Here’s a list of all the books my in-person book club read, from 2001 – 2019:
2001 | The Bonesetter’s Daughter | Amy Tan |
While I Was Gone | Sue Miller | |
Girl With a Pearl Earring | Tracy Chevalier | |
Girl in Hyacinth Blue | Susan Vreeland | |
Fortune’s Daughter | Alice Hoffman | |
The Shipping News | Annie Proulx | |
2002 | Sula | Toni Morrison |
The Five People You Meet in Heaven | Mitch Albom | |
Follow Your Heart | Susanna Tamaro | |
The Bee Season | Myra Goldberg | |
The Secret Life of Bees | Sue Monk Kidd | |
The Dive from Clausen’s Pier | Ann Packer | |
The Corrections | Jonathan Franzen | |
Memoirs of a Geisha | Arthur Golden | |
2003 | The Red Tent | Anita Diamant |
Plain Truth | Jodi Picoult | |
The Hours | Michael Cunningham | |
The Family Orchard | Nomi Eve | |
Five Finger Discount – A Crooked Family History | Helene Stapinski | |
The Lovely Bones | Alice Sebold | |
Gift from the Sea | Ann Morrow Lindbergh | |
Beloved | Toni Morrison | |
The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe | C.S. Lewis | |
2004 | All He Ever Wanted | Anita Shreve |
The Da Vinci Code | Dan Brown | |
Atonement | Ian McEwan | |
Princess: A True Story of Life Behind the Veil in Saudi Arabia | Jean P. Sasson | |
Back Roads | Tawni O’Dell | |
Peace Like a River | Leif Enger | |
Reading Lolita in Tehran | Azar Nafisi | |
The Center of Everything | Laura Moriarty | |
Youngblood Hawke | Herman Wouk | |
The Jane Austen Book Club | Karen Joy Fowler | |
2005 | Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America | Barbara Ehrenreich |
Where the Heart Is | Billie Letts | |
Cold Mountain | Charles Frazier | |
Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons | Lorna Landuik | |
How To Be Good | Nick Hornby | |
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time | Mark Haddon | |
Hypocrite in a Pouffy White Dress | Susan Jane Gilman | |
Bel Canto | Ann Patchett | |
Remember Me | Trezza Azzopardi | |
Children of God | Mary Doria Russell | |
2006 | White Oleander | Janet Fitch |
Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith | John Krakauer | |
A Short History of Tractors in Ukranian | Marina Lewycka | |
The Celestine Prophecy | James Redfield | |
Little Children | Tom Perotta | |
The Kite Runner | Khaled Hosseini | |
Pigs in Heaven | Barbara Kingsolver | |
The World to Come | Dara Horn | |
Middlesex | Jeffrey Eugenides | |
The Memory Keeper’s Daughter | Kim Edwards | |
The Optimist’s Daughter | Eudora Welty | |
A Christmas Carol | Charles Dickens | |
2007 | An Inconvenient Truth | Al Gore |
The Ha Ha | Dave King | |
Wicked | Gregory Maguire | |
The Keep | Jennifer Egan | |
Brick Lane | Monica Ali | |
Love in The Time of Cholera | Gabriel Garcia Marquez | |
The Glass Castle | Jeannette Walls | |
Out Stealing Horses | Per Petterson | |
Half of a Yellow Sun | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | |
Black and White | Dani Shapiro | |
2008 | Confederates in the Attic | Tony Horwitz |
Good Faith | Jane Smiley | |
Eat, Pray, Love | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
The Double Bind | Chris Bohjalian | |
The Russian Concubine | Kate Furnivall | |
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close | Jonathan Safran Foer | |
First Mothers | Bonnie Angelo | |
Sense and Sensibility | Jane Austen | |
Water for Elephants | Sara Gruen | |
The Giver | Lois Lowrey | |
2009 | The Enchantress of Florence | Salman Rushdie |
Peony in Love | Lisa See | |
The Blind Assassin | Margaret Atwood | |
Revolutionary Road | Richard Yates | |
The Shack | William P. Young | |
