Book Discussion Archive

Thursday Evening Group

2020

Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
Three Things About Elsie by Joanna Cannon
Whiskey When We’re Dry by John Larison

2019

The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey
Britt-Marie Was Here by Fredrik Backman
The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters
Circe by Madeline Miller
Burial Rites by Hannah Kent
Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
Varnia by Charles Frazier
Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan
There There by Tommy Orange
A Place For Us by Fatima Farheen Mirza
Warlight by Michael Ondaatje
The Shepherd’s Hut by Tim Winton

2017

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
Midnight in Peking: How the Murder of a Young Englishwoman Haunted the Last Days of Old China by Paul French
The Last Painting of Sara de Vos by Dominic Smith
Lab Girl by Hope Jahren
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
In the Darkroom by Susan Faludi
News of the World by Paulette Giles
Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah
Commonwealth by Ann Patchett
Moonglow by Michael Chabon
Today Will Be Different by Maria Semple

2016

Orphan Train” by Christina Baker Kline
“Brooklyn” by Colm Toibin
“Fun Home” by Alison Bechdel
“A Walk in the Woods” by Bill Bryson
Stuart, A Life Backwards by Alexander Masters
“H is for Hawk” by Helen Macdonald
“The Wolf Border” by Sarah Hall
“Kitchens of the Great Midwest” by J. Ryan Stradal
“My Brilliant Friend” by Elena Ferrante
“My Name is Lucy Barton” by Elizabeth Strout

2015

The Husband’s Secret by Liane Moriarty
The Bone Setter’s Daughter by Amy Tan
Gentlemen and Players by Joanne Harris
The Heretic’s Daughter by Kathleen Kent
Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
The Outlander by Gil Adamson
Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterman
Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh
Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks
Sixpence House: Lost in a Town of Books by Paul Collins
Ladder of Years by Ann Tyler

Daytime Book Group

2017

The Widow’s War by Sally Gunning
The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom
Postcards From the Edge by Carrie Fisher
After You by Jo Jo Moyes
How To Catch a Russian Spy by Naveed Jamali
Every Last One by Anna Quindlen
New Grub Street by George Gissing
Daughter of Australia by Harmony Verna
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
The Heart Goes Last by Margaret Atwood
A Man Called Ove by Fredrick Backman
The Whistler by John Grisham

2016

Inside the Kingdom by Carmen bin Laden
The Sea Runners by Ivan Doig
Inside the O’Briens by Lisa Genova
Me Before You by Jo Jo Moyes
The Daring Ladies of Lowell by Kate Alcott
Tigers in Red Weather by Lisa Klaussmann
What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty
Queen of Ambition by Fiona Buckley
In the Unlikely Event by Judy Blume
The Japanese Lover by Isabel Allende
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbach

2015

Harvard Yard by William Martin
The Art Thief by Noah Charney
Mrs. Lincoln’s Dressmaker by Jennifer Chiaverini
In the Woods by Tana French
Orange is the New Black by Piper Kerman
Dancing at the Rascal Fair by Ivan Doig
Stones of Contention by Todd Cleveland
Orphan Train by Christine Kline
A Mountain of Crumbs by Elena Gorokhora
Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner
Brooklyn by Colm Toibin
Walking on Water by Richard Evans

Non-Fiction Book Club

2017

Will in the World by Stephen Greenblatt
Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
The Road to Little Dribbling by Bill Bryson
The Big Burn by Timothy Egan
Elephant Company by Vicki Croke
First Women: The Grace and Power of America’s First Ladies by Kate Anderson Brower
Isaac’s Storm: A Man, A Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History by Erik Larson
Putin Country, A Journey Into the Real Russia by Anne Garrels
Lights Out by Ted Koppel
The Orchid Thief by Susan Orlean

2016

Yes, Please! by Amy Poehler
A Voyage for Madmen by Peter Nichols
Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant? by Roz Chast
Bunker Hill: A City, A Siege, A Revolution by Nathaniel Philbrick
H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald
One Summer: America 1927 by Bill Bryson
The Big House by George Howe Holt
A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal by Ben Macintyre
The Wright Brothers by David McCullough
The Big Oyster: History on the Half Shell (Or, How Mollusks Made Manhattan) by Mark Kurlansky

2015

Copernicus’ Secret by Jack Repcheck
Traveling With Pomegranates by Sue Monk Kidd and Ann Kidd Taylor
Citizens of London by Lynne Olson
George Washington’s Secret Six: the Spy Ring That Saved the American Revolution by Brian Kilmeade
The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris by David McCullough
The Bin Ladens by Steve Coll
The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown
Eat Vegan Before 6 by Mark Bittman
Factory Man by Beth Macy