The Evening Book Group meets the 1st Wednesday of the month at 6:00. No registration is required, all are welcome. A limited supply of books is available for checkout at the circulation desk.

The former “Dinner and a Book” group has folded into the Evening Book Group. To view this group’s past selections, please scroll to the bottom of the page.

Selections for 2023

• January 4: Dear Edward / Ann Napolitano
• February 1: Caste: The Origins of Our Discontent / Isabel Wilkerson
• March 1: Come Fly the World: The Jet-Age Story of the Women of Pan-Am / Julia Cooke
• April 5: The Indigo Girl / Natasha Boyd
• May 3: On Animals / Susan Orlean
• June 7: Raft of Stars / Andrew J. Graff
• July 5: How It All Began / Penelope Lively
• August 2: The Red Address Book / Sofia Lundberg
• September 6: Transcription / Kate Atkinson
• October 4: Fahrenheit 451 / Ray Bradbury
• November 1: After the End / Clare Mackintosh
• December 6: Lessons in Chemistry / Bonnie Garmus

PAST SELECTIONS: 

2022:

• January 5: A Journey to the Center of the Earth / Jules Verne
• February 2: Anxious People / Fredrik Backman
• March 2: Dangerous Women / Hope Adams
• April 6: Raceless / Georgina Lawton
• May 4: Outlawed / Anna North
• June 1: The Book That Matters Most / Ann Hood
• July 6: Fast Girls / Elise Hooper
• August 3: How Not to Die Alone / Richard Roper
• September 7: This Tender Land / William Kent Krueger
• October 5: Maiden Voyages / Sian Evans
• November 2: The Personal Librarian / Marie Benedict
• December 7: West With Giraffes / Lynda Rutledge

2021:

• January 6: Mister Penumbra’s Twenty-Four Hour Bookstore / Robin Sloan
• February 3: The Night Circus / Erin Morgenstern
• March 3: Stay Sexy and Don’t Get Murdered / Karen Kilgariff
• April 7: The Bees / Laline Paull
• May 5: Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant? / Roz Chast
• June 2: Lanny / Max Porter
• July 7: At the End of the World, Turn Left / Zhanna Slor
• August 4: Mrs. Dalloway / Virginia Woolf
• September 1: Mudbound / Hillary Jordan
• October 6: Hidden Valley Road / Robert Kolker
• November 3: Searching for Sylvie Lee / Jean Kwok
• December 1: Caroline: Little House, Revisited / Sarah Miller

2020:

• February 5: The Library Book / Susan Orlean
• April 1: Cancelled
• June 3: Cancelled
• August 5:  Becoming / Michelle Obama
• October 7: Educated: A Memoir / Tara Westover
• November 4: In the Midst of Winter / Isabel Allende
• December 2: An American Marriage / Tayari Jones

2019:

• January 17:  Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI / David Grann
• February 21: Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood / Trevor Noah
• March 21: Montaigne in Barn Boot: An Amateur Ambles Through Philosophy / Michael Perry
• April 25: A Gentleman in Moscow / Amor Towles
• May 16: Woman in the Window / A. J. Finn
• June 20: Beneath a Scarlet Sky / Mark Sullivan
• July 18: Flight of Dreams / Ariel Lawhon
• August 15: Lincoln in the Bardo / George Saunders
• September 19: Moll Flanders / Daniel Defoe
• October 17: Flat Broke with Two Goats: A Memoir / Jennifer McGaha
• November 21: The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window & Disappeared / Jonas Jonasson
• December 19: The Underground Railroad / Colson Whitehead

2018:

• January:  A Man Called Ove / Fredrik Backman
• February: The Aviator’s Wife / Melanie Benjamin
• March: The Picture of Dorian Gray / Oscar Wilde
• April: The Other Einstein  / Marie Benedict
• May: Bird in Hand / Christina Baker Kline
• June: The Nest / Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney *
• July: How to Find Love in a Bookshop / Veronica Henry *
• August: White Teeth / Zadie Smith *
• September: Before We Were Yours / Lisa Wingate
• October: Small Great Things / Jodi Picoult
• November: Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis/ J. D. Vance
• December: Ordinary Grace/ William Kent Krueger

* In June, July, and August the group met with the Books on the Town group

2017:

