What we’re about
UPCOMING SELECTIONS
May 9, 2024 Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope
June 6, 2024 The Bondman by Hall Caine
July 11, 2024 My Promised Land by Ari Shavit
August 8, 2024 The Valley of the Moon by Jack London
September 5, 2024 A Fever in the Heartland by Timothy Egan
October 3, 2024 Cottonmouth by Eric Yancy, M.D.
November 7, 2024 The Return of Captain John Emmett by Elizabeth Speller
December 5, 2024 I Shall Not Hate: A Gaza Doctor's Journey on the Road to Peace and Human Dignity by Izzeldin Abuelaish
PRIOR SELECTIONS
Horse by Geraldine Brooks April 4, 2024
The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons: The History of The Human Brain as Revealed by True Stories of Trauma, Madness, and Recovery by Sam Kean March 7, 2024
This Perfect Day by Ira Levin February 1, 2024
The Awakening by Kate Chopin January 4, 2024
Where the Past Begins: A Writer's Memoir by Amy Tan December 7, 2023
Recursion by Blake Crouch November 2, 2023
An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us by Ed Yong
October 5, 2023
The Golden House by Salman Rushdie September 7, 2023
West with Giraffes by Lynda Rutledge August 3, 2023
Player Piano by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. July 6, 2023
The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles June 1, 2023
Everything in its Place: First Love and Last Tales by Oliver Sacks, M.D. May 4, 2023
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula LeGuin April 6, 2023
Pillars of the Earth (Part 4, Chapter 11 thru end) by Ken Follett, and On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong March 9, 2023
Pillars of the Earth (thru Part 3, Chapter 10) by Ken Follett February 2, 2023
In God We Trust: All Others Pay Cash by Jean Shepherd January 5, 2023
Crossroads by Jonathan Franzen December 8, 2022
I’m Possible by Richard Antoine White November 3, 2022
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf October 6, 2022
The Authenticity Project by Clare Pooley September 8, 2022
My Remarkable Journey by Katherine Johnson August 4, 2022
The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet by John Green July 7, 2022
This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger June 9, 2022
God’s Debris by Scott Adams May 5, 2022
No Second Chance by Harlan Coben April 7, 2022
A Sound of Thunder and Other Stories by Ray Bradbury March 10, 2022
Bento Box in the Heartland by Linda Furiya February 3, 2022
The Transit of Venus by Shirley Hazzard January 6, 2022
The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland by Jim DeFede December 2, 2021
Einstein’s Dreams by Alan Lightman November 4, 2021
The Custom of the Country by Edith Wharton October 7, 2021
The Good Lord Bird by James McBride September 9, 2021
Lost Horizon by James Hilton August 5, 2021
The Mars Room by Rachel Kushner July 8, 2021
The Hearing Trumpet by Leonora Carrington June 3, 2021
Time and Again by Jack Finney May 6, 2021
High Cotton by Darryl Pinckney April 1, 2021
Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol March 4, 2021
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens February 4, 2021
Open City by Teju Cole January 7, 2021
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift December 10, 2020
Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell November 5, 2020
Pleased to Meet Me: Genes, Germs, and the Curious Forces That Make Us Who We Are by Bill Sullivan October 8, 2020
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison September 3, 2020
Pale Horse, Pale Rider by Katherine Anne Porter August 6, 2020
Hunger by Roxane Gay July 9, 2020
City of Thieves: A Novel by David Benioff June 4, 2020
Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me) by Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson May 7, 2020
Looking for Alaska (Online Meetup) by John Green April 9, 2020
March 12, 2020 Meetup was cancelled due to Coronavirus
How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States by Daniel Immerwahr February 6, 2020
Stoner by John Williams January 9, 2020
Tenth of December by George Saunders December 12, 2019
Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo November 7, 2019
Homes: A Refugee Story by Abu Bakr al Rabeeah & Winnie Yeung October 10, 2019
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse September 12, 2019
Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates by Tom Robbins August 15, 2019
The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo July 11, 2019
The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements by Eric Hoffer June 6, 2019
The Story of a New Name by Elena Ferrante May 9, 2019
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks, M.D. April 4, 2019
We Were the Lucky Ones by Georgia Hunter March 7, 2019
Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe February 7, 2019
Mislaid by Nell Zink January 3, 2019
Watership Down by Richard Adams December 6, 2018
The Thing Around Your Neck by Chimamanda Ngozi November 8, 2018
Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami October 11, 2018
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot September 6, 2018
The Moviegoer by Walker Percy August 9, 2018
1491 by Charles C. Mann July 12, 2018
A Good Man is Hard to Find and Other Stories by Flannery O’Connor June 7, 2018
The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen May 10, 2018
Ashfall by Mike Mullin (local author) April 12, 2018
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles March 8, 2018
Guest of Honor by Deborah Davis February 8, 2018
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak January 11, 2018
Among the Wild Mulattos and Other Tales by Tony Williams December 7, 2017
Seveneves by Neal Stephenson November 9, 2017
Hillbilly Elegy by James David Vance October 5, 2017
Good Girls Revolt by Lynn Povich September 7, 2017
The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain August 10, 2017
King Lear by William Shakespeare July 6, 2017
Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov June 8, 2017
The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington May 11, 2017
A Thief of Time by Tony Hillerman April 6, 2017
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier March 9, 2017
A Dirty Job by Christopher Moore February 9, 2017
Something Rich and Strange: Selected Stories by Ron Rash January 5, 2017
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon December 1, 2016
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway November 3, 2016
Deep Down Dark by Hector Tobar October 6, 2016
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood September 8, 2016
Uncle Anton's Atomic Bomb by Ian Woollen (local author) August 11, 2016
And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie July 14, 2016
The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas June 9, 2016
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick May 5, 2016
The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien April 7, 2016
The Round House by Louise Erdrich March 10, 2016
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic... by Erik Larson February 11, 2016
What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures by Malcolm Gladwell January 14, 2016
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini December 10, 2015
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair November 5, 2015
The Martian by Andy Weir October 8, 2015
East of Eden by John Steinbeck September 10, 2015
White Man's Problems by Kevin Morris August 6, 2015
Beloved by Toni Morrison July 9, 2015
My Antonia by Willa Cather June 11, 2015
Ben Hur by Lew Wallace May 14, 2015
Ficciones by Jorge Borges April 9, 2015
Ham on Rye by Charles Bukowski March 12, 2015
Frankenstein (1816 first edition) by Mary Shelley February 12, 2015
Watchmen by Alan Moore January 15, 2015
The Tender Bar, A Memoir by J.R. Moehringer December 11, 2014
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston November 6, 2014
Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafsi October 9,2014
Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell September 3, 2014
Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen by Christopher McDougall August 7, 2014
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. July 10 2014
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy June 12, 2014
Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness by Susannah Cahalan May 8, 2014
When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka April 10, 2014
Among the Missing by Dan Chaon March 13, 2014
Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein February 13, 2014
January 2014 Meetup cancelled due to snow and road conditions
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller December 12, 2013
Becoming Ray Bradbury by Jonathan R. Eller (local author) November 14, 2013
The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith October 17, 2013
Speaks the Nightbird by Robert McCammon September 19 2013
Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese August 15, 2013
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams July 11, 2013
Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates June 13, 2013
Whose Names are Unknown by Sanora Babb May 16, 2013
Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore April 18, 2013
A Passage to India by E.M. Forster March 21, 2013
The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes February 2013
The Lost City of Z by David Grann January 2013
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy December 2012
A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle November 2012
The Shaman Sings by James Doss October 2012
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldridge by Philip K Dick September 2012
August 2012 Meetup cancelled due to sudden closure of The Earth House
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel July 2012
A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan June 2012
The Man Who Loved Children by Christina Stead May 2012
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe April 2012
Ishmael by Daniel Quinn March 2012
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy by John Le Carre February 2012
January 2012 Meetup cancelled due to inclement weather
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers December 2011
Home by Marilynne Robinson November 2011
Amongst Women by John McGahern October 2011
Those Who Save Us by Jenna Blum September 2011
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote August 2011
Boys Life by Robert McCammon July 2011
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury June 2011
Herzog by Saul Bellow May 2011
Dry by Augusten Burroughs April 2011
The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbary March 2011
The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck February 2011
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole January 2011
The Orchid Thief by Susan Orlean December 2010
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald November 2010
Amsterdam by Ian McEwan October 2010
Been Here A Thousand Years by Venezia Mariolina September 2010
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson August 2010
The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett July 2010
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee June 2010
Anonymous Celebrity by Ignacio de Loyola Brandao May 2010
The Angel by Carla Neggers April 2010
Cloud Atlas: A Novel by David Mitchell March 2010
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon February 2010
Fortune's Rocks: A Novel by Anita Shreve January 2010
Supreme Courtship by Christopher Buckley December 2009
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James November 2009
My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult October 2009
The Year of Living Biblically by A.J. Jacobs September 2009
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer August 2009
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner & Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris July 2009
The Counterlife by Philip Roth June 2009
Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris May 2009
Pearl Harbor by Newt Gingrich and William R. Forstchen April 2009
Centennial by James A. Michener March 2009
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka February 2009
The Shack by William P. Young January 2009
The Road by Cormack McCarthy December 2008
Kingdom of Fear by Hunter S. Thompson November 2008
Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult (Initial Club Selection) October 2008
