Currently Reading

Meg Kissinger, While You Were Out
Jennifer Pharr Davis,  Becoming Odyssa
Brianna West, The Mountain is you 2024

 

April 2024

Andrea Lankford, Trail of the Lost
Lisa Jewell,  None of This is True
Bill O’Reilly, Killing the Witches

 

March 2024

Rick Emerson, Unmask Alice
Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies
Ken Follet, The Third Twin

 

February 2024

David Domine, A Dark Room in Glitter Ball City
Matthew Blake, Anna O
Arnaldur Indridason, The Girl by the Bridge

 

January 2024

Lars Kepler, Stalker
Hernan Diaz, Trust (re-read)
Lars Kepler, Mirror Man
Lars Kepler, The Hypnotist
Ragnar Jonasson, The Darkness

 

December 2023

Walter Isaacson, Elon Musk
Ragnar Jonasson, The Island
Ragnar Jonasson, The Mist
Ragnar Jonasson, Snow-Blind
Ulf Kvensler, The Couples Trip
Lucy Clarke, The Hike
Lars Kepler, The Sandman
Jessical Knoll, Bright Young Women

 

November 2023

Ken Follett, The Armor of Light
Denise Huskins, Victim F
Chris Bohjalian, The Lioness
Riley Sager, The Only One Left
Lynda Rutledge, West with Giraffes
Michael Connelly, Reserrection Walk

 

 

October 2023

Hernan Diaz, Trust
Robert Louis Stevenson, Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde
S. S. Crosby,  All the Sinners Bleed
Ken Follet, Whiteout
Atul Gawande, The Checklist Manifesto
Stephen King, Holly

 

September 2023

August 2023

Justin Brooks, You Might Go to Prison, Even If You’re Innocent
Ashley Flowers, All Good People Here
Costica Bradatan, In Praise of Failure: Four Lessons in Humility
Emma Cline, The Guest
Atul Gawande, Complications: A Surgeon’s Notes on an Imperfect Science
Shelby Van Pelt, Remarkably Bright Creatures

 

July 2023

Mariel Hemingway, Out Came the Sun
Joe Nesbo, Killing Moon
Lindsey Fitzharris, The Buturing Art (Victorian Medicine)
Shelby Van Pelt, Remarkably Bright Creatures

 

June 2023

Bonnie Gamus, Lessons in Chemistry
Barbara Kingsolver, Demon Copperhead
Tess Gunty, The Rabbit Hutch
Marie Still, We’re All Lying
T Marie Vandelly, Theme Music
Dr. Lynn Fenten, Aurora 

 

May 2023

Brigid Delaney, WellMania: Extreme Misadventures in the Search for Wellness
Geradine Brooks, Horse
Joyce Carol Oates, 48 Clues Into the Disappearance of My Sister
Sarah Pinborough, Insomnia
Amit Katwala, Tremors in the Blood
Clancey Martin, How Not to Kill Yourself
Hadley Freeman, Good Girls, a Story and Study of Anorexia

 

 

April 2023

Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful
Teresa of Avila, The Way of Perfection
Amy Sue Nathan, Well Behaved Wives
Michel Faber, The Crimson Petal and the White

 

March 2023

Siobhann MacGowan, The Trial of Lotta Rae
Dan Woren, Go Wild: Free Your Body and Mind from the Afflictions of Civilization
Sigrid Undset, Catherine of Siena

 

February 2023

Emma Donoghue, The Pull of the Stars

 

January 2023

Elizabeth Strout, Lucy by the Sea
Danya Kukafka, Notes on an Execution

 

December 2022

Michael Connelly, Desert Star
Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half
Laurie Albanese, Hester

November 2022

Joyce Carol Oates, Babysitter
Min Jin Lee, Pichinco
Heather B. Armstrong, The Valadictorian of Being Dead
Johann Hari, Stolen Focus
Holley Garth, The Powerful Purpose of Introverts
William Makepeace Thakery, Catherine
Laura Purcell, The Silent Companions

 

October 2022

Chris Bojalian, The Guest Room
Chris Bojalian, The Sleepwalker
Maggie O’Farrell, The Marriage Portrait
Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Colleen Hoover,Verity

 

September 2022

Nita Prose, The Maid
Erin Kimmerle, We Carry Their Bones: The Search for Justice at the Dozier School for Boys
Dan Chaon, Ill Will
Teddy Wayne, The Great Man Theory

 

August 2022

Margaret Atwood, The Heart Goes Last
Matthew McConaughey, Greenlights
Natsuo Kirino, Out
Jeffrey Skinner, Late Stars
Jeffrey Skinner, A Guide to Forgetting
Jeffrey Skinner, The Company of Heaven

 

July 2022

James Ellroy, Blood on the Moon

 

June 2022

Emma Donaghue, The Wonder
James Ellroy, My Dark Places
William Styron, Darkness Visible

 

May 2022

Anthony Doerr, Cloud Cuckoo Land
Julia Glass, Three Junes

 

April 2022

Jessimine Chan, The School for Good Mothers
Gulbahar Haitiwaji, How I Survived a Chinese Reeducation Camp

 

March 2022

Samantha Greene Woodruff, The Labotomist’s Wife
Darby Kane, The Replacement Wife
Charles Bosworth Jr. & Joel J. Schwartz, Bone Deep
Ann Napolitano, Dear Edward

 

 

