Book List

2022
"Forty Autumns" by Nina Willner

"The Midnight Library" by Matt Haig

"The Wild Birds" by Emily Strelow

"Red Lightning"  by Laura Pritchett

"Beyond the Hundreth Meridian"  by Wallace Stegner

"The Book of Hope"  by Jane Goodall and Douglas Adams

"We Need New Names"  by NoViolet Bulawayo

"Unaccustomed Earth"  by Jhumpa Lahiri

"The Cape Doctor"  by EJ Levy

2021
"Deep Creek" by Pam Houston

"The Library Book" by Susan Orlean

"Passing" by Nella Larsen

"Ladybird Collected" by Meg Heriford

"The Story of More" by Hope Jahren

"Sisters of the Earth"

"The Night Watchman" by Louise Erdrich

"Alone Time" by Stephanie Rosenbloom

"Grain by Grain" by Bob Quinn

"Erosion: Essays of Undoing" by Terry Tempest Williams

"Normal People" by Sally Rooney


2020
"My Antonia" by Willa Cather

"The Long Haul" by Finn Murphy

"The Spectator Bird" by Wallace Stegner

"Warlight" by Michael Ondaatje

"Leaving Mother Lake"

"Milkman" by Anna Burns

"White Fragility" by Robin Diangelo

"The Raven's Gift" by 

"The Yellow House" by Sarah Broom

"Sing, Unburied Sing" by Jesmyn Ward

"The Dutch House"  by Ann Patchett




2019
"The Overstory" by Richard Powers

"Americanah" by Adiche

"Into the Beautiful North" by Urrea

"Silk" by Baricco

"Educated" by Tara Westover

"Our Towns" by James and Deborah Fallows

"The Island of Sea Women" by Lisa See

"The Moment of Lift"  by Melinda Gates

Various poems by Mary Oliver

2018
"News of the World" by Paulette Jiles

"A Gentleman in Moscow" by Amor Tolles

"Catfish and Mandela" by Andrew Pham

"The Underground Railroad" by Colson Whitehead

“Little Fires Everywhere” by Celeste Ng

"What a Fish Knows" by Jonathan Balcombe

"House of Names" by Colm Toibin

"Bucking the Sun" by Ivan Doig

"Less" by Andrew Sean Greer

"The Newcomers" by Helen Thorpe

"Astoria" by Peter Stark

2017
"Lab Girl" by Hope Jahren

"Under the Wide and Starry Sky" by Nancy Horan

"Leaving Before the Rains Come" by Alexandra Fuller

"Strangers in their Own Land" by Arlie Hochschild

"Circling the Sun" by Paula McClain

"The Book of Joy" by Lama, Tutu, and Abrams

"The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane" by Lisa See

"When Women Were Birds" by Terry Tempest Williams

"On Tyranny" by Timothy Snyder

"Commonwealth" by Ann Patchett

"Small Great Things" by Jodi Picoult

2016
"Being Mortal" by Atul Gawande
"Unforgettable: A Son, a Mother, and the Lessons of a Lifetime by Scott Simon
"Grandma Gatewood's Walk" by Ben Montgomery

"Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear"  by Elizabeth Gilbert

"The Nightingale" by Kristin Hannah

"A Man Called Ove" by Fredrik Backman

"In the Shadow of the Banyan" by Vaddey Ratner

"The Upstairs Wife" by Rafia Zakaria

"The Last Painting of Sara de Vos" by Dominic Smith

"Bones of the Master" by George Crane

2015

"The Invention of Wings"  Sue Monk Kidd

"A Thousand Veils"  D. J. Murphy

"All the Light We Cannot See" Anthony Doerr

"H is for Hawk"  Helen Macdonald

"The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry " Gabrielle Zevin


"A Tale for the Time Being" by Ruth Ozeki


"A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith


"The Wright Brothers" by David McCullough


'The House at Otowi Bridge"  by Peggy Pond Church


"Last Bus to Wisdom" by Ivan Doig






2014

"The Round House"  Louise Erdrich

"The Snow Child"  Ewoyn Ivey

"This is the Story of a Happy Marriage"  Anne Patchett

"Let the Great World Spin"  Colum McCan

"Crossing to Safety"  Wallace Stegner

"My Beloved World"  Sonia Sotomayor

"The Wild Trees: A Story of Passion & Daring"  Richard Preston

"The Garden of Evening Mists" by Tan Twan Eng

"The Secret Scriptures" by Sebastian Barry

"The Animal Dialogues - Uncommon Encounters in the Wild" by Craig Childs

"Seven Years in Tibet"  by Heinrich Harrer



2013

 "Wild"  Cheryl Strayed

"A Visit from the Goon Squad"  Jennifer Egan

"Please Take Care of Mom"  Kyung-Shoo Kin

"The Hummingbird's Daughter"  Luis Alberto Urrea

"Year of Wonders"  Geraldine Brooks

"The Language of Flowers"  Vanessa Diffenbaugh

"The Girls of Atomic City"  Denise Kiernan

"Beyond the Beautiful Forevers"  Katheine Boo

"Ahab's Wife"  Sena Jeter Naslund

"A Camera, Two Kids, and a Camel"  Annie Griffiths

Poetry

2012

“Just Like Us” Helen Thorpe

“Sense of an Ending” Julian Barnes

“Nothing Daunted:  The Unexpected Education of Two Society Girls in the West”  Dorothy Wickenden

