2019
Jan - Tara Westover - EDUCATED
Feb - John Dos Passos - THE 42nd. PARALLEL
Mar - Amor Toles - A GENTLEMAN IN MOSCOW
Apr - Iris Murdoch - THE SEA, THE SEA
Jun - Colm Toibin - THE MASTER
Jul - Julie Otsuka - THE BUDDHA IN THE ATTIC
Aug - Paul Beatty - THE SELLOUT
Oct - Henry James - THE GOLDEN BOWL
Nov - Toni Morrison - BELOVED
Dec - Margaret Atwood - SURFACING
2018
Jan - Bronte, Charlotte - VILLETTE
Feb - Sotomayor, Sonia - MY BELOVED WORLD
Mar - Rosenberg, Rosalind - JANE CROW: THE LIFE OF PAULI MURRAY
Apr - Le Guin, Ursula - THE LEFT HAND OF DARKNESS
Jun - Mary Beard - WOMEN AND POWER: A MANIFESTO
Jul - Ngozi Adichie Chimamanda - AMERICANAH
Sep - Mohsin Hamid - EXIT WEST
Oct - Eliot, George - THE MILL ON THE FLOSS
Nov - Amy Goldstein - JANESVILLE
Dec - Leonardo Padura Fuentes - ADIOS HEMINGWAY
2017
Jan - Bronte, Charlotte - JANE EYRE
Feb - Sobel, Dava - THE GLASS UNIVERSE: HOW THE LADIES OF THE HARVARD OBSERVATORY
TOOK THE MEASURE OF THE STARS
Mar - Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher - A MIDWIFE’S TALE: THE LIFE OF MARTHA BALLARD, BASED ON HER
DIARY, 1785-1812
Apr - Brooks, Geraldine - MARCH
Jun - Alcott, Louisa May - LITTLE WOMEN
Jul - Whitehead, Colson - THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD
Aug - Vance, J.D. - HILLBILLY ELEGY
Sep - Patchett, Ann - COMMONWEALTH
Oct - Solnit, Rebecca - THE FARAWAY NEARBY
Nov - Millett, Kate - SEXUAL POLITICS
Dec - Shelley, Mary - FRANKENSTEIN; or, THE MODERN PROMETHEUS
2016
Jan - Alexievich, Svetlana - VOICES FROM CHERNOBYL
Mar - Lepore, Jill - THE SECRET HISTORY OF WONDER WOMAN
Apr - Foster, E.M. - A ROOM WITH A VIEW
Jun - Carman & Knizhnik - THE NOTORIOUS RBG: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF RUTH BADER GINSBURG
Aug - Warner, Sylvia Townsend - LOLLY WILLOWES: OR THE LOVING HUNTSMAN
Sep - Jahren, Hope - LAB GIRL
Oct - Nimura, Janice P. - DAUGHTERS OF THE SAMURAI: A JOURNEY FROM EAST TO WEST AND BACK
Nov - Bowen, Elizabeth - THE DEATH OF THE HEART
Dec - Rhys, Jean - WIDE SARGASSO SEA
2015
Jan - Verghese, Abraham - MY OWN COUNTRY: A DOCTOR’S STORY
Feb - Strayed, Cheryl - WILD: FROM LOST TO FOUND ON THE PACIFIC COAST TRAIL
Mar - Gardam, Janet - OLD FILTH
Apr - Doerr, Anthony - ALL THE LIGHT WE CANNOT SEE
May - Kidder, Tracy - STRENGTH IN WHAT REMAINS
Jun - Duhigg, Charles - THE POWER OF HABIT: WHY WE DO WHAT WE DO IN LIFE AND BUSINESS
Aug - Markham, Beryl - WEST WITH THE NIGHT
Oct - Kline, Christina Baker - ORPHAN TRAIN
Nov - Ferrante, Elena - MY BRILLIANT FRIEND
Dec - Parmar, Priya - VANESSA AND HER SISTER
2014
Jan - Sweet, Victoria - GOD’S HOTEL
Feb - Grandin, Temple - THINKING IN PICTURES: MY LIFE WITH AUTISM
Mar - Wallach, Janet - THE RICHEST WOMAN IN AMERICA: HETTY GREEN AND THE GILDED AGE
Apr - Sacks, Oliver - AN ANTHROPOLOGIST ON MARS
Jun - Winterson, Jeanette - WHY BE HAPPY WHEN YOU COULD BE NORMAL?
