The Morning Book Group meets on the 2nd Thursday at 9:30. No registration is required, all are welcome. A limited supply of books is available for checkout at the circulation desk.
Selections for 2023:
- January 12 – Thistle and Twigg / Mary Saums
- February 9 – The Last Flight / Julie Clark
- March 9 – Harry’s Trees / Jon Cohen
- April 13 – The Operator / Gretchen Berg
- May 11 – The Henna Artist / Alka Joshi
- June 8 – Simon the Fiddler / Paulette Jiles
- July 13 – The Lost Apothecary / Sarah Penner
- August 10 – Switchboard Soldiers / Jennifer Chiaverini
- September 14 – The Measure / Nikki Erlick
- October 12 – Black Cake / Charmaine Wilkerson
- November 9 – Where the Heart Is / Billie Letts
- December 14 – In Such Good Company / Carol Burnett
Selections for 2022:
- January 13– The Immortalists / Chloe Benjamin
- February 10 – The Last Bookaneer / Matthew Pearl
- March 10 – Sourdough / Robin Sloan
- April 14 – The Dutch House / Ann Patchett
- May 12 – The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek / Kim Michele Richardson
- June 9 – The Barbizon: The Hotel That Set Women Free / Paulina Bren
- July 14 – The Children Act / Ian McEwan
- August 11 – The Paris Library / Janet Skeslien Charles
- September 8 – The Vanishing Half / Brit Bennet
- October 13 – Inland / Téa Obreht
- November 10 – Treasure Island / Robert Louis Stevenson
- December 8 – London’s Number One Dog-Walking Agency / Kate MacDougall
PAST SELECTIONS
Selections for 2021:
- January 14: Bowlaway / Elizabeth McCracken
- February 11: Three Weeks with My Brother / Nicholas Sparks
- March 11: Warlight / Michael Ondaatje
- April 8: Three Things About Elsie / Joanna Cannon
- May 13: Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother’s Will to Survive / Stephanie Land
- June 10: The Turner House/ Angela Flournoy
- July 8: The Pumpkin Rollers / Elmer Kelton
- August 12: The Land Remembers / Ben Logan
- September 9: Circe / Madeline Miller
- October 14: The Last Ballad / Wiley Cash
- November 11: The Hearts of Men / Nickolas Butler
- December 9: Mexican Gothic / Silvia Moreno-Garcia
2020:
- January 9: A Spool of Blue Thread / Anne Tyler
- February 13: A Well-Behaved Woman / Therese Anne Fowler
- March 12: Eternal Life / Dara Horn
- April 9: Cancelled
- May 14: Cancelled
- June 11: Cancelled
- July 9: The Whole Town’s Talking/ Fannie Flagg
- August 13: The Lager Queen of Minnesota / J. Ryan Stradal
- September 10: Maybe You Should Talk to Someone / Lori Gottlieb
- October 8: Fools and Mortals / Bernard Cornwell
- November 12: Washington Black / Esi Edugyan
- December 10: Tidelands / Philippa Gregory
2019:
- January 10: Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City / Matthew Desmond
- February 14: The Underground Railroad / Colson Whitehead
- March 14: Class Mom / Laurie Gelman
- April 11: Tangerine / Christine Mangan
- May 9: The Widows of Malabar Hill / Sujata Massey
- June 13: Dust Bowl Girls: The Inspiring Story of the Team That Barnstormed Its Way to Basketball Glory / Lydia Reeder
- July 11: Educated: A Memoir / Tara Westover
- August 8: If You Leave Me / Crystal Hana Kim
- September 12: The Year of Living Biblically: One Man’s Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible / A. J. Jacobs
- October 10: Never Caught: The Washingtons’ Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge / Erica Armstrong Dunbar
- November 14: Only Child / Rhiannon Navin
- December 12: 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 by 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