February 2022

Emily Henry, People We Meet on Vacation
Joe McGinniss, Cruel Doubt
Taylor Adams, No Exit
Sarah Manning Peskin, A Molecule Away from Madness
Neil Bradbury, A Taste for Poison

 

January 2022

Laura Dave, The Last Thing He Told Me
Lisa Jewell, Then She Was Gone
Caitlin Starlin, The Death of Jane Lawrence

 

December 2021

Kwon Yeo-Sun, Lemon
Catherynne M. Valente, Comfort Me with Apples
Jonathan Franzen, Crossroads
Chris Bohjalian, The Flight Attendant
Virginia Feito, Mrs. March

 

November 2021

Kate Moore,  The Woman They Could Not Silence
Jennifer Egan, Look At Me
Taylor Jenkins Reid, Malibu Rising
Michael Connally, The Dark Hours

 

October 2021

Sara Gran, Come Closer
Stephen King, Billy Summers
Dennis Lehane, Since We Fell
Laura Lippman, Dream Girl
B. A. Paris, The Therapist

 

September 2021

Chris Bohjalian, The Hour of the Witch
Riley Sager, Survive the Night
Chris Whitaker, We Begin at the End
Stephen King, Salem’s Lot

 

August 2021

Jean Hanff Korelitz, The Plot
Sarah Flannery Murphy, Girl One
Paul Griner, The Book of Otto and Liam
Riley Sager, Final Girls
Riley Sager, Lock Every Door

 

July 2021

Camron Wright, The Rent Collector
Sarah Penner, The Lost Apothecary
Emily Beyda, The Body Double
Maggie O’Farrell, Hamnet
Virginia Wolf, “On Being Ill”
Julia Stephen, “Notes from Sick Rooms”
Joan Didion, Let Me Tell You What I Mean
Stephen King, Later
Joan Didion, The White Album

 

June 2021

Binah Shaw, Before She Sleeps
Christina Dalcher, Vox
Annie Ward, Beautiful Bad
Jennie Odell, How to Do Nothing
Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

 

 

May 2021

William B. Irvine, The Stoic Challenge
Lisa Jewell, Invisible Girl
Ashley Audrain, The Push
Kazuo Ishiguro, Klara and the Sun
Laszlo Krasznahorkai, The World Goes On
Sara Pearse, The Sanatorium
Bill Bryson, The Body

 

April 2021

Cheryl Strayed, Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Coast Trail
Aabigail Dean, Girl A
Fredrik Backman,  Anxious People
Jennifer Robson, Our Darkest Night
Emma Copley Eisengerg, The Third Rainbow Girl
Cynthia Thayer, A Brief Lunacy

 

March 2021

Sally Rooney, Normal People
Tarryn Fisher, The Wrong Family
Kristin Hannah, The Four Winds
Greer Macallister, The Arctic Fury
Lisa Feldman Barrett, How Emotions are Made
Greer Macallister, Woman 99
Florence Williams, The Nature Fix
John Steinbeck, East of Eden

 

February 2021

Susi Yang, White Ivy
Rachael Hawkins, The Wife Upstairs
Jo Nesbo, Blood on Snow
Joe Nesbo, Midnight Sun
Ken Follett, Eye of the Needle
Lisa Feldman Barrett, 7 1/2 Lessons about the Brain
Darby Kane, Pretty Little Wife

 

January 2021

Rumaan Alum, Leave the World Behind
Ken Follett, The Evening and the Morning
Jennie Fields,  Atomic Love
Katherine May, Wintering
Meik Wiking, The Little Book of Hygge: Danish Secrets to Happy Living

 

December 2020

Yaa Gyasi, Transcendent Kingdom
Lisa Unger, Confessions on the 7:45
Shane O’Mara, In Praise of Walking
Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds . . .
Donnie Eicher, Dead Mountain: The Untold Story of the Dyatlov Pass Incident

 

November 2020

James W. Loewen, Lies My Teacher Told Me
Tracy Chevalier, At the Edge of the Orchard
Michael Connelly, The Law of Innocence
Julie Clark, The Last Flight
Karen Harper, The Queen’s Secret
Diane Cook, The New Wilderness

 

October 2020

Shari Lapena, The End of Her
Riley Sager, Home Before Dark
Simone St. James, The Sun Down Motel
Don DeLillo, The Silence

 

September 2020

Susan Burton, Empty: A Memoir
Kate Elizabeth Russell, My Dark Vanessa
Frances Cha, If I Had Your Face
Josh Malerman, Bird Box
Josh Malerman, Malorie
Shari Lalpena, Someone We Know

 

August 2020

Curtis Siuttenfeld, Rodham
John M. Barry, The Great Influenza
Kimberly McCreight, A Good Marriage
Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Mexican Gothic
Mary L. Trump, Too Much and Never Enough

 

July 2020

Susan Scarf Merrell, Shirley
Darcey Bell,  Something She’s Not Telling Us
Gillian Flynn, The Grownup
James Nestor, Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art
Catherine Steadman, Something in the Water
Harold Schechter, Ripped from the Headlines! The Shocking True Stories behind th Movies’Most Memorable Crimes

 

June 2020

Margarita Montimore, Oona Out of Order
Lisa Jewell, The Family Upstairs
Michael Connelly, Fair Warning
Jeanine Cummins, American Dirt
Suzzane Collins, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

 

May 2020

Shari Lapena, A Stranger in the House
Harlan Coben, Stay Close
Blaine Harden, Escape from Camp 14
Barbara Demick, Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
Trevor Noah, Born a Crime
Emily St. John, Station Eleven
Esme Weijun Wang, The Collected Schizophrenias; Essays
Grady Hendrix, The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires
David Quammen, Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
Robert Kolker, Hidden Valley Road

April 2020

Kate Atkinson, When Will There Be Good News?
Liv Constantine, The Last Mrs. Parrish
Maria Semple, Where’d You Go, Bernadette?
Jennifer Ashton MD, The Self-Care Solution
Demi Moore, Inside Out

 

March 2020

B. A. Paris, Bring Me Back
Karin Slaughter, Pieces of Her
Lori Gottlieb, Maybe You Should Talk to Someone
Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol
Kate Atkinson, Case Studies

 

February 2020

Gaia Vince, Transcendence: How Humans Evolved through Fire, Language, Beauty and Time
Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

 

January 2020

Ann Patchett, The Dutch House
Ruth Ware,The Turn of the Key
Madeline Miller, Circe
Andrew Morton, Diana: Her True Story
Tarryin Fisher, The Wives
Susan Orlean, The Library Book

 

December 2019

Laura Hillenbrand, Seabiscuit
Steven King, The Institute
Bill Bryson, The Body
Ann Patchett, Commonwealth

 

November 2019

Pearl S. Buck, The Good Earth (reread)
Søren Sveistrup, The Chestnut Man
Michael Connelly, The Night Fire
Elizabeth Strout, Olive, Again

October 2019

Stephen King, The Outsider
Helen McCloy, Through a Glass Darkly
David Epstein, Range
Stephen King, Doctor Sleep

 

September 2019

Jo Nesbo, The Thirst

 

August 2019

Amor Towles,  A Gentleman in Moscow
Victoria Helen Stone, False Step

July 2019

Chloe Benjamin, The Immortalists
Adam Southward, Trance
Jo Nesbo, The Bat

 

June 2019

Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing
Angie Kim, Miracle Creek
Alex Michaelides, The Silent Patient
Alice Feenly, Sometimes I Lie

 

May 2019

E. M. Forster, A Room with a View
Lauren Weisberger, The Devil Wears Prada 

 

April 2019

Mark Sullivan, Beneath a Scarlet Sky
Cal Newport, Digital Minimalism
Eric Grzymkowski, Art 101: From Vincent Gogh to Andy Warhol

 

March 2019

Eva Mozes Kor, Surviving the Angel of Death: The True story of a Mengele Twin in Auschwitz
Kristin Hannah, Winter Garden
J. K Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone

 

February 2019

Michelle Obama, Becoming
Kristin Hannah, Magic Hour

 

January 2019

Jessie Burton, The Miniaturist
Jean M. Auel, Clan of the Cave Bear

 

November 2018

Tommy Orange, There, There
Michael Connelly, Suicide Run: Three Harry Bosch Stories
Yuval Noah Harari, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century

 

October 2018

Mary Kubica, The Good Girl

 

August 2018

Tayari Jones, An American Marriage
Sarah Pekkanen and Greer Hendricks, The Wife Between Us

 

July 2018

Rachael Kushner, The Mars Room
Denis Johnson, Jesus’ Son
Dave Itzkoff, Robin
Christine Mangan, Tangerine

 

June 2018

Daniel H. Pink, When: the Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing

 

May 2018

Stephen Greenblatt, The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve
Kristin Hannah, The Great Alone

 

April 2018

Sam Quinones, Dream Land
Pope Francis, The Name of God is Mercy
Jon Krakauer, Under the Banner of Heaven

March 2018

Tara Westover, Educated: A Memoir
Victor Lavalle, The Changeling

 

February 2018

Elizabeth Berg, The Story of Arthur Truluv
A. J. Finn, The Woman in the Window

 

January 2018

Matthew Walker, Why We Sleep
Victor LaValle, The Devil in Silver
Ken Follett, A Column of Fire
Gail Honeym, Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine
Celeste Ng, Little Fires Everywhere

 

December 2017

Rachel Khong, Goodbye, Vitamin
B. A. Paris, The Breakdown

 

November 2017

Michael Connelly, Two Kinds of Truth
David Lagercranz, The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye
Jon McGregor, Reservoir 13

 

October 2017

Stephen King, 11/22/63
Eric Rickstad, The Silent Girls
Erin Kelly, He Said, She Said
Carol Lawrence, Edinburgh Twilight

 

September 2017

Michael Connelly, The Late Show
Stephen King, Cell
Lisa Wingate, Before We Were Yours

 

July 2017

Winston Graham, Demelza
Margot Lee Shetterly, Hidden Figures

 

June 2017

Kate Moore, The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women
Paula Hawkins, Into the Water
Tobias McGriff, Savannah Shadows
Elizabeth Strout, Anything is Possible

 

May 2017

Michael Cunningham, The Hours
Jonathan Frazen, How to Be Alone
Paul Kalanithi, When Breathe Becomes Air
Winston Groom, Forrest Gump
Ruth Ware, The Woman in Cabin 10
Cecilia Konchar Farr and Jaime Harker, The Oprah Affect: Critical Essays on Oprah’s Book Club
Elizabeth Long, Book Clubs: Women and the Uses of Reading in Everyday Life
Tom Perrotta, The Leftovers

 

April 2017

Kathleen Rooney, Reading with Oprah: The Book Club that Changed Everything
Jim Collins, Bring on the Books for Everybody: How Literary Culture Became Popular Culture
Patricia Cornwell, Portrait of A Killer: Jack the Ripper Case Closed
Norman Ohler, Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich
Lisa Gardner, The Next Accident
Margaret Wayt DeBolt, Savannah Spectres and Other Strange Tales
Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad
Kitty Burns Florey, Sister Bernadette’s Barking Dog: The Quirky History and Lost Art of Diagramming Sentences

 

March 2017

John Berendt, Midnight in the Garden of Good & Evil
Fiona Davis, The Dollhouse
Lisa Gardner, Touch & Go
Lisa Gardner, Love You More
Lisa Gardner, The Third Victim
Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle

February 2017

Winston Graham, Ross Poldark
Jade Sharma, Problems
Roald Hoffmann, Something that Belongs to You
Keith Holyoak, The Gospel According to Judas
Eduardo Chirinos, Still Life with Flies
Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

 

January 2017

William Kent Krueger, Ordinary Grace
Lisa Gardner, Live to Tell
Kathryn Craft, The Art of Falling
Sarah Miller, The Borden Murders: Lizzie Borden and the Trial of the Century

 

December 2016

David Dominé, Ghosts of Old Louisville
David Dominé, Phantoms of Old Louisville
Kem Nunn, Chance
Lisa Gardner,  Alone
Lisa Gardner, The Neighbor
Eowyn Ivey, The Snow Child
Michaely Connely, The Wrong Side of Goodbye

 

November 2016

A. S. A. Harrison, The Silent Wife
Steven Price, By Gaslight
Flannery O’Connor, Wise Blood
Catharina Ingelman-Sundberg, The Little Old Lady Who Broke All the Rules

 

October 2016

Carole Stone, Hurt, The Shadow: The Josephine Hopper Poems
Shari Lapena, The Couple Next Door
J D Vance, Hillbilly Elegy
Julia Stephen, Notes from Sick Rooms

 

September 2016

Elizabeth Brundage, All Things Cease to Appear
Liz Jensen, The Ninth Life of Louis Drax
Liz Moore, The Unseen World
Melanie Benjamin, The Aviator’s Wife
Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Alejandro Zambra, Multiple Choice

August 2016

Thomas Harris, Hannibal
Thomas Harris, Hannibal Rising
Rachel Naomi Remen, Kitchen Table Wisdom
Albert Camus, The Stranger
Zygmunt Miloszewski, Rage
Swan Huntely, We Could Be Beautiful
Dr. Vincent DeMaio, Morgue: A Life in Death
Alan Walowitz, Exactly Like Love

July 2016

Susannah Cahalan, Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness (audio)
Emma Cline, The Girls
Elizabeth Strout, Olive Kitteridge
Thomas Harris, The Red Dragon
Thomas Harris, The Silence of the Lambs

June 2016

Alberto Barrera Tyszka, The Sickness
David Eagleman, Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain
Elena Dunkle, Elena Vanishing
Frederick Smock, The Bounteous World
Sue Monk Kid, Invention of Wings
Carl-Johan Vallgren, The Merman
Ron Rash, Above the Waterfall
Tess Gerritson, The Surgeon
Lydia Davis, Can’t and Won’t
Susan Campbell Bartoletti, Terrible Typhoid Mary: A True Story of the Deadliest Cook in America

May 2016

Leigh Anne Hornfeldt, East Main Aviary
Leigh Anne Hornfeldt, The Intimacy Archive
Catherine Ryan Hyde, When I Found You
Scott Turow, Presumed Innocent (audio)
William Golding, Lord of the Flies
Lauren Beukes, Broken Monsters
Scott Turow, Innocent
Nancy Stearns Bercaw, Brain in a Jar

April 2016

Jeremy Paden, ruina montium
Robert Bryndza, The Girl in the Ice
Bruno Belhoste, Augustin-Louis Cauchy: A Biography (my son’s Algebra 2 project)
John Knowles, A Separate Peace
Gillian Flynn, “Grownups”
Agatha Christi, And Then There Were None
Pria Palmar, Vanessa and Her Sister

March 2016

Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk about Kevin
Leigh Anne Hornfeldt, Fleshed
Patricia Cornwell, Bed of Bones (audio)
Adam Grant, Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World
Dennis Maloney, Listening to Tao Yuan Ming
Patricia Caspers, In the Belly of the Albatross
Raymond Gibson, Speak, Shade
Elizabeth Strout, Amy and Isabelle

February 2016

Elizabeth Strout, My Name is Lucy Barton
Elizabeth Strout, The Burgess Boys
Paula Marantz Cohen, What Alice Knew
Ruth Ware, In a Dark Dark Wood
Patricia Cornwell, Depraved Heart (audio)

January 2016

JoJo Moyes, Me Before You
Joyce Carol Oates, American Appetites
Andy Weir, The Martian
John Elder Robison, be different
Sherry Turkle, Reclaiming Conversation, The Power of Talk in a Digital Age
Christopher McCurry, Splayed
Christopher McCurry, The Marriage Sonnets

December 2015

William Landay, Defending Jacob
Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why
Michael Connelly, The Crossing
Paolo Giordano, The Human Body
Mary Roach, Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
John Green, An Abundance of Katherines 

