Book Discussion Groups

2025

• January Mystery: Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers by Jesse Q. Sutanto
• January Fiction: Graceland by Nancy Crochiere
• January Nonfiction: In the Garden Behind the Moon by Alexandra Chan
• January Specfic: The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden
• February Mystery: The Cat Who Could Read Backwards by Lilian Jackson Braun
• February Fiction: The Promise by Damon Galgut
• February Nonfiction: The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe
• February Specfic: A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine
• March Mystery: Mother-Daughter Murder Night by Nina Simon
• March Fiction: Dust Child by Nguyẽ̂n Phan Qué̂ Mai
• March Nonfiction: My Life in France by Julia Child
• March Specfic: Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
• April Mystery: The River We Remember by William Kent Krueger
• April Fiction: The Maid by Nita Prose
• April Nonfiction: The Devil's Element by Dan Egan
• April Specfic: House of Leaves by Mark Danielewski
• May Mystery: Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone by Benjamin Stevenson
• May Fiction: The Shipping News by Annie E. Proulx
• May Nonfiction: The Years by Annie Ernaux
• May Specfic: The Cruel Prince by Holly Black
• June Mystery: Killing Trail by Margaret Mizushima
• June Fiction: West with Giraffes by Lynda Rutledge
• June Nonfiction: Where You'll Find Me: Risk, Decisions, and The Last Climb of Kate Matrosova by Ty Gagne
• June Specfic: A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki
• July Mystery: Murder by Degrees by Ritu Mukerji
• July Fiction: Tom Lake by Ann Patchett
• July Nonfiction: Africa is Not a Country: Notes on a Bright Continent by Dipo Faloyin
• July Specfic: Light from Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki
• August Mystery: In the Bleak Midwinter by Julia Spencer-Fleming
• August Fiction: The Beekeeper of Aleppo by Christy Lefteri
• August Nonfiction: Femina: A New History of the Middle Ages, Through the Women Written Out of It by Janina Ramirez
• August Specfic: Shubeik Lubeik by Deena Mohamed

2024

• January Mystery: The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley
• January Classic: Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
• January Fiction: The Giver of Stars by JoJo Moyes
• January Nonfiction: What the Ermine Saw: The Extraordinary Journey of Leonardo Da Vinci’s Most Mysterious Portrait by Eden Collinsworth
• January Specfic: The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker
• February Mystery: Blueberry Muffin Murder by Joanne Fluke
• February Classic: Not Without Laughter by Langston Hughes
• February Fiction: Take My Hand by Dolen Perkins-Valdez
• February Nonfiction: Fen, Bog and Swamp: A Short History of Peatland Destruction and its Role in the Climate Crisis by Annie Proulx
• February Specfic: The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins
• March Mystery: Devil in a Blue Dress by Walter Mosley
• March Classic: Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen
• March Fiction: Britt-Marie Was Here by Fredrik Backman
• March Nonfiction: Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America by Marcia Chatelain
• March Specfic: Dhalgren by Samuel Delany
• April Mystery: Death in Brittany by Jean-Luc Bannalec
• April Fiction: Pocketful of Names by Joe Coomer
• April Nonfiction: The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat: And Other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks
• April Specfic: The Library of the Dead by T. L. Huchu
• May Mystery: No One Will Miss Her by Kat Rosenfield
• May Classic: Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust
• May Fiction: The Plot Against America by Philip Roth
• May Nonfiction: Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad  by M. T. Anderson
• May Specfic: Magic for Liars by Sarah Gailey
• June Mystery:  The Guest List by Lucy Foley
• June Classic: The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
• June Fiction: The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert
• June Nonfiction: The Barbizon: The Hotel that Set Women Free by Paulina Bren
• June Specfic: Sorcerer to the Crown by Zen Cho
• July Mystery: Holmes on the Range by Steve Hockensmith
• July Classic: Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
• July Fiction: Swimmers by Julie Otsuka
• July Nonfiction: The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee
• July Specfic: Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree
• August Mystery: Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line by Deepa Anappara
• August Classic: A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare
• August Fiction: The Exiles by Christina Baker Kline
• August Nonfiction: The Library Book by Susan Orlean
• August Specfic: The Watchmaker of Filigree Street by Natasha Pulley
• September Mystery: A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle
• September Classic: David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
• September Fiction: Pete and Alice in Maine by Caitlin Shetterly
• September Nonfiction: Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania  by Erik Larson
• September Specfic: Moon of the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice
• October Mystery: The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman
• October Fiction: The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafek
• October Nonfiction: It Was Vulgar and It Was Beautiful: How AIDS Activists Used Art To Fight a Pandemic by Jack Lowery
• October Specfic: Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
• November Mystery: Mistress of the Art of Death by Ariana Franklin
• November Classic: Hawaii's story by Hawaii's Queen by Lili'uokalani
• November Fiction: Telex from Cuba by Rachel Kushner
• November Nonfiction: An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us by Ed Yong
• November Specfic: Akata Warrior by Nnedi Okorafor
• December Mystery: The Twelve Clues of Christmas by Rhys Bowen
• December Classic: Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
• December Nonfiction: The Chiffon Trenches by Andre Leon Talley
• December Fiction: The Girl from Guernica by Karen Robards
• December Specfic: Akata Woman by Nnedi Okorafor

2023

• January Classic: Persuasion by Jane Austen
• January Fiction: The Mistletoe Murder and Other Stories by P.D. James
• January Nonfiction: Owls of the Eastern Ice by Johnathan Slaght
• January Specfic: All Systems Red by Martha Wells
• February Classic: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
• February Fiction: The Music Shop by Rachel Joyce
• February Nonfiction: In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado
• February Specfic: Galatea 2.2 by Richard Powers
• March Classic: The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
• March Fiction: The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey
• March Nonfiction: Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe
• March Specfic: The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper
• April Classic: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• April Fiction: Our Darkest Night by Jennifer Robson
• April Nonfiction: The Collected Schizophrenias by Esmé Weijun Wang
• April Specfic: The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa
• May Fiction: The Story Hour by Thrity Umrigar
• May Nonfiction: The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green
• May Specfic: Foundation by Isaac Asimov
• May & June Classic: Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
• June Fiction: Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate
• June Nonfiction: Before and After by Judy Christie & Lisa Wingate
• June Specfic: The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix Harrow
• July Classic: Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
• July Fiction: The Life She Was Given by Ellen Marie Wiseman
• July Nonfiction: The Secret to Superhuman Strength by Alison Bechdel
• July Specfic: Hyperion by Dan Simmons
• August Classic: I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
• Au gust Fiction: Sweet Salt Air by Barbara Delinsky
• August Nonfiction: Somebody's Daughter by Ashley C. Ford
• August Specfic: The Fall of Hyperion by Dan Simmons
• September Classic: The Art of War by Sun Tzu
  September Mystery: The Beekeeper’s Apprentice by Laurie R. King
• September Fiction: The Reading List by Sara Nisha Adams
• September Nonfiction: Meet Me By the Fountain by Alexandra Lange
• September Specfic: Redwall by Brian Jacques
• October Classic: Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
• October Mystery: The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett
• October Fiction: Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman
• October Nonfiction: Crying in H-Mart by Michelle Zauner
• October Specfic: The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter
• November Mystery: The Blessing Way by Tony Hillerman
• November Classic: Macbeth by William Shakespeare
• November Fiction: Night of the Living Rez by Morgan Talty
• November Nonfiction: Consumed by Aja Barber
• November Specfic: Elatsoe by Darcie Little Badger
• December Mystery: The Talented Miss Farwell by Emily Tedrowe
• December Classic: A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
• December Fiction: The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin
• December Nonfiction: Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
• December Specfic: To Be Taught, If Fortunate by Becky Chambers

2022

• January Classic: Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
• January Fiction: The Color of Air by Gail Tsukiyama
• January Specfic: The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune
• February Classic: Annie John by Jamaica Kincaid
• February Fiction (Nonfiction for Fiction): The Man Who Loved Books Too Much by Allison Hoover Bartlett
• February Specfic: Dune by Frank Herbert
• March Classic: The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
• March Fiction: Indian Horse by Richard Wagamese
• March Specfic: Circe by Madeline Miller
• April Classic: Walden by Henry David Thoreau
• April Fiction: A Long Petal of the Sea by Isabel Allende
• April Specfic: How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe by Charles Yu
• May Classic: Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
• May Fiction: A Window Opens by Elisabeth Egan
• May Specfic: In Other Lands by Sarah Rees Brennan
• June Classic: One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
• June Fiction: On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
• June Specfic: The Luminous Dead by Caitlin Starling
• July Classic: The Country of the Pointed Firs by Sarah Orne Jewett
• July Fiction: Citizens Creek by Lalita Tademy
• July Specfic: Ammonite by Nicola Griffith
• August Classic: The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
• August Fiction: A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki
• August Specfic: The Devourers by Indra Das
• September Classic: The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
• September Fiction: Ask Again, Yes by Mary Beth Keane
• September Nonfiction: The Boys of Summer  by Roger Kahn
• September Specfic: Everfair by Nisi Shawl
• October Classic: My Antonia by Willa Cather
• October Fiction: The Henna Artist by Alka Joshi
• October Nonfic: Mill Town: Reckoning with What Remains by Kerri Arsenault
• October Specfic: Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
• November Classic: Hamlet by William Shakespeare
• November Fiction: Run by Ann Patchett
• November Nonfic: Wow, No Thank You  by Samantha Irby
• November Specfic: Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
• December Classic: The Pillow Book by Sei Shonagon
• December Fiction: The Story of Arthur Truluv by Elizabeth Berg
• December Nonfic: The Hare with Amber Eyes  by Edmund de Waal
• December Specfic: Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse

2021

• January Classic: Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
• January Fiction: Pieces of Happiness: A Novel of Friendship, Hope and Chocolate by Anne Ostby
• January LGBTQ: Bingo Love by Tee Franklin
• January Specfic: Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James
• February Classic: The Odyssey translated by Emily Wilson
• February Fiction: Only Child by Rhiannon Navin
• February LGBTQ: Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe
• February Specfic: Seraphina by Rachel Hartman
• March Fiction: The Daring Ladies of Lowell by Kate Alcott
• March LGBTQ: On A Sunbeam by Tillie Walden
• March Specfic: Mr. Fox by Helen Oyeyemi
• April Classic: Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
• April Fiction: Tears of the Giraffe by Alexander McCall-Smith
• April LGBTQ: Passing Strange by Ellen Klages
• April Specfic: This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
• May Classic: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
• May Fiction: The Book of Unknown Americans by Christina Henriquez
• May LGBTQ: Maurice by E.M. Forster
• May Specfic: Foundryside by Robert Jackson Bennett
• June (every group): The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
• July Classic: All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot
• July Fiction (Nonfiction for Fiction):When Books Went to War by Molly Guptill Manning
• July LGBTQ: The Deep by Rivers Solomon
• July Specfic: Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
• August Classic: The Color Purple by Alice Walker
• August Fiction: The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by Aimee Bender
• August LGBTQ: Juliet Takes a Breath by Gabby Rivera
• August Specfic: The Psychology of Time Travel by Kate Mascarenhas
• September Classic: Beowulf translated by Maria Dahvana Headley
• September Fiction: Winter Sisters by Robin Oliveira
• September LGBTQ: George (Melissa’s Story) by Alex Gino
• September Specfic: Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie
• October Classic: Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
• October Fiction: Allie and Bea by Catherine Ryan Hyde
• October LGBTQ: In Other Lands by Sarah Rees Brennan
• October Specfic: The Silent Companions by Laura Purcell
• November Classic: The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
• November Fiction: White Chrysanthemum by Mary Lynn Bracht
• November LGBTQ: Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz​
• November Specfic: Lanny by Max Porter
• December Classic: A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
• December Fiction: The School of Essential Ingredients by Erica Baumeister
• December Specfic: The Nutcracker and Mouse King and The Tale of the Nutcracker by E. T. A. Hoffmann & Alexandre Dumas

2020

• January Fiction: Seven Days of Us by Francesca Hornak
• January Nonfiction: Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years by Sarah and A. Elizabeth Delany with Amy Hill Hearth
• January Specfic: The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers
• February Fiction: The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving by Jonathan Evison
• February Nonfiction: 1920: The Year That Made the Decade Roar by Eric Burns
• February Specfic:  The Quick by Lauren Owen
• March Fiction:  Idaho by Emily Ruskovich
• March Specfic: Titus Groan by Mervyn Peake
• April Fiction: The Women in the Castle by Jessica Shattuck
• April Specfic: The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison
• May Fiction: Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata
• May Specfic: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
• June Classic: Emma by Jane Austen
• June Fiction: Good Riddance by Elinor Lipman
• June Specfic: The Princess Bride by William Goldman
• July Classic: Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
• July Fiction: Another Brooklyn by Jacqueline Woodson
• July Specfic: Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation by Octavia Butler
• August Classic: A Study in Scarlet by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
• August Fiction: The Boston Girl by Anita Diamant
• August Specfic: An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon
• September Classic: Howards End by E.M. Forster
• September Fiction: The One in A Million Boy by Monica Wood
• September LGBTQ: The Clancys of Queens by Tara Clancy
• September Specfic: The Salt Roads by Nalo Hopkinson
• October Fiction: There, There by Tommy Orange
• October Classic: Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
• October LGBTQ: Not My Father's Son by Alan Cumming
• November Fiction: Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
• November LGBTQ: Sissy by Jacob Tobia
• November Specfic: Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand by Samuel Delany
• December Classic: Middlemarch by George Eliot
• December Fiction: The Life We Bury by Allen Eskens
• December LGBTQ: The Clancys of Queens by Tara Clancy
• December Specfic: Unnatural Magic by C.M. Waggoner

2019

• January Fiction: The New Year's Quilt by Jennifer Chiaverini
• January Nonfiction: The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan
• January Specfic: Smoke by Dan Vyleta
• February Fiction: February 11 - Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
• February Nonfiction: Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
• February Specfic: Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
• March Fiction: The Stars are Fire by Anita Shreve
• March Nonfiction: The Death and Life of the Great Lakes by Dan Egan
• March Specfic: Long Division by Kiese Laymon
• April Fiction: The Rent Collector by Camron Wright
• April Nonfiction: Tell Me More by Kelly Corrigan
• April Specfic: Weave a Circle Round by Kari Maaren
• May Fiction: Midwives by Chris Bohjalian
• May Nonfiction: The Lemon Tree: An Arab, A Jew and The Heart of the Middle East by Sandy Tolan
• May Specfic: The Power by Naomi Alderman
• June Fiction: The Stargazer’s Sister by Carrie Brown
• June Nonfiction: 13.8 The Quest to Find the True Age of the Universe and Theory of Everything by John Gribbin
• June Specfic: Mirror Dance by Lois McMaster Bujold
• July Fiction: Something in the Water by Catherine Steadman
• July Nonfiction: How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming by Mike Brown
• July Specfic: The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
• August Fiction: The Movement of Stars by Amy Brill
• August Nonfiction: The Interstellar Age: The Story of the NASA Men and Women Who Flew the Forty-Year Voyager Mission by Jim Bell
• August Specfic: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
• September Fiction: Five Carat Soul by James McBride
• September Specfic: The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell
• October Fiction: Saints for All Occasions by J. Courtney Sullivan
• October Nonfiction: Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out? By Bill McKibben
• October Specfic: Beloved by Toni Morrison
• November Fiction: In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez
• November Nonfiction: Ecology, Ethics, and Interdependence: The Dalai Lama in Conversation with Leading Thinkers on Climate Change
• November Specfic: An Accident of Stars by Foz Meadows
• December Fiction: Strong Poison by Dorothy Sayers
• December Nonfiction: Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming by Paul Hawken
• December Specfic: The Book of Joan by Lidia Yuknavitch

2018

• January Fiction: Andy Catlett: Early Travels by Wendell Berry
• January Nonfiction: The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
• January Specfic: The Subtle Knife & The Amber Spyglass by Phillip Pullman
• January Cookbooks: Return to Healthy Eating
• February Fiction: Reflex by Dick Francis
• February Nonfiction: The Blue Zones by Dan Buettner
• February Specfic: Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
• March Fiction: My Wish List by Greg Delacourt
• March Nonfiction: Tribe by Sebastian Junger
• March Specfic: Contact by Carl Sagan
• March Cookbooks: Cooking for Special Diets
• April Fiction: La's Orchestra Saves the World by A. McCall-Smith
• April Nonfiction: Better Together by Robert Putnam
• April Specfic: Geek Love by Katherine Dunn
• May Fiction: The Red Thread by Ann Hood
• May Nonfiction: Being Mortal by Atul Gawande
• May Specfic: The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin
• June Fiction: The Heart by Maylis De Kerangal
• June Nonfiction: America Walks Into a Bar by Christine Sismondo
• June Specfic: Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor
• July Fiction: News of the World by Paulette Jiles
• July Nonfiction: Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance
• July Specfic: The Once and Future King by T.H. White
• August Fiction: Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri
• August Nonfiction: Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
• August Specfic: Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
• September Fiction: The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh
• September Nonfiction: Forward From Here: Leaving Middle Age by Reeve Lindbergh
• September Specfic: A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
• October Fiction: The Daugher of Time by Josephine Tey
• October Nonfiction: The B Side by Ben Yagoda
• October Specfic: NOS4A2 by Joe Hill
• November Fiction: A Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Marra
• November Nonfiction: The Flamingo's Smile by Stephen Jay Gould
• November Specfic: This Census-Taker by China Mieville
• December Fiction: Less by Andrew Sean Greer
• December Nonfiction: The Book That Changed America by Randall Fuller
• December Specfic: The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkein

2017

• January Fiction: Department of Speculation by Jenny Offill
• January Nonfiction: Just Mercy by Brian Stevenson
• January Specfic: The Passage by Justin Cronin
• February Fiction: The Art Forger by B.A. Shapiro
• February Nonfiction: Prisoners of Geography by Tim Marshall
• February Specfic: Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
• March Fiction: Family Life by Akhil Sharma
• March Nonfiction: Tattoos on the Heart by Greg Boyle
• March Specfic: Alif the Unseen by G. Willow Wilson
• April Fiction: The Blessingsby Elise Juska
• April Nonfiction: We should all be feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• April Specfic: We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
• May Fiction: The Book of Aron by Jim Shepard
• May Nonfiction: Girl in the Dark by Anna Lyndsey
• May Specfic: Grass by Sherri Tepper
• June Fiction: The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio by Terry Ryan
• June Nonfiction: The Lace Reader by Brunonia Barry
• June Specfic: Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
• July Fiction: At The Edge of the Orchard by Tracy Chevalier
• July Nonfiction: My Life in France by Julia Child
• July Specfic: Signal to Noise by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
• August Fiction: The Hunchback of Neiman Marcus by Sonya Sones
• August Nonfiction: Ecomind: changing the way we think to create the world we want by Frances Moore Lappé
• August Specfic: The Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett
• September Fiction: The Same Sky by Amanda Eyre Ward
• September Nonfiction: The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester
• September Specfic: Hard-Boiled Wonderland & the End of the World by Haruki Murakami
• October Fiction: Beasts of No Nation by Uzodinma Iweala
• October Nonfiction: Salt: a World History by Mark Kurlansky
• October Specfic: The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle
• November Fiction: Turn of Mind by Alice LaPlante
• November Nonfiction: Outliers: the Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell
• November Specfic: A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L'Engle
• December Fiction: Euphoria by Lily King
• December Nonfiction:To the End of June by Chris Beam
• December Specfic:Tenth of December by George Saunders

2016

• January Fiction: Pomegranate Soup by Marsha Mehran
• January Nonfiction: A Year in Provence by Peter Mayle
• February Fiction: Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand by Helen Simonson
• February Nonfiction: Astronaut Wives Club by Lily Koppel
• February Specfic: The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
• March Fiction: Swallows of Kabul by Yasmina Khadra
• March Nonfiction: Rez Life by David Treuer
• March Specfic: The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
• April Fiction: Sisterland by Curtis Sittenfeld
• April Nonfiction: Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner
• April Specfic: Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
• May Fiction: Fever by Mary Beth Keane
• May Nonfiction: Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
• May Specfic: Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
• June Fiction: The First of July by Elizabeth Speller
• June Nonfiction: I'm a Stranger Here Myself by Bill Bryson
• June Specfic: Good Omens by Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman
• July Specfic: Annihilation by Jeff Vandermeer
• August Nonfiction: Half the sky : turning oppression into opportunity for women worldwide by Nicholas Kristof
• August Specfic: Sabriel by Garth Nix
• September Fiction: While I’m Falling by Laura Moriarty
• September Nonfiction: Smoke gets in your eyes and other lessons from the crematory by Caitlin Doughty
• September Specfic: The Intuitionist by Colson Whitehead
• October Fiction: The Crane Wife by Patrick Ness
• October Nonfiction: Lest innocent blood be shed: the story of the village of Le Chambon, and how goodness happened there by Philip Paul Hallie
• October Specfic: Among Others by Jo Walton
• November Fiction: We are called to Rise by Laura McBride
• November Nonfiction: The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
• November Specfic: The Girl with the Ghost Eyes by M. H. Boroson
• December Fiction: Our Souls at Night by Kent Haruf

