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.

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

 

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

 

2017

 

2016

 

2015

 

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 Lindey 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 Confereracy 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 Bonnegut

 

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 Chatterly'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 McMilan
  • 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 Kinsolver
  • 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