Books We've
                            Read
Suggested Reading
The following books have been suggested either by or to one of the club members.
2022 Books that we considered:

Wish You Were Here by Jodie Picoult
Story of Arthur Truluv by Elizabeth Berg
The Force of Vanishing Stars by Kristin Harmel
Empire of Pain by Patrick Radden Keefe
American Marriage by Tayari Jones
PriestDaddy by Patricia Lockwood
American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins

2021 Books that we considered:


At the Wolf's Table by Rosella Postorino
A Quiet End by Demille Nelson
Risen by Angela Hunt
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
The Anxious People by Fredrik Backman
Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
The Secret Keeper by Kate Morton
Beach Read by Emily Henry


2020 Books that we considered:


The Picture of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde
The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper, by Phaedra Patrick
The Little Beach Street Bakery, by Jenny Colgan
The Last Bus to Wisdom, by Ivan Doig
Hannah Coulter, by Wendell Barry
The Lost Girls of Paris, by Pam Jenoff
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot
Lost Roses, by Martha Hall Kelly
The Kitchen House, by Kathleen Grissom


 2019 Books that we considered:


Tatoos on the Heart by Gregory Boyle
The Seduction of Water by Carol Goodman
The Orphan Keeper by Cameron Wright
Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom
The Girl with Seven Names by Hyeonseo Lee & David John
After the Crash by Michael Bussi
The Rainwatcher by Tatiana de Rosnay

2017 Books that we considered:

 The Life We Bury by Allen Eskens
 Hard to Breathe by Tom Combs
 Commonwealth by Ann Patchett
 You Should Have Known by Jean Hanff Korelitz
  The Girls by Emma Cline
  I am Pilgrim by Terry Hayes
  Observation Hill by Tim Jollymore
  A Great Reckoning by Louise Penny

         2016 Books that we considered:

 Take Me With You by Catherine Ryan Hyde
 The Relic Master by Christopher Buckley
 One Thousand White Women by Jim Fergus
 The Orphan Trian by Christina Baker Kline
 Go Set a Watchman by Harper Liee
 I am Pilgrim by Terry Hayes
 Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
 Being Mortal by Atul Gawande
 Down Dog Diary by Sherry Roberts

         2015 Books that we considered:

 The Arsonist: A Novel by Sue Miller
 The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd
 Whistling Past the Graveyard by Susan Crandall
 Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline
 Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared M Diamond

         2014 Books that we considered:

  TheShoemaker's Wife by Adriana Trigiani
  Defending Jacob by William Landay
  Lest Innocent Blood Be Shed by Philip Hallie
 Lookaway Lookaway by Wilton Barnhardt
 Where'd You Go Bernadette by Maria Semple
 Explanation for Everything by Laren Grodstein
 Quiet Dell by Jayne Anne Phillips
 Bellman & Black by Diane Setterfield
 The Kill Artist by Daniel Silva
 The Chaperone by Laura Moriarty

         2013 Books that just missed:

 Those Who Save Us by Jenna Blum
 Garlic & Saphires by Ruth Reichl
 Mudbound by Hillary Jordan
 A Secret Kept by Tatiana de Rosnay
 No Easy Day by Mark Owen
 The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman
 Killing Kennedy by Bill O'Reilly
 The Bakers Daughter by Sarah McCoy
 The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

         2012 Books that just missed:

 33 Men: Inside the Miraculous Survival & Dramatic Rescue of the Chilean Miners by Jonathan Franklin
  Cane River by Lalita Tademy
  The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
  Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson
  The Paris Wife by Paula McLain
  Pompeii by Robert Harris
  On a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino
  The Salt Road by Jane Johnson
  Shanataram by Gregory David Roberts
  Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
  Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
  Up From the Blue by Susan Henderson


Previous Years' Suggestions

  A Year In Provence by Peter Mayle
  Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
  Half Broke Horses by Jeannette Walls
  Rescue by Anita Shreve
  The Chemistry of Calm by Henry Emmons, M.D.
  The House on the Strand by Dame Daphne Du Maurier
  The Fly Boys by James Bradley
  When Bad Things Happen to Good People by Harold Kushner
  The Lord is my Shepherd by Harold Kushner
  The Unknown Errors of Our Lives by Chitra Divakaruni
  What Men Won't Tell You but Women Need to Know by Bob Berkowitz & Roger Gittines
  Sleeping with Schubert by Bonnie Marson