2015

• January 12: The Long Walk Home by Will North
• February 9: The Girl Who Fell From The Sky by Heidi Durrow
• February 17: The Age of Wonder by Richard Holmes
• March 9: The Year We Left Home by Jean Thompson
• March 17: Out of Order by Sandra Day O'Connor
• April 13: Necessary Lies by Diane Chamberlain
• April 21: The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
• May 11: Manuscript found in Accra by Paulo Coelho
• May 19: Choose Your Own Nonfiction Book! Topic: China
• June 8: The Wives of Los Alamos by Tarashea Nesbit
• June 16: The World's Strongest Librarian by Joshua Hanagarne
• July 21: An Invisible Thread by Laura Schroff and Alex Tresniowski AND/OR In a Heartbeat by Leigh Anne Tuohy and Sean Tuohy with Sally Jenkins
• August 18: How We Got to Now by Steven Johnson
• September 14: The Edge of the Earth by Christina Schwarz
• September 15: Portsmouth Women edited by Laura Pope
• October 9: The Girls by Lori Lansens
• October 20: The End of Your Life Book Club by Will Schwalbe
• October 26: Vicious by V.E. Schwab
• November 9: Letters from Skye by Jessica Brockmole
• November 17: The Family by David Laskin
• November 30: Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
• December 15: Stuff Matters by Mark Miodownik
• December 28: The Magicians by Lev Grossman

2014

• January 8: Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer
• January 13: The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce
• February 5: In the Sanctuary of Outcasts by Neil White
• February 10: Last Runaway by Tracy Chevalier
• March 5: Passing Strange by Martha Sandweiss
• March 10: Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O’Farrell
• April 14: We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler
• April 16: Animal, Vegetable Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver
• May 12 - Daniel Isn't Talking by Marti Leimbach
• May 21: Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother by Amy Chua
• June 9: Dream When You're Feeling Blue by Elizabeth Berg
• June 18: Five Days at Memorial Hospital by Sheri Fink
• August 5: Nothing to Envy by Barbara Demick
• September 8: The Silver Star by Jeannette Walls
• September 17: The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman
• October 15: Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
• October 20: Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin
• November 10: A Long Long Wayby Sebastian Barry
• November 19: Black, White, Jewish by Rebecca Walker
• December 17: The Railway Man by Eric Lomax

2013

• January 28: The Good Braider by Terry Farish
• February 25: Home by Toni Morrison
• March 25: Left Neglected by Lisa Genova
• April 3: Quiet by Susan Cain
• April 15: Memory Won't Save Me by Mimi White
• May 1: Why be Happy When You Could Be Normal by Jeanette Winterson
• May 20: Say Nice Things About Detroit by Scott Lasser
• June 5: A Wedding in Haiti by Julia Alvarez
• June 17: The Train of Small Mercies by David Rowell
• September 4: A Queer and Pleasant Danger by Kate Bornstein
• September 16: Silver Sparrow by Tayari Jones
• October 2: Wild by Cheryl Strayed
• October 21: Expats by Chris Pavone
• November 6: Happy by Alex Lemon
• November 18: Italian Shoes by Henning Mankell
• December 4: The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown

2012

• January 23: Coffins of Little Hope by Timothy Schaffert
• February 13: The Well and the Mine by Gin Phillips
• March 12: Talk Funny Girl by Roland Merullo
• April 16: So Much Pretty by Cara Hoffman
• May 4: Oxygen written by Carol Cassella
• September 17: Girl in Translation by Jean Kwok
• October 15: Lifeboat by Charlotte Rogan
• November 19: You Know When the Men Are Gone by Siobhan Fallon

2010-2011

• Oct. 18: Broken Teaglass written by Emily Arsenault
• Nov. 15: Crow Lake written by Mary Lawson
• February 14: Two Rivers by T. Greenwood
• March 14: The Stone Gods by Jeanette Winterson
• April 11: Into the Beautiful North by Luis Alberto Urrea
• May 9: Haroun and the Sea Stories by Salman Rushdie

2009-2010

• September 14: All the Living by C.E. Morgan
• October 19: Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
• November 9: Telex from Cuba by Rachvel Kushner
• February 8: House on Sugar Beach by Helene Cooper
• March 15: Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
• April 12: Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa
• May 10: Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway
• June 7: The Good Thief : A Novel by Hannah Tinti

2008-2009

• Tortilla Curtain by T.C. Boyle
• End of the Alphabet by C.S. Richardson
• The Beautiful Things that Heaven Bears by Dinaw Mengestu
• Lost City Radio by Daniel Alarcon
• Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones
• The Cave by Jose Saramago
• Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
• Split Estate by Charlotte Bacon

2007-2008

• Brooklyn Follies by Paul Auster
• Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
• Talk, talk by T.C. Boyle
• March by Geraldine Brooks
• Girls by Lori Lansens
• Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson
• Secondhand World by Katherine Min
• Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
• Zoli by Colum McCann
• Lost and Found by Carolyn Parkhurst
• Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid