2023 Book Group (43rd Annual Reading List)

• January 8, Angle of Repose – Stegner
  
• February 12, The Parisian – Hammad
  
• March 12, Horse – Brooks
  
• *April 16, Tomorrow & Tomorrow & Tomorrow –  Zevin
  
• *May 21, Cloud Cuckoo Land – Doerr
  
• June 11, Square Haunting – Wade
  
• July 9, Lessons in Chemistry – Garmus
  
• August 13, An Immense World – Yong
  
• September 10, Trust – Diaz
  
• *October 15, Ordinary Grace – Kingsolver
  
• November 12, Small Things Like These / Foster – Keegan
  
• December, Book Club does not meet
  
• January 14, 2024, Fathers and Sons  – Turgenev

2022 Book Group (42nd Annual Reading List)

• January 9, My Antonia – Cather
  
• February 13, The Night Watchman – Erdrich
  
• March 13, Deacon King Kong – McBride
  
• *April 3, The Plague – Camus
  
• *May 15, Lincoln Highway – Towles
  
• June 12, Sorrow and Bliss – Mason
  
• July 10, Klara and the Sun – Ishiguro
  
• August 14, Hell of a Book – Mott
  
• September 11, Three Girls From Bronzville – Turner
  
• October 9, Ordinary Grace – Krueger
  
• November 13, The Magician – Toibin
  
• December, Book Club does not meet
  
• January 8, 2023, Angle of Repose – Stegner

2021 Book Group (41st Annual Reading List)

• January 10, Intruder in the Dust – Faulkner
• February 14, One-in-a-Million Boy – Wood
• March 14, Crossing to Safety – Stegner
• April 11, This is How It Always Is – Frankel
• *May 16, Caste – Wilkerson
• June 13, Apeirogon – McCann
• July 11, American Dirt – Cummins
• August 8, Vanishing Half – Bennett
• September 12, Hamnet – O’Farrell
• October 10, This is Happiness – Williams
• November 14, This Tender Land – Krueger
• December, Book club does not meet
• January 9, 2022, My Antonia – Cather

2020 Book Group (40th Annual Reading List)

• January 12, To Kill a Mockingbird – Lee
• February 9, Little Fires Everywhere – Ng
• March 8, The Rent Collector – Wright
• *April 19, Madame Fourcade’s Secret War – Olson
• *May 17, The House of Broken Angels – Urrea
• June 14, The Lake on Fire – Brown
• July 12, The Overstory – Powers
• August 9, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous – Vuong
• September 13, The Water Dancer – Coates
• *October 18, Educated – Westover
• November 8, Disappearing Earth – Phillips
• December, Book club does not meet
• January 10 2021, Intruder in the Dust – Faulkner

2019 Book Group (39th Annual Reading List)

• January 13, Remains of the Day – Ishiguru
• February 10, News of the World – Jiles
• March 10, Awakening /Vagabond – Chopin/Collette
• April 14, Tsar of Love and Techno – Marra
• *May 19, Less – Greer
• June 9, An Unnecessary Woman – Alameddine
• July 14, Woman Who Smashed Codes – Fagone
• August 11, There, There – Orange
• September 8, The Great Believers – Makkai
• *October 20, Pachinko – Min Jin Lee
• November 10, The Bluest Eye – Morrison
• December, Book club does not meet
• January 12, To Kill a Mockingbird – Lee

2018 Book Group (38th Annual Reading List)

• January 14, Frankenstein – Shelley
• February 11, Moon Palace – Auster
• March 11, Unaccustomed Earth – Lahiri
• April 8, Lincoln in the Bardo – Saunders
• *May 20, Moonglow – Chabon
• June 10, Killers of the Flower Moon – Grann
• July 8, Homegoing – Gyasi
• August 12, Manhattan Beach – Egan
• September 9, Exit West – Hamid
• *October 21, A Gentleman in Moscow – Towles
• November 11, The Good Soldier – Ford
• December, Book club does not meet
• January 13, The Remains of the Day – Ishiguro

