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2023
Feb: All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot
Mar: Spying on the South by Tony Horwitz
Apr: The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne by Brian Moore
May: Shakespeare and Company by Sylvia Beach
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2022
Feb: Crossroads by Johnathan Franzen
Mar: Winter of our Discontent by John Steinbeck
Apr: Wind, Sand and Stars by Antoine de St. Exupery
May: The Little Mermaid by Hans Christian Andersen
Sep: The Group by Mary McCarthy
Oct: Heartburn by Nora Ephron
Nov: Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver
Dec: The House in Paris by Elizabeth Bowen
2021
Feb: My Antonia by Willa Cather
Mar: The Hundred Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson
Apr: The Country Girls by Edna O'Brien
May: Homer & Langley by E.L Doctorow
Sep: All Passions Spent by Vita Sackville-West
Oct: Garden of Eden by Ernest Hemingway
Dec: Ghost Forest by Pik-Shuen Feng
2020
Feb. Virgil Wander by Leif Enger
Mar: Autopsy of A Boring Wife by Marie-Renée Lavoie
Apr: Hotel Du Lac by Anita Brookner
May: American Pastoral by Philip Roth
Sep: Manhunt by James L. Swanson
Oct: A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
Dec: Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein
2019
Feb. The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe
March I Heard You Paint Houses by Charles Brandt
April The Cat’s Table by Michael Ondaatje
May Educated by Tara Westover
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2018
Feb. And Then There We None by Agatha Christie
Mar. Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
April The Unnecessary Woman by Rabih Alameddine
May Elinor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
Sept. The Red Notebook by Antoine Lourain
Oct. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Nov. Moon and Sixpence W. Somerset Maugham
Dec. The Only Story Julian Barnes
2017
Jan. Hadji Murat by Leo Tolstoy with the Pevear and Volokhonsky translation,
published by Vintage Classics, Random House
Feb. What We Become by Arturo Perez-Reverte
Mar. Nutshell by Ian McEwan
Apr. The Stranger by Albert Camus
May A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
July Summer Pop-Up Event A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
Summer Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Oct. Killers of the Flower Moon by David Green
Nov. Kinfolk by Pearl Buck
Dec. Snow by Orhan Pamuk
2016
Jan. The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown
Feb. The Japanese Lover by Isabel Allende
Mar. The Water is Wide by Pat Conroy
April A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
May: A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James
Sept: Bettyville by George Hodgman
Oct: Ordinary Grace by William Kent Kreuger
Nov. Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi
Dec. Cumberland Island, Strong Women, Wild Horses by Charles Seabrook
2015
Jan. Night Film by Marisha Pessl
Feb. The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
Mar. All the Light We Cannot See
April Dreaming in Cuban by Cristina Garcia
May Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow
Summer Selection: Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee
Oct. The Wright Brothers by David McCullough
Nov. The Photograph by Penelope Lively
Dec. The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry
2014
Jan. The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion
Feb. Enemy of the People by Henrik Ibsen adapted by Arthur Miller
Transatlantic by Colum McCann
Apr. A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki
May So Long, See You Tomorrow by William Maxwell
Sept. The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton
Oct. The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man by James Weldon Johnson
Nov. I am Pilgrim by Terry Hayes
Dec. For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
2013
Jan. Family Fang by Kevin Wilson
Feb. Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
Mar. The Middlesteins by Jamy Attenberg
Apr. Tender is the Night F.S. Fitzgerald
May Libra by Don DeLillo
Sept. East of Eden by John Steinbeck
June Z a Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald by Therese Fowler
Oct. And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Houseini
Nov. Nine Stories by J.D. Salinger
Dec. Seven Types of Ambiguity by Eliot Perlman
2012
Jan The Children’s Hour by Lillian Hellman
Feb Perfume, the Story of a Murderer by Patrick Suskind
Mar Mudbound by Hillary Jordan
Apr Rules of Civility by Amor Towles
May Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides
Sept. Murder of the Century by Paul Collins
Oct. Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
Nov. Canada by Richard Ford
Dec. Ghost in the Wires by Kevin Mitnick and William Simon
2011
Jan Breakfast at Tiffany’s by Truman Capote
Feb Little Bee by Chris Cleave
March Hare with the Amber Eyes by Edmund deWaal
April Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
May Look Homeward, Angel by Thomas Woolfe
Sept. Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith
Oct. Enormous Changes at the Last Minute by Grace Paley
Nov. In the Garden of Beasts by Eric Larson
Dec. Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
2010
The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Murial Barbery
Feb The Girl with the Dragon Tatoo by Steig Larsson
April Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann
May Zeitoun by Dave Eggers
Sept. The Lacuna by Barbara Kingslover
Oct. Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
The 1000 Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell
Dec. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
2009
Jan. Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
Feb. The Book Thief by Mark Zuzak
Mar. Birth of Venus
April Rebecca by Sarah Dunant
May Summer by Edith Wharton
Oct. Atlas shrugged by Ayn Rand
Nov. Sarah’s Key by Tatiana de Rosnay
Dec. The Help by Kathryn Stockett
2008
Jan. The Plot Against America by Phillip Roth
Feb. Snow in August by Pete Hamill
Mar. Lolita by Vladamir Nobakov
April Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
May The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follet
Sept. Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Oct. Atmospheric Disturbances by Rivka Galchen
Nov. The Space Between Us by Thrity Umrigar
Dec. The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski
2007
Jan. On Beauty by Zadie Smith
Feb Atonement by Ian McEwan
Mar The Heidi Chronicles by Wendy Wasserstein
April Skinny Dip by Carl Hiaasen
May Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl
Sept A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Housseini
Oct Water for Elephants by Sarah Gruen
Nov The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory
Dec. Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See