Previous Book Club Titles
2025
Month | Title | Author |
January | The Bodies in the Library | Marty Wingate |
February | Persuasion | Jane Austen |
March | Signal Fires | Dani Shapiro |
April | The Greatest Beer Run Ever: A Memoir of Friendship, Loyalty, and War | John "Chick" Donohue |
May | The Secret Book of Flora Lea | Patti Callahan Henry |
June | Tom Lake | Ann Patchett |
July | None | |
August | The Art Thief | Michael Finkel |
September | The Berry Pickers | Amanda Peters |
October | The Stepford Wives | Ira Levin |
November | The Hazelbourne Ladies Motorcycle and Flying Club | Helen Simonson |
December | None |
2024
Month | Title | Author |
January | Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers |
Jesse Q. Sutanto |
February | Hester | Laurie Albanese |
March | Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup |
John Carreyrou |
April | The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society | Annie Barrows and Mary Ann Shaffer |
May | Yellowface |
R. F. Kuang |
June | The Last Summer at the Golden Hotel | Elyssa Friedland |
July | None | |
August | The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder | David Grann |
September | Horse | Geraldine Brooks |
October | Frankenstein: The 1818 Text | Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley |
November | The Seed Keeper | Diane Wilson |
December | None |
2023
Month | Title | Author |
January | Matrix | Lauren Groff |
February | Possession (1st half) | A.S. Byatt |
March | Possession (2nd half) | A.S. Byatt |
April | How Lucky | Will Leitch |
May | Sea of Tranquility | Emily St. John Mandel |
June | Dear County Agent Guy | Jerry Nelson |
July | The Language of Flowers | Vanessa Diffenbaugh |
August | None | |
September | The Echo Wife | Sarah Gailey |
October | Devolution | Max Brooks |
November | The Lions of Fifth Avenue | Fiona Davis |
December | None |
2022
Lunchtime
Month | Title | Author |
January | The Radium Girls | Kate Moore |
February | In Five Years | Rebecca Serle |
March | This Tender Land | William Kent Kruger |
April | If the Creek Don't Rise | Leah Weiss |
May | The Reading List | Sara Nisha Adams |
June | The Only Woman in the Room | Marie Benedict |
July | The Grace Year | Kim Liggett |
August | None | |
September | The Rose Code | Kate Quinn |
October | A History of Wild Places | Shea Ernshaw |
November | The Editor | Rowley |
December | None |
Fireside
Month | Title | Author |
January | Project Hail Mary | Andy Weir |
February | The Paris Wife | Paula McLain |
March | Stay with Me | Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀ |
April | The Passengers | John Marrs |
May | Nothing to See Here | Kevin Wilson |
June | Eight Hundred Grapes | Laura Dave |
July | The Holdout | Graham Moore |
August | None | |
September | Beartown | Fredrik Backman |
October | Three Graves Full | Jamie Mason |
November | Oh William! | Elizabeth Strout |
December | None |
2021
Lunchtime
Month | Title | Author |
January | The Magic of Ordinary Days | Ann Howard Creel |
February | The Book of Unknown Americans | Cristina Henríquez |
March | Year of Wonders | Geraldine Brooks |
April | The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II | Denise Kiernan |
May | Hidden | Catherine McKenzie |
June | My Cousin Rachel | Daphne du Maurier |
July | The Lager Queen of Minnesota | J. Ryan Stradal |
August | Hideaway | Lauren K. Denton |
September | Little Faith | Nickolas Butler |
October | Turn of The Key | Ruth Ware |
November | Homegoing | Yaa Gyasi |
December | Christmas Bus | Melody Carlson |
Fireside
Month | Title | Author |
January | Circe | Madeline Miller |
February | His Bloody Project | Graeme Macrae Burnet |
March | None - Virtual What Are You Reading | |
April | None - Virtual What Are You Reading | |
May | None - Virtual What Are You Reading | |
June | None - Virtual What Are You Reading | |
July | The Dinner | Herman Koch |
August | The Beautiful Bureaucrat | Helen Philips |