• January:  Rosemary: The Hidden Kennedy Daughter / Kate Clifford Larson
• February:  Girl on the Train / Paula Hawkins
• March:  Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde / Robert Louis Stevenson
• April:  Deep Down Dark / Hector Tobar
• May:  The Kitchen House / Kathleen Grissom
• June:  My Name is Lucy Barton / Elizabeth Strout
• July:  Court Martial: How Military Justice has Shaped America from the Revolution to 9/11 and Beyond / Chris Bray
• August:  Commonwealth / Ann Patchett
• September:  The Excellent Lombards / Jane Hamilton
• October:  News of the World / Paulette Jiles
• November:  Prague Winter: A Personal Story of Remembrance and War 1937-1948 / Madeleine Albright
• December:  Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race / Margot Lee Shetterly

2016:

• January:  Shotgun Lovesongs / Nikolas Butler
• February:  Dream Lover / Elizabeth Berg
• March:  Orphan Train / Christina Baker Kline
• April:  The Bartender’s Tale / Ivan Doig
• May:  Go Set a Watchman / Harper Lee
• June:  A Walk in the Woods:  Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail / Bill Bryson
• July:  The Wright Brothers / David McCullough
• August:   All the Light We Can Not See / Anthony Doerr
• September:  Circling the Sun / Paula McLain
• October:  My Antonia / Willa Cather
• November:  Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania / Erik Larson
• December:  The Girl on the Train / Paul Hawkins

2015

• January:  The Goldfinch / Donna Tartt
• February:  The Art of Hearing Heartbeats / Jan-Phillipp Sendker
• March:  The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II / Denise Kiernan
• April:   Invention of Wings / Sue Monk Kidd
• May:  A History of Love / Nicole Krauss
• June:  Mrs. Lincoln’s Rival / Jennifer Chiaverini
• July:  Benediction / Kent Haruf
• August:  Flight Behavior / Barbara Kingsolver
• September:  The Round House / Louise Erdrich
• October:  The Scarlet Sisters / Myra MacPherson
• November:  A Room with a View / E. M. Forster
• December:  All the Light We Cannot See / Anthony Doerr

2014:

• January:  Wolf House / Hilary Mantel
• February:  Memoir of the Sunday Brunch / Julia Pandl
• March:  Once Upon a River / Bonnie Jo Campbell
• April:  Girl in Translation / Jean Kwok
• May:  The Lifeboat / Charlotte Rogan
• June:  The Light Between Oceans / M. L. Steadman
• July:  Little Bee / Chris Cleave
• August:  No Buddy Left Behind / Terri Crisp
• September:  Sandcastle Girls / Chris Bohjalian
• October:  Frankenstein / Mary Shelley
• November:  The House Girl / Tara Conklin
• December:  The Buddha in the Attic / Julie Otsuka

2013:

• January:  Wingshooters / Nina Revoyr
• February:  The Language of Flowers / Vanessa Diffenbaugh
• March:  In the Garden of Beasts / Erik Larson
• April:  Harmless as Doves / Paul L. Gaus
• May:  The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks / Rebecca Skloot
• June:  The Dressmaker / Kate Alcott
• July:  Home Front / Kristin Hannah
• August:  The Chaperone / Laura Moriarty
• September:  Nothing Daunted: The Unexpected Education of Two Society Girls in the West / Dorothy Wickenden
• October:  Gone Girl / Gillian Flynn
• November:  Mrs. Lincoln’s Dressmaker / Jennifer Chiaverini
• December:  Marmee & Louisa: The Untold Tue Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Mother / Eve LaPlante

2012:

• January:  Sarah’s Key / Tatiana de Rosnay
• February:  Cutting for Stone / Abraham Verghese
• March:  The Kitchen Daughter / Jael McHenry
• April:  The Murderer’s Daughters / Randy Susan Meyers
• May:  A Moveable Feast / Ernest Hemingway
• June:  State of Wonder / Ann Patchett
• July:  To Kill a Mockingbird / Harper Lee
• August:  The Last Time I Saw You / Elizabeth Berg
• September:  Whistling in the Dark / Leslie Kagen
• October:  Kitchen Boy / Robert Alexander
• November:  The Art of Fielding / Chad Harbach
• December:  Prayers for Sale / Sandra Dallas

2011:

• January:  Desert Flower / Waris Dirie
• February:  The Forgotten Garden / Kate Morton
• March:  Little Heathens: Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm During the Great Depression / Mildred Armstrong Kalish
• April:  The 19th Wife / David Ebershoff
• May:  The Great Gatsby / F. Scott Fitzgerald
• June:  Remarkable Creatures / Tracy Chevalier
• July:  The Help / Kathryn Stockett
• August:  The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox / Maggie O’Farrell
• September:  My Name is Mary Sutter / Robin Oliveira
• October:  Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet / Jamie Ford
• November:  The Postmistress / Sarah Blake
• December:  A Gate at the Stairs / Lorrie Moore