2017 Book Group (37th Annual Reading List)

• January 8, Middlemarch – Eliot
• February 12, Italian Shoes – Mankell
• March 12, The Portable Veblen – McKenzie
• April 9, Ceremony – Silko          
• *May 21, The Golem and the Jinni – Wecker
• June 11, North Water – McGuire
• July 9, Hillbilly Elegy – Vance
• August 13, The Nix – Hill
• September 10, Underground Railroad – Whitehead
• *October 15, Fun Home – Bechdel
• November 12, Sympathizer – Nguyen
• December, Book club does not meet
• January 14, Frankenstein – Shelley

2016 Book Group (36th Annual Reading List)

• January 10, Don Quixote Pt.1 – Cervantes
• February 14, Don Quixote Pt.2 – Cervantes
• March 13, Light Years – Salter
• April 10, Constellation of Vital Phenomena – Mara
• *May 15, West with the Night – Markham
• June 12, Tale for the Time Being – Ozeki
• July 10, Our Souls at Night – Haruf
• August 14, A Little Life – Yanagihara
• September 11, Between the World and Me – Coates
• *October 16, The Signature of All Things – Gilbert
• November 13, Dead Wake – Larson
• December, Book club does not meet
• January 8, Middlemarch – Eliot

2015 Book Group (35th Annual Reading List)

• January 11, Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
• February 8, Housekeeper & the Professor – Yoko Ogawa
• March 8, White Dog Fell from the Sky – Eleanor Morse
• April 12, Boys in the Boat – Daniel James Brown
• *May 17, Americanah – C. Ngozi Adichie
• June 14, All Quiet on the Western Front – E. Maria Remarque
• July 12, Faceless Killers – Henning Mankell
• August 9, Dandelion Wine – Ray Bradbury
• September 13, All the Light We Cannot See – Anthony Doerr
• *October 18, Man Called Ove – Fredrik Backman
• November 8, The Children Act – Ian McEwan
• December, Book club does not meet
• January 16, 2016 Don Quixote – Cervantes

2014 Book Group

• January 12, The Trial – Franz Kafka
• February 9, 12 Tribes of Hattie – Ayana Mathis
• March 9, Billy Lynn’s Long ½ Time Walk – Ben Fountain
• April 13, Unlikely Pilgrimage Harold Fry – Rachel Joyce
• *May 18, 10th of December – George Saunders
• June 8, Sandcastle Girls – C. Bohjalian
• July 13, Round House – Louise Erdrich
• August 10, Inventor & the Tycoon – Edward Ball
• September 14, Orphan Master’s Son – Adam Johnson
• *October 19, Flamethrowers – Rachel Kushner
• November 9, Bridge of San Luis Rey – Thornton Wilder
• December, Book club does not meet
• January 11, 2015, Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy

2013 Book Group

• January 13, Moby Dick – Herman Melville
• February 10, Story of a Marriage – Andrew Sean Greer
• March 10, Boy Kings of Texas – Domingo Martinez
• April 14, Good Earth – Pearl Buck
• *May 19, Carry the One – Carol Anshaw
• June 9, The Yellow Birds – Kevin Powers
• July 14, Redbreast – Jo Nesbo
• August 18, Where’d You Go Bernadette? – Maria Semple
• September 8, Leon and Louise – Alex Capus
• *October 20, Brooklyn – Colm Toibin
• November 10, Behind the Beautiful Forevers – Katherine Boo
• December, Book group does not meet
• January 12, 2014, The Trial – Franz Kafka

2012 Book Group

• January 8, The Lacuna – Barbara Kingsolver
• February 12, The Imperfectionists – Tom Rachman
• March 11, Annie Dunne – Sebastian Barry
• April 15, The Elegance of the Hedgehog – Muriel Barbery
• *May 20, The Warmth of Other Suns – Isabel Wilkerson
• June 10, The Tiger’s Wife – Tea Obreht
• July 8, Look at Me – Jennifer Egan
• August 12, The Art of Fielding – Chad Harbach
• September 9, The Buddha in the Attic – Julie Otsuka
• October 14, Cutting for Stone – Abraham Verghese
• November 11, The Sense of an Ending – Julian Barnes
• December, Book Group does not meet
• * January 13, 2013, Moby Dick – Herman Melville

