Joyful Page Turners Book Club Books Read and Discussed Month Title Author May 2000 Cider House Rules John Irving June 2000 Persian Pickle Club Sandra Dallas July 2000 While I Was Gone Susan Miller Aug. 2000 Jacob Have I Loved Katherine Peterson Sept. 2000 Tuesdays With Morrie Mitch Albom Oct. 2000 Haunted Kansas Lisa Hefner Heitz Nov. 2000 The Pilot’s Wife Anita Shreve Jan. 2001 Through the Looking Glass Lewis Carroll Feb. 2001 Jump Off Creek Molly Gloss March 2001 Eleanor Roosevelt biographies (various titles) Assorted April 2001 Vinegar Hill A. Manette Ansay May 2001 Mansfield Park Jane Austen June 2001 Gap Creek Robert Morgan July 2001 The Red Tent Anita Diamant Aug. 2001 The Poisonwood Bible Barbara Kingsolver Sept. 2001 Ice Bound Jerri Nielsen Oct. 2001 A Wrinkle in Time Madeline L’Engle Nov. 2001 The Bonesetter’s Daughter Amy Tan Jan. 2002 Cane River Laleta Tademy Feb. 2002 Maude Mardo Williams March 2002 Big Stone Gap Adriana Trigiani April 2002 How to be Good Nicholas Hornby May 2002 Breach of Promise Anne Perry June 2002 Anil’s Ghost Michael Ondatje July 2002 Steal Away Home Lois Ruby Aug. 2002 Hidden Powers Kati Marton Sept. 2002 The Killer Angels Michael Shaara Oct. 2002 Law of Similars Chris Bohjalian Nov. 2002 To Kill A Mockingbird Harper Lee Jan. 2003 Blessings Anna Quindlen Feb. 2003 Wish You Well David Baldacci March 2003 All Over but the Shoutin’ Rick Bragg April 2003 Standing in the Rainbow Fannie Flagg May 2003 Nights in Rodanthe Nicholas Sparks June 2003 Bootlegger’s Daughter Margaret Maron July 2003 Florabama Lady’s Auxiliary Sewing Circle Lois Battle Aug. 2003 Holes Louis Sachar Sept. 2003 White Oleander Jean Fitch Oct. 2003 Durable Goods Elizabeth Berg Nov. 2003 Last Noel Michael Malone Jan. 2004 Wicked Gregory Maguire Feb. 2004 Enchantment Orson Scott Card March 2004 Peace Like a River Leif Enger April 2004 Secret Life of Bees Sue Monk Kidd May 2004 Interpreter of Maladies Jhumpa Lahiri June 2004 Once Upon a Town Bob Green July 2004 Winterkill C.J. Box Joyful Page Turners Book Club Books Read and Discussed Aug. 2004 Wild Animus Rich Shapero Sept. 2004 Memoirs of a Geisha Arthur Golden Oct. 2004 Room of Marvels James Bryan Smith Nov. 2004 Little Bitty Lies Mary Kay Andrews Jan. 2005 The Lady & the Unicorn Tracy Chevalier Feb. 2005 Bless the Beasts and the Children Glendon Swarthout March 2005 My Sister’s Keeper Jodie Picoult April 2005 Angry Housewives Eating Bonbons Lorna Landvik May 2005 Misfortune Nancy Geary June 2005 All That Matters Jan Goldstein July 2005 Sister Circle Vonette Bright Aug. 2005 The Blue Shoe Anne Lamott Sept. 2005 A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Betty Smith Oct. 2005 Vanity Fair William Makepeace Thackeray Nov. 2005 The Joy Luck Club Amy Tan Jan. 2006 The #1 Ladies Detective Agency Alexander McCall Smith Feb. 2006 Year of Wonders Geraldine Brooks March 2006 Changing Habits Debbie Macomber April 2006 Tall Pine Polka Lorna Landvik May 2006 No meeting (focus group for new library) June 2006 Blue Latitudes Tony Horwitz July 2006 Breath and Shadows Ella Leffland Aug. 2006 Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress Dai Sijie Sept. 2006 The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini Oct. 2006 A Crack in the Edge of the World Simon Winchester Nov. 2006 Peter and the Starcatchers Dave Barry & Ridley Pearson Jan. 2007 Eragon Christopher Paolini Feb. 2007 The Learning Tree Gordon Parks March 2007 A Vow to Cherish Deborah Raney April 2007 The World Below Sue Miller May 2007 Various poetry Assorted authors June 2007 A Free Man of Color Barbara