Jul - Wilson, E. O. - ANTHILL: A NOVEL
Sep - Joyce, Rachel - THE UNLIKELY PILGRIMAGE OF HAROLD FRY
Nov - Shin, Kyung-Sook - PLEASE LOOK AFTER MOM
Dec - Lepore, Jill - BOOK OF AGES: THE LIFE AND OPINIONS OF JANE FRANKLIN
Jan - Lily King - EUPHORIA
Feb - Tiya Miles -ALL THAT SHE CARRIED: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, A Black Family's Keepsake
Mar - David McCullough - THE PIONEERS
Apr - David Guterson - SNOW FALLING ON CEDARS
May - Jane Harper - THE DRY
June - Daniel Defoe- MOLL FLANDERS
July - Diane Les Becquets - THE LAST WOMAN IN THE FOREST
August - Jonathan Harr - THE LOST PAINTING
September - Margaret Drabble - THE PEPPERED MOTH
October - Nial Williams - THIS IS HAPPINESS
November - Barbara Kingsolver - DEMON COPPERHEAD
December - David Grann - KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON
2022
Jan- Helena Worthen -POWER DESPITE PRECARITY: Strategies for the Contingent Faculty Movement in Higher Education
Feb - Maggie O'Farrell - HAMNET
Mar - Honore de Balzac - PERE GORIOT
Apr - Kim Stanley Robinson - THE MINISTRY FOR THE FUTURE
May - Mikhail Sholokov - AND QUIET FLOWS THE DON
June - Jeanine Cummins - AMERICAN DIRT
August - Roberto Lovato - UNFORGETTING
Sept - Daniel James Brown - THE BOYS IN THE BOAT
Oct - Michael Lewis - THE PREMONITION
Nov - Wallace Stegner - CROSSING TO SAFETY
Dec - Louise Erdrich - THE NIGHT WATCHMAN
2021
Jan - George R. Stewart - EARTH ABIDES
Feb - Charles Dickens - THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD
Mar - Robin D.G. Kelley - HAMMER AND HOE: ALABAMA COMMUNISTS DURING THE GREAT DEPRESSION
Apr -Derek B. Miller - NORWEGIAN BY NIGHT
May - Nella Larsen - QUICKSAND
June - George Eliot - MIDDLEMARCH
July - James Baldwin - THE FIRE NEXT TIME
August - Barack Obama - A PROMISED LAND
Sept - Ralph Ellison - THE INVISIBLE MAN
Oct - Jane Austen - PERSUASION
Nov - Emma Donoghue - THE PULL OF THE STARS
Dec - Kazu Ishiguro - KLARA AND THE SUN
2020
Jan - Julia Flynn Siler - THE WHITE DEVIL'S DAUGHTERS: THE WOMEN WHO FOUGHT SLAVERY IN SAN FRANCISCO'S CHINATOWN
Feb - Delia Owens - WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING
Apr - Celeste Ng - LITTLE FIRES EVERYWHERE
May - Trevor Noah - BORN A CRIME
June - Katherine Anne Porter - PALE HORSE, PALE RIDER
August- Nancy MacLean - DEMOCRACY IN CHAINS: THE DEEP HISTORY OF THE
RADICAL RIGHT'S STEALTH PLAN FOR AMERICA
September- Maggie Doherty - THE EQUIVALENTS: A STORY OF ART, FEMALE FRIENDSHIP,
AND LIBERATION IN THE 1960's
October - Virginia Woolf - ORLANDO
November - Tillie Olsen - TELL ME A RIDDLE
December - Tove Jansson - THE SUMMER BOOK
2019
Jan - Tara Westover - EDUCATED
Feb - John Dos Passos - THE 42nd. PARALLEL
Mar - Amor Toles - A GENTLEMAN IN MOSCOW
Apr - Iris Murdoch - THE SEA, THE SEA
Jun - Colm Toibin - THE MASTER
Jul - Julie Otsuka - THE BUDDHA IN THE ATTIC
