2026
January - Shelby van Pelt, Remarkably Bright Creatures
February - Cancelled
March - Hampton Sides, The Wide, Wide Sea
April - Marie Benedict & Victoria C. Murray, The Personal Librarian
May - Alfred Lansing, Endurance
June - Colson Whitehead, The Nickel Boys
July - Malcolm Gladwell, The Revenge of the Tipping Point
August - Liz Moore, The God of the Woods
September - Michael Lewis, Who Is Government?
2025
January - Darby Penney & Peter Stastny, The Lives They Left Behind
February - Janet Skeslien Charles, Miss Morgan's Book Brigade
March - John Grisham and Jim McClusky, Framed
April - Kristin Hannah, The Women
May - Timothy Egan, Fever in the Heartland
June - Percival Everett, James
July - Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest
August - cancelled
September - Martha Hall Kelly, Lilac Girls
October - Micheal Lewis, The Premonition
November - Fredrik Backman, My Friends
December - Doris Kearns Goodwin, An Unfinished Love Story
2024
January - Cancelled
February - Carol Kammen, Lamentations
March - David Grann, The Wager
April - Barbara Kingsolver, Demon Copperhead
May - Robert Mzarek, The Indomitable Florence Finch
June - Jennifer Ryan, The Kitchen Front
July - John O'Connor, The Secret History of Bigfoot
August - Sarah Blake, The Postmistress
September - Dorothy Wickenden, The Agitators
October - Nathan Harris, The Sweetness of Water
November - James McBride, The Color of Water
December - James McBride, The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store
2023
January - Henry Beston, The Outermost House
February - Kim Michele Richardson, The Book Woman's Daughter
March - Candice Millard, River of the Gods
April - Janet Skeslien Charles, The Paris Library
May - Maud Newton, Ancestor Trouble
June - Wilkie Collins, The Moonstone
July - Richard Rhodes, John James Audubon
August - Cancelled
September - Geraldine Brooks, Horse
October - Elie Wiesel, Night
November - Willa Cather, O Pioneers!
December - Benjamin Lorr, The Secret Life of Groceries
2022
January - David McCullough, The Pioneers
February - Elizabeth Strout, Olive, Again
March - Cancelled
April - Jessica Bruder, Nomadland
May - Jeanine Cummins, American Dirt
June - Isabel Wilkerson, Caste, the Origins of Our Discontents
July - Geraldine Brooks, Year of Wonders
August - Qian Julie Wang, Beautiful Country
September - Robert Morgan, Chasing the North Star
October - Cancelled
November - David Sedaris, Happy-Go-Lucky
December - Louise Erdrich, The Sentence
2021
January - Nora Ephron, Heartburn
February -
March - Melanie Benjamin, The Aviator's Wife
April Carol Kammen, The Peopling of Tompkins County
May - Kim Richardson, The Book Woman of Troublesome CreekJune - Hope Jahren, Lab Girl
2020July-Ann Patchett, The Dutch House
August - Fredrick Backman, Anxious People
September - Robert Kolker, Hidden Valley Road
October - Margaret Powell, Below Stairs: a classic kitchen maid's memoir
November - Michael Chabon, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
December - cancelled
January - Linda Greenlaw: The Lobster Chronicles
February - Earnest Hemingway: A Farewell To Arms
March - Elaine Weiss: The Woman's Hour, the Great Fight To Win the Vote
April - Cancelled
May - Cancelled
June - Cancelled
July - Cancelled
August - Cancelled
September - Christy Lefteri, The Beekeeper of Aleppo
October - Dani Shapiro, Inheritance
November - Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped
December - Stephanie Land, Maid, Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive
2019
January - Richard Engel: And Then All Hell Broke Loose
February - Jennifer Egan: Manhattan Beach
March - David Sedaris: Calypso
April - Lauren Belfer: And After the Fire
May - Keith O'Brien: Fly Girls
June - Jenna Blum: Those Who Save Us
July - Doris Kearns Goodwin: Leadership In Turbulent Times
August - Lief Enger: Virgil Wander
September - David Halberstam: The Fifties
October - Tayari Jones: An American Marriage
November - Tara Westover: Educated
December - Kazuo Ishiguro: The Remains of the Day
2018
January - Mary Beth Keane: Fever
February - JD Vance: Hillbilly Elegy, a Memoir of a Family and a Culture in Crisis
March - cancelled
April - Sena Jeter Naslund: Ahab's Wife
May - Siddhartha Mukherjee: The Gene, An Intimate History
June - ML Stedman: The Light Between Oceans
July - Mark Twain: Innocents Abroad
August - Ann Patchett: Commonwealth
September - Matthew Desmund: Evicted
October - Amor Towles, A Gentleman In Moscow
November - Ta-Nehisi Coates, We Were Eight Years In Power
December - Lauren Belfer, City of Light
2017
January - Jeffrey Eugenides: Middlesex
February - Donald Kraybill: Amish Grace, How Forgiveness Transcended Tragedy
March - Fredrik Backman: A Man Called Ove
April - Helen MacDonald: H Is For Hawk
May - Dominic Smith:The Last Painting of Sara de Vos
June - Denise Kiernan: The Girls of Atomic City, the Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II
July - Anna Quindlen: Still Life With Bread Crumbs
August - Bill Bryson: A Walk in the Woods, Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
September - Edith Wharton: The Age of Innocence
October - David Grann: The Lost City of Z, A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
November - George Saunders: Lincoln in the Bardo
December - Bill O'Reilly: Killing the Rising Sun, How America Vanquished WWII Japan
2016
January - Anthony Doerr: All the Light We Cannot See
February - Dava Sobel: Longitude, the True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Day
March - Jennifer Chiaverini: Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker
April - Peter Bernstein: Wedding of the Waters, the Erie Canal and the Making of a Great Nation
May - William Shakespeare: Othello
June - David McCullough: The Wright Brothers
July - Hanya Yanagihara: A Little Life
August - Oliver Sacks: On the Move; a Life
September - Kristin Hannah: The Nightingale
October - Ta-Nehisi Coates: Between the World and Me
November - Elizabeth Strout: My Name Is Lucy Barton
December - Irin Carmon: Notorious RGB, the Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
2015November - Elizabeth Strout: My Name Is Lucy Barton
December - Irin Carmon: Notorious RGB, the Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
January - Christine Baker Kline: Orphan Train
February - Elizabeth Kolbert:The Sixth Extinction: an Unnatural History
March - Sue Monk Kidd: The Invention of Wings
April - David DeKok, The Epidemic
May - Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch
June - Daniel Brown: The Boys in the Boat
July - Henrik Ibsen: Doll's House
August - Ann Patchett: This is the Story of a Happy Marriage
October - Atul Gawande: Being Mortal
November - Lisa See: China Dolls
December - Erik Larson: Dead Wake
2014
January - John Irving: A Prayer For Owen Meany
February - Candice Millard: Destiny of the Republic
March - cancelled
April - Colm Toibin: Brooklyn
May - David McCullough: The Greater Journey
June - Khaled Housseini: And the Mountains Echoed
July - Dorothy Wickenden: Nothing Daunted: the Unexpected Education of Two Society Girls in the West
August - Tracy Chevalier: The Last Runaway
September - Ross King: Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling
October - Amara Lakhous: Clash of Civilizations Over an Elevator In Piazza Vittorio
November - Candice Millard:The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey
2013
January - Jim Fergus: One Thousand White Women
February - Cheryl Strayed: Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
March - Jess Walters: Beautiful Ruins
April - Katherine Boo: Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
May - John Grisham: A Painted House
June - Various biographies
July - Louise Erdrich: The Round House
August - Will Schwalbe: The End of Your Life Book Club
September - Eleanor Brown: The Weird Sisters
October - Sonia Sotomayor: My Beloved World
November - Geraldine Brooks: Caleb's Crossing
December - S.C.Gwynne: Empire of the Summer Moon
2012
January - Tatiana de Rosnay: Sarah's Key
February - Bill Bryson: At Home: a Short History of Private Life
March - David Mitchell:The Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoet
April - Rebecca Skloot: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
May - Dave Eggers: What is the What; the autobiography of Valentino Ackak Deng
June - Robert K. Massie: Catherine the Great; portrait of a woman
July - Margaret Atwood: The Handmaid's Tale
August - Laura Hillenbrand: Unbroken: a story of courage and hope
September - Geraldine Brooks: People of the Book
October - Eric Larson: In the Garden of the Beasts
November - Jonathan Safran Foer: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
December - Nora Ephron: I Remember Nothing
August - Laura Hillenbrand: Unbroken: a story of courage and hope
September - Geraldine Brooks: People of the Book
October - Eric Larson: In the Garden of the Beasts
November - Jonathan Safran Foer: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
December - Nora Ephron: I Remember Nothing
2011
January - Lisa See: The Shanghai Girls
February - Hampton Sides: Hellhound On His Trail: The Stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr. and/or Martin Luther King, Jr.: Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community
March - Michael Cunningham: The Hours and/or Virginia Woolf: Mrs. Dalloway
April - Barbara Ehrenreich: Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By In America or Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream
May - John Burnham Schwartz: The Commoner
June - Isabel Wilkerson: The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration / Kevin Boyle: Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights and Murder in the Jazz Age
July - E.L. Doctorow: Homer & Langley
August - Tony Horwitz: Confederates in the Attic
September - Oswald Wynd: The Ginger Tree
October - Tracy Chevalier: Remarkable Creatures and/or Shelley Emling: The Fossil Hunter
November - Tea Obreht: The Tiger's Wife
December - Doris Kearns Goodwin: Wait Til Next Year
2010
January - Kathryn Stockett: The Help
February - snowed out
March - Jon Meacham: American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House
April - Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
May - Ayaan Hirsi Ali: Infidel
June - Christopher McDougall: Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
July - Annie Proulx: The Shipping News
August - Jonathan Harr: The Lost Painting: The Quest for a Caravaggio Masterpiece
September - Annie Dillard: The Maytrees
October - McCullough: Truman
November - Robert Goolrick: A Reliable Wife
December - Nicholas Kristof & Sheryl WuDunn: Half the Sky: Turning Oppression Into Opportunity For Women Worldwide
2009
January - Ken Follett: Lie Down With Lions
February - any book by Will Cather
March - John Berendt: The City of Falling Angels
April - Pete Hamill: North River
May - Ruth Reichl: Garlic and Sapphires
June - Aravind Adiga: The White Tiger
July - Thomas Friedman: Hot, Flat, and Crowded
August - John Steinbeck: The Grapes of Wrath
September - Toni Morrison: A Mercy
October - David McCullough: Mornings on Horseback
November - William Kennedy: Ironweed
December - Amy Dickinson: The Mighty Queens of Freeville
2008
January – Elizabeth Cohen: The House on Beartown Road
February– Julia Glass: Three Junes
March – Timothy Egan: The Worst Hard Times
April – J. M. Coetzee: Disgrace
May – Any book by or about Mark Twain (Samuel Clemmons
June - Barbara Kingsolver: Animal, Vegetable, Miracle and/or Michael Pollan: In Defense of Food
July - Julian Barnes: Arthur and George
August - Garry Wills: Lincoln at Gettysburg and/or James L. Swanson: Manhunt
September - Sara Gruen: Water for Elephants
October - Jeffrey Toobin: The Nine
November - Amy Tan: Saving Fish From Drowning
December - Doris Kearns Goodwin: No Ordinary Time
2007
January – Steven D. Levitt: Freakonomics: a Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
February – Matthew Pearl: The Dante Club
March – Stephen Greenblatt: Will in the World, How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare
April – Geraldine Brooks: March
May – Joan Biskupic: Sandra Day O'Connor: How the First Woman on the Supreme Court Became Its Most Influential Justice
June – Anna Quinlan: Rise and Shine
July – Peter Hessler: River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze
August – Nadine Gordimer: The Pickup
September – Tom Standage: History of the World in Six Glasses
October – Kim Edwards: The Memory Keeper's Daughter
November – Alice Hoffman: The Ice Queen
December – Jimmy Carter: Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid. Norman Finkelstein: Beyond Chutzpa. Alan Dershowitz: The Case for Peace. Sandy Tolan: The Lemon Tree
2006
January – Bill Moyers: Moyers on America: a Journalist and His Times
February – Barbara Kingsolver: Prodigal Summer
March – Anne Fadiman: The Spirit Catches You and You Fall down: a Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures
April – Sue Monk Kidd: The Mermaid Chair
May – Zainab Salbi, Laurie Becklund: Between Two Worlds: Escape From Tyranny: Growing Up in the Shadow of Saddam
June – Mary Lawson: Crow Lake
July – Frank McCourt: Teacher Man
August – Marilynne Robinson: Gilead
September – Doris Kerns Goodwin: Team of Rivals: the Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
October – Louise Erdrich: The Master Butcher’s Singing Club
November – Jung Chang: Wild Swans: Three Women of China
December – Jane Austen: Sense and Sensibility
2005
January - Tracy Kidder: Mountains Beyond Mountains
February - Yann Martel: The Life of Pi
March – Khaled Hosseini: The Kite Runner
April – Non-fiction selections by the group
May – Alexander McCall Smith: No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency or another book in the series
June – Susan Vreeland: The Girl in Hyacinth Blue
July – Miles Harvey: The Island of Lost Maps
August – Nicole Mones: A Cup of Light
September – John Hockenberry: Moving Violations and/or Ann Patchett: Truth and Beauty
October – Chinua Achebe: Things Fall Apart
November – Malcolm Gladwell: The Tipping Point
December – Ann Patchett: Bel Canto
2004
January -Thomas L. Friedman: From Beirut to Jerusalem
February -Anita Diament: The Red Tent
March - Anna Quindlen: Blessings
April - Hilary Clinton: Living History
May - Susan Choi: American Woman
June - Mark Haddon: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime
July - Marjane Satrapi: Persepolis
August - Edward P. Jones: The Known World
September - Cokie Roberts: Founding Mothers
October - Mitch Albom: Five People You Meet in Heaven
November - Jack Kerouac: On the Road
December - Anita Shreve: any novel by this author
2003
October - Laura Hillenbrand: Seabiscuit
November - Madeleine Albright: Madame Secretary: a Memoir
December - Sue Monk Kidd: The Secret Life of Bees
