2014 & 2018 Book Discussion Group Reading Lists


Feb 2016: All the Light We Cannot See, by Anthony Doerr
March 2016: Necessary Losses, by Judith Viorst
April 2016: I am Malala, by Malala Yousefzai
May 2016: Elephant Company: The Inspiring Story of an Unlikely Hero and the Animals Who Helped Him Save Lives in World War II, by Vicki Crooke
June 2016: Orphan Train, by Christina Baker Kline
July 2016: Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania, by Erik Larson
August 2016: The Light Between the Oceans, by ML Stedman
September 2016: Spilt Milk, by Chico Buarque
October 2016: The Wright Bros., by David McCullough
November 2016: Mozart’s Last Aria, by Matt Rees
January 2017: The Libyan, by Esher Kofod
February 2017: Encounters with Rikki: From Hurricane Katrina Rescue to Exceptional Therapy Dog, by Julie Strauss Bettinger
March 2017: Fraccidental Death: An Eco-Thriller (Water Warriors, Book 2), by Donna Meredith
April 2017: Love and Death in Venice, by Bonnie Braendlin
May 2017: Being Mortal, by Atul Gawande
June 2017: Gideon’s Trumpet, by Anthony Lewis
July 2017: The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt’s New World, by Andrea Wulf
August 2017: Clementine: The Life of Mrs. Winston Churchill, by Sonia Purnell
September 2017: My Own Words, by Ruth Bader Ginsburg with M. Harnett & W, Williams
October 2017: The Goldfinch: A Novel, by Donna Tart
November 2017: That Summer in Sicily: A Love Story, by Marlena de Blasi
January 2018: The Underground Railroad, by Colson Whitehead
2/16/2015 Interpreter of Maladies (Short Stories) by Jhumpa Lahiri
3/16/2015 The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert
4/20/2015 Wet Work by Donna Meredith
5/18/2015 The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd
6/29/2015 Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
7/20/2015 The Pope’s Daughter: The Extraordinary Life of Felice della Rovere by Carolyn P Murphy
8/17/2015 The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri
9/21/2015 The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics by Daniel James Brown
10/19/2015 My Beloved World by Sonia Sotomayor
11/16/2015 An Officer and a Spy by Robert Harris
12/07/2015 Annual Potluck & Book Selection Meeting.
1/18/2016 The Woman Who Defied Kings: The Life and Times of Doña Gracia Nasi by Andrée Brooks

  • Beneath a Marble Sky by John Shors
  • Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel
  • Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver
  • Illumination in the Flatwoods: A Season with the Wild Turkey by Joe Hutto
  • Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula Le Guin
  • Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
  • Private Lives of the Impressionists by Sue Roe
  • Still Alice by Lisa Genova
  • The Love of a Good Woman by Alice Munro
  • The Mold in Dr. Florey’s Coat: The Story of the Penicillin Miracle by Eric Lax
  • There is No Me Without You: One Woman’s Odyssey to Rescue Her Country’s Children, by Melissa Fay Greene
  • Wildflowers in the Median: A Restorative Journey into Healing, Justice, & Joy by Agnes Furey and Leonard Scoven