November 2015

David Lagercrantz, The Girl in the Spider’s Web
Harper Lee, Go Set a Watchman
Ann Rule, But I Trusted You, and other true cases, crime files vol 14
Michael Connelly, Void Moon
William Trevor, Love and Summer
S.K. Tremayne,  The Ice Twins
Alice Hoffman,  A Marriage of Opposites
Peter Swanson, The Girl with a Clock for a Heart

October 2015

Bernhard Schlink, The Reader
Bernhard Schlink, Summer Lies: Stories
Bernhard Schlink, Flights of Love: Stories
Daphne De Maurier, My Cousin Rachel
Allen Eskens, The Life We Bury
Catherine Golden, Ed, The Captive Imagination: A Casebook on the Yellow Wallpaper
S. Weir Mitchell, Fat and Blood: An Essay on the Treatment of Certain Forms of Neurasthenia and Hysteria
Bill Dedman, Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune

September 2015

John Fowles, The French Lieutenant’s Woman
Paul Tremblay, A Head Full of Ghosts
Roland Merullo, Breakfast with Buddha
John Green, Paper Towns

August 2015

Brian McHale, Post Modernist Fiction
Jay R. Howard, Discussion in the College Classroom
Haruki Murakami, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki
Haruki Murakami, The Strange Library
Haruki Murakami, A Wild Sheep Chase
Franz Kafka, Collected Stories
James M. Cain, The Cocktail Waitress
James M. Cain, Cloud Nine
James M. Cain, The Moth
James M. Cain, The Root of His Evil
Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides
Jorge Luis Borges, Garden of the Forking Path

July 2015

Haruki Murakami, Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove
Graeme Simsion, The Rosie Project
Vladimir Nabokov, Pnin
Kristin Hannah, The Nightingale
Joyce Carol Oates, Jack of Spades
Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49

June 2015

Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See
Pico Iyer, The Art of Stillness
Haruki Murakami, The Wind-up Bird Chronicle
Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

May 2015

Jose Saramago, Skylight
Megan Hudgins, Crixa
Nandini Dhar, Lullabies Are Barbed Wire Nations
Gary Leising, the girl with the JAKE tattoo
John Green, Looking for Alaska
Sarah Elizabeth Schantz, Fig
Lisa Genova, Still Alice
Marie Condo, The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up
Erik Larson, Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
Haruki Murakami, The Elephant Vanishes

April 2015

Alon Gratch, If Men Could Talk: Translating the Secret Language of Men

March 2015

Haruik Murakami, What I Talk about When I Talk about Running
William Goldman, The Princess Bride

February 2015

Paula Hawkins, Girl on a Train

January 2015

Dashiell Hammett, The Maltese Falcon
Dasheill Hammett, The Thin Man
Rebecca Solnit, Wanderlust: A History of Walking
Liane Moriarty, Big Little Lies
Liane Moriarty, What Alice Forgot
Ian McEwan, The Children Act
Joseph M. Moxley ed, Creative Writing in America: Theory and Pedagogy

December 2014

Haruki Murakami, 1Q84
S. J. Watson, Before I Sleep
Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane
Liane Moriarty, The Husband’s Secret
Michael Connelly, The Scarecrow
Mchael Connelly, The Poet
Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects
Gllian Flynn, Dark Places

November 2014

Matthew Haughton, Stand in the Stillness of Woods
Jonathan Tropper, This Is Where I Leave You

October 2014

Helene Wecker, The Golem and the Jinni
Stephen King, Rose Madder
Richard Preston, The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus
Paul Tough, How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character
Billy Collins, Ballistics
Billy Collins, Aimless Love
Keigo Higashino,  Malice
Joyce Carol Oates, Ed., Prison Noir

 September 2014

Kanae Minato, Confessions, a novel
Michael Connelly, The Reversal
Laurence Rees, Hitler’s Charisma: Leading Millions into the Abyss
Graeme Simsion, The Rosie Project
Nick Bantock, The Venetian’s Wife: A Strangely Sensual Tale of a Renaissance Explorer, a Computer, and a Metamorphosis

august 2014

Hannah Kent, Burial Rites
Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
Geoffrey Nunbert, Ascent of the A-Word
Aaron James, Assholes: A Theory 

July 2014

Matthew Quick, The Good Luck of Right Now
Nancy Horan, Under the Wide and Starry Sky
Michael Connelly, The Fifth Witness
Michael Connelly, The Black Box
M. L. Stedman, The Light Between Oceans
Rachel Thompson, Broken Pieces
James Patterson, Med Head: My Knock-Down, Drag-Out Drugged-Up Battle with My Brain

 

June 2014

Dennis Palumbo, Writing from the Inside Out
Michael Connelly, The Brass Verdict
Michael Connelly, Chasing the Dime
Malcolm Gladwell, David and Goliath
Leonard Mlodinow, The Drunkard’s Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives
Gary L. Stewart, The Most Dangerous Animal: Searching for My Father and Finding the Zodiac Killer

May 2014

Michael Singer, The Untethered Soul
Tracy Chevalier, Girl with a Pearl Earring
Michael Connelly, The Drop
Steven Mithen, The Prehistory of the Mind: The Cognitive Origins of Art and Science
Harold Schechter, Depraved: The Definitive Story of H.H. Holmes, Whose Grotesque Crimes Shattered Turn-of-the-Century Chicago

 

April 2014

Dave Eggers, The Circle
Herman Koch, The Dinner
Wally Lamb, I Know This Much Is True
Michael Connelly, Nine Dragons
Dominic Crossan, The Power of Parable: How Fiction by Jesus Became Fiction about Jesus

