Past Years' Books

Books Read in 2024

(*unanimous vote)

↑ Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George

↑ The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles

Beloved by Toni Morrison

Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

Sisters of the Lost Nation by Nick Medina

Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus*

Apeirogon by Colum McCann*

The Testaments by Margaret Atwood

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer

 

Books Read in 2023

  The Other Einstein by Marie Benedict 
  Nothing Daunted: The Unexpected Education of Two Society Girls in the West by Dorothy Wickenden

 Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng

↑ Unsheltered by Barbara Kingsolver

↑ An Unfinished Life by Mark Spragg

 Now is Not the Time to Panic by Kevin Wilson

↑ Other Birds by Sarah Addison Allen

 Under the Whispering Door by T.J. Klune

↑ Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr

↑ Wish You Were Here by Jodi Piccoult

↑ West With Giraffes by Lynda Rutledge

↑ The Absolute True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Alexie Sherman

        

 

Books Read in 2022

The Other Side by Mark Leichliter

Less by Andrew Sean Greer

The Flight Girls by Noelle Salazar

Valentine: A Novel by Elizabeth Wetmore
Perestroika in Paris by Jane Smiley

We Begin at the End by Chris Whitaker
Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson 

Inheritance: A Memoir of Geneology, Paternity, and Love  by Dani Shapiro
The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner

Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell

The Bones of Paradise by Jonis Agee
The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams

 

Books Read in 2021

Bowlaway by Elizabeth McCracken

The Book of Longings by Sue Monk Kidd

Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century by Jessica Bruder

Inland by Tea Obreht

Above All Things by Tanis Rideout

Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah

The Dutch House by Anne Patchett

Girl Guards of Wyoming: The Lost Miltia by Dan Lyon

The Book of Lost Names by Kristin Harmel

Aloha Rodeo: Three Hawaiian Cowboys, the World's Greatest Rodeo, and a Hidden History of the American West by David Wolman

Boundary Waters Search and Rescue: Beyond Belief (Book One in the BoundaryWaters Search and Rescue Series) by Joy Harding

The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett

 

Books Read in 2020

Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman

The Library Book by Susan Orlean

A River of Creeks by Kerry Grande

Once Upon a River by Diane Setterfield

In Our Time by Ernest Hemingway

The Tenth Muse by Catherine Chung

Dead Mountain: The Untold True Story of The Dyatlov Pass Incident by Donnie Eichar

This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger

Carnegie's Maid by Marie Benedict

The Hearts of Men by Nickolas Butler

Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson

 

Books Read in 2019

Bone by Fae Myenne Ng

Blue Highways by William Least Heat-Moon

Enchantress of Numbers by Jennifer Chiavierni

The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester

People of the Moon by  W. Michael Gear and Kathleen O'Neal Gear

An Unspoken Hunger: Stories from the Field by Terry Tempest Williams

Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann

These Is My Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901: Arizona Territories: A Novel by Nancy E. Turner

Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng

The Tattooist of Auschwitz: A Novel by Heather Morris

Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover

Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens

 

Books Read in 2018

 

A Thousand Splendid Suns by  Khaled Hosseini

All the Wild that Remains by David Gessner

The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler

Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance 

The History of Love by Nicole Krauss

Cowboys and East Indians by Nina McConigley

Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell

   and the Second Opening of the West by Wallace Stegner

Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan

The Oregon Trail: A New American Journey by Rinker Buck

Everyone Brave is Forgiven by Chris Cleave

I Let You Go by Clare Mackintosh

The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World by Dalai Lama XIV,

   Desmond Tutu, & Douglas Carlton Abrams

 

Books Read in 2017

A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson

A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving

The Beekeeper's Apprentice by Laurie R. King

Our Souls at Night by Kent Haruf

Doc by Mary Doria Russell

The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead

Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy: Four women undercover in the Civil War by Karen Abbott

The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemmingway

Circling the Sun by Paula McLain

Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown

Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl

Gilead by Marilynne Robinson

 

Books Read in 2016

The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion
Midnight in the Garden of Good & Evil by John Berendt
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Winterdance: The Fine Madness of Running the Iditarod by Gary Paulsen
The Hundred Foot Journey by Richard Morais
The Museum of Extraordinary Things by Alice Hoffman
A Man Called Ove: A Novel by Fredrick Backman
A Good Man is Hard to Find and Other Stories by Flannery O'Connor
Etta and Otto and Russell and James by Emma Hooper

 

Books Read in 2015

The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin
A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines

Mary Coin by Marisa Silver
Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger
Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
The Whistling Season by Ivan Doig
Wild by Cheryl Strayed
Say You're One of Them by Akpan Uwem
I Am A Man by Joe Starita
The Dovekeepers by Alice Hoffman
Emma by Jane Austen

 

Books Read in 2014

Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
The Night Journal by Elizabeth Crook

In the Chameleon's Shadow by Mark Hummel
What You See in Clear Water by Geoffrey O'Gara
Close Range by Annie Proulx
Where Rivers Change Direction by Mark Spragg 
Windmill: Essays from Four Mile Ranch by David Romtvedt
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
May's Notebook by Isabel Allende
The Round House by Lousie Erdrich

 

Books Read in 2013

Conquistadora by Esmeralda Santiago
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

Angel of Repose by Wallace Stegner
The Bad Seed by William March
All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
Charlatan by Pope Brock
The Tiger's Wife by Tea Obreht
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
The Glass Castle: A Memiorby Jeannette Walls
Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
The Legend of Colton H. Bryant by Alexandra Fuller
Wishin' and Hopin' by Wally Lamb

 

Books Read in 2012

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Sijie Dai

The Road to Wellville by T.C. Boyle

Sophie's Choice by William Styron
Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Letham
The Kitchen God's Wife by Amy Tan
The Paris Wife by Paula McLain
The Dirty Life: A Memior of Farming, Food, and Love by Kristin Kimball
The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
Look at Me by Jennifer Egan
State of Wonder by Ann Patchett
Half the Sky: Turing Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide by Nicholas D. Kristof
 

Books Read in 2011

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon

The Help by Kathryn Stockett

Shadow Drivers by Robert Kurson
War Dances by Sherman Alexie
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Finn by Jon Clinch
I See You Everywhere by Julia Glass
Mystic River by Dennis Lehane
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
The Hours by Michael Cunningham
Holidays on Ice by David Sedaris

 

Books Read in 2010

The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa

Broken for You by Stephanie Kallos

Wish You Well by David Baldaucci
The Brief Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
Where Rivers Change Direction by Mark Spragg
Maus by Art Spieglman
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight by Alexandera Fuller
Waiting for the Barbarians by J.M. Coetzee
The Lacuan by Barbara Kingsolver
Hannah Coulter by Wendell Berry
The Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk

 

Books Read in 2009

Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout

Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson

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