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Slaght 2021: The Exiles by Christina Kline Anxious People by Backman This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger A Single Thread by Tracy Chevalier Deacon King Kong by James McBride The Broken Circle by Enjeela Ahmadi-Miller The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes The Whistling Season by Ivan Doig The Dutch House by Ann Patchett The Weight of Ink by Rachel Kadish 2020: Miracle Creek by Angie Kim The Red Daughter by John Burnham Schwartz Dreams of Trespass by Fatima Mernissi Case Histories: a Novel by Kate Atkinson Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens Pachinko by Min Jin Lee The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah The Library Book by Susan Orlean Prayers for the Stolen by Jennifer Clement 2019: Beneath a Scarlet Sky by Mark Sullivan Beartown by Fredrik Backman An American Marriage by Tayari Jones Oh Florida by Craig Pittman The Perfume Collector by Kathleen Tessaro The Overstory by Richard Powers The Day the World Came to Town by Jim Defrede A photographers Life of Love and War by Lyndsey Addario Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie Trajectory by Richard Russo Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann The Dark Lady's Mask by Mary Sharratt Jan, 2018: Purple Hibiscus by Chimamamnda Ngozi Adichie Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng Make Your Bed by Admiral William McRaven News of the World by Paulette Jiles The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane by Lisa See Hillbilly Elegy by J. D. Vance Til the Well Runs Dry by Lauren Francis-Sharma A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles Once Upon a Town by Bob Greene Commonwealth by Ann Patchett Siracusa by Delia Ephron Jan, 2017: The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi Family Furnishings by Alice Munro My Brilliant Friend, Elena Ferrante A God in Ruins, Leon Uris A Man Called Ove, Frederik Backman The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes The Gods of Tango, Carolina De Robertis Sofrito by Phillippe Diederich Miss Dreamsville and the Lost Heiress by Amy Hill Hearth Your Face in Mine by Jess Row Jan 2016: Orfeo by Richard Powers Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Bridge of Spies by Alex Kershaw The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown The Diver's Clothes Lie Empty by Vendela Vida The Birds of Pandemonium by Michele Raffin Euphoria by Lily King The Anatomy Lesson by Nina Siegal The Lifeboat by Charlotte Rogan Radical (My Journey out of Islamist Extremism) by Maajid Nawaz Eisenhower in War and Peace by Jean Edward Smith All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr Jan 2015: In a Rocket Made of Ice by Gail Gutradt Breakfast with Buddha by Roland Merullo The Opposite of Loneliness by Marina Keegan Life After Life by Kate Atkinson The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt Left Neglected by Lisa Genova Together We Jump by Ken McAlpine Founding Mothers by Cokie Roberts Child of My Heart by Alice McDermott Orphan Train by Cristina Baker Kline George Washington's Secret Six by Kilmeade and Yaeger Miss Dreamsville and the Collier County Women's Literary Society, Amy Hill Hearth (Jan 2014) The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid When She Woke by Hilary Jordan The Round House by Louise Erdrich In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini The Dinner by Herman Koch The Twelve Rooms of the Nile by Enid Shomer The Cat's Table by Michael Ondaatje The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman The Home at the End of the World, Michael Cunningham The Orchardist by Amanda Coplin The Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford (Jan 2013) The Little Giant of Aberdeen County by Tiffany Baker The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey by Walter Mosley Caleb's Crossing by Geraldine Brooks Life, Love and Elephants by Dame Daphne Sheldrick State of Wonder, Ann Patchett In the Time of the Butterflies, by Julia Alvarez Day after Night, Anita Diamant Guernica by Dave Boling The Glass Room by Simon Mawer Room, Emma Donoghue Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick Freakonomics by Levitt and Dubner (Jan 2012) Adventures in Nowhere by John Ames The Blasphemer by Nigel Farndale The Space Between Us by Thrity Umrigar Darkness, My Old Friend by Lisa Unger Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese Little Bee by Chris Cleave Big Trouble by Dave Barry Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson Wesley the Owl by Stacey O'Brien The Bird House by Kelly Simmons The Wild Irish by Robin Maxwell Parrot and Olivier in America by Peter Carey (Jan 2011) City of Thieves by David Benioff Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder The Help by Kathryn Stockett Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay Fragile by Lisa Unger The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom Crossing the Wire by Will Hobbs Telex From Cuba by Rachel Kushner The Three Weissmanns of Westport by Cathleen Schine Pope Joan by Donna Cross Stealing Athena by Karen Essex The Infiltrator by Robert Mazur (Jan 2009) That Old Cape Magic by Richard Russo The Book Thief by Markus Zusak Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout One Thousand White Women by Jim Fergus The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz Die for You by Lisa Unger Rush Home Road by Lori Lansens When Madeline Was Young by Jane Hamilton The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga The Double Bind by Chris Bohjalian Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski (Jan 2008) The Echo Maker by Richard