Book Club: 25 years of books we've read

2023

The Widows of Malabar Hill by Sujata Massey

The Kitchen Front by Jennifer Ryan

Zorrie by Laird Hunt

Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus

Three Thousand Years of Longing (a movie)

Miss Benson's Beetle by Rachel Joyce

Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt

The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating by Elisabeth Tova Bailey

Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I'd Know Earlier by Kevin Kelly

The Reading List by Sara Nisha Adams

2022

The Midnight Library by Matt Haig

Enough Already by Valerie Bertinelli

The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams

The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict and Christopher Murray

The Sentence by Louise Erdrich

Bruno, Chief of Police by Martin Walker

The Finder by Will Ferguson

White Bird by RJ Palacio

Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri

How the Word is Passed by Clint Smith

The Home for Unwanted Girls by Joanna Goodman

2021

Wild Life by Molly Gloss

Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng

Afterlife by Julia Alvarez

Born A Crime by Trevor Noah

Home Work by Julie Andrews

The Witch Elm by Tana French

Rust: A Memoir of Steel and Grit by Eliese Goldbach

The Bookish Life of Nina Hill by Abbi Waxman

The Wife Upstairs by Rachel Hawkins

Dear Edward by Ann Napolitano

When You Trap a Tiger by Tae Keller

2020

Why Not Me: Mindy Kaling

Overstory: Richard Powers

Becoming: Michelle Obama

Where the Crawdads Sing: Delia Owens

The Dutch House: Ann Patchett

American Dirt: Jeanine Cummins

The Silent Patient: Alex Michaelides

Moment of Lift: Melinda Gates

Hidden Valley Road: Robert Kolker

A Lot Like Christmans: Connie Willis

2019

Celine: Peter Heller

Whiskey in a Teacup: Reese Witherspoon

Artemis: Andy Weir

The Light of Paris: Eleanor Brown

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: Jonathan Safran

Paris by the Book: Liam Callanan

The Day I Ate Everything I Wanted: Elizabeth Berg

The Island of Sea Women: Lisa See

Maybe You Need to Talk to Someone: Lori Gottlieb

2018

personal favorite magazine or periodical

Lincoln in the Bardo: George Saunders

Bossypants: Tina Fey

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind: Yuval Noah Harari

Remains of the Day: Kazuo Ishiguro

To Do Justice: Laurie Marr Wasmund

The Circle: Dave Eggers

All Who Go Do Not Return: Shulem Deen

TedTalk: Nationalism versus Globalism: Yuval Noah Harari

2017

Hillbilly Elegy:  J.D.Vance

Hidden Figures: Margot Shetterly

The Devil in the White City: Erik Larson

The Handmaid's Tale: Margaret Atwood

Whistling Vivaldi: Claude M Steele

Small Great Things: Jodi Picoult

A Man Called Ove: Fredrik Backman

The Invention of Wings: Sue Monk Kidd

Jest or consider the Lobster: David Foster Wallace

2016

The Ride of Our Lives: Mike Leonard

Being Mortal: Atul Gawande

Just Like Us: Helen Thorpe

Station Eleven: Emily St John Mandel

Thinking Fast and Slow: Daniel Kahneman

We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves: Joy Fowler

The Invisible History of the Human Race: Christine Kenneally

What Alice Forgot: Liane Moriarty

Movies: Embrace

              RACE

2015

Any Agatha Christie book

Clean Cut: Laurie Marr Wasmund (LOCAL AUTHOR)

Soldier Girls: Helen Thorpe

Orphan Train: Christina Baker Kline

The Bluest Eye: Toni Morrison

Me Before You: Jojo Moyes

Spare Parts: Joshua Davis (or watch movie option)

An Invisible Thread: Laura Schroff & Alex Tresniowski

A Thread of Grace: Mary Dora Russell

Movie: Spare Parts

2014

A House in the Sky: Amanda Lindhout & Sara Corbett

Lean In: Sheryl Sandberg

The Financial Lives of Poets: Jess Walter

Rat Island: William Stolzenburg

The Lost Child of Philomena Lee: Martin Sixsmith (movie option)

Saving Mr Banks: P.L.Travers

Team of Rivals: Doris Kearns Goodwin

The Book Thief: Marcus Zusak

 2013

This Time Together: Carol Burnett

The End of Your Life Book Club: Will Schwalble

The Imperfectionists: Tom Rachman

Wild: Freom Lost to Found on the Packif Coast Trail: Cheryl Strayed

 A Grown-up Kind of Pretty: Joshilyn Jackson

The Last Runaway: Tracy Chevalier

Call the Midwife: Jennifer Worth

Cutting for Stone: Abraham Verghese

My Heart Lies Here: Laurie Marr Wasmund

 2012

Travel as a Political Act: Rick Steves

Eleanor Roosevelt: First Lady of the World: Editor of TIME for Kids

Gone Girl: Gillian Flynn

American Nations: Colin Woodard

Girl Hunter: Revolutionizing the Way We Eat, One Hunt at a Time: Georgia Pellegrini

A Dog's Life: Ann M. Martin

Boomerang: Michael Lewis

 Movie: Flight

2011

Critical Condition: How Health Care in America Became Big Business and Bad Medicine: Donald L Barlett