Aug - Paul Beatty - THE SELLOUT
Oct - Henry James - THE GOLDEN BOWL
Nov - Toni Morrison - BELOVED
Dec - Margaret Atwood - SURFACING
2018
Jan - Bronte, Charlotte - VILLETTE
Feb - Sotomayor, Sonia - MY BELOVED WORLD
Mar - Rosenberg, Rosalind - JANE CROW: THE LIFE OF PAULI MURRAY
Apr - Le Guin, Ursula - THE LEFT HAND OF DARKNESS
Jun - Mary Beard - WOMEN AND POWER: A MANIFESTO
Jul - Ngozi Adichie Chimamanda - AMERICANAH
Sep - Mohsin Hamid - EXIT WEST
Oct - Eliot, George - THE MILL ON THE FLOSS
Nov - Amy Goldstein - JANESVILLE
Dec - Leonardo Padura Fuentes - ADIOS HEMINGWAY
2017
Jan - Bronte, Charlotte - JANE EYRE
Feb - Sobel, Dava - THE GLASS UNIVERSE: HOW THE LADIES OF THE HARVARD OBSERVATORY
TOOK THE MEASURE OF THE STARS
Mar - Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher - A MIDWIFE’S TALE: THE LIFE OF MARTHA BALLARD, BASED ON HER
DIARY, 1785-1812
Apr - Brooks, Geraldine - MARCH
Jun - Alcott, Louisa May - LITTLE WOMEN
Jul - Whitehead, Colson - THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD
Aug - Vance, J.D. - HILLBILLY ELEGY
Sep - Patchett, Ann - COMMONWEALTH
Oct - Solnit, Rebecca - THE FARAWAY NEARBY
Nov - Millett, Kate - SEXUAL POLITICS
Dec - Shelley, Mary - FRANKENSTEIN; or, THE MODERN PROMETHEUS
2016
Jan - Alexievich, Svetlana - VOICES FROM CHERNOBYL
Mar - Lepore, Jill - THE SECRET HISTORY OF WONDER WOMAN
Apr - Foster, E.M. - A ROOM WITH A VIEW
Jun - Carman & Knizhnik - THE NOTORIOUS RBG: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF RUTH BADER GINSBURG
Aug - Warner, Sylvia Townsend - LOLLY WILLOWES: OR THE LOVING HUNTSMAN
Sep - Jahren, Hope - LAB GIRL
Oct - Nimura, Janice P. - DAUGHTERS OF THE SAMURAI: A JOURNEY FROM EAST TO WEST AND BACK
Nov - Bowen, Elizabeth - THE DEATH OF THE HEART
Dec - Rhys, Jean - WIDE SARGASSO SEA
2015
Jan - Verghese, Abraham - MY OWN COUNTRY: A DOCTOR’S STORY
Feb - Strayed, Cheryl - WILD: FROM LOST TO FOUND ON THE PACIFIC COAST TRAIL
Mar - Gardam, Janet - OLD FILTH
Apr - Doerr, Anthony - ALL THE LIGHT WE CANNOT SEE
May - Kidder, Tracy - STRENGTH IN WHAT REMAINS
Jun - Duhigg, Charles - THE POWER OF HABIT: WHY WE DO WHAT WE DO IN LIFE AND BUSINESS
Aug - Markham, Beryl - WEST WITH THE NIGHT
Oct - Kline, Christina Baker - ORPHAN TRAIN
Nov - Ferrante, Elena - MY BRILLIANT FRIEND
Dec - Parmar, Priya - VANESSA AND HER SISTER
2014
Jan - Sweet, Victoria - GOD’S HOTEL
Feb - Grandin, Temple - THINKING IN PICTURES: MY LIFE WITH AUTISM
Mar - Wallach, Janet - THE RICHEST WOMAN IN AMERICA: HETTY GREEN AND THE GILDED AGE
Apr - Sacks, Oliver - AN ANTHROPOLOGIST ON MARS
Jun - Winterson, Jeanette - WHY BE HAPPY WHEN YOU COULD BE NORMAL?
Jul - Wilson, E. O. - ANTHILL: A NOVEL
Sep - Joyce, Rachel - THE UNLIKELY PILGRIMAGE OF HAROLD FRY
Nov - Shin, Kyung-Sook - PLEASE LOOK AFTER MOM
Dec - Lepore, Jill - BOOK OF AGES: THE LIFE AND OPINIONS OF JANE FRANKLIN