The Morning Book Group meets on the second Thursday of the month at 10:00am. No registration is required, all are welcome. A limited supply of books is available for checkout at the circulation desk.

2025 (titles will be released every four months)

• January 9 – The Driest Season / Meghan Kenny
• February 13 – A Good American / Alex George
• March 13 – Miracle Creek / Angie Kim
• April 10 – Hamnet: A Novel of the Plague / Maggie O’Farrell

Previous Selections: 

2024

• January 11 – The Midnight Library / Matt Haig
• February 8 – The Maid / Nita Prose
• March 14 – The Dictionary of Lost Words / Pip Williams
• April 11 – The Secret Keeper of Jaipur / Alka Joshi
• May 9 – The Finder of Forgotten Things / Sarah Loudin Thomas
• June 13 – The Judge’s List / John Grisham
• July 11 – One, Two, Three / Laurie Frankel
• August 8 – South of the Buttonwood Tree / Heather Webber
• September 12 – Remarkably Bright Creatures / Shelby Van Pelt
• October 10 – The Lies I Tell / Julie Clark
• November 14 – Mad Honey / Jodi Picoult
• December 12 – The Woman in the Library / Sulari Gentill

2023

• January – Thistle and Twigg / Mary Saums
• February – The Last Flight / Julie Clark
• March – Harry’s Trees / Jon Cohen
• April – The Operator / Gretchen Berg
• May – The Henna Artist / Alka Joshi
• June – Simon the Fiddler / Paulette Jiles
• July – The Lost Apothecary / Sarah Penner
• August – Switchboard Soldiers / Jennifer Chiaverini
• September – The Measure / Nikki Erlick
• October – Black Cake / Charmaine Wilkerson
• November – Where the Heart Is / Billie Letts
• December – In Such Good Company / Carol Burnett

2022

• January  – The Immortalists / Chloe Benjamin
• February – The Last Bookaneer / Matthew Pearl
• March – Sourdough / Robin Sloan
• April – The Dutch House / Ann Patchett
• May  – The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek / Kim Michele Richardson
• June  – The Barbizon: The Hotel That Set Women Free / Paulina Bren
• July – The Children Act / Ian McEwan
• August – The Paris Library / Janet Skeslien Charles
• September – The Vanishing Half / Brit Bennet
• October – Inland / Téa Obreht
• November – Treasure Island / Robert Louis Stevenson
• December – London’s Number One Dog-Walking Agency / Kate MacDougall

2021

• January –  Bowlaway / Elizabeth McCracken
• February – Three Weeks with My Brother / Nicholas Sparks
• March – Warlight / Michael Ondaatje
• April – Three Things About Elsie / Joanna Cannon
• May – Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother’s Will to Survive / Stephanie Land
• June – The Turner House/ Angela Flournoy
• July – The Pumpkin Rollers / Elmer Kelton
• August – The Land Remembers / Ben Logan
• September – Circe / Madeline Miller
• October – The Last Ballad / Wiley Cash
• November – The Hearts of Men / Nickolas Butler
• December – Mexican Gothic / Silvia Moreno-Garcia

2020

• January – A Spool of Blue Thread / Anne Tyler
• February – A Well-Behaved Woman / Therese Anne Fowler
• March – Eternal Life / Dara Horn
• April – Cancelled
• May – Cancelled
• June – Cancelled
• July – The Whole Town’s Talking/ Fannie Flagg
• August – The Lager Queen of Minnesota / J. Ryan Stradal
• September – Maybe You Should Talk to Someone / Lori Gottlieb
• October – Fools and Mortals / Bernard Cornwell
• November – Washington Black / Esi Edugyan
• December – Tidelands / Philippa Gregory

2019

• January – Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City / Matthew Desmond
• February – The Underground Railroad / Colson Whitehead
• March – Class Mom / Laurie Gelman
• April – Tangerine / Christine Mangan
• May – The Widows of Malabar Hill / Sujata Massey
• June – Dust Bowl Girls: The Inspiring Story of the Team That Barnstormed Its Way to Basketball Glory / Lydia Reeder
• July – Educated: A Memoir / Tara Westover
• August – If You Leave Me / Crystal Hana Kim
• September – The Year of Living Biblically: One Man’s Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible / A. J. Jacobs
• October – Never Caught: The Washingtons’ Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge / Erica Armstrong Dunbar
• November – Only Child / Rhiannon Navin
• December – Carnegie’s Maid / Marie Benedict

2018

• January – The Big Tiny: A Built-It-Myself Memoir / Dee Williams
• February – 1000 White Women / Jim Fergus
• March – The Round House / Louise Erdrich
• April – Hillbilly Elegy / J. D. Vance
• May – The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry / Rachel Joyce
• June – H Is for Hawk / Helen Macdonald
• July – The Handmaid’s Tale / Margaret Atwood
• August – The Loyal Son: The War in Ben Franklin’s House / Daniel Mark Epstein
• September – The Half-Drowned King / Linnea Hartsuyker
• October – Amarcord – Marcella Remembers: The Remarkable Life Story of the Woman Who Started Out Teaching Science in a Small Town in Italy, but Ended Up Teaching America How to Cook Italian / Marcella Hazan
• November – Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption / Bryan Stevenson
• December – Summer Hours at the Robbers Library / Sue Halpern

2017

• January – The Boys in the Boat / Daniel Brown
• February – The Lace Reader / Brunonia Barry
• March – A Mother’s Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy / Sue Klebold
• April – What She Left Behind  / Ellen Marie Wiseman
• May – Driftless / David Rhodes
• June – Under a Flaming Sky: The Great Hinckley Firestorm of 1894 / Daniel Brown
• July – A Man Called Ove / Fredrik Backman
• August – When Breath Becomes Air / Paul Kalanithi
• September – Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand / Helen Simonson
• October – The Silent Land / Graham Joyce
• November – They Left Us Everything: A Memoir / Plum Johnson
• December – Victoria / Daisy Goodwin

2016

• January – Garden of Stones / Sophie Littlefield
• February – Finding Nouf / Zoe Ferraris
• March – Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lesson from the Crematory / Caitlin Doughty
• April – Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune / Bill Dedman
• May – Margot / Jillian Cantor
• June – The Elegance of the Hedgehog / Muriel Barbery
• July – The Paris Architect / Charles Belfoure
• August – Population: 485 / Michael Perry
• September – The Paying Guests / Sarah Waters
• October – Still Alice / Lisa Genova
• November – The Children’s Blizzard / David Laskin
• December – Our Souls at Night / Kent Haruf

2015

• January – Limping Through Life: a Farm Boy’s Polio Memoir / Jerry Apps
• February – The Astronaut Wives Club / Lily Koppel
• March – Someone / Alice McDermott
• April –  Wave / Sonali Deraniyagala
• May – Garlic and Sapphires / Ruth Reichl
• June –  Burial Rites / Hannah Kent
• July – Pretty Birds / Scott Simon
• August – Queen of the Air / Dean Jensen
• September – Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil / John Berendt
• October – Women of the Silk / Gail Tsukiyama
• November – Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight / Alexandra Fuller
• December – The Devil in the White City / Erik Larson