Unsaid: Neil Abramson

My Life in 3,500 Words or Less:  Nora Ephron

I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman: Nora Ephron

What the Dog Saw: Malcolm Gladwell

Troke of Genius: Sandy Simon

Visit from the Goon Squad: Jennifer Egan

2010

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo: Stieg Larsson

View from the Summit: Sir Edmund Hillary

Lust, Caution: Eileen Chang

On the Corner of Bitter and Sweet: Jamie Ford

Still Alice: Lisa Genova

 2009

Postville: A Clash of Cultures in Heartland America: Steven Bloom

People of the Book: Geraldine Brooks

Twilight: Stephanie Meyer

2008

Bel Canto: Ann Patchett

Middlesex: Jeffrey Eugenides

The Song REader: Lisa Tucker

2007

The Good, Good Pig: Sy Montgomery

Suite Francaise: Irene Nemirovsky

A Prayer for Owen Meany: John Irving

Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister: Gregory Maguire

Chose by a Horse: Susan Richards

Mercy: Jodi Picoult

2006

The Kite Runner: Khaled Hossenini

The Bookseller of Kabul: Asne Seierstad

Emma's War: Deborah Scroggins

A Walk in the Woods: Bill Bryson 

2005

The Time Traveler's Wife: Audrey Niffenegger

Holy Fools: Joanne Harris

Tuesdays with Morrie: Mitch Albom

A Lesson before Dying: Ernest Gaines 

2004

Secret Life of Bees: Sue Monk Kidd

Empress Orchid: Anchee Min

The DaVinci Code: Dan Brown

The Buffalo Soldier: Chris Bohjalian

The Life of Pi: Yann Martel

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn: Betty Smith

The Orchid Thief: Susan Orlean

Holy Foods: Joanne Harris

2003

The Honest Courtesan: Margaret Rosenthal

Crow Lake: Mary Lawson

The Sparrow, Mary Doria Russell

Ishmael: Daniel Quinn

Pope Joan: Donna Woolfolk Cross

The Orchid Thief: Susan Orlean

These is My Words: Nancy E Turner

Every Breath You Take: Anne Rule

The Lovely Bones: Alice Sebold

Wagons West Series; Dana Fuller Ross

movie:  Dangerous Beauty

2002

Seabiscuit: Laura Hillenbrand

Chocolat: Joanne Harris

The Botany of Desire: Michael Pollan

Emily, the Diary of a Hard-Worked Woman:  Emily French

Empire Falls: Richard Russo

The World Below: Sue Miller

The Shipping News: Annie E Prouix

Gone with the Wind: Margaret Mitchell

Hope in the Unseen: Ron Suskind

The Tale of Genji: Murasaki

The Fellowship of the Ring: J.R.R. Tolkien

2001

This Much I know is True: Wally Lamb

At Home in Mitford: Jan Karon

Traveling Mercies: Anne Lamott

Never Cry Wolf: Farley Mowat

Any of Alan Gregory Series by Stephen walsh White

The House of Sand and Fog: Andre Dubus III

The Screwtape Letters: C.S. Lewis

The White Stone: Christy Har Lips

The AGe of Innocence: Edith Wharton

Pull of the Moon: Elizabeth Berg

Liar's Club: Mary Karr

2000

The Spanish Peaks: Jon Chandler

West with the Night: Merly Markham

The Poisonwood Bible: Barbara Kingsolver

The Red Tent: Anita Diamant

The Grilling Season: Diane Mott Davidson

Tuesdays with Morrie: Mitch Albom

False Pretenses: Catherine Coulter

The Year 1000: Robert Lacey and Danny Danziger

White Oleander: Janet Fitch

The Saving Graces: Patricia Gaffney

 Movie: Cider House Rules

             American Beauty

1999

 The Tortilla Curtain: Boyle T Coraghessan

What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day: Pearl Cleage

The Bean tRees: Barbara Kingsolver

Cold Sassy Tree: Olive Anne Burns

The Last Day: Gleen Kleier

The Devine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood: Rebecca Wells

The Pilot's Wife: Anita Shreve

Memoirs of a Geisha: Arthur Golden

Chasing Grace: Reflections of a Catholic Girl, Grown Up: Martha Manning

The REader: Bernard Schlink

Endurance: Caroline Alexander

1998

 Alas, Babylon: Frank Pat

The Gate to Women's Country: Sheri S Tepper

A Year in Provence: Peter Mayle

Foundation: Isaac Asimov

Snow Falling on Cedars: David Guterson

Reviving Ophelia: Mary Pipher

1997

 Growing Season: Arlene Berstein

In the Heat of the Sun: Louis D Rubin Jr

Mutant Message Down Under: Marlo Morgan

Romeo and Juliet: William Shakespeare

Angela's Ashes: Frank McCourt

The Color of Water: James McBride

Living a Simple LIfe: Elaine St James

The Milagro Bean Field War: John Nichols

1996

 Love and the Soul: Creating a Future for the Earth: Robert Sardello

Triversity Fantasy: Stephanie W Allen

Simplify Your Life: Elaine St James

The Chalice and the Blade: Raine Eisler

Awakenings: Oliver Sacks

Dinosaur in a Haystack: Stephan Jay Gould

The Celestine Prophecy: James Redfield

The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success: Deepak Chopra

Spontaneous Healing: Andrew Weil

The Way of the Wizard: Deepak Chopra

 Unknown what year we read the following:

Patron Saint of Liars: Ann Patchett

Outliers: Michael Gladwell (I’m pretty sure)

Marley and Me: John Grogan

Atonement: Ian McEwan

Soldier Girls: Helen Thorpe

The Rosie Project: Graeme Simsion