2020-2021
Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
The Murmur of Bees by Sofia Segovia
Born a Crime – Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah
Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate
A Single Thread by Tracy Chevalier
The Butterfly’s Daughter by Mary Alice Monroe
The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michelle Richardson
One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
2019-2020
Educated by Tara Westover
Marjorie Morningstar by Herman Wouk
The Last Romantics by Tara Conklin
The Little Book of Hygge (Hoo ga) by Meik Wiking
New Boy by Tracy Chevalier and any version of Shakespeare’s Othello
The Blue Notebook by James Levine and Unaccompanied Minor by Kitania Kavey and Claire Nagel
Becoming Mrs. Lewis by Patti Callahan and Thomas Nelson
Tapestry of Fortunes by Elizabeth Berg
The Wedding by Dorothy West
2018-2019
Only Child by Rhiannon Navin
Silas Marner by George Eliot The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah
The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Gillman and Rodman the Keeper by Constance Fenimore Woolson
The Chilbury Ladies Choir by Jennifer Ryan
Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
Code Girls by Liza Mundy
The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane by Lisa See
Midnight in Peking by Paul French
2017-2018
Mrs. Poe by Lynn Cullen
Becoming Nicole by Amy Ellis Nutt
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
And Then There Were None (Ten Little Indians) by Agatha Christie
Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly
Trials of the Earth by Mary Mann Hamilton
A Son at the Front by Edith Wharton
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler
Beneath a Scarlet Sky by Mark T. Sullivan
2016-2017
Around the House and in the Garden by Dominique Browning in twenty years by Allison Winn Scotch
My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
The History of Love by Nicole Krauss The Bridge of Scarlet Leaves by Kristina McMorris
The Good Lord Bird by James McBride
Lila by Marilynne Robinson
2015-2016
Possessing the Secret of Joy by Alice Walker
A Glass of Blessings by Barbara Pym
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The Bookseller by Cynthia Swanson
The Eternal Wonder by Pearl Buck
The Cardboard Piano by Rina Terry
Peace by Piece by Carol Fragale Brill
Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
Cape Maybe by Carol Fragale Brill
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
2014-2015
Ethan Frome, by Edith Wharton
2 A.M. at the Cat’s Pajamas, by Marie Helene Bertino
Author Alice Munro will be our topic; any of her books is fine
The Fault in Our Stars, by John Green
The Orphan Train, by Christina Baker Kline
The Wedding Gift, by Marlen Suyapa Bodden
Mom & Me & Mom, by Maya Angelou (or any other book by this author) The Children of Men, by P. D. James
The Goldfinch, by Donna Tartt
2013-2014
A Long Way From Runnemeade, by Theresa Tull
The Dream of Scipio, by Iain Pears
And the Mountains Echoed, by Kahled Hosseini
Defending Jacob: A Novel, by William Landay
Flight Behavior, by Barbara Kingsolver
Beyond the Beautiful Forevers, by Katherine Boo
The Aviator’s Wife, by Melanie Benjamin
The American Sniper, by Chris Kyle, Scott McEwen, and Jim DeFelice
Promise of Stardust, by Priscilla Sibley
2012-2013
Middlesex, by Jeffrey Eugenides
I, Mona Lisa, by Jeanne Kalogridis
Clara and Mr. Tiffany, by Susan Vreeland
The Language of Flowers, by Vanessa Diffenbaugh
The Paris Wife, by Paula McLain
The New Jim Crow, by Michelle Alexander
State of Wonder, by Ann Patchett
Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out, by Mo Yan
2011-2012
Incendiary, by Chris Cleave Those Who Save Us, by Jenna Blum
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot
Cutting for Stone, by Abraham Verghese
The Gate at the Stairs, by Lorrie Moore
Winesburg, Ohio, by Sherwood Anderson
The Room, by Emma Donohue
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, by David Wroblewski
The Tiger’s Wife, by Tea Obreht
2010-2011
Love in the Time of Cholera, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Still Alice, by Lisa Genova
The Grass Is Singing, by Doris Lessing
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, by Jamie Ford
To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee
The Prince, by Saint-Exupery
The Moonflower Vine, by Jetta Carleton
Author Evelyn Waugh
The Enchanted April, by Elizabeth Von Onan
The Help, by Katherine Stockett
I Am Scout: the biography of Harper Lee, by Charles Shields
Mockingbird: a portrait of Harper Lee, by Charles Shields
2009-2010
My Sister’s Keeper, by Jodi Picoult Never Let Me Go, by Kazuo Ishiguro
Snow Flower and The Secret Fan, by Lisa See
The Virgin Blue, by Tracy Chevalier
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society, by Mary Ann Kathy Flynn
Midwives, by Chris Bohjalian
To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee
The Book Thief, by Marcus Zusak
2008-2009
Three Cups of Tea, by Greg Mortenson & David Oliver Relin
Animal Farm, by George Orwell Epple
The Known World, by Edward P Jones Waters
The Giver, by Lois Lowry
In the Land of Invisible Women, by Dr. Qanta Ahmed Saxe
Leni, by Steven Bach Flynn
Luncheon of the Boating Party, by Susan Vreeland
Breath, Eyes, Memory, by Edwidge Long
A Fine Balance, by Rohinton Mistry
2007-2008
The Double Bind, by Chris Bohjalian
A Thousand Splendid Suns, by Khaled Hosseini
Water for Elephants, by Sara Gruen
The Namesake, by Jumpa Lahiri
The Piano Tuner, by Daniel Mason Moby Dick, by Herman Melville
Living History, by Hilary Clinton
White Teeth, by Zadie Smith
The Blind, or The Double, by Jose Saramago
The Faith Club, by Ranya Idliby, Suzanne Oliver, and Priscilla Warner