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everything we've read...

...that we can remember!

2020/21

Take Me Apart - Sara Sligar

Frankenstein - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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2019/20

Bunny - Mona Awad

Baby Teeth - Zoje Stage

The Nightingale - Kristin Hannah

Circe - Madeline Miller

The Silent Patient - Alex Michaelides

This is How It Always Is - Laurie Frankel

Oona Out of Order - Margarita Montimore

All the Light We Cannot See - Anthony Decker

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2018/19

An American Marriage - Tayari Jones

Books for Living - Will Schwalbe

Love & Ruin - Paula McLain

Little Fires Everywhere - Celeste Ng

There, There - Tommy Orange

Where the Crawdads Sing - Delia Owens

Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine - Gail Honeycutt

The Astonishing Color of After - Emily X. R. Pan

2017/18

A Man Called Ove - Frederic Backman

The Witches of New York - Ami McKay

Homegoing - Yaa Gyasi

Small Great Things - Jodi Picoult

The Wangs vs. the World - Jade Chang

The Windfall - Diksha Basu

The Hate U Give - Angie Thomas

Sofia Khan Is Not Obliged - Ayisha Malik

We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves - Karen Joy Fowler

2016/17

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - Beverly Smith

The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath

Fear of Flying - Erica Jong

The Color Purple - Alice Walker

The House on Mango Street - Sandra Cisneros

The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver

Interpreter of Maladies - Jhumpa Lahiri

My Brilliant Friend - Elena Ferrante

Americanah - Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche

2015/16

All Fall Down - Jennifer Weiner

Landline - Rainbow Rowell

The Girl on the Train - Paula Hawkins

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress - Dai Sijie

After You - Jo Jo Moyes

Where’d You Go, Bernadette - Maria Semple

2014/15

The Astronauts Wives Club - Lily Koppel

Oddly Normal - John Schwartz

I’m Proud of You - Tim Madigan

We Were Liars - e. Lockhard                          

The Chaperone - Laura Moriarty

Ship of Brides - Jo Jo Moyes

2013/14

Vortex - Julie Cross

Eleanor and Park - Rainbow Rowell

Wonder - R.J. Palacio

The Necklace - Cheryl Jarvis

Smile - Raina Telgemeier

Dead End in Norvelt - Jack Gantos

(Nonfiction selections this year)

A Walk in the Woods - Bill Bryson

Dinner with the Smileys - Sarah Smiley

Lean In - Sheryl Sandberg

2012/13

Exit to Eden - Anne Rice                                       

How It All Began - Penelope Lively                          

Half Broke Horses - Jeanette Walls                        

Once Upon a Secret - Mimi Alford                          

(YA Selections this year)

Tempest - Julie Cross                                    

The Perks of Being a Wallflower - Stephen Chbosky

When You Reach Me - Rebecca Stead

Between - Jessica Warman

The Great Gatsby - F.Scott Fitzgerald

2011/12

Juliet, Naked - Nick Hornby                                      

Sleep Toward Heaven - Amanda Eyre Ward            

Mennonite in the Little Black Dress - Rhoda Janzen                                      

Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand - Helen Simonson     

A Room with a View - E.M. Forster

Chasing Harry Winston - Lauren Weisberger          

What Alice Forgot - Liane Moriarty                          

Tuck Everlasting - Natalie Babbitt

Dracula - Bram Stoker                                                

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks - Rebecca Skloot   

2010/11

The Group - Mary McCarthy                                  

Tuck Everlasting - Natalie Babbitt      

The Book Thief - Markus Zusak                                

My Antonia - Willa Cather                                        

Nine Rules to Break When Romancing a Rake - Sarah Maclean                               

The Help - Kathryn Stockett                        

The Mermaid Chair - Sue Monk Kidd                       

Little Bee - Chris Cleave                                            

Sheep - Valerie Hobbs                                              

The Autobiograpy of Santa Claus - Jeff Guinn      

2009/10

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo - Stieg Larsson                                          

Sarah’s Keys - Tatiana de Rosnay                              

The Wedding Officer - Anthony Capella                 

The Envelope Project - James Richardson              

Water for Elephants - Sara Gruen

A Reliable Wife - Robert Goolrick                            

The Informant - Kurt Eichenwald                              

The Invisible Wall - Harry Bernstein                          

Girls in Trucks - Katie Crouch                                    Wifey - Judy Blume                                      

2008/09

Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez                     

Daughter of God - Lewis Perdue                              

Valley of the Dolls - Jacqueline Susann                   

You’re Not You - Michelle Wildgen                          

The Thin Man - Dashiell Hammett                           

The Other Boleyn Girl - Philippa Gregory               

Still Summer - Jacquelyn Mitchard    

Loving Frank - Nancy Horan                                    

How to Talk to a Widower - Jonathan Tropper       

The Shack - William P. Young                 

2007/08

Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants - Ann Brashares

Maisie Dobbs - Jacqueline Winspear               

The Five People You Meet in Heaven - Mitch Albom                                 

Salem Falls - Jody Picoult                                   

Bel Canto - Ann Patchett                                    

The Memory Keeper’s Daughter - Kim Edwards     

Running With Scissors - Augusten Burroughs  

Garlic and Sapphires - Ruth Reichl                    

A Long Way to Chicago - Richard Peck 

2006/07

Crossing to Safety - Wallace Stegner        

Light on Snow - Anita Shreve                        

Middlesex - Jeffery Eugenides                         

To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee                    

Vanishing Acts - Jody Picoult                            

Confessions of a Slacker Mom - Muffy Mead-Ferro                                    

The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho   

Tales of the City - Armistead Maupin

 

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