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Library Book Club Previous Selections
You are welcome to join our Library Book Club at any time, and if you would like to catch up on books we've already read, check out the list below.
2025
January: The Comfort of Crows by Margaret Renkl
February 17th - Honor by Thrity Umrigar
March: The Dutch House by Ann Patchett
April: When Books Went to War by Molly Guptill Manning
2024
January: A Long Way Home by Saroo Brierley
February: The Measure by Nikki Erlick
March: The Book of Charlie by David Von Drehle
April: Falling by T. J. Newman.
May: The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon
June: The Anphropocene Reviewed by John Green
July: The Reading List by Sara Nisha Adams
August: Presumed Innocent by Scott Thurow
September - The Wide, Wide Sea by Hampton Sides
October: Any book by Jodi Picoult
November: Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson
December: The Christmas Pearl by Dorothea Benton Frank
2023
January - The Only Woman in the Room by Marie Benedict
February - The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion
March - Any Banned Book of Your Choice
April - The Human Comedy by William Saroyan
May - I Know Why the Caged Birds Sing by Maya Angelou
June - A Fever in the Heartland by Timothy Egan
July - Nala's World by Dean Nicholson
August - Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
September - The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
October - Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
November - Go As a River by Shelley Read
December - Comfort and Joy by Kristin Hannah and Mr. Dickens and His Carols by Samantha Silva
2022
January 24 - West with Giraffes by Lynda Rutledge (pushed back a week due to Martin Luther King, Jr. Day)
February 21 - The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell by Robert Dugoni
March 21 - The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles
April - The Personal Librarian
May 16 - The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
June 20 - The Survivors by Jane Harper
July 18- The Hilarious World of Depression by John Moe
August 15- No Meeting
September 19- Born a Crime by Trevor Noah and The Naturalist Theodore Roosevelt by Darrin Lunde
October 17- Any title by or about Agatha Christie, reader's choice
November 21- In Order to Live by Yeonmi Park
December 19- An Irish Country Christmas by Patrick Taylor
2021
January 25 - City of Girls: A Novel by Elizabeth Gilbert
February 22 - Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate
March 22 - When No One is Watching by Alyssa Cole
April 26 - Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
May 24 - Sold on a Monday by Kristina McMorris
September 27 - The Daughters of Yalta by Catherine Katz
October 18 - Facing the Mountain: A True Story of the Japanese American Heroes in WW II by Daniel James Brown.
November 15 - The Girl with the Louding Voice by Abi Dare, Adjoa Andoh, et al.
December 20 - A Redbird Christmas by Fannie Flagg
2020
December/January: "The Warmth of Other Suns" by Isabel Wilkerson
February - The Shoemaker's Wife by Adriana Trigiani
March - No Meeting
April - The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek AND Track of the Cat
June - When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
July - Forgotten Ellis Island: The Extraordinary Story of a Hospital by Lorie Conway
August - If You Lived Here You'd Be Home by Now by Christopher Ingraham
September - A Woman is No Man: A Novel by Etaf Rum
October - Finding Dorothy: A Novel by Elizabeth Letts
November 23 - American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins
2019
July: "A Gentleman in Moscow: A Novel" by Amor Towles
August: "The Lost Girls of Paris" by Pam Janoff
September: "The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend" by Katarina Bivald
October: "Siddartha" by Herman Hesse
November: "Next Year in Havana" by Chanel Cleeton
2018
The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out a Window and Disappeared
Killers of the Flower Moon
Miller's Valley
Being Mortal
The Trial
The Drunken Botanist
Hamilton
Founding Mothers: The Women Who Raised Our Nation
Midnight at the Electric by Jody Lynn Anderson
The Water Will Come; rising seas, sinking cities, and the remaking of the civilized world by Jeff Goodell
Amity & Prosperity; one family and the fracturing of America by Eliza Griswold
Random Family: love, drugs, trouble and the coming of age in the Bronx by Adrian N LeBlanc
Jefferson's Daughters by Catherine Kerrison
And Then There Were None By Agatha Christie
The Librarian of Auschwitz by Antonio Iturbe
2017
One Second After
My Father And Atticus Finch: A Lawyer's Fight For Justice In 1930s Alabama
The Wright Brothers
The Sun Also Rises
Night
The Red Pony
Best American Plays: fourth series, 1951-1957
The Crucible
Hillbilly Elegy
The Quartet: Orchestrating the Second American Revolution 1783-1789
The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit
Pacific Vortex
Orphan Train
2016
The Girls of Atomic City by Denise Kiernan
Killing Floor by Lee Child
Inferno by Dan Brown
I, the Jury by Mickey Spillane
Dead Wake by Eric Larson
Dollface: A Novel of the Roaring Twenties by Renee Rosen
The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
The First World War by John Keegan
Dead Wake by Erik Larson
Manhunt: The Twelve-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer by James Swanson
The Greater Journey by David McCullough
A Fierce Radiance by Lauren Belfer
2015
You Can't Make This Stuff Up by Theresa Caputo
Reckless by Tom Clavin
The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker
The Nine by Jeffrey Toobin
The Day the World Came to Town by Jim DeFede
The Little Sister by Raymond Chandler
The Maltese Falcon by Dashielle Hammett
The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
In the Kingdom of Ice by Hampton Sides
The Brother Gardeners by Andrea Wulf
The Bully Pulpit by Doris Kearns Goodwin
2014
Five Days at Memorial by Sheri Fink
The Rent Collector by Camron Steve Wright
The Monuments Men by Robert M. Edsel
The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
Bittersweet by Miranda Beverly-Whittemore
The Silver Star by Jeannette Walls
The Aviator's Wife
The Botany of Desire
A Spy Among Friends by Ben Macintyre
The Boys in the Boat by Daniel Brown
Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power by Jon Meacham
2013
Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver
My Beloved World by Sonia Sotomeyer
A Curious Man by Neal Thompson
The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
Member's choice at any Earnest Hemingway title
The Lucuna by Sonia Sotomayor
The Art Forger by B.A. Shapiro
River of Doubt by Candice Millard
Double Cross by Ben Macintyre
Bleak House by Charles Dickens
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
2012
Black Potatoes by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
The Visable World by Mark Slovka
The World Without Us by Alan Weisman
In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson
Are You Somebody by Nuala O'Faolainis
The Faith Club by Ranya Idiby
Escape by Carolyn Jessop
This Desired Place by Julia Older
The Dovekeepers by Alice Hoffman
Member's choice of any John Steinbeck title
Nothing Like It in the World by Stephen Ambrose
2011
Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham
Pope Joan by Donna Cross
The Last Child in the Woods by Richard Louv
Any Reader's Choice title written by Herman Wouk
Rise of Silas Lapham by William Dean Howells
Count of Monte Crisco by Alexandre Dumas
Mark Twain, a Life by Ron Powers
Herzog by Saul Bellow
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Same Kind of Different As Me by Ron Hall
2010
A Passage to India by E. M. Forester
Native Son by Richard Wright
Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
The Ride of Our Lives by Michael Leonard
Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
Wicked by Gregory Maguire
The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
2009
Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin
The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
Inman's War by Jeffrey S. Copeland
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
Three Men in a Boat by Jerome Jerome
Mrs. Mike by Benedict and Nancy Freeman
The Rescue Artist by Edward Dolnick
The Guernsey Literary Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Schaffer
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
2008
The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
A Room With a View by E.M. Forster
Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky
Special Topics in the Calamity of Physics by Marisha Pessl
The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
Disappearing Destinations by Kimberly Lisagor and Heather Hansen
Kiss Me Like a Stranger by Gene Wilder
The Book Thief by Marcus Zasak
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
Cretaceous Dawn by Lisa Graziano
Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson
2007
John Adams by David McCullough
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
Henry V by William Shakespeare
Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury
Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
Thirteen Moons by Charles Frazier
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant and/or Digging to America by Anne Tyler
Dead Men Tapping by Kate Yeoman
2006
1776 by David McCullough
Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
Scandal Takes a Holiday by Lindsey Davis
Howard's End by E M Forster
Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder
Till We Have Faces by C S Lewis
Dancing at the Rascal Fair by Ivan Doig
American Pastoral by Philip Roth
In the Beauty of the Lilies by John Updike
One Thousand White Women by Jim Fergus
2005
No Ordinary Time by Doris Kearns Goodwin
Rip Tide by Douglas Preston
The Great Possum Squashing and Beer Storn of 1962 by Fred Reed
Killer Angels by Michael Shaara
Archangel by Sharon Shinn
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
the Last Train to Paradise by Lez Standiford
The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
A Confedreracy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich
2004
The DaVinci Code by Dan Brown
All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
Girl with the Pearl Earing by Tracy Chevalier
Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Rebecca by Daphne Mauier
Blessing Stone by Barbara Wood
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Girl in the Hyacinth Blue by Suan Vreeland
Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn
2003
Ahab's Wife by Sena Jeter Naslund
Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Seabiscuit by Laura Hillenbrand
The Good Soldier by Ford Maddox Ford
Embers yby Sandor Marai
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Sijie Dai
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
Enemy Women by Paulette Jiles
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
2002
Rocket Boys by Homer Hickam
The Scarlet Pimpernel by Emmuska Orczy
Death and the Penguin by Andrei Kurkov
The Shipping News by Annie Proulx
Passage by Connie Willis
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Farewell to Manzanar by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston
A Separate Peace by John Knowles
The Making of a Hero: What Really Happened Seventy-five Years Ago, After Lindbergh Landed at Le Bourget in Air Power History, Summer 2002, Vol 49, No2 by Raymond H Fredette
We by Charles Lindbergh
Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
Bluebeard by Kurt Vonnegut
2001
A Beautiful Mind: A Biography of John Forbes Nash, Jr. by Sylvia Nasar
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Razor's Edge by Somerset Maughn
Red Sky at Morning by Richard Bradford
BNecoming Madame Mao by Anchee Min
Flags of Our Fathers by James Bradley
Holes by Louis Sachar
Road to Mars by Eric Idle
Losing Battles by Eudora Welty
Drowning Rut by Christina Schwarz
Appointment in Samarra by John O'Hara
2000
Cold Mountian by Charles Frazier
100 Banned Books: Censorship Histories of World Literature by Nicholas J Karolides
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures by Anne Fadiman
Lady Chatterley's Lover by DH Lawrence
Angle Of Repose by Wallace Stegner
The Color of Water by James McBride
How Stella Got Her Groove Back by Terry McMillan
Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Burns
Isaac's Storm by Eric Larson
The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
My Antonia by Willa Cather
The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
1999
Undaunted Courage by Stephen Ambrose
Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson
It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Wolf
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
Freedom in Exile: The Autobiography of the Dalai Lama by Dalai Lama (XIV)
Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
West with the Night by Beryl Markham
The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald
Welcome to the World, Baby Girl by Fannie Flagg
1998
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day by Pearl Cleage