 

March 2014

Raymond Chandler, Playback
Raymond Chandler, Little Sister
Harold Schechter, The Devil’s Gentleman; Privilege, Poison, and the Trial That Ushered in the Twentieth Century

February 2014

Raymond Chandler, Farewell My Lovely
Raymond Chandler, The High Window
Mitchell Leaska, Granite and Rainbow: The Hidden Life of Virginia Woolf
Mary Ann Caws, Illustrated Lives: Virginia Woolf
Stephen Trombley, All That Summer She Was Mad; Virginia Woolf: Female Victim of Male Medicine

January 2014

John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
Eleanor Roosevelt, You Learn by Living
Charles Duhigg, The Power of Habit: Why We Do What W Do in Life and Business
Jose Saramago, Cain
Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep
Raymond Chandler, The Lady in the Lake
Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye
James Cain, The Postman Always Rings Twice
James Cain, Double Indemnity
James Cain, Mildred Pierce
Katerina Stoykova-Klemer, The Season of Delicate Hunger

December 2013

Veronica Roth, Divergent
Michael Connelly, A Darkness More Than Night
Michael Connelly, The Overlook
Matthew Edlund, The Power of Rest
Glynnis Ridley, The Discovery of Jean Barret

November 2013

Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed
Michael Connelly, Angels Flight
Michael Connelly, The Closers

October 2013

Sena Naslund, The Fountain of St. James Court
Susan Hill, The Woman in Black
Reza Aslan, Zealot; The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth
Michael Connelly, The Narrows
Michael Connelly, Trunk Music

September 2013

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow; The Psychology of Optimal Experience
Michael Connelly, The Last Coyote

August 2013

Nigel Nicholson, Virginia Woolf
Maria Konnikova, Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes
Michael Connelly, The Black Echo

July 2013

Susanna Sonnenberg, She Matters
Michael Pollan, The Botany of Desire
Michael Connelly, Concrete Blond
David Brooks, The Social Animal
Michael Connelly, Echo Park
Michael Connelly, The Lincoln Lawyer

June 2013

Matthew Quick, The Silver Linings Playbook
Garth Stein, The Art of Racing in the Rain
David McRaney, You Are Not Smart
Temple Grandin, Different . . . Not Less
Billy Collins, Horoscopes for the Dead
Maureen Morehead, Late August Blues
Jeremy Paden, Broken Tulips

May 2013

Daniel Chamovitz, What a Plant Knows: A Field Guide to the Senses
John Perry, The Art of Procrastination
Sam Kean, The Violinist’s Thumb
Matthew Haughton, Bee-Coursing Box
Katerina Stoykova-Klemer, The Porcupine of Mind
Barbara Kingsolver, Flight Behavior
Nassir Ghaemi, A First-Rate Madness: Uncovering the Links Between Leadership and Mental Illness

April 2013

Jorge Luis Borges, The Sonnets
Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho
Oliver Sacks, Hallucinations
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
Thich Nhat Hanh, you are here: Discovering the Magic of the Present Moment

March 2013

Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs
Don Delillo, White Noise
Myla Goldberg, The False Friend

February 2013

Don Delillo, Point Omega
Paula McLain, The Paris Wife
Eric R. Kandel, The Age of Insight: The Quest to Understand the Unconscious in Art, Mind, and Brain, from Vienna 1900 to the Present

January 2013

Jose Saramago, Seeing
Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith, Vincent Van Gogh: The Life
Abraham Verghese, Cutting for Stone

December 2012

Jose Saramago, Blindness
Jose Saramago, Death with Interruptions
Jose Saramago, The Double
Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
George Orwell, 1984

November 2012

Italo Calvino, The Castle of Crossed Destinies
Shirley Jackson, We Have Always Lived in the Castle
Joyce Carol Oates, The Corn Maiden and Other Nightmares
Joyce Carol Oates, The Fair Maiden
Robin Dunbar, Grooming, Gossip, and the Evolution of Language
George Orwell, Animal Farm
Junot Diaz, This Is How You Lose Her

October 2012

Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House
Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters Remix
Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha
Pearl S. Buck, Pavilion of Women
Nora Ephron, I Remember Nothing
Rudy Simone, 22 Things a Woman with Asperger’s Syndrome Wants Her Partner to Know

September 2012

Temple Grandin, Animals Make Us Human
Muriel Barbery, The Elegance of the Hedgehog
Alice Miller, The Drama of the Gifted Child
Sheri Wright, The Feast of Erasure
Mary Oliver, Dream Work
Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl
Maureen Morehead, A Sense of Time Left
Maureen Morehead, The Melancholy Teacher
Camille Paglia, Sex, Art, and American Culture

August 2012

Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Mark Bauerlein, The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future
Philip Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Philip Dick, Valis

July 2012

Wislawa Szymborska, Monologue of a Dog
Kiki Petrosino, Fort Red Border
Grace Paley, The Little Disturbances of Man
Kurt Vonnegut, Timequake
Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Can’t Stop Talking
William Shakespeare, Hamlet
Jane Austen, Lady Susan
Vladimir Nabokov, The Eye
Vladimir Nabokov, Invitation to a Beheading
Vladimir Nabokov, King, Queen, Knave
Miklos Nyiszli, Auschwitz: A Doctor’s Eyewitness Account

