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BOOK GROUP  from 2014


2025
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January - Circe - Madeline Miller
February - The Personal History of David Copperfield - Charles Dickens 
 March - Persuasian - Jane Austen
​April - The Lincoln Highway - Amor Towles 
May - Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen

2024

January - The Years -  Annie Ernaux
February -  Burr:A Novel - Gore Vidal.
March - Foster - Claire Keegan
April - The Covenant of Water - Abraham Verghese.
May - Ishi in Two Worlds - Theodora Kroeber.
June - The Secret Chord - Geraldine Brooks.

July -Brooklyn - Colm Toibin. 
August - The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store - James McBride
September - Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA - Brenda Maddox
October - James: Percival Everett 

November- The Warmth of Other Suns - Isabel Wilkerson
​December -News of the World - Paulette Jiles


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 
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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