Books that have been read thus far are:

2024

  • Jan: Into Thin Air, A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster by John Krakaur
  • Feb: The Sweetness of Water by Nathan Harris
  • March: Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
  • April: How to Hide An Empire, History of the United States, by Daniel Immerway
  • May: The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee
  • June: Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann
  • Aug: The Accidental President, Harry S. Truman and the Four Months That Changed the World by A.J. Baime
  • Sept: The Story of Lucy Gault, a novel by William Trevor
  • Oct: Endurance, Ernest Shackleton's legendary antarctic expedition, as written by Alfred Lansing.
  • Nov: The Women by Kristin Hannah
  • Dec. The Radium Girls, The Dark Stories of America's Shining Women by KateMoore

2023

  • Jan: The Incredible Winston Browne by Sean Dietrich
  • Feb: Loving Frank by Nancy Horan
  • March: The Double Life of Katharine Clark by Karharine Gregorio
  • Apr: The Diamond Eye by Kate Quinn
  • June: I Know Who You Are - How an Amateur DNA Sleuth Unmasked the Golden State Killer and Changed Crime Fighting Forever by Barbara Rae-Venter
  • July: The Paris Architect by Charles Belfoure
  • August: Treasure State, by C.J. Box
  • September: The Nature of Fragile Things, by Susan Meissner
  • October: West with Giraffes, by Lynda Rutledge
  • November: Lessons in Chemistry, by Bonnie Grams
  • December: Jan: The Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Post, by Allison Pataki

2022

  • Jan: The Lions of Fifth Avenue by Fiona Davis
  • Feb: A discussion of attendees favorite books
  • March: The Maid by Nita Prose
  • April: The Lincoln Highway a novel by Amor Towles
  • May: My Twenty-five Years in Provence by Peter Mayle
  • June: Where the Forest Meets the Stars by Glendy Vanderah
  • July: The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America by Bill Bryson
  • Aug: (summer break)
  • Sep: Navajo Autumn by R. Allen Chappell
  • Oct: The Daughters of Yalta: The Churchills, Roosevelts and Harrimans: A Story of Love and War, by Catherine Grace Katz
  • Nov: The Madhouse At The End Of The Earth: The Belgica’s Journey Into The Dark Antarctic Night by Julian Sancton
  • Dec: Pachinko by Min Jin Lee

2021

  • Jan: The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
  • Feb: The Girl with the Louding Voice by Abi Daré
  • March: The Splendid and the Vile by Erik Larson
  • Aprilr: Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate
  • May: A Woman of No Importance by Sonia Pernell
  • June: When We Believed in Mermaids by Barbara O'Neil
  • Sept: Nomadland: Surviving America in the 21st Century, by Jessica Bruder
  • Oct: The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah
  • Nov: American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins
  • Dec: The Midnight Library by Matt Haig

2020

  • Jan: Have You Seen Luis Velez by Catherine Ryan Hyde
  • Feb: The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
  • March:  Kindred by Octavia Butler
  • Aug:  This Tender Land by William Kent Kruger
  • Sep:  The Dutch House by Ann Patchett
  • Oct:  Beartown by Fredrik Backman
  • Nov:  The Storyteller's Secret by Seja Badani

2019

  • Jan: The Alice Network by Kate Quinn
  • Feb: An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
  • March  The Rent Collector by Camron Wright
  • April: A Gentleman in Moscow: A Novel by Amor Towels
  • May: The Girls of Atomic City by Denise Kiernan
  • June: The Woman in the Window by A.J. Finn
  • July:  In the Midst of Winter by Isabel Allende
  • Aug: Educated by Tara Westover
  • Sept: Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
  • Oct: Sold on a Monday by Kristina McMorris
  • Nov: Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult
  • Dec: The Book of Joy by the Dalai Lama and Desmond Tutu

2018

  • Jan: Our Souls at Night by Kent Haruf
  • Feb: The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown
  • Mar: The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom
  • Apr: Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania by Erik Larson
  • May: Hands of My Father: A Hearing Boy, His Deaf Parents, and the Language of Love by Myron Uhlberg
  • June: When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
  • July: Beneath a Scarlet Sky by Mark Sullivan 
  • Aug: Last Bus to Wisdom by Ivan Doig 
  • Oct: The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit by Michael Finkel
  • Nov: Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Won't Stop Talking by Susan Cain
  • Dec: The Other Einstein by Marie Benedict

2017

  • June: Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell 
  • July: The Rosie Project: A Novel by Graeme Simsion
  • Aug: 3mph: The Adventures of One Woman’s Walk Around the World by Polly Letofsky
  • Sept: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
  • Oct: These is My Words by Nancy Turner
  • Nov: Still Alice by Lisa Genova
  • Dec: A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman