Archived Book Group Selections

Here are the previous selections for the Adult Book Group from June 2015 - present.

Adult Book Group (Literary Merits)

June 2015:  Christina Schwarz - Drowning Ruth

July 2015:  Emma Donoghue - Room

August 2015:  Wells Tower - Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned

September 2015:  Geraldine Brooks - People of the Book

October 2015:  Erik Larson - In the Garden of Beasts

November 2015:  F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby

December 2015 - no meeting

 

2016

January 2016: Alice Munro - The View from Castle Rock

February 2016:  no record

March 2016:  Kati Morton - Hidden Power

April 2016:  Toni Morrison - God Help the Child

May 2016:  Kate Atkinson - Life After Life

June 2016:  Bill Bryson - In a Sunburned Country

July 2016:  Malala Yousafzi - I Am Malala

August 2016:  Jane Smiley - Some Luck

September 2016:  Buck Rinker - The Oregon Trail

October 2016: J.L. Carr - A Month in the Country

November 2016:  Fredrick Backman - A Man Called Ove

December 2016: no meeting

 

2017

January 2017:  Alexander McCall Smith - Tears of the Giraffe

February 2017:  Bradley Somer - Fishbowl

March 2017:  Lacey Baldwin Smith - English History Made Brief, Irreverent, and Pleasurable

April 2017: Robin Sloan - Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore

May 2017:  Marilynne Robinson - Home   Led by Judy

 June 2017:  William Kent Krueger - Ordinary Grace

July 2017:  Olivia Manning - School For Love  Led by Antony

August 2017:  Imbolo Mbue - Behold the Dreamers  Led by Linda

September 2017:  Virginia Reeves - Work Like Any Other  Led by Betty

October 2017:  Fredrick Backman - Beartown

November 2017:  Colson Whitehead - The Underground Railroad

December 2017:  no meeting

2018

January 2018:  Alan Sillitoe - The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner

February 2018: Phaedra Patrick - The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper

March 2018: John Steinbeck - The Grapes of Wrath

April 2018: Poetry of Choice

May 2018: Gabrielle Zevin - The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

June 2018: Paul Kalanithi - When Breath Becomes Air

July 2018: Mark Sullivan - Beneath a Scarlet Sky

August 2018: Penelope Fitzgerald - The Bookshop

September 2018: David Grann - Killers of the Flower Moon

October 2018: Isabel Allende - The Japanese Lover

November 2018: Lisa Wingate - Before We Were Yours

December 2018: No meeting

2019

January 2019 - Martha Hall Kelly - Lilac Girls

February 2019 - Upton Sinclair - The Jungle

March 2019m - Willa Cather - Death Comes For the Archbishop

April 2019 - The poetry of Mary Oliver

May 2019 - Michael Pollan - Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation

June 2019 - The Invisible Girls - Sarah Thebarge

July 2019 - Little Fires Everywhere - Celeste Ng

August 2019 - The Works of Fannie Flagg

September 2019 - Kate Moore - The Radium Girls

October 2019 - Mari Sandoz - Crazy Horse: The Strange Man of the Oglalas

November 2019 - Toni Morrison - Home

 2020

 January 2020: Alan Paton - Cry The Beloved Country

February 2020:  Toni Morrison DVD

March 2020:  Natalia Ginzburg - Family Lexicon

April 2020:  - The Poetry of Joy Harjo

(The rest of the 2020 meetings were canceled due to COVID-19.)

2021

All meetings were canceled due to COVID-19.

2022

Literary Merits resumed meeting in July of 2022.

July 26, 2022:  "State of Wonder" by Ann Patchett

August 23, 2022: "Educated" by Tara Westover

September 27, 2022: "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

October 25, 2022: "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics"

by Daniel James Brown

November 22, 2022:  "The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek" by Kim Michele Richardson

December 2022:  no meeting

2023

January 24 -   Lucy Worsley - "If Walls Could Talk"


February 28 -   Delia Owens -  "Where The Crawdads Sing"

March 28 -  Isabel Wilkerson -  "Caste: The Origin of our Discontents"

April 25 - Nevada Barr - "What Rose Forgot"

May 23 - Rick Bragg - "The Best Cook in the World"

June- Fiction   William Kent Krueger - "This Tender Land"

July- Graphic Novel - YA or Adult graphic novel of members’ choice

August -  Anna Quindlen - "Miller's Valley"

September - Non-fiction  Local History  - members’ choice

October - Natalie Haynes - "A Thousand Ships"

November - combined meeting of all book groups.