January: Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murder by Jesse Sutanto
Fabruary: The Winter of our Discontent by John Steinbeck.
March: Varina by Charles Frazier.
April: Buckeye by Patrick Ryan
May: Adolfo Kaminsky: A Forger’s Life by Sarah Kaminsky
June: Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt
July: The Paris Apartment by Kelly Bowen
January/February 1, 2025: Tom Lake by Ann Patchett
March 15, 2025: Piranesi by Susanna Clark
April 5, 2025: American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins
May 25, 2025: Disgrace by J.M.Coetzee
June: A Wolf Called Romeo by Nick Jans
July 26: The Second Life of Mirielle West by Amanda Skenandore
August: Clam Down by A. Chen
September: The Apprentice: My Life in the Kitchen by Jacques Pépin
October: The Last Letter by Rebecca Yarros
November
January, 2024: Foster (2010) by Claire Keegan
February 24, 2024: The Door-to-Door Bookstore by Carsten Henn
March 23, 2024: Horse by Geraldine Brooks
April 20, 2024: Frederica by Georgette Heyer
May 11, 2024: Ex-Wife by Ursula Parrott
June, 2024: March by Geraldine Brooks
July – August 2024: A Higher Call: An Incredible True Story of Combat and Chivalry in the War-Torn Skies of World War II by Adam Makos.
September, 2024: Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
October, 2024: Light in the Darkness by Kim Cross
January 8, 2023: The Story of a New Name by Elena Ferrante (book 2 of the series)
February 19, 2023: A Light in August by William Faulkner
March, 2023: The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
April 30, 2023: The Muse by Jessie Burton
May, 2023: The Collected Stories Of Eudora Welty. Two stories: Why I Live at the P.O. and Lily Dew and the Ladies by Eudora Welty
June 25, 2023: The Book Woman from Troublesome Creek by Kim Michelle Richardson
July, 2023: Trust by Hernán Diaz
August, 2023: Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruis Zafon
September/October, 2023: Last Orders by Graham Swift
November, 2023: Grace by Anthony Doerr.
January 17, 2022: The Largesse of the Sea Maiden by Denis Johnson
February 27, 2022: Pere Goriot by Honore de Balzac
March 26, 2022: The Garden of the Finzi-Continis by Georgia Bassani
April 30, 2022: Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell Mary Helen
May, 2022: The Woman Who Smashed the Codes by Jason Fagone Peggy
June, 2022: Babbit by Sinclair Lewis
July, 2022: The Anomaly by Herve Le Tellier
August, 2022: A Long Petal of the Sea by Isabelle Allende
September, 2022: The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
October, 2022: Burn For Me by Ilona Andrews
November, 2022: My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
February 19, 2021: A Tale of Two Cities by C. Dickens
March 19, 2021: East of Eden by John Steinbeck
April, 2021: Virgil Wander by Leif Enger
May 30, 2021: The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
June 26, 2021: Murmur of Bees by Sofia Segovia
July 24th at 6:30pm: The Hour of Peril by Daniel Stashower
August 21, 2021: All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot
September, 2021: Blackout by Marc Eisberg
October, 2021: Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
November 2021: The Stahl House: Case Study of a Modernist Icon, by Bruce Stahl and Kim Cross
January 25, 2020: Lilac Girls by Martha Hall Kelly
February 22, 2020, 6 pm: Robinson Crusoe Daniel Defoe
March 21, 2020: Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
April 18, 2020, 6 pm: The Glass Bead Game by Hermann Hesse
May 30, 2020: Clementine: The Life of Mrs. Winston Churchill by Sonia Purnell
June, 2020: The Dove Keepers by Alice Hoffman
July 24, 2020: The Devil and the White City by Erik Larson
August 22, 2020: Dead Sit Talking by Brandon Hobson
September, 2020: Possession by A. Byatt
October, 2020: Just Mercy by B. Stevenson
November, 2020: Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
January 26, 2019 at 6pm: Lost City of Z by David Grann
February 24, 2019: Less by Andrew Sean Greer
March 23, 2019 at 4 pm: Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys
April 27, 2019 at 12 pm: Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen
May 18, 2019: Big Fish by Daniel Wallace
June, 16, 2019 at 4pm: The Accidental Empress by Allison Pataki.
July 20, 2019 at 6pm: The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers.
August 25, 2019: Boys Life by Robert McCammon.
September 21, 2019: Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens.
October, 20, 2019: Within These Lines by Stephanie Morrill.
November, 2019: Snow Falling on Cedars, by David Guterson.
January, 2018: no meeting
February 17, 2018: A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles.
March, 2018: no meeting
April 27, 2018 at 6 pm : The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane by Lisa See.
May 19, 2018 at 6 pm: A Flash of Green by John D. MacDonald, the author of the Travis McGee series of environmental corruption novels (This one is not a Travis McGee novel).
June 23, 2018: Native Son by Richard Wright.
July 21, 2018 : Color: A Natural History of the Palette by Victoria Finlay.
August 25, 2018: Five Carat Soul by James McBride.
NPR review:
https://www.npr.org/2017/09/26/548665579/james-mcbride-s-five-carat-soul-is-a-gem
September 15, 2018: Manuscript Found in Accra by Paulo Coelho.
October 20, 2018: The Masqueraders by Georgette Heyer.
November 17, 2018 at 6 pm: A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini.
Reader’s Guide from the Penguin Random House
“Khaled Hosseini was born in Kabul, Afghanistan, in 1965. His father was a diplomat in the Afghan Foreign Ministry and his mother taught Farsi and history at a high school in Kabul. In 1976, the Foreign Ministry relocated the Hosseini family to Paris. They were ready to return to Kabul in 1980, but by then their homeland had witnessed a bloody communist coup and the invasion of the Soviet Army. The Hosseinis sought and were granted political asylum in the United States, and in September 1980 moved to San Jose, California. Hosseini earned a bachelor’s degree in biology in 1988 from the Santa Clara University and a medical degree from the University of California, School of Medicine in 1993. In March 2001, while practicing medicine, Hosseini began writing his first novel, The Kite Runner, which was published in 2003. That debut went on to launch one of the biggest literary careers of our time. Today, Khaled Hosseini is one of the most recognized and bestselling authors in the world. His books, The Kite Runner, A Thousand Splendid Suns, and And the Mountains Echoed, have been published in over seventy countries and sold more than 40 million copies worldwide.”
Literary Feast 