2010:

• January:  My Stroke of Insight / Jill Bolte Taylor
• February:  The Boy in the Striped Pajamas / John Boyne
• March:  Flags of Our Fathers / James Bradley
• April:  Mudbound / Hillary Jordan
• May:  Chosen by a Horse / Susan Richards
• June:  Cane River / Lalita Tademy
• July:  The Shack / William P. Young
• August:  Shanghai Girls / Lisa See
• September:  Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea / Barbara Demick
• October:  The Birth House / Ami McKay
• November:  The Art of Racing in the Rain / Garth Stein
• December:  Red Weather / Pauls Toutonghi

2009:

• January:  So Brave, Young and Handsome / Leif Enger
• February:  The Book Thief / Markus Zusak
• March:  Bel Canto / Ann Patchett
• April:  The Story of Edgar Sawtelle / David Wroblewski
• May:  Three Cups of Tea / Greg Mortenson
• June:  The Alchemist / Paulo Coehlo
• July:  The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society / Mary Ann Shaffer
• August:  The Space Between Us / Thrity Umrigar
• September:  Crossing to Safety / Wallace Stegner
• October:  Eye Contact / Cammie McGovern
• November:  The Other Side of the River / Alex Kotlowitz
• December:  Luncheon of the Boating Party / Susan Vreeland

2008:

• January:  The Mermaid Chair / Sue Monk Kidd
• February:  Snow Flower and the Secret Fan / Lisa See
• March:  One Thousand White Women: The Journals of Mary Dodd / Jim Fergus
• April:  A Thousand Splendid Suns / Khaled Hosseini
• May:  Before You Know Kindness / Christopher Bohjalian
• June:  Mozart’s Sister / Nancy Moser
• July:  March / Geraldine Brooks
• August:  Uncommon Grounds / Sandra Balzo
• September:  Tall Grass / Sandra Dallas
• October:  People of the Book / Geraldine Brooks
• November:  Eat, Pray, Love / Elizabeth Gilbert
• December:  I Feel Bad About My Neck / Nora Ephron

2007:

• January:  Girl with a Pearl Earring / Tracy Chevalier
• February:  The Shadow of the Wind / Carlos Ruiz Zafron
• March:  Mount Vernon Love Story / Mary Higgins Clark
• April:  Alice’s Tulips / Sandra Dallas
• May:  For One More Day / Mitch Albom
• June:  Crow Lake / Mary Lawson
• July:  The Devil Wears Prada / Lauren Weisberger
• August:  My Sister’s Keeper / Jodi Picoult
• September:  Teacher Man / Frank McCourt
• October:  The Tortilla Curtain / T. C. Boyle
• November:  The Memory Keeper’s Daughter / Kim Edwards
• December:  You Learn by Living / Eleanor Roosevelt & Silent Night / Mary Higgins Clark

2006:

• January:  Girl with a Pearl Earring / Tracy Chevalier
• February:  The Saving Graces / Patricia Gaffney
• March:  Hannah’s Daughters / Marianne Fredriksson
• April:  The Kite Runner / Khaled Hosseine
• May:  The Color of Water / James McBride
• June:  Summer Island / Kristin Hannah
• July:  A Place of Hiding / Elizabeth George
• August:  Devil in the White City / Erik Larson
• September:  The Dollmaker / Harriette Arnow
• October:  Mountian Wolf Woman, Sister of Crashing Thunder: The Autobiography of a Winnebago Indian / Mountain Wolf Woman
• November:  Our Endangered Values: America’s Moral Crisis / Jimmy Carter
• December:  Peace Like a River / Leif Enger

2005:

• January:  A Lesson Before Dying / Ernest J. Gaines
• February:  Ishmael / Daniel Quinn
• March:  Memoirs of a Geisha / Arthur Golden
• April:  Empire Falls / Richard Russo
• May:  Children of God / Mary Doria Russell
• June:  The Da Vinci Code / Dan Brown
• July:  The Lovely Bones / Alice Sebold
• August:  Dancing at the Rascal Fair / Ivan Doig
• September:  Angry Housewives Eating Bonbons / Lorna Landvik
• October:  The Bonesetter’s Daughter / Amy Tan
• November:  The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency / Alexander McCall Smith
• December:  The Five People You Meet in Heaven / Mitch Albom

