Original Book Club - Past Book Selections
2000
October 2000 Snow Falling On Cedars by David Guterson
November 2000 Pay It Forward by Catherine Ryan Hyde
December 2000 The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton by Jane Smiley
2001
January 2001 The Hours by Michael Cunningham
February 2001 The Saving Graces by Patricia Gaffney
March 2001 The Pact by Jodi Picoult
April 2001 Plainsong by Kent Haurf
May 2001 Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells
June 2001 Chocolat by Joanne Harris
July 2001 The Hungry Ocean by Linda Greenlaw
August 2001 Open House by Elizabeth Berg
September 2001 Anywhere But Here by Mona Simpson
October 2001 Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
November 2001 Personal History by Katharine Graham
December 2001 Midwives by Chris Bohjalian
2002
January 2002 Winter Solstice by Rosamunde Pilcher
February 2002 Black and Blue by Anna Quindlen
March 2002 Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
April 2002 The Giver by Lois Lowry
May 2002 Fay by Larry Brown
June 2002 The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
July 2002 Big Stone Gap by Adriana Trigiani
August 2002 A Perfect Arrangement by Suzanne Berne
September 2002 Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks
October 2002 Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
November 2002 The Weight of Water by Anita Shreve
December 2002 Miss Julia Speaks Her Mind by Ann B. Ross
2003
January 2003 Smilla's Sense of Snow by Peter Hoeg
February 2003 One Thousand White Women by Jim Fergus
March 2003 The Dive From Clausen's Pier by Ann Packer
April 2003 Ash Wednesday by Ethan Hawke
May 2003 She Flew the Coop by Michael Lee West
June 2003 The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
July 2003 The Diary of Anne Frank by Anne Frank
August 2003 Everything on a Waffle by Polly Horvath
September 2003 The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
October 2003 Enemy Women by Paulette Jiles
November 2003 In the Lake of the Woods by Tim O'Brien
December 2003 Three Junes by Julia Glass
2004
January 2004 Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
February 2004 The Evidence Against Her by Robb Foreman Dew
March 2004 So Big by Edna Ferber
April 2004 Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver
May 2004 In Her Shoes by Jennifer Weiner
June 2004 Peace Like a River by Leif Enger
July 2004 Outer Banks by Anne Rivers Siddons
August 2004 The Human Stain by Philip Roth
September 2004 The Sculptress by Minette Walters
October 2004 Forever by Pete Hamill
November 2004 The Quiet Game by Greg Iles
December 2004 Ragtime by E. L. Doctorow
2005
January 2005 This Year It Will Be Different by Maeve Binchy
February 2005 Tell No One by Harlan Coben
March 2005 Lost Continent by Bill Bryson
April 2005 East of Eden by John Steinbeck
May 2005 Last Call by Laura Pedersen
June 2005 The Touch by Colleen McCullough
July 2005 Atonement by Ian McEwan
August 2005 The Poyson Garden by Karen Harper
September 2005 Before You Know Kindness by Christopher Bohjalian
October 2005 Holes by Louis Sachar
November 2005 Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister by Gregory Maguire
December 2005 Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry
2006
January 2006 The Wish List by Eoin Colfer
February 2006 The Tea House on Mulberry Street by Sharon Owens
March 2006 The Dogs of Babel by Carolyn Parkhurst
April 2006 The Dress Lodger by Sheri Holman
May 2006 Strange but True by John Searles
June 2006 The Photograph by Penelope Lively
July 2006 All Around the Town by Mary Higgins Clark
August 2006 Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt by Anne Rice
September 2006 An Unfinished Life by Mark Spragg
October 2006 any book by author Stephen King
November 2006 Hallelujah! The Welcome Table by Maya Angelou
December 2006 The Christmas Train by David Baldacci
2007
January 2007 I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
February 2007 Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear
March 2007 The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
April 2007 Broken for You by Stephanie Kallos
May 2007 Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons by Lorna Landvik
June 2007 The Center of Everything by Laura Moriarty
July 2007 Second Glance by Jodi Picoult
August 2007 A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
September 2007 The Greatest Generation by Tom Brokaw
October 2007 The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
November 2007 The Lake of Dead Languages by Carol Goodman
December 2007 The Stupidest Angel by Christopher Moore
2008
January 2008 favorite reads of 2007
February 2008 The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
March 2008 The Memory Keeper’s Daughter by Kim Edwards
April 2008 Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
May 2008 She’s Come Undone by Wally Lamb
June 2008 The Double Bind by Chris Bohjalian
July 2008 A Death in the Family by James Agee
August 2008 The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
September 2008 Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult
October 2008 Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
