Alcona Book Club Previous Book Club Titles (as of Dec. 31, 2018)

"Turn right at Machu Picchu : Rediscovering the lost city one step at a time" by Mark Adams "South of Superior" by Ellen Airgood "The Traveler's Gift: Seven Decisions that Determine Personal Success" by Andy Andrews "Alias Grace" by Margaret Atwood "The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating" by Elisabeth Toth Bailey "Yukon Alone" by John Balzar “And After the Fire” by Lauren Belfer. "All the President's Men" by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward. "Fieldwork" by Mischa Berlinski "Evening Class" by Maeve Binchy "Midwives" by Chris Bohjalian "Sandcastle Girls" by Chris Bohjalian "Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age" by Kevin Boyle "The Road to Wellville" by T. Coraghessan Boyle “When the Killing’s Done” by T.C. Boyle "This House is Haunted" by John Boyne "Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury "Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie" by C. Alan Bradley "Year of Wonders" by Geraldine Brooks "Boys in the Boat" by Daniel James Brown “In a Sunburned Country” by Bill Bryson "A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail" by Bill Bryson "Ender's Game" by Orson Scott Card "First Ladies" by Betty Boyd Caroli "Wild Swans" by Jung Chang "Girl with a Pearl Earring" by Tracy Chevalier "Remarkable Creatures" by Tracy Chevalier "Murder on the Orient Express" by Agatha Christie "The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins "The Orchardist" by Amanada Coplin. "The Lady and the Panda" by Vicki Constantine Croke “Arctic Drift” by Clive Cussler "The Living Great Lakes" by Jerry Dennis "Sarah's Key" by Tatiana de Rosnay "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens “The Language of Flowers” by Vanessa Diffenbaugh "Guide to the Birds of East Africa" by Nicholas Drayson "Rebecca" by "Daphne DuMaurier "Sacred Hearts" by Sarah Dunant "Ella Minnow Pea: A Progressively Lipogrammatic Epistolary Fable" by Mark Dunn "Peace Like a River" by Leif Enger "The Painted Drum" by Louise Erdrich "Middlesex" by Jeffrey Eugenides "The Christmas Box" by Richard Paul Evans "One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd" by Jim Fergus "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald “Mackinac Bridge: a 50-year chronical – 1957-2007” by Mike Fornes. "Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet" by Jamie Ford “The Cellist of Sarajevo” by Steven Galloway. "David & Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits & the Art of Battling Giants" by Malcolm Gladwell. "The Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell "The Face in the Rock: The Tale of a Grand Island Chippewa" by Loran R. Graham "The Other Boleyn Girl" by Philippa Gregory "Marley & Me" by John Grogan "The Widow's War" by Sally Gunning “84 Charing Cross Road” by Helene Hanff "Winter Garden" by Kristin Hannah "The Lost Painting: The Quest for a Caravaggio Masterpiece" by Jonathan Harr "Barefoot Heart" by Elva Trevino Hart “The Girl on the Train” by Paula Hawkins "The Nick Adams Stories" by "Darker Than Night" by Tom Henderson "October Sky" by Homer Hickam "Seabiscuit" by Laura Hillenbrand "Unbroken: A WWII Story of survival, resilience, and redemption" by Laura Hillenbrand "Law Man: My Story of robbing banks, winning supreme court cases, and finding redemption" by Shon Hopwood "Loving Frank" by Nancy Horan "Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before" by Tony Horwitz "Friday Night Knitting Club" by Kate Jacobs “A Wolf Called Romeo” by Nick Jans. “News of the World” by Paulette Jiles. "Mudbound" by Hillary Jordan "To Dance with the White Dog" by Terry Kay "The Disappearing Spoon: and other true tales of madness, love, and the history of the world from the periodic table of the elements" by Sam Kean "Schindler's List" by Thomas Keneally "Merle's Door: Lessons from a Freethinking Dog" by Ted Kerasote "Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd “Girls of Atomic City” by Denise Kiernan "Dolores Claiborne" by Stephen King "The Lacuna" by Barbara Kingsolver "Prodigal Summer" by Barbara Kingsolver “The Last Farmer: an American Memoir” by Howard Kohn "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer "Shadow Divers: The True Advernture of Two Americans Who Risked Everything to Solve One of the Last Mysteries of World War II" by Robert Kurson "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri “Turn of Mind” by Alice LaPlante "Defending Jacob" by William Landay "Isaac's Storm" by Eric Larson "The Devil in White City" by Erik Larson “Thunderstruck” by Erik Larson "Crow Lake" by Mary Lawson ": an American Autopsy" by Charlie LeDuff "" by Harper Lee "Find the Good" by Heather Lende "Devil's Knot" by Mara Leveritt “The Drummond Girls” by Mardi Jo Link “Call of the Wild” by Jack London. "The Soloist" by Steven Lopez "Annie's Ghosts: A Journey into a Family Secret" by Steve Luxenberg "Not without my Daughter" by Betty Mahmoody “1491: New Revelations of the Americas before Columbus” by Charles C. Mann "Secret Heroes: Everyday Americans who Shaped our World" by Paul Martin. "Color of Water" by James McBride "The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency" by Alexander McCall Smith "Epiphany" by Paul McCusker “Circling the Sun” by Paula McLain. "Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen" by Larry McMurtry "Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine & the Murder of a President" by Candice Millard. "While I Was Gone" by Sue Miller "The Speed of Dark" by Elizabeth Moon "Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time" by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin Mortenson "Never Cry Wolf" by Farley Mowat "Stealing Buddha's Dinner" by Bich Minh Nguyen "Leap of Faith" by Queen Noor "Pulling Down the Barn: Memories of a Rural Childhood" by Anne-Marie Oomen "Orchid Thief" by Susan Orlean "1984" by George Orwell "State of Wonder" by Ann Patchett "Cry, the Beloved Country" by Alan Paton "Christmas Tree Ship" by Rochelle M. Pennington "Leaving Time" by Jodi Picoult "Second Glance" by Jodi Picoult "My Sister's Keeper" by Jodi Picoult "Mistress of Nothing" by Kate Pullinger “Brewed in : the New Golden Age of Brewing in the Great Beer State” by William Rapai. “Lake Invaders: Invasive Species and the Battler for the Future of the Great Lakes” by William Rapai. "Louisa May Alcott: the Woman Behind Little Women" by Harriet Reisen "Packing for Mars: the curious science of life in the void" by Mary Roach "Founding Mothers: The Women who Raised Our Nation" by Cokie Roberts "The Lifeboat" by Charlotte Rogan "Shadow of the Wind" by Carlos Ruiz Zafon "Holes" by Louis Sachar "Persepolis: the story of a childhood" and "Persepolis 2: the story of a return" by Marjane Satrapi "Invisible Thread: the true story of an 11-year old panhandler, a busy sales exec....." by Laura Schroff "Snow Flower and the Secret Fan" by Lisa See "The Art of Hearing Heartbeats" by Jan Philipp Sendker “X: a novel” by Ilyasah Shabazz. "The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society" by Mary Ann Shaffer "Major Pettigrew's Last Stand" by Helen Simonson "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot "Horse Heaven" by Jane Smiley "Galileo's Daughter" by Dava Sobel "Tisha" by Robert Specht "Looking for Hickories: The Forgotten Wildness of the Midwest" by Tom Springer "Station Eleven" by Emily St. John Mandel "Last Train to Paradise: Henry Flagler and the Spectacular Rise and Fall of the Railroad that Crossed an Ocean" by Les Standiford “Astoria: John Jacob Astor and Thomas Jefferson’s Los Pacific Empire” by Peter Stark "The Art of Racing in the Rain" by Garth Stein “East of Eden” by John Steinbeck "Travels with Charley: In Search of America" by John Steinbeck. "Mandela's Way: fifteen lessons on life, love, and courage" by Richard Stengel "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” by Harriett Beecher Stowe "Eats, Shoots and Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation" by Lynne Truss "The Golden Spruce" by John Vaillant “Hillbilly Elegy: a memoir of family and culture in Crisis” by J. D. Vance. "Maggie Elizabeth Harrington: Coming of age in the Copper Country," by JD Vincent "Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls “Beautiful Ruins” by Jess Walters. “The Martian” by Andy Weir “The Big Tiny: A Built-it-Myself Memoir” by Dee Williams. "Krakatoa: the Day the World Exploded : August 27, 1883" by Simon Winchester "The Professor and the Madman" by Simon Winchester. "Red-Tails in Love" by Marie Winn “The Right Stuff” by Tom Wolf. “Grown-up Anger: the Connected Mysteries of Bob Dylan, Woody Guthrie, and the Calumet Massacre of 1913” by Daniel Wolff. "Lost in Shangri-La: A True Story of Survival, Adventure, and the Most Incredible Rescue Mission of WWII" by Mitchell Zuckoff. "The Book Thief" by Markus Zusak