June 2012

Virginia Woolf, On Being Ill
Virginia Woolf, Flush: A Biography
J. Randy Taraborrelli, The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe
Chas Newkey-Burden, Amy Winehouse
Chuck Palahniuk, Choke
Jean-Dominique Bauby, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Alice Hoffman, The Dovekeepers
Gilgamesh

May 2012

Erik Larson, Thunderstruck
stephen chbosky, the perks of being a wallflower
Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway
Jonah Lehrer, How We Decide
Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose
Chuck Palahniuk, Diary; A Novel
Chuck Palahniuk, Lullaby
Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor

April 2012

Virginia Woolf, The Waves
Joyce Carol Oates, Mudwoman
Sister Helen Prejean, Dead Man Walking
Jonah Lehrer, Proust Was a Neuroscientist
Maryann Wolf, Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain
Michio Kaku, Physics of the Future
Jaron Lanier, You Are Not a Gadget

March 2012

James Elroy, The Black Dahlia
Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot
John Brockman, ed, Is the Internet Changing the Way You Think?
Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Erin Morgenstern, Night Circus
Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending
Jeffrey Skinner, The 6.5 Practices of Moderately Successful Poets

February 2012

Malcolm Gladwell, The Tipping Point
Erik Larson, In the Garden of Beasts
Sherry Turkle, Together Alone
Jude Deveraux, A Knight in Shining Armor
Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children

January 2012

Marcel Proust, Sodom and Gomorrah
Stieg Larsson, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest
Bob Hill, Double Jeopardy
Joseph Badal, The Nostradamus Secret
Ben Mezrich, Sex on the Moon
Malcolm Gladwell, What the Dog Saw
Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers

December 2011

Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient
Tea Obreht, The Tiger’s Wife
Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking
Rudy Simone, Aspergirls
Patti Smith, Just Kids
Amy Tan, Rules for Virgins
Lewis Carroll, Alices’s Adventures in Wonderland

November 2011

Stieg Larsson, The Girl Who Played with Fire
Audrey Niffenegger, Her Fearful Symmetry
Julie Otsuka, The Buddha in the Attic
Julie Otsuka, When the Emperor Was Divine
Hopkins, After Modern Art 1945-2000
Terry Pratchett, Small Gods
Katerina Stoykova-Klemer, ed, Bigger Than They Appear: Anthology of Very Short Poems

October 2011

Stephen King, The Stand (Uncut Version 🙁 )

September 2011

Lydia Davis, The Cows

August

Chaim Potok, My Name is Asher Lev
Chaim Potok, The Chosen
Louann Brizendine, The Female Brain
Deborah Tannen, Gender and Discourse

July

Louise Erdrich, Shadow Tag
Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
Erin Keane, Death-Defying Acts
Lynnell Edwards, The Farmer’s Daughter
Carlos Ruiz Zafon, Shadow of the Wind
Deborah Tannen, You Just Don’t Understand; Women and Men in Conversation
James Dison McDermott, Autere Style in Twentieth-Century Literature: Literary Minimalism
Philippa Gregory, The Wise Woman

June

Lydia Davis, The End of the Story
Jane Austen, Emma
Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games
Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire
Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay
Tina Fey, Bossypants
James Markert, The Requiem Rose; A Waverly Hills Story
Jodi Picoult, House Rules

May

A. B. Byatt, Possession
Nancy Turner, These Is My Words
Joyce Carol Oates, Beasts
Mark Twain, Joan of Arc

April 2011

Thomas Hardy, Under the Greenwood Tree
Susan Hill, The Bird of Night
W. Bruce Cameron, A Dog’s Purpose
Joyce Carol Oates, Little Bird of Heaven

March 2011

Jeannette Walls, Half Broke Horses
Stanley Fish, How to Write a Sentence and How to Read One
Joseph Heller, Catch 22

February 2011

Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre
William Faulkner, Sanctuary

January 2011

Gayatri Spivak, “Can the Subaltern Speak?”
Gayatri Spivak, Nationalism and the Imagination
Talbot Spivak, The Bride Wore the Traditional Gold
Jon Krakauer, Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman
Joyce Carol Oates, Wonderland
Joyce Carol Oates, The Tattooed Girl
Joyce Carol Oates, Middle Age: A Romance

December 2010

Marcel Proust, In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower
David Sedaris, Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk
Jon Krakauer, Under the Banner of Heaven
Elizabeth Kostova, The Swan Thieves
Lydia Davis, Break It Down
Lydia Davis, The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis
Paolo Giordano, The Solitude of Prime Numbers

November 2010

Marcel Proust, Swann’s Way, translated by Lydia Davis
Lydia Davis, Almost No Memory
Lydia Davis, Samuel Johnson Is Indignant
Lydia Davis, Varieties of Disturbance
Sena Naslund, Adam and Eve
Joyce Carol Oates, The Assignation
Joyce Carol Oates: Conversations, 1970-2006
Justin Halpern, Sh*t My Dad Says
Cormac McCarthy, The Road

October 2010

Joyce Carol Oates, The Falls
Mary Karr, The Devil’s Tour
Mary Karr, Sinners Welcome
Barbara Kingsolver, The Lacuna
William Peter Blatty, The Exorcist
Charlaine Harris, Dead Until Dark

September 2010

Joyce Carol Oates, We Were the Mulvaneys
Great Writers on the Art of Fiction: from Mark Twain to Joyce Carol Oates
Amy Tan, The Kitchen God’s Wife
Amy Tan, The Bonesetter’s Daughter
Tania James, Atlas of Unknowns