November 2008 The Rest of Her Life by Laura Moriarty
December 2008 The Abstinence Teacher by Tom Perrotta
2009
January 2009 Movie Night: Sense and Sensibility
February 2009 The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
March 2009 The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
April 2009 Made in the USA by Billie Letts
May 2009 Remember Me? by Sophie Kinsella
June 2009 Me & Emma by Elizabeth Flock
July 2009 Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson
August 2009 The Almost Moon by Alice Sebold
September 2009 How to be Good by Nick Hornby
October 2009 Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
November 2009 Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
December 2009 The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
2010
January 2010 Movie Night: The Count of Monte Cristo
February 2010 I Know This Much Is True by Wally Lamb
March 2010 The Road by Cormac McCarthy
April 2010 When Will There Be Good News? by Kate Atkinson
May 2010 A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
June 2010 The Echo Maker by Richard Powers
July 2010 The Little Giant of Aberdeen County by Tiffany Baker
August 2010 Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
September 2010 The Weight of Silence by Heather Gudenkauf
October 2010 Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen
November 2010 Gerald's Game by Stephen King
December 2010 The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
2011
January 2011 Movie Night: Julie & Julia
February 2011 The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
March 2011 Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
April 2011 Tallgrass by Sandra Dallas
May 2011 Sworn to Silence by Linda Castillo
June 2011 The Wrong Mother by Sophie Hannah
July 2011 Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
August 2011 Firefly Lane by Kristin Hannah
September 2011 The Good Wife by Stewart O'Nan
October 2011 Lottery by Patricia Wood
November 2011 In the Woods by Tana French
December 2011 The Murderer's Daughters by Randy Susan Meyers
2012
January 2012 Movie Night: The Help
February 2012 World Without End by Ken Follett
March 2012 Still Missing by Chevy Stevens
April 2012 Family Tree by Barbara Delinsky
May 2012 Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay
June 2012 The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton
July 2012 Garden Spells by Sarah Addison Allen
August 2012 Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin
September 2012 A Judgement in Stone by Ruth Rendell
October 2012 The Path between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914 by David McCullough
November 2012 Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer
December 2012 Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
2013
January 2013 Movie Night: The Road
February 2013 The Passage by Justin Cronin
March 2013 The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh
April 2013 Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand
May 2013 Mice by Gordon Reece
June 2013 The Confession by John Grisham
July 2013 The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt
August 2013 A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
September 2013 Little Bee by Chris Cleave
October 2013 Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
November 2013 NOS4A2 by Joe Hill
December 2013 The Whistling Season by Ivan Doig
2014
January 2014 Movie Night: cancelled due to snow and illness
February 2014 War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
March 2014 When She Woke by Hillary Jordan
April 2014 He's Gone by Deb Caletti
May 2014 The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
June 2014 The Returned by Jason Mott
July 2014 Defending Jacob by William Landay
August 2014 Arcadia by Lauren Groff
September 2014 Where'd You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple
October 2014 Keep Quiet by Lisa Scottoline
November 2014 Helter Skelter by Vincent Bugliosi
December 2014 The Wives of Los Alamos by TaraShea Nesbit
2015
January 2015 Movie Night: This Is Where I Leave You
February 2015 11/22/63 by Stephen King
March 2015 The Poison Tree by Erin Kelly
April 2015 Longbourn by Jo Baker
May 2015 The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion
June 2015 The Weight of Blood by Laura McHugh
July 2015 Salem Falls by Jodi Picoult
August 2015 We Were Liars by E. Lockhart
September 2015 Someone Else's Love Story by Joshilyn Jackson
October 2015 Before I Go To Sleep by S. J. Watson
November 2015 Don't Try To Find Me by Holly Brown
December 2015 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time by Mark Haddon
2016
January 2016 Movie Night: Pride and Prejudice About Time
February 2016 Chesapeake by James Michener
March 2016 The Boy in the Suitcase by Lene Kaaberøl and Agnete Friis
April 2016 The Astronaut Wives Club by Lily Koppel
May 2016 Think of a Number by John Verdon
June 2016 Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
July 2016 Making Toast by Roger Rosenblatt
August 2016 Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger
September 2016 The Husband's Secret by Liane Moriarty
October 2016 The Witch's Daughter by Paula Brackston
