Older Selections

Second Wednesday Book Group Older Selections:

  • December 2016: The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics by Daniel James Brown
  • November 2016: My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
  • October 2016: Galileo's Daughter by Dava Sobel
  • September 2016: Defending Jacob by William Landay
  • August 2016: The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion
  • July 2016: Ragtime by EL. Doctorow
  • June 2016: Mister Owita's Guide to Gardening by Carol Wall
  • May 2016: The Invisible Wall : A Love Story That Broke Barriers by Harry Bernstein
  • April 2016: Orphan Train by Christinea Baker Kline
  • March 2016: The Art of Hearing Heartbeats by Jan-Philipp Sendker
  • February 2016: Stiff : The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach
  • January 2016: The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd
  • December 2015: The Maltese Falcon by Dashiel Hammett
  • November 2015: The End of Your Life Book Club by Will Schwalbe
  • October 2015: The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  • September 2015: The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman
  • August 2015: The School of Essential Ingredients by Erica Bauermeister
  • July 2015: Boy, Snow, Bird by Helen Oyeyemi
  • June 2015: The Worst Hard Time : The Untold Story… by Timoth Egan
  • May 2015: The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce
  • April 2015: The Paris Wife by Paula McLain
  • March 2015: Mr. Penumbra's 24-hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan
  • February 2015: Mortality by Christopher Hitchens
  • January 2015: Rin Tin Tin : The Life and the Legend by Susan Orlean
  • December 2014: The Cookbook Collector by Allegra Goodman
  • November 2014: The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
  • October 2014: The Monster of Florence by Douglas Preston
  • September 2014: People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
  • August 2014: Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling
  • July 2014: The End of the Point by Elizabeth Graver
  • June 2014: The Obituary Writer by Ann Hood
  • May 2014: The Cat's Table by Michael Ondtaaje
  • April 2014: Reservation Blues by Sherman Alexie
  • March 2014: The Country of the Pointed Firs by Sarah Orne Jewett
  • February 2014: The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka
  • January 2014: Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay
  • December 2013: Touching My Father's Soulby Jamling Norgay
  • November 2013: Brick Lane by Monica Ali
  • October 2013: The Moon is Down by John Steinbeck
  • September 2013: The Submission by Amy Waldman
  • August 2013: Isaac's Storm by Erik Larson
  • July 2013: The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin
  • June 2013: The Girl Who Fell From the Sky by Heidi Durrow
  • May 2013: My Antonia by Willa Cather
  • April 2013: Townie: a Memoir by Andre Dubus III
  • March 2013: The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
  • February 2013: Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
  • January 2013: The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder
  • December 2012: Shadow Divers: the True Adventures of Two Americans Who Risked Everything to Solve One of the Last Mysteries of WWII by Robert Kurson
  • November 2012: True Grit by Charles Portis
  • October 2012: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society by Mary Ann Schaffer and Annie Barrows
  • September 2012: The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
  • August 2012: Secrets of Eden by Chris Bohjalian
  • July 2012: Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson
  • June 2012: The House at Sugar Beach by Helene Cooper
  • May 2012: The Night Counter : a Novel by Alia Yunis
  • April 2012: The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
  • March 2012: How to be an American Housewife by Margaret Dilloway
  • February 2012: Reading Lolita in Tehran by Aszar Nafisi
  • January 2012: I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
  • December 2011: The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse by Louise Erdrich
  • November 2011: Lark and Termite by Jayne Anne Phillips
  • October 2011: Half-Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel by Jeannette Walls
  • September 2011: Final Jeopardy: Man vs. Machine and the Quest to Know Everything by Stephen Baker
  • August 2011: The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty
  • July 2011: The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope by William Kamkwamba
  • June 2011: Slammerkin by Emma Donoghue
  • May 2011: Peace Like a River by Leif Enger
  • April 2011: In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez
  • March 2011: Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner
  • February 2011: Loving Frank by Nancy Horan
  • January 2011: A Northern Light by Jennifer Donnelly
  • December 2010: Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
  • November 2010: The Ghost at the Table by Suzanne Berne
  • October 2010: Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
  • September 2010: Digging to America by Anne Tyler
  • August 2010: Encore Provence: New Adventures in the South of France by Peter Mayle
  • July 2010: The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane : a Novel by Katherine Howe
  • June 2010: Brick by Brick by Lynn Donohue
  • May 2010: Blackbird House by Alice Hoffman
  • April 2010: The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O'Farrell
  • March 2010: Five Quarters of the Orange by Joanne Harris
  • February 2010: The Lemon Tree : An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East by Sandy Tolan
  • January 2010: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
  • December 2009: One Thousand White Women by Jim Fergus
  • November 2009: The Devil in the White City by Erik Larsons
  • October 2009: Land of Marvels by Barry Unsworth
  • September 2009: The Hungry Tide by Amitav Ghosh
  • August 2009: Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
  • July 2009: A Yellow Raft in Blue Water by Michael Dorris
  • June 2009: The Girls : a Novel by Lori Lansens
  • May 2009: Kabul Beauty School : An American Woman Goes Behind the Veil by Deborah Rodriguez
  • April 2009: The Maytrees by Annie Dillard
  • March 2009: Pope Joan by Donna Cross Woolfolk
  • February 2009: The Camel Bookmobile by Masha Hamilton
  • January 2009: Mountains beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder
  • December 2008: The Book Thief by Markus Zusak.
  • November 2008: Fire in the Blood by Irene Nemirovsky.
  • October 2008: The House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III.
  • September 2008: Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Sijie Dai.
  • August 2008: Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen.
  • July 2008: Finn by Jon Clinch.
  • June 2008: The Story of Lucy Gault by William Trevor.
  • May 2008: The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid : A Memoir by Bill Bryson.
  • April 2008: Accordion Crimes by Annie Proulx.
  • March 2008: The World to Come by Dara Horn.