Powers Letter to My Daughter by Maya Angelou Black Out by Lisa Unger Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society by Shaffer and Barrows Show & Tell -- sharing favorites Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks The House at Riverton by Kate Morton Proof by David Auburn The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O'Farrell Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini (Jan 2007) Then She Found Me by Elinor Lipman A Warrant for Mrs. Lincoln by Nancy Schleifer I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou Dangerous Waters by John S. Burnett Doubt by John Patrick Shanley The Chimney Sweeper's Boy by Barbara Vine Galileo's Daughter by Dava Sobel The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards Wickett's Remedy by Myla Goldberg The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls Intuition by Allegra Goodman (Jan 2006) Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich Women of Valor by Ellen Hampton The History of Love by Nicole Krauss A Thousand Days in Venice by Marlena de Blasi Alentejo Blue by Monica Ali Patron Saint of Liars by Ann Patchett The River of Doubt by Candice Millard The Conjurer's Bird by Martin Davies The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho Wicked by Gregory Maguire 44 Scotland Street by Alexander McCall Smith Spring Snow by Yukio Mishima (Jan 2005) Empire Falls by Russo 1776 by David McCullough The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon Too Close to the Falls by Catherine Gildiner Saturday by Ian McEwan Bel Canto by Ann Patchett The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides A Chance Meeting by Rachel Cohen The Cloud Atlas by Liam Callanan The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri Night Falls on the City by Sarah Gainham Colossus: The Price of America's Empire by Niall Ferguson Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell Music & Silence by Rose Tremain Sugar by Bernice L. McFadden Other Sorrows, Other Joys by Janet Warner The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson Man's Search For Meaning, Viktor Frankl Paradise of the Blind, Thu Huong Duong American Pastoral, Philip Roth Reading Lolita in Tehran, Azar Nafisi King Lear, Shakespeare Life of Pi, Yann Martel Soul Mountain, Gao Xingjian Country of the Pointed Firs, Sarah Orne Jewett Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight, Alexandra Fuller The Night Inspector, Frederick Busch Seabiscuit, Laura Hillenbrand Stolen Lives, Malika Oufkir The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, Alexander McCall Smith The Tie That Binds, Kent Haruf Coastliners, Joanne Harris Looking for Lovedu, Ann Jones Dreaming in Cuban, Cristina Garcia Atonement, Ian McEwan Baltasar and Blimunda, Jose Saramago The Spirit Catches You, Anne Fadiman Blind Assassin, Margaret Atwood The Skin of a Lion, Michael Ondaatje The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen A Land Remembered, Patrick Smith Healing Earthquakes, Jimmy Baca Cold Mountain, Charles Frazier Caravans, James Michener Falling Leaves, Adeline Mah Orchid Thief, Susan Orlean Moby Dick, Herman Melville Lesson Before Dying, Ernest Gaines A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth (Group started 7-2001)
The Bastard of Istanbul by Elif Shafak The Secret Purposes by David Baddiel The Book Thief by Markus Zusak Zabelle by Nancy Kricorian Heyday by Kurt Anderson Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen March by Geraldine Brooks A year by the Sea by Joan Anderson; (optional) An Unfinished Marriage The Birth of Venus by Sarah Dunant Digging to America by Anne Tyler Forever by Pete Hamill Case Histories by Kate Atkinson Snow Flower & the Secret Fan by Lisa See The Wife by Meg Wolitzer The March by E.L. Doctorow The Mermaid Chair by Sue Monk Kidd Gilead by Marilynne Robinson Tears of the Giraffe by Alexander McCall Smith The Piano Tuner by Daniel Mason The Plot against America, Philip Roth Yellow by Dan Lee Herzog by Saul Bellow Alexander Hamilton by Willard Sterne Randall The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri A Fine Balance by Mistry The Good Doctor by Damon Galgut The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini Middlesex: A Novel by Jeffrey Eugenides Savage Beauty : Edna St. Vincent Millay by Nancy Milford The Photograph by Penelope Lively The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers The Jane Austen Book Club, Karen Joy Fowler Spies, Michael Frayn Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China, Jung Chang Everything Is Illuminated, Jonathan Safran Foer Three Junes, Julia Glass Peony, Pearl Buck We Were the Mulvaneys, Joyce Carol Oates One Thousand White Women, Jim Fergus Secret Life of Bees, Sue Kidd The Nazi Officer's Wife, Edith H. Beer Isabel's Bed, Elinor Lipman Unravelling, Elizabeth Graver Unless, Carol Shields The Mistress of Spices, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni The Road from Coorain, Jill Conway Carry Me Across the Water, Ethan Canin Last Miracle at Little No Horse, Louise Erdrich Travels with Charley, John Steinbeck John Adams, David McCullough The River Midnight, Lilian Nattel Losing Battles, Eudora Welty Back When We Were Grownups, Anne Tyler Peace Like a River, Leif Enger Bel Canto, Ann Patchett Girl in Hyacinth Blue, Susan Vreeland Girl with a Pearl Earring, Tracy Chevalier Breath, Eyes, Memory, Edwidge Danticat Davita's Harp, Chaim Potok Ahab's Wife, Sena Jeter Naslund The Inn at Lake Devine, Elinor Lipman Part of the Furniture, Mary Wesley Daughter of Fortune, Isabel Allende City of God, E. L. Doctorow An Equal Music, Vikram Seth Dancing at the Rascal Fair, Ivan Doig Waiting, Ha Jin (Since 10-2000)