Books We've Read in the Past:

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2024:​

• American Midnight: The Great War, A Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis - Adam Hochschild

• Tom Lake - Ann Patchett

• The Guncle - Steven Rowley

• A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy - Nathan Thrall

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2023:

• West with the Night - Beryl Markham

• Demon Copperhead - by Barbara Kingsolver

• White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism - by Robin DiAngelo

• Lessons in Chemistry - by Bonnie Garmus

• How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America - by Heather Cox Richardson

• Goodbye, Columbus - by Philip Roth

• Owls of the Eastern Ice - by Jonathan Slaght

• Horse - by Geraldine Brooks

• These Truths: A History of the United States - by Jill Lepore

• Afterlives - by Abdulrazak Gurnah

• The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few and How Collective 
  Wisdom Shapes Business, Economies, Societies and Nations - by James Surowiecki 

 

2022:

• Howards End - by E. M. Forster

• Makers and Takers: How Wall Street Destroyed Main Street - by Rana Foroohar

• The Plot - by Jean Hanff Korelitz

• The Rope: A True Story of Murder, Heroism and the Dawn of the NAACP -
  by Alex Tresniowski

• Son of Svea: A Tale of the People's Home - by Lena Andersson

• The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family and Defiance During the Blitz -
  by Erik Larson

• The Anomaly - by Herve Le Tellier

• The Bright Ages: A New History of Medieval Europe - by Matthew Gabriele and David M Perry

• Exhalation: Stories - by Ted Chiang

• Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds and Shape Our Futures -
  by Merlin Sheldrake

• Deacon King Kong - by James McBride

• The Meaning of Belief: Religion from an Atheist's Point of View - by Tim Crane

2021:

• News of the World - by Paulette Jiles

• American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer - by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin

• Project Hail Mary - by Andy Weir

• White Working Class: Overcoming Class Cluelessness in America - by Joan C. Williams

• Hamnet: A Novel of the Plague - by Maggie O'Farrell

• Some Assembly Required: Decoding Four Billion Years of Life, from Ancient Fossils to DNA - by Neil Shubin

• The Night Watchman - by Louise Erdrich

• Seven Brief Lessons on Physics - by Carlo Rovelli

• Tyll - by Daniel Kehlmann

• The Yellow House - by Sarah M. Broom

• The Anthologist - by Nicholson Baker

• Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents - by Isabel Wilkerson

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2020:

• The Old Man and the Sea - by Ernest Hemingway

• Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption - by Bryan Stevenson

• Their Eyes Were Watching God - by Zora Neale Hurston

• A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II - by Sonia Purnell

• The Overstory - by Richard Powers

• The Almost Nearly Perfect People: The Truth About the Nordic Miracle - by Michael Booth

• The Dutch House - by Ann Patchett

• The Blue Zones: 9 Lessons for Living Longer - by Dan Buettner

• It Can't Happen Here - by Sinclair Lewis

• Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution - by Mona Eltahawy

• A Dictionary of Mutual Understanding - by Jackie Copleton

• The Year of Living Danishly - by Helen Russell

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2019:

• Exit West - by Mohsin Hamid

• Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind - by Yuval Noah Harari

• The Museum of Innocence - by Orhan Pamuk

• Women V. Religion - edited by Karen L. Garst, PhD

• Unsheltered - by Barbara Kingsolver

• Becoming - by Michelle Obama

• Major Pettigrew's Last Stand - by Helen Simonson

• The Common Good - by Robert Reich

• Pachinko - by Min Jin Lee

• The Death and Life of the Great Lakes - by Dan Egan

• Less - by Andrew Sean Greer

• Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge - by Erica Dunbar

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2018:

• Sing, Unburied, Sing - by Jesmyn Ward

• Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence - by Max Tegmark

• Station Eleven - by Emily St. John Mandel

• The Clockwork Universe: Isaac Newton, the Royal Society, and the Birth of the Modern World - by Edward Dolnick

• Disgrace - by J. M. Coetzee

• The Black Count: Glory, Revolution Betrayal and the Real Count of Monte Cristo - by Tom Reiss

• The Distant Marvels - by Chantel Acevedo

• Lab Girl - by Hope Jahren

• A Gentleman in Moscow - by Amor Towles

• Born A Crime - by Trevor Noah

• Origin - by Dan Brown

 

2017:

• The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve - by Stephen Greenblatt

• Devoted - by Jennifer Mathieu

• The Boy Kings of Texas: A Memoir - by Domingo Martinez

• Gilead - by Marilynne Robinson

• Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right - by Jane Mayer

• The Handmaid's Tale - by Margaret Atwood

• The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt - by T. J. Stiles

• The Vegetarian - by Han Kang

• The Boys in the Boat - by Daniel James Brown

• The Buffalo Soldier - by Chris Bohjalian

• The Age of Wonder: The Romantic Generation and the Discovery of the Beauty and Terror of Science - by Richard Holmes

• Ten Little Indians - by Sherman Alexie

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2016:

