Currently Reading and Past Selections

Titles marked in Red have been read, and titles marked in Orange are current + upcoming selections. (Note: The Book Lover's are one of the other bookclubs that meets here in AH, aka 'the morning bookclub,' our sister bookclub in many ways & for several of our members. When possible, it's noted if one of our titles has also been one of theirs).

2018:
January: All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
February: The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion
March: The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert
April: Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy

May: The Story of a New Name by Elena Ferrante
June: Claire of the Sea Light by Edwidge Danticat
July: House on Mango Street by Sandra Lisneros
August: The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben
September: My Beloved World by Sonia Sotomayor
October: Born of a Crime by Trevor Noah
December: The Orphan Keeper by Camron Wright

2017:
Jan: My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
Feb: The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks
Mar: One Thousand White Women by Jim Fergus
Apr: When the Emperor was Divine by Julie Otsuka
May: The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thorton Wilder
Jun: Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout 
Jul: Being Mortal by Atul Gawande
Aug: Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Sep: Euphoria by Lily King
Oct: Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline (also a Book Lover's pick)
Nov/Dec: A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backmen (also a Book Lover's pick)

2016
Jan: Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See (also a Book Lover's pick)
Feb: Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks 
March: Little Bee by Chris Cleave 
April: The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown 
May: The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin 
June: The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery 
July: Still Alice by Lisa Genova 
Aug: At Home-A Short History of Private Life by Bill Bryson 
Sept: Great Expectations by Charles Dickens 
Oct: Ines of my Soul by Isabel Allende 
Nov/Dec: The Hundred Year Old Man Who Climbed Out a Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson

2015
Jan: The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd
Feb: Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte 
March: Where'd You Go, Bernadette? by Maria Semple (also a Book Lover's selection, 04/15)
April: Pavilion of Women by Pearl S.Buck 
May: The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner 
June: One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn 
July: Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi 
August: Founding Brothers by Joseph Ellis 
Sept: Middletown, America by Gail Sheehy 
Oct: Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides 
Nov/Dec: The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri

2014
Jan:  The Submission 
Feb: The Light Between Oceans (also a Book Lover's pick)
Mar: Beautiful Ruins 
Apr: The Glass Castle 
May: Madame Bovary 
Jun: The City of Ember 
Jul: The Prince 
Aug: Devil in the White City 
Sep: The Invisible Man 
Oct: Dear Life 
Dec: (Nov/Dec) Seabiscuit

2013
Jan: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot (Also a Book Lover's selection, 2014)
Feb: A Year by the Sea by Joan Anderson
Mar: Samaritan by Richard Price
Apr: March by Geraldine Brooks
May: A Tale of Two Cities
Jun: Out of Mao's Shadow by Philip Pan
Jul: The Emperor's Children by Claire Messud
Aug: Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Sep: Outliers, the Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell
Oct: State of Wonder by Ann Patchett
Nov/Dec: The Eyre Affair by Jasper Ford



2012
The Big Stone Gap by Adriana Trigiani - Jan
Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare - Feb
The Woman Who Walked Into Doors by Roddy Doyle - Mar (Also a Book Lover's pick)
The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom - Apr
My Antonia by Willia Cather - May
A Tree Grows In Brooklyn by Betty Smith - June
Lucia, Lucia by Adriana Trigani - July
The Particular Sadness of the Lemon Cake by Aimee Bender - Aug
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett - Sept
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson - Oct
Brazzaville by William Boyd - Nov
December - short story, SantaLand Diaries by David Sedaris


Selections 2011
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
Night by Elie Wiesel
The Shack by William Young
The Help (464pages) by Kathryn Stockett
Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Founding Mothers by Cokie Roberts - Jul
The Echo Maker by Richard Powers - Aug
Saturday by Ian McEwan - Oct
Room by Emma Donoghue - Nov/Dec


Selections 2010
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Woa by Junot Doaz
The Sea by John Banville
Arsonist's Guide to Writer's Homes in New England by Brock Clarke
The Quarry by Damon Galgut
The Orchid Thief by Susan Orlean
Love in the time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia-Marquez
Bee Season by Myla Goldberg
Plainsong by Kent Haruf
Water for Elephants by Sarah Gruen