PAST READINGS SINCE 2007
2025
October: Our Missing Hearts by Clelste Ng
September: The Covenant of Water by Abrahan Verghese
August: no meeting
July: The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store by James McBride
June: Notes on an Execution by Danya Kukafka
May: James by Percival Everett
April: H Is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald
March: Sing Unburied Sing by Jesmyn Ward
February: The Sympathizer by Viet Thakh Nguyen
January: Tender Land by William Kent Krueger
2024
December: Gilead by Marilinn Robinson
November: A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
October: Tinkers by Paul Harding
September: North Woods by Daniel Mason
August: No Meeting
July: Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt
June: The Promise by Damon Galgut
May: Unlikely Animals by Annie Hartnett
April: Horse by Geraldine Brooks
March: Trust by Herman Diaz
February: Demon Copperhead continued
January: Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
2023
December: Time Shelter by Georgi Gospodinov
November: South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation by Imani Perry
October: The Plot by Jean Hanff Korelitz
August & September: Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr
July: Sea Wife by Amity Gaige
June: The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
May: The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles
April: Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy
February and March: Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead
January: The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah
2022
December: The Splendid and the Vile by Erik Larson
November: The Beauty in Breaking: a Memoir by Michele Harper
October: A Quiet Madness: A Biographical Novel of Edgar Allen Poe by John Isaac Jones
August & September: Fall of Giants by Ken Follet
July: Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
June: The Night Watchman by Louise Erdich
May: Destiny of the Republic by Candice Millard
April: Everywhere You Don’t Belong by Gabriel Bump
March: The Moor’s Account by Laila Lalami
February: The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
January: Deacon King Kong by James McBride
2021
December: Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell
November: The Round House by Louise Erdr
October – The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel
September – The Wonder by Emma Donohue
August – Anxious People by Fredrik Backman
July – The Dutch House by Anne Patchett
June – The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richard
April: American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins
May – The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
March – Open City by Teju Cole
February – The Return by Hisham Matar
January – Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
2020
December – Stranger in the Woods by Michael Finkel
November – The Brother Gardeners by Andrew Wulf
October – Exhalation by Ted Chiang
September – Virgil Wander by Leif Enger
August – Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
July – Open Choice
June – Open Choice
May – Open Choice
April- We by Yevgeny Zamyatin
March – Arcadia by Lauren Groff
February – The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris
January – Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
2019
December – Less by Andrew Sean Greer
October & November – The Overstory by Richard Powers
September – Washington Black by Esi Edugyan
August – Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate
July – What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty
June – Educated by Tara Westover
May – There There by Tommy Orange
April – Elinor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
March – The Last Midwife by Sandra Dallas
February – Touch by Courtney Maum
January – Left to Tell by Imaculee Ilibagiza
2018
December – The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
November – The Painter by Peter Heller
October – Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
Sept – Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Aug – History of Wolves by Emily Fridlund
July – So Big by Edna Ferber
June – Exit West by Moshin Hamid
May – Under the Volcano by Malcolm Laurie
April – The Changeling by Victor LaValle
March – Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
February – Peace Like a River by Leif Enger
January – They May Not Mean To, But They Do by Cathleen Schine
2017
December – We Are Called to Rise by Laura McBride
November – The North Water by Ian McGuire
October – Commonwealth by Ann Patchett
September – The Mandibles: A Family, 2029-2047 by Lionel Shriver
August – The Double Bind by Chris Bojalian
July – All the King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren
June – Gilead by Marianne Robinson
May –Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien
April – Dead Wake by Eric Larson
Mar – All the Light We Canot See by Anthony Doerr
Feb – The Life We Bury by Allen Eskins
Jan – Winterdance by Gary Paulsen
2016
Dec – A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute
Nov – Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward
Oct – I am Malala by Malala Yousafzai & Christina Lamb
Sep – The Orchardist by Amanda Coplin
Aug – The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
July – Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown
June – Plainsong by Kent Haruf
May – Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
Apr – Our Souls at Night by Kent Haruf
Mar – Canada by Richard Ford
Feb – The Water Knife by Paolo Bacigalupi
Jan – Burial Rites by Hannah Kent
SECOND SUNDAY BOOK CLUB READING HISTORY
- September 2007 – Water for Elephants: A Novel by Sara Gruen
- October 2007 – The Road by Cormac McCarthy
- November 2007 – Devil in the White City: A Saga of Magic and Murder at the Fair that Changed America by Erik Larson
- December 2007 – The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
- January 2008 – Blindness by Jose Saramago
- February 2008 – Everything Changes by Jonathan Tropper
- March 2008 – Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
