Book List Year

2022

1. Jan – American Dirt – by Jeanine Cummins
2. Feb – The Paris Bookseller – Kerri Maher 
3. March – The Little Old Lady Who Broke All the Rules – Catharina Ingelman-Sandberg
4. April – What Comes After – Joanne Tompkins
5. May – break
6. June – break
7. July – break
8. August –  break
9. Sept –  The Authenticity Project – Clare Pooley 
10. Oct –  The Lager Queen of Minnesota – J Ryan Stradal
11. Nov – Upstairs at the White House – J B West 
12. Dec –  Rock Paper Scissors – Alice Feeney

2021

** Still getting back to ‘some’ kind of normal during Pandemic wackiness**

1. May – Of Women and Salt – by Gabriela Garcia
2. June – The Four Winds – Hannah Kristen 
3. July -Off-
4. August- The Year of the Storm – John Mantooth (aka Hank Early)
5. Sept- The Midnight Library – Matt Haig 
6. Oct – Off-
7. Nov-Strangers at the Feast – Jennifer Vanderbes
8. Dec- The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper – Phaedra Patrick 

2020 

1. Jan – The Golden Notebook– by Doris Lessing 
2. Feb – Echoes of the Fall by Hank Early ** Author will be present at the meeting! 
3. March – The Kid Stays in the Picture – by Robert Evans 
4. April – The Four Spirits by Sena Jeter Naslund – No meeting – Wah! Covid 
5. May – Hillbilly Elegy by J D Vance- No meeting again  double WAH! Covid 
6. June – The Corpse Washer by Sinan Antoon
7. July – Glory Road – by Lauren K Denton 
8. August – The Ghost Notebooks by Ben Dolnick 
9. September – Reading People by Anne Bogel 
10. October – Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders 
11. November – Becoming Ms Lewis by Patti Henry 
12. December – The Immortal Nicholas by Glenn Beck 

2019 

1. Jan – Educated by Tara Westover 
2. Feb – Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens 
3. March – Red Mountain by Boo Walker
4. April –  Breaking and Holding by Judy Fogarty 
5. May – Grace and Grit: My Fight for Equal Pay and Fairness at Goodyear and beyond – Lanier Scott Isom 
6. June- The Sunday Lunch Club by Juliet Ashton 
7. July – Hurricane Season – Lauren K. Denton – **Author May join us! 
8. August – The Last Castle by Denise Kiernan
9. Sept – No meeting  
10. Oct – Woman in the Window by A J Finn 
11. Nov – The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid – Bill Bryson 
12. Dec – Christmas on Jane Street by Billy Romp and Wanda Urbanska

2018 

1. Jan The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane 
2. Feb – The suitcases -Anne Hall Whitt
3. March – the Lilac Girls by Martha Hall Kelly 
4. April – The Hidden Light of Northern Fires by Daren Wang
5. May -The Keeper of Lost Things by Ruth Hogan
6. June – The Hideaway by Lauren K Denton 
7. July – Heavens Crooked Finger by Hank Early (author to be Skype in!) 
8. Aug- I am Malala by Malala Yousafza
9. Sept – Beneath a Scarlet Sky – Mark Sullivan
10. Oct – See What I Have Done by Sarah Schmidt 
11. Nov – Courting Disaster by Julie Edelson
12. Dec – First Frost by Sarah Addison Allen 

2017

1. Jan – Blood Money – by Dr. Stephen Russell
2. Feb – American Housewife – by Helen Ellis
3. March – Madonna in a Fur Coat – by Sabahatttin Ali
4. April – Out of the Easy – by Ruta Sepetys
5. May – The Guest Room – by Chris Bohjalian
6. June – Snobs by Julian Fellowes
7. July – Where’d You Go Bernadette – by Maria Sample
8. August – Georgia – by Dawn Tripp
9. September – The Lost Time Accidents – by John Wray
10. October – The Black Dahlia – by James Ellroy
11. November – A Certain Age – by Beatriz Williams
12. December – Christmas as the Cupcake Cafe – by Jenny Colgan 

2016

1. Jan – Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline
2. Feb – Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn
3. March – The Race for Paris by Meg Waite Clayton
4. April – The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey
5. May – Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown 
6. June –The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom 
7. July –  no meeting
8. August – The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
9. Sept – The Color of Light by Karen White
10. Oct – The Ludwig Conspiracy : a historical thriller by Oliver Potzsch
11. Nov – The Crimson Portrait by Jody Shields
12. Dec –In the Dark Streets Shineth: A 1941 Christmas Eve Story by David McCullough

2015

1. Jan – The Obituary Writer by Ann Hood
2. Feb – What Alice Forgot  by Liane Moriarty
3. March – Colorless TsukuruTazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage  by Haruki Murakami
4. April – The Shop on Blossom Street by Debbie Macomber
5. May – Whistling Past the Graveyard by Susan Crandall
6. June – The Tortilla Curtain by T.C. Boyle
7. July – Being Dead is No Excuse by Gayden Metcalf and Charlotte Hays
8. August – The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
9. September – A Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Marra
10. October – Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel
11. November – The Other Typist by Suzanne Rindell
12. December – The Christmas Pearl by Dorthea Benton Frank

2014

1. Jan – Children of the Jacaranda Treeby Sahar Delijani
2. Feb – Annie Freeman’s Fabulous Traveling Funeral by Kris Radish
3. March – Life is a Verb – 37 Ways to Wake Up, Be Mindful, Live Intentionally by Patti Digh
4. Aprl – The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
5. May – A Place at the Table by Susan Rebecca White
6. June – The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
7. July – The Light Between Oceans by M L Stedman
8. Aug –  The Orphan Masters Son by Adam Johnson
9. Sept –A Week in Winter by Maeve Binchy
10. Oct – The Night Circusby Erin Morgenstern
11. Nov –  The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton
12. Dec – Christmas Jars  by Jason Wright

2013

1. Jan – Ru – A Novel by Kim Thuy
2. Feb – Buddhaby Deepok Chopra
3. March – The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh
4. April – The School of Essential Ingredients by Erica Bauermeister
5. May –  Nothing Daunted, The Unexpected Education of Two Society Girls in the West by Dorothy Wickenden
6. June – A Single Thread by Marie Bostwick
7. July – Cutting for Stoneby Abraham Verghese
8. August – Fall of Giants – Ken Follett
9. September – The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Schloot
10. October –The Forgotten Garden – Kate Morton
11. November – The Lost Saints of Tennessee: A Novel – by Amy Franklin-Willis
12. December – Letters from Father Christmas -by  J.R.R. Tolkien, Baillie Tolkien

2012

1. Jan – Five Quarters of the Orange by Joanne Harris
2. Feb – Fragile Beast by Tawni O’Dell
3. March – Red Mist by Patricia Cornwell
4. April – Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
5. May – The House I Loved  by Tatiana de Rosnay
6. June – How Georgia Became O’Keeffe by Karen Karbo
7. July – The Middle Place  by Kelly Corrigan
8. August – The American Heiress by Daisy Goodwin
9. September – The Weird Sisters by Eleanor Brown
10. October – The Dark Monk – A Hangman’s Daughter Tale by Oliver Potzsch
11. November – A Vintage Affair by Isabell Wolff
12. December – A Christmas Memory by Truman Capote

2011

1. Jan –
2. Feb –
3. March – Daughter of Fortune – Isabel Allende
4. April – The Other Boleyn Girl – Phillipa Gregory
5. May –Franklin & Eleanor by Joseph Lash
6. June – Far From the Maddening Crowd– Thomas Hardy
7. July –The Paris Wife – Paula McLain
8. August – State of Wonder – Ann Pachett
9. Sept -Oct -I Still Dream About You – Fannie Flagg
10. Nov – (no book for this month)
11. Dec -Heaven is For Real – Todd Burpo

2010

1. Jan – Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts
2. Feb – South of Broad – Pat Conroy
3. March – Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
4. April – London by Edward Rutherford
5. May – The Help by Kathryn Stockett
6. June – Girl in Translation – Jean Kwok
7. July –
8. August – House Rules by Jodi Piccoult
9. Sept – Lolita in Tehran – Azar Nafisi
10. Oct –
11. Nov –
12. Dec – A Redbird Christmas by Fannie Flagg

2009

1. Jan – The Secret Life of Bees – Sue Monk Kidd
2. Feb – My Life in France – Julia Child
3. March – They Did It With Love – Kate Morganroth
4. April – Love By The Glass – Dorothy J. Gaiter & John Brecher
5. May – Whiteout – Ken Follett
6. June – Left to Tell – Immaculee Ilibagiza
7. July – The Thirteenth Tale – Diane Setterfield
8. August – The Road – Cormac McCarthy
9. Sept – The Lost Quilter – Jennifer Chiaverini
10. Oct – Monster Party – James St James
11. Nov – Tara Road – Maeve Binchy
12. Dec – The Girl with the Dragon Tatoo – by Steig Larrson

2008

1. Jan –Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie and Ina Rilke
2. Feb – Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
3. March – The Lady and the Panda by Vicky Constantine Croke
4. April – The Memory Keeper’s Daughter by Kim Edwards
5. May – Journey Toward Justice – Juliette Hampton Morgan
6. June – Waiting for Snow in Havana – Carlos Eire
7. July –  no meeting
8. August – The House Next Door – Anne River Siddons
9. Sept – Blind Your Ponies – Stanley G. West
10. Oct – Not Even My Name – Thea Halo
11. Nov – The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Society – Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows
12. Dec – The Shack – William Young

2007

1. Aug-Loving Frank by Nancy Horan
2. Sept-The Ha Ha by Dave King