“Nothing to Envy:  Ordinary Lives in North Korea”  Barbara Demick

“Jayber Crow” Wendell Berry 

"The Bartender's Tale"   Ivan Doig

“Gifts from the Sea” Anne Morrow Lindbergh  

“Mink River” Brian Doyle

 “Piano Lessons”  Noah Adams

“Einstein’s Dreams” Alan Lightman

 Poetry

2004-2011

"Sleeping In Flames"  Jonathan Carroll

"House Made of Dawn"  Scott Momaday

"One Of Ours"  Willa Cather

"Wicked"  Gregory Maguire

"Empire Falls"  Richard Russo

"The Stone Diaries"   Carol Shields

"We Were The Mulvaneys"  Joyce Carol Oates

"Folly"  Laurie R. King

"The Sixteen Pleasures"  Robert Hellenga

"The DaVinci Code"  Dan Brown

"Bel Canto"  Ann Patchett

"Peace Like A River"  Leif Enger

"Middlsex"  Jeffrey Eugenides

"The Smoke Jumper"  Nicholas Evans

"Tears Of The Giraffe"  Alexander McCall Smith

"Reading Lolita in Tehran"  Azar Nafisi

"Lolita"  Vladimir Nabokov

"Mama Day"  Gloria Naylor

"Women Who Run With Wolves"  Clarissa P. Estes

"The Kite Runner"  Khaled Hosseini

"Rowing To Latitude"  Jill Fredston

"Evidence Of Things Unseen"  Marianne Wiggins

"The Preservationist"  David Maine

"Skybridge"  Laura Pritchett

"The Way Of The Peaceful Warrier"  Dan Millman

"Sea Glass"  Anita Shreve

"The Good Woman Of China"  Xinran

"Case Histories"  Kate Atkinson

"Winter In The Blood"  James Welch

"Lighthouskeeping"  Jeanette Winterson

"Memory Of Running"  Ron McLarty

"March"  Geraldine Brooks

"Three Cups Of Tea"  Greg Mortenson

"The Long Walk"  Slavormir Rawicz

"Where River’s Change Directions"  Mark Spragg

"A Thousand Splendid Suns"  Khaled Hosseini

"The Impossible Will Take A Little While"  Paul Roga Loeb

"Into The Wild" Jon Krakauer

"Under The Banner Of Heaven"  Jon Krakauer

"Red Azalea"  Anchee Min

"Loving Frank"  Nancy Horan

"The Sum Of Our Days"  Isabel Allende

"Animal, Vegetable, Miracle"  Barbara Kingsolver

"The Known World"  Edward P. Jones

"The Invisible Wall: A Love Story that Broke Barriers"  Harry Bernstein

"When The Emperor Was Divine"  Julie Otsuka

"Snow Flower And The Secret Fan"  Lisa See

"Sea Runners"  Ivan Doig

"June Rise"  William Trembly

"The Story Of Edgar Sawtelle"  David Wroblewski

"Unless"  Carol Shields

"Out Stealing Horses"  Per Petterson

"My Stroke of Insight"  Jill Bolte Taylor

"The White Tiger"  Aravind Adiga

"Olive Kitteridge"  Elizabeth Strout

"The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society"  Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows

" The Elegance of the Hedgehog"  Muriel Barberry

"Lacuna"  Barbara Kingsolver

"The Brain that Changes Itself"  Norman Doidge

"Mountains Beyond Mountains"  Tracy Kidder

"The Reluctant Fundamentalist"  Moshin Hamid

"South of Broad"  Pat Conroy

"Major Pettigrew's Last Stand"  Helen Simonson

"Embers"  Sandor Marai

"Leaving Cheyenne"  Larry McMurtry

"Where Men Win Glory:  The Odyssey of Pat Tillman"  Jon Krakauer

"Just Kids"  Patti Smith

"Cutting for Stone"  Abraham Verghese

"The Help"  Kathryn Stockett

"The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks"  Rebecca Skloot

"Half Broke Horses"  Jeannette Walls

"State of Wonder"  Ann Patchett

"King of the Moon"  Gene Kira

"The Worst Hard Time"  Timothy Eagan

"The River of Doubt"  Candice Millard

"The Women"  T.C. Boyle

"The Tender Bar"  J.R. Moehringer

"One Thousand White Women"  Jim Fergus

"Sky Burial: An Epic Love Story of Tibet"  Xinran

"The Piano Tuner" Daniel Mason

"The Glass Castle"  Jeannette Walls




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