Past Book Club Selections Alexandria Book Club 2020 o Sold on a Monday: A Novel by Kristina McMorris o Everything is Horrible and Wonderful: A Tragicomic Memoir of Genius, Heroin, Love, and Loss by Stephanie Wittels Wachs o Vicious by V.E. Schwab o All the Beautiful Girls by Elizabeth J. Church o Sounds like Titanic by Jessica Chiccehitto Hindman o The Bear and the Nightingale: A Novel by Katherine Arde 2019 o The Last Days of Night by Graham Moore o Promise Me, Dad: A Year of Hope, Hardship, and Purpose by Joe Biden o Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman o Lincoln in the Bardo: A Novel by George Saunders o The Collapsing Empire by John Scalzi o Everything All At Once: How to Unleash Your Inner Nerd, Tap into Radical Curiosity and Solve Any Problem by Bill Nye o I Was Anastasia: A Novel by Ariel Lawhon o Meddling Kids: A Novel by Edgar Cantero o How to Stop Time by Matt Haig o Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places by Colin Dickey o Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover o Circe by Madeline Miller 2018 o Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan o Beneath a Scarlet Sky by Mark Sullivan o Lab Girl by Hope Jahren o The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss o The Girls at the Kingfisher Club by Genevieve Valentine o Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah Cold Spring Book Club 2020 o Calling Me Home by Julie Kibler o North River: A Novel by Pete Hamill o The Passages of H.M. by Jay Parini o White Chrysanthemum by Mary Lynn Bracht o The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara o The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald 2019 o The Water is Wide by Pat Conroy o Lucky 666: The Impossible Mission by Bob Drury o Tortilla Flat by John Steinbeck o Fatherland: A Novel by Robert Harris o Josie Underwood’s Civil War Diary by Josie Underwood o Jayber Crow by Wendell Berry o The Road to Character by David Brooks o All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot o American Fire: Love, Arson, and Life in a Vanishing Land by Monica Hesse o The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett o The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way by Bill Bryson o Voices of the Pacific: Untold Stories from the Marine Heroes of WWII by Adam Makos and Marcus Brotherton 2018 o The Testament by John Grisham o Hillbilly Elegy: A memoir of a Family & Culture in Crisis by J.D. Vance o The Girl from the Train by Irma Joubert o A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman o A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson o The Book That Matters Most by Ann Hood o Flight of the Sparrow: A Novel of Early America by Amy Belding Brown o Eye of the Needle by Ken Follett o Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah o The Burgess Boys by Elizabeth Strout o Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race by Margot Lee Shetterly o Lilac Girls by Martha Hall Kelly 2017 o Night Road by Kristin Hannah o Solomon’s Oak by Jo-Ann Mapson o Where Am I Eating by Kelsey Timmerman o The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins o Calico Joe by John Grisham o Rosemary: The Hidden Kennedy Daughter by Kate Clifford Larson o Looking for Me by Beth Hoffman o Just Mercy: A Story of Justice & Redemption by Bryan Stevenson o Franklin & Winston by Jon Meacham o The Hamilton Affair by Elizabeth Cobbs o Elizabeth the Queen by Sally Bedell Smith o A Redbird Christmas by Fannie Flagg 2016 o All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr o A Song for Nagasaki by Paul Glynn o Wine to Water by Doc Hendley o Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline o The Nazi Officer’s Wife: How One Jewish Woman Survived the Holocaust by Edith H. Beer o The Nightingale by Kristen Hannah o George Washington’s Secret Six: The Spy Ring That Saved the American Revolution by Brian Kilmeade and Don Yaeger o Saving CeeCee Honeycutt by Beth Hoffman o North & South by Elizabeth Gaskell o The Wright Brothers by David McCullough o Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania by Erik Larson o Our Souls at Night by Kent Haruf 2015 o Abigail Adams by Woody Holton o Making Rounds with Oscar by David Dosa o Defending Jacob by William Landay o Waiting for Snow in Havana by Carlos Eire o A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini o Destiny of a Republic by Candice Millard o A Higher Call: An Incredible True Story of Combat & Chivalry in the War Torn Skies of World War II by Adam Makos & Larry Alexander o A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving o The Aviator’s Wife by Melanie Benjamin o Love & Hate in Jamestown: John Smith, Pocahontas, and the Start of a New Nation by David A. Price o Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner o Common Nonsense by Andy Rooney 2014 o The Paris Wife by Paula McLain o Bound Feet and Western Dress by Pang-Mei Natasha Chang o Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin o This Time Together: Laughter and Reflection by Carol Burnett o State of Wonder by Ann Patchett o End of Your Life Book Club by Will Schwalbe o Miss Dreamsville and the Collier County Women’s Literary Society by Amy Hill Hearth o The Harbinger by Jonathan Cahn o The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck o The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom o The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck o TransAtlantic by Colum McCann 2013 o Gift of Years by Joan Chittister o Killing Lincoln by Bill O’Reilly o Creeker by Linda Scott DeRosier o In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler’s Berlin by Erik Larson o Sweeping Up Glass by Carolyn Wall o March by Geraldine Brooks o Unbroken by Lauren Hillenbrand o These Is My Words by Nancy Turner o One Vacant Chair by Joe Coomer o The Memory of Old Jack by Wendell Berry o The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway o Walden by Henry David Thoreau 2012 o Angels & Ages by Adam Gopnik o Life on the Color Line by Gregory Howard Williams o Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks o The Hemingses of Monticello by Annette Gordon-Reed o Dancing With Max by Emily Colson o Sarah’s Key by Tatiana de Rosnay o The Thread that Runs so True by Jesse Stuart o Madame Curie by Eve Curie o South of Superior by Ellen Airgood o Writ of Mandamus by Rick Robinson o 1066: The Year of Conquest by David Howarth o Take Me Home by Brian Leung Cup of Crime Book Club – Cold Spring 2020 o Love You More by Lisa Gardner o The Cold Dish by Craig Johnson o The Last Time I Lied by Riley Sager o Murder at the Mansion by Sheila Connolly o Banking on Trouble by Kathi Reed o Kill the Messenger by Tami Hoag 2019 o The Woman in the Window by A.J. Finn o Guilt by Association by Marcia Clark o The Final Cut by Catherine Coulter o Tool and Die by Sarah Graves o Submerged: Ryan Widmer, His Drowned Bride and the Justice System by Janice Hisle o BoneMan’s Daughters by Ted Dekker o The Dry by Jane Harper o If I Run by Terri Blackstock o Cover Her Face by P.D. James o Last Words by Michael Koryta o The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax by Dorothy Gilman o How the Finch Stole Christmas by Donna Andrews 2018 o An Unsuitable Job for a Woman by P.D. James o Sworn to Silence by Linda Castillo o The Girl Before by J.P. Delaney o The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler o Redemption Road by John Hart o Grave Consequences in Erlanger, KY by Mike Due o Memory Man by David Baldacci o Keeper of Lost Causes: The First Department Q Novel by Jussi Adler- Olsen o An Innocent Client by Scott Pratt o Assault and Pepper by Leslie Budewitz o Midnight Crossroad by Charlaine Harris o 1st to Die by James Patterson 2017 o Face of a Stranger by Anne Perry o Presumed Innocent by Scott Turow o Night Passage by Robert B. Parker o Proof by Dick Francis o Lincoln Lawyer by Michael Connelly o Final Jeopardy by Linda Fairstein o The Cater Street Hangman by Anne Perry o Relic by Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child o A Pedigree to Die For by Laurien Berenson o Vendetta by Lisa Harris o Desert Heat by J. A. Jance 2016 o Split Second by David Baldacci o Bad Things Happen by Harry Dolan o The Beautiful Mystery by Louise Penny o The Surgeon by Tess Gerritsen o The Poacher’s Son by Paul Doiron o A Perfect Evil by Alex Kava o Missing You by Harlan Coben o Catch Me by Lisa Gardner o The Hand That Feeds You by A. J. Rich o Body Movers by Stephanie Bond o Open Season by C. J. Box o The Book of Speculation by Erika Swyler 2015 o Just Take My Heart by Mary Higgins o The Ritual Bath by Faye Kellerman o Death in Bloodhound Red by Virginia Lanier o The Hot Rock by Donald Westlake o The Son by Jo Nesbo o Carved in Bone by Jefferson Bass o I Hunt Killers by Barry Lyga o Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt o The Double Blind by Chris Bohjalian o And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie o Elizabeth is Missing by Emma Healey o Defending Jacob by William Landay 2014 o The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie o The King of Lies by John Hart o Trouble in Paradise by Robert B.