• The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World - by Andrea Wulf

• Night - by Elie Wiesel

• Just Kids - by Patti Smith

• The Sympathizer - by Viet Thanh Nguyen

• Fighting God: An Atheist Manifesto for a Religious World - by David Silverman

• Frankenstein - by Mary Shelley

• Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley - by Charlotte Gordon

• The Buddha in the Attic - by Julie Otsuka

• The Omnivore's Dilemma - by Michael Pollan

• Jazz - by Toni Morrison

• Being Mortal - by Atul Gawande

• A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters - by Julian Barnes

 

2015:

• Godless - by Dan Barker

• Claire of the Sea Light - by Edwige Danticat

• Between the World and Me - by Ta-Nehisi Coates

• Last Night in Twisted River - by John Irving

• In the Garden of Beasts - by Erik Larson

• The Round House - by Louise Erdrich

• A Call to Action - by Jimmy Carter

• The Children Act - by Ian McEwan

• The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Color Blindness - by Michelle Alexander

• Bangkok 8 - by John Burdett

• The Age of American Unreason - by Susan Jacoby

 

2014: 

• The Light Between Oceans - by M. L. Stedman

• Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces that Shape our Decision - by Dan Ariely 

• Pride and Prejudice - by Jane Austen

• American Creation - by Joseph J. Ellis

• Unaccustomed Earth - by Jhumpa Lahiri

• Ninety Percent of Everything- by Rose George

• American Pastoral - by Phillip Roth

• The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery - by Eric Foner

• Middlesex - by Jeffrey Eugenides

• My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel - by Ari Shavit

• The Outcast Oracle - by Laury Egan

• Eleanor of Aquitaine - by Alison Weir

 

2013:

• My Antonia - by Willa Cather

• Why Does the World Exist?: An Existential Detective Story - by Jim Holt

• Flight Behavior - by Barbara Kingsolver

• The Bonobo and the Atheist - by Frans de Waal

• The Turn of the Screw - by Henry James

• 1776 - by David McCullough

• Siddartha - by Hermann Hesse

• The Warmth of Other Suns - by Isabel Wilkerson

• Gilgamesh translated - by Stephen Mitchell

• The Places in Between - by Rory Stewart

• English Passengers - by Matthew Kneale

• Microbe Hunters - by Paul de Kruif

 

2012:

• State of Wonder - by Ann Patchett

• Mirage: Napoleon's Scientists and the Unveiling of Egypt - by Nina Burleigh

• The Grapes of Wrath - by John Steinbeck

• Biography of Eleanor Roosevelt - Reader’s choice

• The Martian Chronicles - by Ray Bradbury

• The Swerve: How the World Became Modern - by Stephen Greenblatt

• To Kill a Mockingbird - by Harper Lee

• Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body - by Neil Shubin

• The Quiet American - by Graham Greene

• The God Delusion - by Richard Dawkins

• The Whiskey Rebels - by David Liss

• Triangle: The Fire That Changed America - by David Von Drehle

 

2011:

• The Wordy Shipmates - by Sarah Vowell

• Half of a Yellow Sun - by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

• Into Thin Air - by Jon Krakauer

• The Plague - by Albert Camus

• Citizens of London: The Americans Who Stood with Britain in Its Darkest, Finest Hour - by Lynn Olson

• Winesburg, Ohio - by Sherwood Anderson

• Woman, An Intimate Geography - by Natalie Angier

• True Grit - by Charles Portis

• The Moral Landscape - by Sam Harris

• Cutting for Stone - by Abraham Verghese

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2010:

• Walking Israel, a Personal Search for the Soul of Israel - by Martin Fletcher

• To Live - by Yu Hua

• Collapse - by Jared Diamond

• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - by Mark Twain

• The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks - by Rebecca Skloot

• The Things They Carried - by Tim O’Brien

• Cosmos - by Carl Sagan

• City of Thieves - by David Benioff

• Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism - by Susan Jacoby

• The Elegance of the Hedgehog - by Muriel Berbery

• The Healing of America, A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper and Fairer Healthcare - by T. R. Reid

• The View from Castle Rock - by Alice Munro

• Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion - by Edward J. Larson.

 

2009:

• Madame Bovary - by Gustav Flaubert

• The Meaning of it All - by Richard Feynman

• Bel Canto - by Ann Patchet

• Sisters: The Lives of America's Suffragists - by Jean H. Baker

• Brave New World - by Aldous Huxley.

• Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln - by Doris Kearns Goodwin.

• The White Tiger - by Aravind Adiga.

• Apollo 13 - by James Lovell and Jeffrey Kluger

• A Death in the Family - by James Agee

• The Making of the Fittest: DNA and the Ultimate Forensic Record of Evolution - by Sean B. Carroll

 

2008:

• The Joke - by Milan Kundera

• Dreams From My Father - by Barack Obama

• Palace Walk - by Naguib Mahfouz

• Infidel - by Ayaan Hirsi Ali

• Interpreter of Maladies - by Jhumpa Lahiri

• Incompleteness - by Rebecca Goldstein

 

2007:

• The Exception - by Christian Jungerse.

• Flow - by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

• The Kite Runner - by Khaled Hosseini

• Crimes Against Logic - by Jamie Whyte

• Letter to a Christian Nation - by Sam Harris