2004:

• January:  Watched an Agatha Christie Movie
• February:  The Secret Life of Bees / Sue Monk Kidd
• March:  The Reader / Bernhard Schlink
• April:  The Winner / David Baldacci
• May:  The Sparrow / Maria Doria Russell
• June:  Where the Heart Is / Billie Letts
• July:  One Hundred Years of Solitude / Gabriel Garcia Marquez
• August:  Under the Tuscan Sun / Frances Mayes
• September:  The Quiet American / Graham Greene
• October:  Crooked River Burning / Mark Winegardner
• November:  The Dogs of Babel / Carolyn Parkhurst
• December:  Skipping Christmas / John Grisham & A Choice to Cherish / Alan Maki

2003:

• January:  Dance of Intimacy / Harriet Goldhor Lerner
• February:  Undaunted Courage / Stephen Ambrose
• March:  Girl in Hyacinth Blue / Susan Vreeland
• April:  White Teeth / Zadie Smith
• May:  Pope Joan / Donna Woolfolk Cross
• June:  Seabiscuit / Laura Hillenbrand
• July:  Welcome to the World, Baby Girl / Fannie Flagg
• August:  Cold Mountain / Charles Frazier
• September:  I Don’t Know How She Does It / Allison Pearson
• October:  Midnight Champagne / A. Manette Amsay
• November:  In the Lake of the Woods / Tim O’Brien
• December:  The Bachelor’s Cat / L.F. Hoffman

2002:

• January:  A Conspiracy of Paper / David Liss
• February:  Tara Road / Maeve Binchy
• March:  Chocolat / Joanne Harris
• April:  Red Tent / Anita Diamant
• May:  It’s Not About the Bike / Lance Armstrong
• June:  A Fine Balance / Rohinton Mistry
• July:  Corelli’s Mandolin / Loius DeBernieres
• August:  First Lady / Susan Elizabeth Phillips
• September:  Pigs in Heaven / Barbara Kingsolver
• October:  My Thomas, the Novel of Martha Jefferson’s Life / Roberta Grimes
• November:  Hearts and Bones / Margaret Lawrence
• December:  Catherwood / Marly Youmans

2001:

• January:  The Testament / John Grisham
• February:  Bastard Out of Carolina / Dorothy Allison
• March:  The Shipping News / E. Annie Proulx
• April:  Horse Heaven / Jane Smiley
• May:  Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood / Rebecca Wells
• June:  At Home in Mitford / Jan Karon
• July:  Possession / A. S. Byatt
• August:  The Quilter’s Apprentice / Jennifer Chiaverini
• September:  Bridget Jones’ Diary / Helen Fielding
• October:  Plainsong / Kent Haruf
• November:  A Painted House / Margaret Lawrence
• December:  The Adams Women: Abigail and Louisa Adams, Their Sisters and Daughters / Paul Nagel

2000:  

• April:  The Dean’s List / Jon Hassler
• May:  The Poisonwood Bible / Barbara Kingsolver
• June:  Tuesdays with Morrie / Mitch Albom
• July:  The Greatest Generation / Tom Brokaw
• August:  The Ladies of Covington Sent Their Love / Joan A. Medlicott
• September:  All Over But the Shoutin’ / Rick Bragg
• October:  Midwives / Christopher A. Bohjalian
• November:  The Vision of Emma Blau / Ursula Heig
• December:  Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China / Jung Chang

Dinner and a Book selections from previous years are listed below: 

2020:

• January 8: Out of the Easy / Ruta Sepetys
• March 4: The Bookshop of Yesterdays / Ann Meyerson
• May 6: Cancelled
• July 1: Orphan #8 / Kim van Alkemade
• September 2: The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek / Kim Richardson
• November 4: In the Midst of Winter / Isabel Allende
• December 2: An American Marriage / Tayari Jones

2019:

• January 2: Where’d You Go, Bernadette? / Maria Semple
• March 6: The Last Town on Earth / Thomas Mullen
• May 1: Never Let Me Go / Kazuo Ishiguro
• July 24: The Weird Sisters / Eleanor Brown
• September 25: The Commoner / John Burnham Schwartz
• November 20: Last Bus to Wisdom / Ivan Doig

2018:

• June: The Nest / Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney
• July: How to Find Love in a Bookshop / Veronica Henry
• August: White Teeth / Zadie Smith
• September: The Ocean At the End of the Lane / Neil Gaiman
• November: Brooklyn / Colm Toibin