- April 2008 – Ancestor Stones by Aminatta Forna
- May 2008 – White Noise by Don DeLillo
- June 2008 – The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
- July 2008 – Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire
- August 2008 – Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
- September 2008 – Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community by Robert D. Putnam
- October 2008 – Mommies Who Drink by Brett Paesel
- November 2008 – Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult
- December 2008 – Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
- January 2009 – Three Junes by Julia Glass
- February 2009 – Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
- March 2009 – Lark and Termite by Jayne Anne Phillips
- April 2009 – The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
- May 2009 – The Monsters of Templeton by Lauren Groff
- June 2009 – White Teeth by Zadie Smith
- July 2009 – The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway
- August 2009 – The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
- September 2009 – Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
- October 2009 – The Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan
- November 2009 – LOVE Park by Jim Zervanos
- December 2009 – Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- January 2010 – The Nine: Inside the Secret History of the Supreme Court by Jeffrey Toobin
- February 2010 – The Yiddish Policeman’s Union by Michael Chabon
- March 2010 – Brother I’m Dying by Edwidge Danticat
- April 2010 – Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
- May 2010 – Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A Memoir by Bill Bryson
- June 2010 – Let The Great World Spin by Colum McCann
- July 2010 – The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo by Steig Larsson
- August 2010 – Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
- September 2010 – The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
- October 2010 – Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Ann Burns
- November 2010 – Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
- December 2010 – Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer by Novella Carpenter
- January 2011 – Empire Falls by Richard Russo
- February 2011 – Someone Knows My Name by Lawrence Hill
- March 2011 – Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
- April 2011 – Half Broke Horses by Jeanette Walls
- May 2011 – Bad Blood: A Memoir by Lorna Sage
- June 2011 – The Imperfectionists by Tom Rachman
- July 2011 – Just Kids by Patti Smith
- August 2011 – The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
- September 2011 – Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith by Jon Krakauer
- October 2011 – A Visit From The Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
- November 2011 – Room by Emma Donaghue
- December 2011 – The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa
- January 2012 – Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
- February 2012 – World and Town by Gish Jen
- March 2012 – The Paris Wife by Paula McLain
- April 2012 – The Space Between Us by Thrity Umrigar
- May 2012 – The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson
- June 2012 – The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
- July 2012 – Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
- August 2012 – The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
- September 2012 – The Cat’s Table by Michael Ondaatje
- October 2012 – The Lost City of Z by David Grann
- November 2012 – Big Girl Small by Rachel DeWoskin
- 64.December 2012 – Rules of Civility by Amor Towles
- January 2013 – Zeitoun by Dave Eggers
- February 2013 – Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
- March 2013 – Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris
- April 2013 – Blood, Bones and Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef by Gabrielle Hamilton
- May 2013 – We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver
- June 2013 – Still Alice by Lisa Genova
- July 2013 – Where’d You Go Bernadette by Maria Semple
- August 2013 – The Dog Stars by Peter Heller
- September 2013 – Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline
- October 2013 – Rain of Ruin: A Novel by Mark Kelley
- November 2013 – This Is How You Lose Her by Junot Dìaz
- December 2013 – Meeting cancelled due to winter weather advisory.
- January 2014 – The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
- February 2014 – Tell The Wolves I’m Home by Carol Rifka Brunt
- March 2014 – The Cuckoo’s Calling by Robert Galbraith (pen name for J. K. Rowling)
- April 2014 – Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan
- May 2014 – The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl by Timothy Egan
- June 2014 – The Flamethrowers by Rachel Kushner
- July 2014 – What Was She Thinking: Notes on a Scandal by Zoe Heller
- August 2014 – The Thing Around Your Neck by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- September 2014 – The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri
- October 2014 – Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune by Bill Dedman
- November 2014 – Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo
- December 2014 – The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
- January 2015 – Shipping News by Annie Proulx
- February 2015 – The Rosie Project: A Novel by Graeme Simsion
- March 2015 – The Ocean at the End of the Lane: A Novel by Neil Gaiman
- April 2015 – Diary of a Nobody by George Grossmith and Weedon Grossmith
- May 2015 – Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand: A Novel by Helen Simonson
- June 2015 – Fever by Mary Beth Keane
- July 2015 – A Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Marra
- August 2015 – The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka
- September 2015 – Some Luck by Jane Smiley
- October 2015 – Last Call – The Rise and Fall of Prohibition by Daniel Okrent
- November 2015 – Euphoria by Lily King
- December 2015 – The Transcriptionist by Amy Rowland
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