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 11 – 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