November 2016 The Paris Wife by Paula McLain
December 2016 The Book of Speculation by Erika Swyler
2017
January 2017 Movie Night: The Hundred-Foot Journey
February 2017 Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
March 2017 The Lifeboat by Charlotte Rogan
April 2017 The Cuckoo's Calling by Robert Galbraith
May 2017 Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline
June 2017 The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin
July 2017 Girl Waits with Gun by Amy Stewart
August 2017 Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng
September 2017 The Summer Before the War by Helen Simonson
October 2017 In a Dark Dark Wood by Ruth Ware
November 2017 The Round House by Louise Erdrich
December 2017 Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
2018
January 2018 Movie Night: Hidden Figures
February 2018 Fall of Giants by Ken Follett
March 2018 Small Great Things of Jodi Picoult
April 2018 The Dry by Jane Harper
May 2018 The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman
June 2018 My Name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout
July 2018 The Alice Network by Kate Quinn
August 2018 Dark Matter by Blake Crouch
September 2018 The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
October 2018 Camino Island by John Grisham
November 2018 The Second Mrs. Hockaday by Susan Rivers
December 2018 Seven Days of Us by Francesca Hornak
2019
January 2019 Movie Night: The Zookeeper's Wife
February 2019 The Shell Seekers by Rosamunde Pilcher
March 2019 My Cousin Rachel by Daphne Du Mauier
April 2019 Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann
May 2019 The Other Woman by Jane Green
June 2019 Artemis by Andy Weir
July 2019 Black-Eyed Susans by Julia Heaberlin
August 2019 In the Unlikely Event by Judy Blume
September 2019 Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
October 2019 The Terror by Dan Simmons
November 2019 The Life We Bury by Allen Eskens
December 2019 The Child Finder by Rene Denfeld
2020
January 2020 Movie Night: Catch Me If You Can
February 2020 The Radium Girls by Kate Moore
March 2020 Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate
A break was taken due to the Coronavirus Pandemic.
2021
March 2021 I'll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara
April 2021 Love and Other Impossible Pursuits by Ayelet Waldman
May 2021 Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover
June 2021 Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
July 2021 Big Lies in a Small Town by Diane Chamberlain
August 2021 Then She Was Gone by Lisa Jewell
September 2021 The Secret Keeper by Kate Morton
October 2021 The Library Book by Susan Orlean
November 2021 The Guest List by Lucy Foley
December 2021 A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
2022
January 2022 Movie Night: A Man Called Ove
February 2022 A Column of Fire by Ken Follett
March 2022 Summer of '69 by Elin Hilderbrand
April 2022 The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes
May 2022 The Mother-In-Law by Sally Hepworth
June 2022 Once Upon A River by Diane Setterfield
July 2022 This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger
August 2022 The Authenticity Project by Clare Pooley
September 2022 Eternal by Lisa Scottoline
October 2022 News of the World by Paulette Jiles
November 2022 The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner
December 2022 Apples Never Fall by Liane Moriarty
2023
January 2023 Movie Night: News of the World
February 2023 The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles
March 2023 The Maid by Nita Prose
April 2023 We Begin at the End by Chris Whitaker
May 2023 Once There Were Wolves by Charlotte McConaghy
June 2023 The Book of Lost Names by Kristin Harmel
July 2023 Billy Summers by Stephen King
August 2023 Rock Paper Scissors by Alice Feeney
September 2023 Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid
October 2023 Kindred by Octavia Butler
November 2023 Kitchens of the Great Midwest by J. Ryan Stradal
December 2023 Local Woman Missing by Mary Kubica
2024
January 2024 Movie Night: The Secret Life of Bees
January 2024 The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
February 2024 The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by Victoria Schwab
March 2024 The Lost Man by Jane Harper
April 2024 Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
May 2024 The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell by Robert Dugoni
June 2024 The House is on Fire by Rachel Beanland
July 2024 The Secret Book of Flora Lea by Patti Callahan Henry
August 2024 The Seven of Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna by Juliet Grames
September 2024 Weyward by Emilia Hart
October 2024 What Happened to the Bennetts by Lisa Scottoline
November 2024 The First Ladies by Marie Benedict
December 2024 Something in the Water by Catherine Steadman
2025
January 2025 Movie and Potluck Night: Death on the Nile (2022)
February 2025 The Institute by Stephen King
March 2025 The Seven Year Slip by Ashley Poston
April 2025 Lady Tan's Circle Of Women by Lisa See
May 2025 The Ferryman by Justin Cronin
June 2025 Horse by Geraldine Brooks