The Morristown & Morris Township Library By the Book: A Morning Book Club (Formerly Director’s Book Club)

2018 They May Not Mean To, But They Do Catherine Schine The Six: The Lives of the Mitford Sisters Laura Thompson The Alice Network Kate Quinn The Japanese Lover Isabel Allende A Piece of the World Christina Baker Kline Everyone Brave is Forgiven Chris Cleave Summer Hours at the Robbers Library Sue Halpern The Woman in Cabin 10 Ruth Ware The Dollhouse Fiona Davis My World Sonia Sotomayor Manhattan Beach

2017 Our Souls at Night Kent Haruf The Last Detective Peter Lovesey A Spool of Thread Everybody’s Fool Hidden Figures Margot Lee Shetterly The Nest Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney My Name is Lucy Barton Commonwealth Ann Patchett The Rainbow Comes & Goes Anderson Cooper The Book That Matter Ann Hood The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper Phaedra Patrick

2016 Station Eleven Emily St. John Mandel Lucky Us Amy Bloom Before I Go to Sleep S.J. Watson The Boston Girl Anita Diamant The Wright Brothers David McCullough A Touch of Stardust Kate Alcott In the Unlikely Event Judy Blume Empty Mansions Bill Dedman A Constellation of Vital Phenomena Anthony Marra The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend Katarina Bivald Girl Waits with Gun Amy Stewart

2015 Still Life with Bread Crumbs Anna Quindlen The Rosie Project Graeme Simsion Under the Wide and Starry Sky Nancy Horan The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry Gabrielle Zevin Someone Alice McDermott Beautiful Ruins Jess Walther The Lost Ravioli Recipes of Hoboken Laura Schenone In the Kingdom of Ice Hampton Sides The Aviator’s Wife Melanie Benjamin The Invention of Wings Sue Monk Kidd Brooklyn Colm Toibin The Last Time I Saw You Elizabeth Berg

2014 Me before You JoJo Moyes Mr. Penumbra’s 24-hour Book Store Robin Sloan The Obituary Writer Ann Hood The Round House State of Wonder Ann Patchett The Art Forger B. A. Shapiro Palisades Park Alan Brennert Reconstructing Amelia Kimberly McCreight Gone Girl Gillian Flynn Burgess Boys Elizabeth Strout

2013 The Keeper of Lost Causes Jussi Adler-Olsen Swamplandia! Karen Russell The Paris Wife Paula McLain The Sense of an Ending Julian Barnes The Shoemaker’s Wife Adriana Trigiani Defending Jacob William Landay The Light Between Oceans M.L. Stedman Sweet Tooth Ian McEwan The Art of Fielding Chad Harbach Orphan Train Christine Baker Kline Where’d You Go Bernadette? Maria Semple

2012 Art of Racing in the Rain Garth Stein The Tower, the Zoo and the Tortoise Julia Stuart How to be an American Housewife Margaret Dilloway Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Rebecca Skloot The Tiger’s Wife Tea` Obrecht A Visit from the Goon Squad Jennifer Egan The Weird Sisters Eleanor Brown Language of Flowers Vanessa Diffenbach Maine Courtney Sullivan A Duty to the Dead Charles Todd Rules of Civility Amor Towles

2011 Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand Helen Simonson Sarah’s Key Tatiana De Rosnay Loving Frank Nancy Horan Saving Cee Cee Honeycutt Beth Hoffman Room Emma Donoghue Still Alice Lisa Genova Faithful Place Tana French The Postmistress Sarah Blake The Help Kathryn Stockett Little Bee Chris Cleeve

2010 The Music Room William Fiennes Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet Jamie Ford The Man Who Loved Books Too Much Allison Hoover Bartlett Too Much Money Dominick Dunne A Reliable Wife Robert Goolrick Let the Whole World Spin Colum McCann The Angel’s Game Carlos Ruiz Zafron Forgotten Garden Kate Morton That Old Cape Magic Richard Russo Wildflower Mark Seal The Day the Falls Stood Still Cathy Marie Buchanan

2009 Book of the Dead Patricia Cornwall The English American Alison Larkin Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Junot Diaz Into the Woods Jane French I Feel Bad About My Neck Nora Ephron Lush Life Richard Price Heart & Soul Maeve Binchy The Pillars of the Earth Ken Follett The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane Katherine Howe The Girl who Played with Fire Steig Larsson The Elegance of the Hedgehog Muriel Barbery

2008 The Last Season Eric Blehm The Alchemist Paulo Coelho People of the Book Geraldine Brooks City of Falling Angels John Berendt The Historian Elisabeth Kostova Last Lecture Randy Pausch Skinny Dip Carl Hiaasen Child 44 Tom Rob Smith North River Pete Hamill Three Cups of Tea Greg Mortenson The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows

2007 Dispatches From The Edge Anderson Cooper Saving Fish From Drowning Amy Tan The Closers Michael Connelly Geraldine Brooks The Name of the Rose Umberto Eco The Last Templar Raymond Khoury Looking for Peyton Place Barbara Delinsky The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt’s Darkest Journey Candice Millard Bourne Ultimatum Robert Ludlum Cormac McCarthy

2006 Four to Score Janet Evanovich The Glass Castle Jeanette Walls The Devil Wears Prada Lauren Weisberger The Jester James Patterson & A.Gross The Plot Against America Outlander Diana Gabaldon Close to Shore Michael Capuzzo The Pirate Coast Richard Zacks Strange Affair Peter Robinson The Traveler John Twelve Hawks A Christmas Secret Anne Perry

2005 The Great Fire Shirley Hazzard Time Traveler’s Wife Audrey Niffenegger The Stone Steps Virginia Dyer Vogt A Separate Peace John Knowles Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini Devil in the White City Erik Larson Shadow Divers Robert Kurson Blackbird House Alice Hoffman Founding Brothers Joseph Ellis My Sister’s Keeper Jodi Picoult The Lost Painting Jonathan Harr

2004 Place of Execution Val McDermid Pine Barrens John McPhee No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency Alexander McCall Smith Bringing Down the House Ben Mezrich Kitchen Boy; a Novel of the Last Tsar Robert Alexander Booked to Die John Dunning Reading Lolita in Tehran Azar Nafasi Chesapeake Blue Nora Roberts Atonement Ian McEwan A Conspiracy of Paper David Liss The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime Mark Haddon

2003 Forgive the Moon Maryanne Stahl The Dress Lodger Sheri Holman Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress Dai Sijie Peace Like a River Leif Enger The Love of Stones Tobias Hill The Secret Life of Bees Sue Monk Kidd Beach House James Patterson Treachery at Sharpnose Point Jeremy Seal Digital Fortress Dan Brown Life of Pi Yann Martel Longitudes and Attitudes Thomas L. Friedman

2002 The Rose Garden Maeve Brennan Ice Bound Dr. Jerri Nielson A Spell Of Winter Helen Dunmore The Pilot’s Wife Anita Shreve Tender at the Bone Ruth Reichl Ship Fever Andrea Barrett A Year by the Sea Joan Anderson Hemlock Bay Catherine Coulter Five Quarters of the Orange Joanne Harris Secret Language Monica Wood Back When We Were Grownups Anne Tyler

2001 Galileo’s Daughter Dava Sobel Where You Belong Barbara Taylor Bradford Miss Julia Speaks Her Mind Ann B. Ross The Fig Eater Jody Shields Georgiana Duchess of Devonshire Amanda Foreman Headlong Michael Frayn Big Stone Gap Adriana Trigiani The Lost Legends of New Jersey Frederick Reiken Dream of the Walled City Lisa Huang Fleischman Corelli’s Mandolin Louis De Bernieres

2000 God of Small Things Arundhati Roy Crime In The Neighborhood Suzanne Berne Welcome To the World Baby Girl! Fannie Flagg A Cup of Tea Amy Ephron Kaaterskill Falls Allegra Goodman Poisonwood Bible Barbara Kingsolver One Thousand White Women Jim Fergus House of Sand and Fog Andre Dumas III The Winner David Baldacci

1999 Cold Mountain Charles Frazier Ellen Foster Kaye Gibbons Charming Billy Alice McDermott Enduring Love Ian McEwan Are You Somebody? Nuala O’Faolain Blue Flower Penelope Fitzgerald Midwives Chris Bohjalian Mists Of Avalon Marion Zimmer Bradley Our Guys Bernard Lefkowitz Personal History Katherine Graham Summer Sisters Judy Blume

1998 Horse Whisperer Nicholas Evans Angela’s Ashes Frank McCourt Snow Falling On Cedars David Guterson The Deep End Of The Ocean Jacquelyn Mitchard Secrets Of The Ya Ya Sisterhood Rebecca Wells Tortilla Curtain T.C. Boyle Up Island Anne Rivers Siddons Plum Island Nelson DeMille One True Thing Anna Quindlen Under The Tuscan Sun Frances Mayes Perfect Storm Sebastian Junger Memoirs of a Geisha Arthur Golden