Hambly July 2007 The Quilter’s Apprentice Jennifer Chiaverini Aug. 2007 The Jane Austen Book Club Karen Joy Fowler Sept. 2007 Saving Fish From Drowning Amy Tan Oct. 2007 The Whistling Season Ivan Doig Nov. 2007 Redeeming Love Francine Rivers Jan. 2008 The Other Boleyn Girl Philippa Gregory Feb. 2008 One Thousand White Women Jim Fergus March 2008 Still Summer Jacquelyn Mitchard April 2008 My Grandfather’s Son Clarence Thomas May 2008 The Great Divorce C.S. Lewis June 2008 The Saffron Kitchen Yasmin Crowther July 2008 Family Tree Barbara Delinsky Aug. 2008 Eat, Pray, Love Elizabeth Gilbert Sept. 2008 The Thirteenth Tale Diane Setterfield Oct. 2008 The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck Nov. 2008 Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close Jonathan Safran Foer Joyful Page Turners Book Club Books Read and Discussed Jan. 2009 Animal, Vegetable, Miracle Barbara Kingsolver Feb. 2009 The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows March 2009 The Zookeeper’s Wife Diane Ackerman April 2009 Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte May 2009 Heart in the Right Place Carolyn Jourdan June 2009 A Thousand Splendid Suns Khaled Hosseini July 2009 The Worst Hard Time Timothy Egan Aug. 2009 Tuesdays with Morrie Mitch Albom Sept. 2009 The Shell Seekers Rosamunde Pilcher Jan. 2010 The Age of Innocence Edith Wharton Feb. 2010 The Fiction Class Susan Breen March 2010 No meeting held April 2010 A Golden Age Tahmima Anam May 2010 Feisty Family Values BD Tharp June 2010 Driftwood Summer Patti Callahan Henry July 2010 Unconfessed Yvette Christianse Aug. 2010 Two Rivers T Greenwood Sept. 2010 Domestic Affairs Eileen Goudge Oct. 2010 House Rules Jodi Picoult Nov. 2010 The Forgotten Garden Kate Morton Jan. 2011 Day After Night Anita Diamant Feb. 2011 The March E.L. Doctorow March 2011 Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand Helen Simonson April 2011 Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet Jamie Ford May 2011 The Art of Keeping Secrets Patti Callahan Henry June 2011 The Lottery Patricia Wood July 2011 Lord of Misrule Jaimy Gordon Aug. 2011 1776 David McCullough Sept. 2011 One True Thing Anna Quindlen Oct. 2011 The House at Riverton Kate Morton Nov. 2011 Shanghai Girls Lisa See Jan. 2012 The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake Aimee Bender Feb. 2012 The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Rebecca Skloot March 2012 Pope Joan Donna Woolfolk Cross April 2012 Threading the Needle Marie Bostwick May 2012 The Help Kathryn Stockett June 2012 The Center of Everything Laura Moriarty July 2012 The Dressmaker Kate Alcott August 2012 Peach Cobbler Murder Joanne Fluke Sept. 2012 Dreams of Joy Lisa See Oct. 2012 People of the Book Geraldine Brooks Nov. 2012 An Experiment in Criticism C. S. Lewis March 2013 State of Wonder Ann Patchett April 2013 The Devil in Pew Number Seven Rebecca Alonzo May 2013 The Light Between Oceans M.L. Stedman June 2013 The Language of Flowers Vanessa Diffenbaugh July 2013 Dog Stars Peter Heller Joyful Page Turners Book Club Books Read and Discussed Aug. 2013 The Chaperone Laura Moriarty Sept. 2013 Thunder Dog Michael Hingston Oct. 2013 The Night Circus Erin Morgenstern Nov. 2013 The Memory Keeper’s Daughter Kim Edwards Jan. 2014 David & Goliath Malcolm Gladwell Feb. 2014 Bend Not Break Ping Fu March 2014 The Obituary Writer Ann Hood April 2014 Philomena: A Mother, Her Son and a Sixty-Year Martin Sixsmith Search May 2014 Flight Behavior Barbara Kingsolver June 2014 Born on a Blue Monday: Inside the Extraordinary Daniel Tammet Mind of an Autistic Savant July 2014 Blame Michelle Huneven Aug. 2014 Under the Wide and Starry Sky Nancy Horan Sept. 2014 The Ocean at the End of the Lane Neil Gaiman Oct. 2014 I Still Dream About You Fannie Flagg Nov. 2014 A Smile as Big as the Moon: A Special Education Michael Kersjes Teacher, His Class and Their Inspiring Journey Through U.S. Space Camp Jan. 2015 The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry Gabrielle Zevin Feb. 2015 Life After Life Kate Atkinson March 2015 Gifted Hands Ben Carson April 2015 Leaving Time Jodi Picoult May 2015 Faithful Place Tana French June 2015 Dress Shop of Dreams Menna Van Praag July 2015 The Invention of Wings Sue Monk Kidd Aug. 2015 The Art of Hearing Heartbeats Jan Philipp Sendker Sept. 2015 The Accidental Empress Allison Pataki Oct. 2015 The Martian Andy Weir Nov. 2015 A Fall of Marigolds Susan Meissner Jan. 2016 Still Life with Bread Crumbs Anna Quindlen Feb. 2016 Station Eleven Emily St. John Mandel March 2016 Magic Strings of Frankie Pesto Mitch Albom April 2016 The Winter People Jennifer McMahon May 2016 Guilt by Association Susan Sloan NO MEETINGS IN JUNE OR JULY Aug. 2016 Boys in the Boat Daniel James Brown Sept. 2016 A Star for Mrs. Blake April Smith Oct. 2016 West of Sunset Stewart O’Nan Nov. 2016 Good Night, Mr. Wodehouse Faith Sullivan Jan. 2017 Small Great Things Jodi Picoult Feb. 2017 A Gentleman in Moscow Amor Towles March 2017 The Good Daughters Joyce Maynard April 2017 The Nightingale Kristin Hannah May 2017 Someone Knows My Name Lawrence Hill NO MEETINGS IN JUNE OR JULY August 2017 Sisi Allison Pataki Sept. 2017 A Man Called Ove Fredrik Backman Joyful Page Turners Book Club Books Read and Discussed Oct. 2017 The Handmaid’s Tale Margaret Atwood Nov. 2017 The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend Katarina Bivald Jan. 2018 Hillbilly Elegy J. D. Vance Feb. 2018 A Sister’s Promise Karen Lenfestey March 2018 The Women in the Castle Jessica Shattuck April 2018 Killers of the Flower Moon David Grann May 2018 The Prayer Box Lisa Wingate NO MEETINGS IN JUNE OR JULY Aug. 2018 News of the World Paulette Jiles Sept. 2018 The Glass Castle Jeannette Walls Oct. 2018 The Dollhouse Fiona Davis Nov. 2018 Before We Were Yours Lisa Wingate Jan. 2019 The Witnesses Robert Whitlow Feb. 2019 Strange the Dreamer Laini Taylor March 2019 My Brilliant Friend Elena Ferrante April 2019 Life in a Jar: the Irena Sendler Project Jack Mayer May 2019 The Masterpiece Fiona Davis NO MEETINGS IN JUNE OR JULY Aug. 2019 Before the Fall Noah Hawley Sept. 2019 The Lost Girls of Paris Pam Jenoff Oct. 2019 Dear Mrs. Bird A.J. Pearce Nov. 2019 An American Marriage Tayari Jones Jan. 2020 Savage Country Robert Olmstead Feb. 20202 The Story of Arthur Truluv Elizabeth Berg March 2020 Delayed due to pandemic April 2020 Delayed due to pandemic May 2020 Delayed due to pandemic NO MEETINGS IN JUNE OR JULY Aug. 2020 Echo Pam Muñoz Ryan Sept. 2020 The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell Robert Dugoni Oct. 2020 The Chelsea Girls Fiona Davis Nov. 2020 The Feather Thief Kirk Wallace Johnson Jan. 2021 Let Him Go Larry Watson Feb. 2021 New Boy Tracy Chevalier March 2021 The Book of Lost Friends Lisa Wingate April 2021 The Rise and Fall of Charles Lindbergh Candace Fleming May 2021 Lions of Fifth Avenue (Skype with author) Fiona Davis NO MEETINGS IN JUNE OR JULY Aug. 2021 The Midnight Library Matt Haig Sept. 2021 The Sun is Also a Star Nicola Yoon Oct. 2021 Book of Lost Names Kristin Harmel Nov. 2021 Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore Robin Sloan