Past Book Selections
2023 September Atlas of the Heart by Brene Brown August The Latecomer by Jean Hanff Korelitz July Lessons in Chemistry by Jessica Galmus June The Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers May Maame By Jessica George April Lessons in Chemistry by Jessica Garmus MARCH The Idiot Elif Batuman Meeting site: Muriel's FEBRUARY Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly by Anthony Boudain Meeting site: Chris Davis's JANUARY Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng Meeting site: Marsha Leatherwood's 2022 DECEMBER NOVEMBER OCTOBER The River by Peter Heller (Muriel's selection) Meeting site: Joan Kuemper's SEPTEMBER King Lear by William Shakespeare (Nancy's selection) Meeting site: Muriel Carpenter's AUGUST JULY The Wall by Marlen Haushofer (Chris's selection) Meeting Site: Chris's on August 2 with Nancy providing dinner JUNE Furiously Happy by Jennie Lawson (Marsha's selection) Meeting site: Chris's MAY The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave Meeting site: Joan's (Muriel's selection) APRIL Anxious People by Fredrik Backman (Joan's selection) Meeting site: Marsha's MARCH American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins (Nancy's selection) Meeting site: Muriel's FEBRUARY The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles (Chris's selection) Meeting site: Nancy's (Laverne's selection) JANUARY The Book of Hope by Jane Goodall (Chris's selection) Meeting site: Laverne's 2021 DECEMBER I, Caligula by Robert Graves Meeting site: Chris's (Marsha's selection) NOVEMBER Magic Night by Kristin Hannah (Muriel's selection) Meeting site: Marsha's OCTOBER When the Apricot Blooms by Gina Wilkinson (Joan's selection) Meeting site: Muriel's SEPTEMBER Washington Black by Esi Edugyan (Nancy's selection) Meeting site: Joan's AUGUST Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman (Laverne's selection) Meeting site: Nancy's JULY Life with Picasso by Francoise Gilot and Carlton Lake (Chris's selection) Meeting site: Laverne's JUNE Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead (Marsha's selection) Meeting site: Chris's MAY A Long Petal of the Sea by Isabel Allende (Joan's selection) Meeting site: Marsha's APRIL Stoner by John Williams (Muriel's selection) Meeting site: ZOOM MARCH The Murmur of Bees by Sofia Segovia (Nancy's selection) Meeting site: ZOOM FEBRUARY The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen (Laverne's selection) Meeting site: ZOOM JANUARY The Midnight Library by Matt Haig (Chris's selection) Meeting site: ZOOM 2020 DECEMBER The Ends of the World by Peter Brannen Meeting site: Chris's (ZOOM) NOVEMBER Confessions of Fannie Langdon by Sara Collins Meeting site: Marsha's (ZOOM) OCTOBER When All Is Said by Anne Griffin Meeting site: Joan's (ZOOM) SEPTEMBER Caste: The Origin of our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson Meeting site: Muriel's (ZOOM) AUGUST Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe Meeting site: Nancy's (ZOOM) JULY Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer Meeting site: LaVerne's (ZOOM) JUNE Tara Road by Maeve Binchy Meeting site: Chris's (ZOOM) APRIL About Your Father and Other Celebrities I Have Known by Peggy Rowe Meeting site: Marsha's (ZOOM) MARCH The 100 Year Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window by Jonas Jonasson Meeting site: Joan's (ZOOM) FEBRUARY Stories for Boys by Greg Martin Meeting site: Muriel's JANUARY Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner Meeting site: Laverne's 2019 DECEMBER The Queen's Vow by C. W. Gortner Meeting site: Chris's NOVEMBER The World That We Knew by Alice Hoffman Meeting site: Marsha's OCTOBER The Alice Network by Kate Quinn Meeting site: Joan's SEPTEMBER Plainsong by Kent Haruf Meeting site: Muriel's AUGUST An American Marriage by Tayari Jones Meeting site: Nancy's JULY Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf Meeting site: Laverne's JUNE White Oleander by Janet Fitch Meeting site: Chris's MAY March by Geraldine Brooks Meeting site: Marsha's APRIL Mary Coin by Marisa Silver Meeting site: Joan's FEBRUARY and MARCH Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell Meeting site: Muriel's and Nancy helped prepare the dinner. JANUARY The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene Meeting site: Laverne Griffin's 2018 DECEMBER Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Abbot Meeting site: Marsha Leatherwood's NOVEMBER Give Me Your Hand by Megan Abbot Meeting site: Chris Davis's OCTOBER The Tea Girl of Humingbird Lane by Lisa See Meeting site: Joan Kuemper's SEPTEMBER Pachinko by Min Jin Lee Meeting site: Muriel Carpenter's AUGUST The Silent Wife by A. S. A. Harrison Meeting site: Nancy King's JULY Romantic Outlaws by Charlotte Gordon Meeting site: Laverne Griffin's JUNE Red Notice by Bill Browder Meeting site: Chris Davis's MAY Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate Meeting site: Marsha Leatherwood’s APRIL The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion Meeting site: Joan Kuemper's MARCH The Bread Givers by Anzia Yerzierska Meeting site: Muriel Carpenter's FEBRUARY Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann Meeting site: Nancy King's JANUARY Possession by A. S. Byatt Meeting site: Laverne Griffin's 2017 DECEMBER If Walls Could Talk by Lucy Worsley Meeting site: Chris Davis's Related Videos: Author's Overview of the Book (4.38 minutes) The Author Focuses on the Living Room (59 minutes) The Author Explores the Bathroom (59 minutes) The Author Takes a Look at the Bedroom (59 minutes) The Author Considers the Kitchen (59 minutes) NOVEMBER On Being Mortal by Atul Gawande Meeting site: Marsha Leatherwood's OCTOBER The Secret History by Donna Tartt Meeting site: Joan Kuemper's SEPTEMBER Seabiscuit by Laura Hillenbrand Meeting site: Muriel Carpenter's AUGUST Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov Meeting site: Marsha Leatherwood's JULY The Heart by Maylis de Kerangal Meeting site: LaVerne Griffin's JUNE Lab Girl by Hope Jahren Meeting site: Chris Davis's MAY Hillbilly Elegy by J. D. Vance Meeting site: Nancy King's APRIL Emma, Otto, Russel and James by Emma Hooper Meeting site: Joan Kuemper's MARCH A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles Meeting site: Muriel Carpenter's FEBRUARY The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah Meeting site: Nancy King's JANUARY The Enchanted April by Elizabeth Von Arnin Meeting site: LaVerne Griffin's 2016 DECEMBER Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi Meeting site: Chris Davis' NOVEMBER The Witches by Stacy Schiff Meeting site: Marsha Leatherwood OCTOBER On Beauty by Zadie Smith Meeting site: Joan Kuemper's SEPTEMBER "Fractured Lands: How the Arab World Came Apart" by Scott Anderson, NY Times Meeting site: Muriel Carpenter's AUGUST The Testament of Mary by Colm Toibin Meeting site: Nancy King's JULY Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow Meeting site: Chris Davis's JUNE Abraham's Well: A Novel by Sharon Ewell Foster Meeting site: Marsha Leatherwood's MAY The Summer Before the War by Helen Simonson Meeting site: LaVerne Griffin's APRIL The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabriel Zevin Meeting site: Joan Kuemper's MARCH Hunger by Elise Blackwell Meeting site: Muriel Carpenter's FEBRUARY Open Secrets by Alice Munro Meeting site: Nancy King's JANUARY Queen Noor: A Leap of Faith: Memoir of an Unexpected Life by Queen Noor and Frank Harrison Meeting site: Chris Davis' 2015
DECEMBER Golden State by Stephanie Kegan Meeting site: Marsha Leatherwood's NOVEMBER Horse Boy by Rupert Isaacson Meeting site: LaVerne Griffin's OCTOBER Orphan Train: A Novel by Christina Baker Kline Meeting site: Joan Kuemper's SEPTEMBER All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr Meeting site: Muriel Carpenter's AUGUST The Swan Thieves by Elizabeth Kostova Meeting site: Nancy King's JULY Golda by Elinor Burkett Meeting site: Chris Davis' JUNE The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd Meeting site: Marsha Leatherwood's MAY Breakfast with Buddha by Roland Murello Meeting site: LaVerne Griffin's APRIL The Return by Victoria Hislop Meeting site: Joan Kuemper's MARCH Naked by David Sedaris Meeting site: Muriel Carpenter's FEBRUARY Waterland by Graham Swift Meeting site: Nancy King's JANUARY Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand Meeting site: Chris Davis' 2014 DECEMBER Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki by Haruki Murakami Meeting site: Marsha Leatherwood's NOVEMBER The Silver Star by Jeannette Walls Meeting site: Laverne Griffin's OCTOBER Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell Meeting site: Joan Kuemper's SEPTEMBER Italian Shoes by Henning Mankell Meeting site: Nancy King's AUGUST A Poetry Handbook and A Thousand Mornings by Mary Oliver Meeting site: Nancy King's JULY East of Eden by John Steinbeck Meeting site: Chris Davis' JUNE In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson Meeting site: Marsha Leatherwood's MAY Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver Meeting site: Laverne Griffin's APRIL When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro Meeting site: Joan Kuemper's MARCH Mariette in Ecstasy by Ron Hansen Meeting site: Muriel Carpenter's FEBRUARY A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki Meeting site: Nancy King's JANUARY Last of the Mohicans by James Fennimore Cooper Meeting site: Chris Davis's 2013 DECEMBER Morgan's Run by Colleen McCulloush Meeting site: Marsha Leatherwood's NOVEMBER Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison by Piper Kerman Meeting site: LaVerne Griffin's OCTOBER Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers Meeting site: Joan Kuemper's SEPTEMBER Sophie's Choice by William Styron Meeting site: Muriel Carpenter's AUGUST In the Name of Friendship by Marilyn French Meeting site: Nancy King's JULY Keys of the Kingdom by A.J. Cronin Meeting site: Chris Davis' JUNE Suite française by Irène Némirovsky Meeting site: Marsha Leatherwood's MAY Falling Leaves: The Memoir of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter by Adeline Yen Mah Meeting site: LaVerne Griffin's APRIL The Samurai's Garden by Gail Tsukiyama Meeting site: Joan Kuemper's MARCH Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert Meeting site: Muriel Carpenter's FEBRUARY Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy Meeting site: Nancy King's JANUARY House of Rain by Craig Childs Meeting site: Chris Davis' |
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DECEMBER Stones for the River by Ursula Hegi Meeting site: Marsha Leatherwood's NOVEMBER (actual meeting date: October 29) Crossroads Cafe by Deborah Smith Meeting site: LaVerne Griffin's OCTOBER The Nineteenth Wife by David Ebershoff Meeting site: Joan Kuemper's SEPTEMBER Stones for Ibarra by Harriet Doerr Meeting site: Muriel Carpenter's AUGUST The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón Meeting site: Nancy King's JULY A Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrick Meeting site: Chris Davis' JUNE Your Blues Ain't Like Mine by Bebe Moore Campbell Meeting site: Marsha Leatherwood's MAY Secrets of the Plumed Saint by Elizabeth Ann Galligan Meeting site: LaVerne Griffin's APRIL Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro Meeting site: Joan Kuemper's MARCH The Moviegoer by Walker Percy Meeting site: Muriel Carpenter's FEBRUARY Physics of the Future by Michio Kaku Meeting site: Nancy King's JANUARY High on Arrival by Mackenzie Phillips Meeting site: Chris Davis' 2011 NOVEMBER The Man in the Wooden Hat by Jane Gardam Meeting site: Marsha Leatherwood's OCTOBER Island Beneath the Sea by Isabel Allende Meeting site: LaVern Griffin's SEPTEMBER Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History by Erik Larson Meeting site: Joan Kuemper's AUGUST Close Range by Annie Proulx Meeting site: Muriel Carpenter's JULY Clara and Mr. Tiffany by Susan Vreeland Meeting site: Nancy King's JUNE Horse Soldiers by Doug Stanton Meeting site: Chris Davis' MAY Heart and Soul by Maeve Binchy Meeting site: Marsha Letherwood's APRIL What Is the What by Dave Eggers Meeting site: Joan Kuemper's MARCH Abundance: A Novel of Marie Antoinette by Sena Jeter Naslund, Meeting site: LaVerne Griffin's FEBRUARY The Turquoise Ledge by Leslie Marmon Silko Meeting site: Muriel Carpenter's JANUARY Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende Meeting site: Chris Davis' 2010 and earlier
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