Tuesday, September 20, 2005

Books We've Read

The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
A Year in Provence by Peter Mayle
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
A Million Little Pieces by James Frey
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffeneger
Survival in Auschwitz by Primo Levi
Night by Elie Wiesel
Traveling Mercies by Anne Lamott
Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
The Priest by Francine Rivers
The Stolen Child by Keith Donohue
Left to Tell by Imaculee Ilibagiza
An Ordinary Man by Paul Rusesabagina and Tom Zoellner
Next by Michael Crichton
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
Abide With Me by Elizabeth Strout
The Alchemist by Paul Cohelo
His Favorite Wife by Susan Ray Schmidt
The Wednesday Letters by Jason F. Wright
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
Joshua: A Parable for Today by Joseph Girzone
The Space Between Us by Thrity Umrigar
Kabul Beauty School by Deborah Rodriguez
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Desperate Passage by Ethan Rarick
I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
The Shack by William P. Young
The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards
My Hitch In Hell: The Bataan Death March by Lester Tenney
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser
Same Kind of Different as Me by Ron Hall and Denver Moore
My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult
The Irresistible Revolution by Shane Claiborne
Middlemarch by George Eliot
The House at Riverton by Kate Morton
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann
The Host by Stephanie Meyer
The Unlikely Disciple by Kevin Roose
Born to Run by Christopher McDougall
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
Prayers for Sale by Sandra Dallas
The Yellow House by Patricia Falvey
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
The Angel's Game by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The Girl with the Orange Dress by Margot Starbuck
The Other Wes Moore by Wes Moore
Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins (not an official book club choice)
The Thieves of Manhattan by Adam Langer
Lament: The Faerie Queen's Deception by Maggie Stiefvater
Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson
Paramedic to the Prince by Patrick (Tom) Notestine
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford
I Know This Much is True by Wally Lamb
The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom
The Maze Runner by James Dashner
Mao's Last Dancer by Li Cunxin
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
The Scorch Trials by James Dashner
Juliet by Anne Fortier
A Lineage of Grace by Francine Rivers
The Hangman's Daughter by Oliver Potzsch
11/22/63 by Stephen King
The Tennis Partner by Abraham Verghese
Directed Verdict by Randy Singer
Birds of a Lesser Paradise by Megan Mayhew Bergman
Till We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis
Bossypants by Tina Fey
Caleb's Crossing by Geraldine Brooks
7: An Experimental Mutiny Against Excess by Jen Hatmaker
The Eighty Dollar Champion by Elizabeth Letts
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Time Keeper by Mitch Albom
Divergent by Veronica Roth
A Year of Biblical Womanhood by Rachel Held Evans
Torn by Justin Lee
Yes, Chef by Marcus Samuelsson
Eighty Days by Matthew Goodman
Carry On, Warrior by Glennon Melton
Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
Dad is Fat by Jim Gaffigan
The Wealth of the Poor by Larry James
Love Does by Bob Goff
The Secret Keeper by Kate Morton
Seriously...I'm Kidding by Elen DeGeneres
And The Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini
The Art of Hearing Heartbeats by Jan-Philipp Sendker
The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd
The Husband's Secret by Liane Moriarty
Whiskey Rebels by David Liss
What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty
The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh
Me Before You by Jojo Moyes
Defending Jacob by William Landay
Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline
Let's Pretend This Never Happened by Jenny Lawson

2015
All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
God Loves Haiti by Dimitri Elias Leger
Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein
The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown
The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
The Baker's Daughter by Sarah McCoy
The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin
Where'd You Go, Bernadette? by Maria Semple
For the Love by Jen Hatmaker
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
The Good, The Bad, and The Grace of God by Jep and Jessica Robertson
Eve by W.M. Paul Young

2016
The Girl With All The Gifts by M.R. Carey
The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
Trail of Broken Wings by Sejal Hadani
Peace Like A River by Leif Enger
Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger
Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard
Matched by Ally Condie
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child by J.K. Rowling
Love Warrior by Glennon Doyle Melton
The Sin of Certainty by Peter Enns
The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman

2017
Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult
Wishful Drinking by Carrie Fisher
Executing Grace by Shane Claiborne
My Notorious Life by Kate Manning
This Is How It Always Is by Laurie Frankel
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
The Girl with Seven Names by Hyeonseo Lee
Killers of the Flower Moon by David Gann
The Ministry of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy
The Polygamist's Daughter by Anna LeBaron
Beyond Belief by Jenna Miscavige Hill
The Chemist by Stephanie Meyer

2018
Braving the Wilderness by Brene Brown
Church of the Small Things by Melanie Shankle
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
Girl, Wash Your Face by Rachel Hollis
As Good As True by Cheryl Reid
That Kind of Mother by Rumaan Alam
Inspired by Rachel Held Evans
Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
Learning to Speak God from Scratch by Jonathan Merritt
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
A Spark of Light by Jodi Picoult
Comfort and Joy by Kristin Hannah

2019
Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi
Bring: The Last Beholder by Megan Beam and Erin Hicks
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
Shameless: A Sexual Reformation by Nadia Bolz Weber
Dark Matter by Blake Crouch
The Lost Book of the Grail by Charlie Lovett
The River by Peter Heller
My Glory Was I Had Such Friends by Amy Silverstein
The Stationery Shop by Marjan Kamali
The One in a Million Boy by Monica Wood
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
Not Counting Women and Children by Megan McKenna

2020
Molokai by Alan Brennert
Know My Name by Chanel Miller
The Breakout by Rachelle Harp
Untamed by Glennon Melton
Don't Overthink It by Anne Bogel
Native by Kaitlin Curtice
Hidden Valley Road by Robert Kolker
Children of Time by Adrian Tchiakovsky
Ghosted by Rosie Walsh

2021
Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey
The Book of Longings by Sue Monk Kidd
The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah
The Survivors by Jane Harper
Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
With the Fire on High by Elizabeth Acevedo
The Rose Code by Kate Quinn
This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger
Wholehearted Faith by Rachel Held Evans

2022
Someday, Someday Maybe by Lauren Graham
Here We Go Again by Betty White
Atlas of the Heart by Brene Brown
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Diamond Eye by Kate Quinn
The Last Rose of Shanghai by Weina Dai Randel
Fairy Tale by Stephen King
The Woman in the Library by Sulari Gentill

2023
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
The Measure by Nikki Erlick
Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt
The Poppy War by R.F. Kuang
Happy Place by Emily Henry
The Humans by Matt Haig
Rememberings by Sinead O'Connor
Magic Hour by Kristin Hannah
City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert
Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson
Bright Lights, Big Christmas by Mary Kay Andrews

2024
The Wishing Game by Meg Shaffer
The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman
The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese
The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon
The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters
Meet Me at the Lake by Carley Fortune
Listen for the Lie by Amy Tintera
October - no book
The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley
The Unmaking of June Farrow by Adrienne Young