August 2010

Joyce Carol Oates, High Lonesome: New & Selected Stories 1966-2006
Joyce Carol Oates, I Am No One You Know
Joyce Carol Oates, Faithless: tales of transgression
Joyce Carol Oates, Dear Husband, stories
Yann Martel, Beatrice and Virgil

July 2010

Joyce Carol Oates, Blonde
Joyce Carol Oates, Them
Amy Tan, The Hundred Secret Senses
Louise Glück, Proofs & Theories
Louise Glück, Ararat
Louise Glück, Meadowlands
Louise Glück, Firstborn
Louise Glück, Averno
Louise Glück, The Wild Iris
Louise Glück, Descending Figure
Mark Strand, Reasons for Moving, Darker, & The Sargentville Notebook
Mark Strand, New Selected Poems

June 2010

Mary Karr, Lit
Mary Karr, Liar’s Club
Mary Karr, Cherry
Charles Simic, Return to a Place Lit By a Glass of Milk
Charles Simic, Dismantling the Silence
Charles Simic, My Noiseless Entourage
Charles Simic, Hotel Insomnia
Charles Simic, Night Picnic
Charles Simic, Walking the Black Cat
Charles Simic, Jackstraws
Charles Simic, Austerities
Robert Goolrick, A Reliable Wife
Anita Diamant, The Red Tent
Joyce Carol Oates, Black Water
Elaine Showalter, Teaching Literature

May 2010

Stanley Fish, Save the World on Your Own Time
Ali Shaw, The Girl with Glass Feet
Amy Tan, Saving Fish from Drowning
Jamaica Kincaid, Mr. Potter
Jamaica Kincaid, Annie John
Jamaica Kincaid, The Autobiography of My Mother
Elaine Showalter, A Literature of Their Own
Elaine Showalter, Sexual Anarchy

April 2010

E. A. Burtt, The Teachings of the Compassionate Buddha
Elaine Showalter, Inventing Herself
Elaine Showalter, The Female Malady
Elaine Showalter, Hystories
Jamaica Kincaid, Lucy
Jamaica Kincaid, At the Bottom of the River
Chris Cleave, Little Bee
Ken Follett, World Without End
Rebecca Skloot, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

March 2010

Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road
Margaret Atwood, Cat’s Eye
Benjamin Hoff, The Tao of Pooh
Benjamin Hoff, The Te of Piglet
Stieg Larson, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Julie Powell, Julie & Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen

February 2010

bell hooks, Teaching Critical Thinking
Isocrates, Against the Sophists
Isocrates, Antidosis
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
United States Catholic Catechism for Adults

January 2010

Kathryn Stockett, The Help
Nora Ephron, Crazy Salad
Nora Ephron, Imaginary Friends
Bruno Bettelheim, Surviving and Other Essays
Bruno Bettelheim, On Learning to Read
Richard Pollak, The Creation of Dr. B
Theron Raines, Rising to the Light; A Portrait of Bruno Bettelheim
Nina Sutton, Bettelheim; A Life and a Legacy

December 2009

C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
C. S. Lewis, Till We Have Faces
Dylan Thomas, Child’s Christmas in Wales
Anita Shreve, Change in Altitude
Anita Shreve, Testimony
Joyce Carol Oates, Unholy Loves
Nora Ephron, Heartburn

November 2009

Oscar Wilde, “The Canterville Ghost”
Alison Weir, Eleanor of Aquitaine
Joyce Carol Oates, Wild Nights!
J. R. Moehringer, The Tender Bar
Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
Augusten Burroughs, Running with Scissors
Octavia Butler, Parable of the Sower
Octavia Butler, Kindred

October 2009

Sandra Cisneros, Bad Boys
Sandra Cisneros, My Wicked, Wicked Ways
Sandra Cisneros, Loose Woman
Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange
Dennis Lehane, Shutter Island
Stephen King, The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon
Stephen King, The Green Mile
Alice Hoffman, Angel Landing
Alice Hoffman, Skylight Confessions
Joyce Carol Oates, The Museum of Dr. Moses
Joyce Carol Oates, My Sister, My Love

September 2009

Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Alice Hoffman, Blackbird House
Alice Hoffman, At Risk
Alice Hoffman, Blue Diary
Alice Hoffman, Local Girls

August 2009

Sandra Cisneros, Vintage Cisneros
Stephen King, On Writing
Alice Hoffman, Illumination Night
Alice Hoffman, The Drowning Season
Alice Hoffman, Fortune’s Daughter
Alice Hoffman, White Horses
Alice Hoffman, Probable Future
Alice Hoffman, Seventh Heaven

July 2009

Sandra Cisneros, House on Mango Street
Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything
Alice Hoffman, Here on Earth
Alice Hoffman, The Third Angel
Alice Hoffman, Practical Magic
Alice Hoffman, Second Nature
Alice Hoffman, The River King
Alice Hoffman, Turtle Moon

June 2009

Jonathan Holden, The Rhetoric of the Contemporary Lyric
Fred Smock, Craft-talk: On Writing Poetry
Wendell Berry, Collected poems, 1957-1982
Voltaire, Candide
Jane Hamilton, Laura Rider’s Masterpiece
Ken Follet, Pillars of the Earth
Kathleen Rooney, Reading with Oprah
Helen Fielding, Diary of Bridget Jones
Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
Helen Fielding, Olivia Joules and the Overactive Imagination