The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane | Katherine Howe | |
A Mercy | Toni Morrison | |
The Handmaid’s Tale | Margaret Atwood | |
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn | Betty Smith | |
A Map of the World | Jane Hamilton | |
The Twist in the Road | Rob Hanlon | |
2010 | The Soloist | Steve Lopez |
The Financial Lives of the Poets | Jess Walters | |
Straight Man | Richard Russo | |
To Kill a Mockingbird | Harper Lee | |
Wench | Dolen Perkins-Valdez | |
Sarah’s Key | Tatiana de Rosnay | |
My Antonia | Willa Cather | |
Mennonite in a Little Black Dress | Rhoda Janzen | |
Let the Great World Spin | Colum McCann | |
Game Change | John Heliemann/Mark Halperin | |
Holidays on Ice | David Sedaris | |
2011 | The Time Traveler’s Wife | Audrey Niffenegger |
The Art of Racing in the Rain | Garth Stein | |
The Lotus Eaters | Tatjana Soli | |
Rebecca | Daphne du Maurier | |
The Hunger Games | Susanne Collins | |
The Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother | Amy Chua | |
In Defense of Food | Michael Pollan | |
Room | Emma Donoghue | |
Cutting for Stone | Abraham Verghese | |
One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest | Ken Kesey | |
2012 | The Thirteenth Tale | Diane Setterfield |
Little Bee | Chris Cleve | |
The Happiness Project | Gretchen Rubin | |
Loving Frank | Nancy Horan | |
The Weird Sisters | Eleanor Brown | |
Gone With the Wind | Margaret Mitchell | |
Half Broke Horses | Jeannette Walls | |
The Art of Fielding | Chad Harbach | |
We Hear the Dead | Diane Salerni | |
Defending Jacob | William Landay | |
2013 | A Christmas Memory | Truman Capote |
Rules of Civility | Amor Towles | |
The Leftovers | Tom Perrotta | |
The Bluest Eye | Toni Morrison | |
Gone Girl | ||
Gillian Flynn | ||
The Night Circus | Erin Morgenstern | |
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks | Rebecca Skloot | |
Silver Sparrow | Tayari Jones | |
Wonder | R. J. Palacio | |
Orphan Train | Christina Baker Kline | |
Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community and War | Nathanial Philbrick | |
2014 | The Book Thief | Markus Zusak |
Me Before You | JoJo Mayes | |
The Pieces We Keep | Kristina McMorris | |
What Alice Forgot | Liane Moriarty | |
The Caged Graves | Dianne Salerni | |
The Interestings | Meg Wolitzer | |
The Aviator’s Wife | Melanie Benjamin | |
Mary Coin | Marisa Silver | |
The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace | Jeff Hobbs | |
All Fall Down | Jennifer Weiner | |
2015 | The Sound and the Fury | William Faulkner |
A Sudden Light | Garth Stein | |
The Dinner | Herman Koch | |
The Valley of Amazement | Amy Tan | |
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet | Jamie Ford | |
A Walk in the Woods | Bill Bryson | |
The Dressmaker | Kate Alcott | |
2016 | Burial Rites | Hannah Kent |
After You | JoJo Moyes | |
All the Pretty Horses | Cormac McCarthy | |
2017 | The Boston Girl | Anita Diamant |
The Fever | Megan Abbot | |
A Spool of Blue Thread | Anne Tyler | |
At the Water’s Edge | Sara Gruen | |
My Name Is Lucy Barton | Elizabeth Strout | |
My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry | Fredrik Backman | |
We Were Liars | E. Lockhart | |
The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry | Gabrielle Zevin | |
2018 | Today Will Be Different | Maria Semple |
We Were the Lucky Ones | Georgia Hunter | |
The Immortalists | Chloe Benjamin | |
The Swans of Fifth Avenue | Melanie Benjamin | |
2019 | Little Fires Everywhere | Celest Ng |
Manhattan Beach | Jennifer Egan | |
The Widow | Fiona Barton | |
Before the Fall | Noah Hawley | |
Lab Girl | Hope Jahren |