September | Gorilla and the Bird | Zack McDermott |
October | 7 ½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle | Stuart Turton |
November | In the Lake of the Woods | Tim O'Brien |
December | Christmas Blizzard | Garrison Keillor |
2020
Lunchtime
Month | Title | Author |
January | Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End | Atul Gawande |
February | If You Lived Here I Would Know Your Name | Heather Lende |
March | None | |
April | Clara's Wish | S. M. Senden |
May | The Red House Mystery | A. A. Milne |
June | Summer of '69 | Elin Hilderbrand |
July | The Library Book | Susan Orlean |
August | The Darwin Affair | Timothy Mason |
September | Greeting from Utopia Park | Claire Hoffman |
October | Before I Go to Sleep | S. J. Watson |
November | Carnegie's Maid | Marie Benedict |
December | 2 a.m. at the Cat's Pajamas | Marie-Helene Bertino |
Fireside
Month | Title | Author |
January | Himself | Jess Kidd |
February | Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian | Marina Lewycka |
March | None - Virtual What Are You Reading | |
April | None - Virtual What Are You Reading | |
May | None - Virtual What Are You Reading | |
June | None - Virtual What Are You Reading | |
July | None - Virtual What Are You Reading | |
August | None - Virtual What Are You Reading | |
September | None - Virtual What Are You Reading | |
October | None - Virtual What Are You Reading | |
November | None - Virtual What Are You Reading | |
December | None - Virtual What Are You Reading |
2019
Lunchtime
Month | Title | Author |
January | The Rules of Magic | Alice Hoffman |
February | I Always Loved You | Robin Oliveira |
March | The Girl on the Train | Paula Hawkins |
April | This Blessed Earth: A Year in the Life of an American Family Farm | Ted Genoways |
May | Artemis | Andy Weir |
June | A Northern Light | Jennifer Donnelly |
July | My Name is Lucy Barton | Elizabeth Strout |
August | Thirteen Reasons Why | Jay Asher |
September | Driving Miss Norma: One Family's Journey Saying "Yes" to Living | Ramie Liddle and Tim Bauerschmidt |
October | Get in Trouble: Short Stories | Kelly Link |
November | The Particular Sadness of a Lemon Cake | Aimee Bender |
December | Cold Day for Murder | Dana Stabenow |
Fireside
Month | Title | Author |
January | Pines | Blake Crouch |
February | We Could've Been Happy Here | Keith Lesmeister |
March | Death Comes for the Archbishop | Willa Cather |
April | Where the Crawdads Sing | Delia Owens |
May | Professor and the Madman | Simon Winchester |
June | Cinnamon and Gun Powder | Eli Brown |
July | Dandelion Wine | Rae Bradbury |
August | Brain on Fire | Susannah Cahalan |
September | Empire Falls | Richard Russo |
October | Ocean at the End of the Lane | Neil Gaiman |
November | Miracle life of Edgar Mint | Brady Udall |
December | Holidays on Ice | David Sedaris |
2018
Lunchtime
Month | Title | Author |
May | Fried Green Tomatoes | Fannie Flagg |
June | The Jump-Off Creek | Molly Gloss |
July | Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore | Robin Sloan |
August | The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper | Phaedra Patrick |
September | Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters | Mark Dunn |
October | The Night Circus | Erin Morgenstern |
November | Future Homemakers of America | Laurie Graham |
December | This is Your Life, Harriet Chance! | Jonathan Evison |
Fireside
Month | Title | Author |
May | Ordinary Grace | William Kent Krueger |
June | The Secret Scripture | Sebastian Barry |
July | The Woman Who Wasn't There: The True Story of an Incredible Deception | Angelo J. Guglielmo Jr. and Robin Gaby Fisher |
August | Niagara Falls All Over Again | Elizabeth McCracken |
September | We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves | Karen Joy Fowler |
October | The Haunting of Hill House | Shirley Jackson |
November | Gulp | Mary Roach |
December | The Westing Games | Ellen Raskins |