R. H. Stafford Library Book Club Selections

2017 Jan Kitchens of the Great Midwest - J. Ryan Stradal Feb The Dream Lover - Elizabeth Berg Mar Rebel of the Sands - Alwyn Hamilton Apr Another Brooklyn - Jacqueline Woodson May The Paris Architect - Charles Belfoure Jun Infidel - Ayaan Hirsi Ali Jul No meeting Aug A Gentleman in Moscow - Amor Towles Sep Crossing to Safety - Oct The Underground Railroad - Nov The Girls: a Novel - Emma Cline Dec Before the Fall - Noah Hawley

2016 Jan The Boys in the Boat - Daniel Brown Feb The Highest Tide - Jim Lynch Mar All the Light We Cannot See - Apr The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry - Rachel Joyce May The Signature of all Things - Elizabeth Gilbert Jun The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry - Gabrielle Zevin Jul No meeting Aug The Red Tent - Anita Diamant Sep Thread of Grace - Maria Doria Russell Oct The Snow Child - Eowyn Ivey Nov The Language of Flowers - Vanessa Diffenbaugh Dec Station Eleven - Emily St. John Mandal

2015 Jan The Ocean at the End of the Lane - Neil Gaiman Feb My Antonia - Mar Wild - Cheryl Strayed Apr Silent Impact - Joe Schmit May Orphan Train - Christina Baker Kline Jun Malice Toward None - Dan Munson Jul No meeting Aug The Invention of Wings - Sue Monk Kidd Sep Shotgun Lovesongs - Nickolas Butler Oct - Nov Mister Owita’s Guide to Gardening - Carol Wall Dec The True Story of Hansel and Gretel - Louise Murphy

2014 Jan The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks - Rebecca Skloot Feb The Light Between Oceans - M. L. Stedman Mar Little Bee - Chris Cleave Apr The Orchardist - Amada Coplin May - Paul Harding Jun The Hare with Amber Eyes - Edmund De Waal Jul No meeting Aug The Warmth of Other Suns - Isabel Wilkerson Sep The Lighthouse Road - Peter Geye Oct Ordinary Wolves - Seth Kantner Nov 1984 - George Orwell Dec The Ox-Bow Incident - Walter Van Tilburg Clark

2013 Jan Drive - Daniel Pink Feb The Madonnas of Leningrad - Debra Dean Mar The Grace of Silence - Michelle Norris Apr Midwives - Chris Bohjalian May The Tiger's Wife - Tea Obreht Jun The Art of Fielding - Chad Harbach Jul No meeting Aug Suspicions of Mr. Whicher - Kate Summerscale Sep The Healing - Jonathan Odell Oct White Oleander - Janet Fitch Nov Looking for Alaska - John Green

2012 Jan Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert Feb The Reading Promise - Alice Ozma Mar Kristin Lavransdatter - Sigrid Undset Apr - May While the Locust Slept - Peter Razor Jun The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir - Koa Kalia Yang Jul Taking the month off Aug The Florist's Daughter - Patricia Hampl Sep Cutting for Stone - Abraham Verghese Oct The Forever Marriage: A Novel - Ann Bauer Nov Birdsong: A Novel of Love and War - Sebastian Faulks Dec The Bookseller of Kabul - Asne Seierstad

2011 Jan Shanghai Girls - Lisa See Feb Pale Horse at Plum Run: The First Minnesota at Gettysburg - Brian Leehan Mar The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon Apr Last Days of Ptolemy Grey - Walter Mosley May Remarkable Creatures - Tracy Chevalier Jun A Secret Kept - Tatiana de Rosnay Jul Taking the month off Aug Bonesetter’s Daughter - Amy Tan Sep Day After Night - Anita Diamant Oct Grand Opening - John Hassler Nov Half the Sky - Nicholas Kristoff Dec The Next Queen of Heaven - Gregory Maquire

2010 Jan A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - Betty Smith Feb Omnivore’s Dilemma - Michael Pollan Mar Until They Bring the Streetcars Back - Stanley Gordon West Apr Digging to America - May East of Eden - Jun City of Thieves - David Benioff Jul A Reliable Wife - Robert Goolrick Aug Driftless - David Rhodes Sep A Lesson before Dying - Ernst J. Gaines Oct The Turtle Catcher - Nicole Helget Nov I Heard the Owl Call My Name - Margaret Craven Dec The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde

2009 Jan The Glass Castle - Jeannette Walls Feb So Brave Young and Handsome - Leif Enger Mar Choosing Civility - P.M. Forni Apr The Piano Tuner - Daniel Mason May Loving Frank - Nancy Horan Jun The Blood of Flowers - Anita Amirrezvani Jul Away - Amy Bloom Aug Ahab’s Wife - Sena Jeter Naslund Sep The Sparrow - Mary Doria Russell Oct Sarah’s Key - Tatiana de Rosnay Nov Still Alice - Lisa Genova Dec In the Company of the Courtesan - Sarah Dunant

2008 Jan The Whistling Season - Ivan Doig Feb The Book of One Hundred Truths - Julie Schumacher Mar Copper River - William Kent Krueger Apr Snow Flower and the Secret Fan - Lisa See May Water for Elephants - Sara Gruen Jun A Place Where the Sea Remembers - Sandra Benitez Jul No meeting Aug Three Cups of Tea - Greg Mortenson Sep Mountains Beyond Mountains - Tracy Kidder Oct Until They Bring the Streetcars Back - Stanley Gordon West Nov Slaughterhouse-five - Kurt Vonnegut Dec The God of Small Things - Roy Arundhati

2007 Jan The Devil in the White City - Erik Larson Feb Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury Mar The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse - Apr Reading Lolita in Tehran : a memoir in books - Azar Nafisi May The Photograph - Penelope Lively Jun - Pearl Buck Jul Where the Red Fern Grows - Wilson Rawls Aug Daughter of Fortune - Isabel Allende Sep Godless - Pete Hautman Oct The Confessions of Nat Turner - Nov The Worst Hard Time - Timothy Egan Dec The Memory Keeper's Daughter - Kim Edwards

2006 Jan Eats, Shoots & Leaves - Lynne Truss Feb Running with Scissors - Augusten Burroughs Mar Atonement - Ian McEwan Apr - May Founding Mothers: The Women Who Raised Our Nation - Cokie Roberts Jun Shadow Divers - Robert Kurson Aug The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini Sep Snow Falling on Cedars - David Guterson Oct The Kitchen Boy - Robert Alexander Nov Bel Canto - Ann Patchett

2005 Jan Choke - Chuck Palahniuk Feb I Don't Know How She Does It - Allison Pearson Mar Main Street - Apr The Blind Assassin - Margaret Atwood May Plainsong - Kent Haruf Jun I Heard the Owl Call My Name - Margaret Craven Jul The Secret Life of Bees - Sue Monk Kidd Aug The Weight of All Things - Sandra Benitez Sep Leap of Faith - Queen Noor of Jordan Oct A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving Nov The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency - Alexander McCall Smith Dec In the Lake of the Woods - Tim O'Brien

2004 Jan Because of Winn-Dixie - Kate DiCamillo Feb The Red Tent - Anita Diamant Mar A Walk in the Woods - Bill Bryson Apr The Giver - Lois Lowry May Ice Bound - Jerri Nielsen Jun The House on Mango Street - Sandra Cisneros Jul Cry, the Country - Alan Paton Aug Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck Sep Peace Like a River - Leif Enger Oct Empress of One - Faith Sullivan Nov Speak - Laurie Halse Anderson Dec Islam: A Short History - Karen Armstrong

2003 Apr The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver May One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez Jun Alice's Tulips - Sandra Dallas Jul Undaunted Courage - Stephen Ambrose Aug Welcome to the Great Mysterious - Lorna Landvik Sep The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald Oct Jim the Boy - Tony Earley Nov Girl with a Pearl Earring - Tracy Chevalier Dec The Heart is a Lonely Hunter - Carson McCullers