2011 Book Group

• January 9, Power of One – Bryce Courtenay
• February 13, Slaughterhouse Five – Kurt Vonnegut
• March 13, Flight – Sherman Alexie
• April 10, A Long Long Time Ago and Essentially True – Brigid Pasulka
• *May 15, Case Histories – Kate Atkinson
• *June, Book Group does not meet
• July 10, A Prayer for Own Meany – John Irving
• August 14, Gilead – Marilyn Robinson
• September 11, Let the Great World Spin – Colum McCann
• *October 16, The World Without Us – Alan Weisman
• November 13, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain
• December, Book Group does not meet
• January 8, 2012, The Lacuna – Barbara Kingsolver

2010 Book Group

• January 10, Forgetfullness – Ward Just
• February 14, Olive Kitteridge – Elizabeth Strout
• March 14, Places in Between – Rory Stewart
• April 11, Out Stealing Horses – Per Petterson
• *May 16, Rabbit Run – John Updike
• June, Book Club does not meet
• July 11, The Book Thief – Markus Zusak
• August 8, Dear American Airlines – Jonathan Miles
• *September 19, The Help -, Kathryn Stockett
• *October 17, Infidel – Ayaan Hirsi Ali
• November 14, Both Ways is the Only Way I Want It – Maile Meloy
• December, Book Club does not meet
• January 9 (2011), The Power of One – Bryce Courtenay

2009 Book Group

• January 11, Mr. Pip – Lloyd Jones
• February 8, Unless – Carol Shields
  
• March 8, Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao – Junot Diaz
• *April 19, Omnivore’s Dilemma – Michael Pollan
  
• *May 18, Maytrees – Annie Dillard
  
• June, Book Group does not meet
  
• July 12, What is the What – Dave Eggers
  
• August 9, Loving Frank – Nancy Horan
  
• September 13, Reluctant Fundamentalist -Mohsin Hamid
  
• *October 18, Netherland – Joseph O’Neill
  
• November 8, Moon and Six Pence – JW. Somerset Maugham
  
• December, Book Group does not meet
  
• January 10, 2010, Forgetfulness – Ward Just

2008 Book Group

• January 13, Suite Francaise – Irene Nemirovsky
• February 10, Revolutionary Road – Richard Yates
• March 9, Straight Man – Richard Russo
• April 13, Call Me By Your Name – Andre Aciman
• *May 18, Dive From Clausen’s Pier – Ann Packer
• June, Book Group does not meet
• July 13, Golem – Gustav Meyrink
• August 10, Heat – Bill Buford
• September 14, Birds in Fall – Brad Kessler
• *October 19, The Road – Cormac McCarthy
• November 9, The Tender Bar – JR Moehringer
• December, Book Group does not meet
• January 11, 2009, Mr. Pip – Lloyd Jones (Great Expectations by Charles Dickens suggested as an optional companion read)

2007 Book Group

• January 14, Confederacy of Dunces – John Toole
• February 11, The Kitchen Boy – Robert Alexander
• March 11, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close – Jonathan Foer
• April 15, History of Love – Nicole Krauss
• May 20, Inheritance of Loss – Kiran Desai
• June, Club does not meet
• July 8, Under the Net – Iris Murdoch
• August 12, Isaac’s Storm – Erik Larson
• September 9, Year of Magical Thinking – Joan Didion
• October 21, Emperor’s Children – Claire Messud
• November 11, Everyman – Philip Roth
• December, Club does not meet
• January 13 (2008), Suite Francaise – I. Nemirovski

2006 Book Group

• January 8th, Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon
• February 12, Ravelstein – Saul Bellow
• March 12, True Notebooks – Mark Salzman
• April 9, Bee Season – M. Goldberg
• May 21, Shadow of the Wind – Z Ruiz
• June, Club does not meet
• July 9, Memoirs of Hadrian – M. Yourcenar
• August 13, Rottweiler -Ruth Rendell
• September 10, Saturday – Ian McEwan
• October 8, Tipping Point – M. Gladwell
• November 12, The Great Fire – Shirley Hazzard
• December, Club does not meet
• January 14 (2007), Confederacy of Dunces – John Toole