Our Library

The book covers at the right offer a quick view of what we've read over the years. To see a brief overview of a particular book, click on the image and a box will open with information about the publication. To see a complete list of all of our selections since the book group began, check out our complete library at Library Thing. Once you're there, go to the top left side of the page and click on the "suggested viewing style" link. That's where you'll find a chronological list of our book group selections, including tags, ratings, and reviews.

Please note: The reviews and comments that you'll see when you go to our catalog on the LT page are entirely Donna's opinions. They have not been provided by Library Thing, Amazon.com, another book group member, or anyone else. If you disagree with any of them, feel free to post a retort.  

2017
  • DEC - 
  • NOV - 
  • SEPT - 
  • AUG - The Art of Hearing Heartbeats by Jan-Philipp Sendker
  • JULY - The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
  • JUNE - Miss Peregrines Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
  • MAY - Re Jane by Patricia Park
  • APR - If the Oceans Were Ink: An Unlikely Friendship and a Journey to the Heart of the Quran by Carla Power
  • MAR - My Grandmother Asked me to Tell you She's Sorry by Fredrik Backman
  • FEB - The Book That Matters Most by Ann Hood
  • JAN - The After Party by Anton Discalfani
2016
  • DEC - An Unnecessary Woman by Rabih Alameddine
  • NOV - The Last Painting of Sara de Vos by Dominic Smith
  • OCT - Nothing Daunted: The Unexpected Education of Two Society Girls in the West by Dorothy Wickenden
  • SEPT - The Little Coffee Shop of Kabul by Deborah Rodriguez
  • AUG - Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee
  • JULY - Take Me With You by Catherine Ryan Hyde
  • JUNE - The Fifth Gospel by Ian Caldwell
  • MAY - Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  • APR - The Children Act by Ian McEwan
  • MAR - The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson
  • FEB - My Notorious Life by Kate Manning
  • JAN - The Shining Girls by Lauren Beukes
2015
  • DEC - Emotionally Weird by Kate Atkinson
  • NOV - Can't Wait to Get to Heaven by Fannie Flagg
  • SEPT - The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden by Jonas Jonasson
  • AUG - We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler
  • JULY - Clara and Mr. Tiffany by Susan Vreeland
  • JUNE - Euphoria by Lily King
  • MAY - From This Wicked Patch of Dust by Sergio Troncoso
  • APR - Sacre Bleu: A Comedy d'Art by Christopher Moore
  • MAR - All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
  • FEB - The Lowland by Jumpa Lahiri
  • JAN - The Nazi Officer's Wife by Edith Hahn-Beer
2014
  • DEC - The Merry Recluse by Caroline Knapp 
  • NOV - The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion
  • OCT - The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd
  • SEPT - Run, Brother, Run: A Memoir of a Murder in My Family by David Berg
  • AUG - Saving Fish from Drowning by Amy Tan
  • JULY - The Lady in Gold: The Extraordinary Tale of Gustav Klimt's Masterpiece, Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer by Anne-Marie O'Connor
  • JUNE - Sweet Tooth by Ian McEwan
  • MAY - Oleander Girl by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
  • APR - Whose Names Are Unknown by Sanora Babb
  • MAR - The Abortionist's Daughter by Elisabeth Hyde
  • FEB - Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline
  • JAN - The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
2013
  • DEC - The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver
  • OCT - Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand
  • SEPT - The Sandalwood Tree by Elle Newmark
  • AUG - Chango's Beads and Two-Toned Shoes by William Kennedy
  • JULY - The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
  • JUNE - The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  • MAY - Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson
  • APR - The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
  • MAR - The Cat's Table by Michael Ondaajte
  • FEB - No One in the World by E. Lynn Harris and R.M. Johnson
  • JAN - Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness by Alexandra Fuller
2012
  • DEC - White Teeth by Zadie Smith
  • NOV - Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
  • OCT - Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay
  • SEPT - The Leftovers by Tom Perrotta
  • AUG - The Paris Wife by Paula McLain
  • JULY - The Tiger's Wife by Tea Obreht
  • JUNE - Before I Go to Sleep by S.J.Watson
  • MAY - In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin by Erik Larson
  • APR - Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
  • MAR - The Book of Unholy Mischief by Elle Newmark
  • FEB - The Human Stain by Philip Roth
  • JAN - Zoli by Collum McCann
2011 - 15th Anniversary Celebration
  • DEC - An Object of Beauty by Steve Martin
  • NOV - Cleopatra: A Life by Stacy Schiff
  • OCT - What Is Left the Daughter by Howard Norman
  • AUG - The Wolves of Andover by Kathleen Kent
  • JULY - The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
  • JUNE - The Help by Kathryn Sockett
  • MAY - A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
  • APR - Friday Nights by Joanna Trollope
  • MAR - Pot Luck by Emile Zola
  • FEB - The Shack by William P. Young
2010
  • DEC - The Opposite of Faith: Memories of a Writing Life by Amy Tan
  • NOV - The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruis Zafron
  • OCT - Whatever Makes You Happy by Lisa Grunwald
  • SEPT - Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
  • AUG - The Four Corners of the Sky by Michael Malone
  • JULY - The Hour I First Believed by Wally Lamb
  • MAY - Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
  • APR - The House of God: The Classic Novel of Life and Death in an American Hospital by  Samuel Shem
  • MAR - Netherland by Joseph O'Neill
  • FEB - The Origin of Species by Nino Ricci
  • JAN - The Ice Queen byAlice Hoffman
2009
  • DEC - Julie and Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously by Julie Powell
  • NOV - The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
  • OCT - The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
  • SEPT - Home by Marilynne Robinson
  • AUG - The Heretic's Daughter by Kathleen Kent
  • JULY - Black and White and Dead All Over by John Darnton
  • JUNE - My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier
  • MAY - Tales Out of School by Benjamin Taylor
  • APR - Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl
  • MAR - The Wives of Bath by Susan Swan
  • FEB - Loving Frank by Nancy Horan
  • JAN - In the Land of Invisible Women: A Female Doctor's Journey in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia by Qanta A. Ahmed
2008
  • DEC - Beloved by Toni Morrison
  • NOV - Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
  • OCT - The Sixteen Pleasures by Robert Hellenga
  • SEPT - Fieldwork by Mischa Berlinski
  • AUG - Dangerous Admissions: Secrets of a Closet Sleuth by Jane O-Connor
  • JUNE - Restless by William Boyd
  • MAY - Consumption by Kevin Patterson
  • APR - The Keep by Jennifer Egan
  • MAR - The Road by Cormac McCarthy
  • FEB - The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America by Erik Larson
  • JAN - The Polish Officer by Alan Furst
2007
  • DEC - Kristin Lavransdatter I: The Wreath by Sigrid Undset
  • NOV - The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
  • OCT - Fortunate Son by Walter Mosley
  • SEPT - The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East by Sandy Tolan
  • AUG - Astrid and Veronika by Linda Olsson
  • JULY - Suite Francaise by Irene Memirovsky 
  • JUNE - The Gun Seller by Hugh Laurie
  • MAY - Keeping Faith by Jodi Picoult
  • APR - Three Weeks with My Brother by Nicholas Sparks
  • MAR - The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler
  • FEB - When Loves Calls, You Better Answer by Beatrice Berry
  • JAN - On Beauty by Zadie Smith
2006 - 10th Anniversary Celebration
  • DEC - The Quiet American by Graham Greene
  • NOV - The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
  • OCT - Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire
  • SEPT - The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
  • AUG - Life of Pi by Yann Martel
  • JULY - Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
  • JUNE - The Icarus Girl by Helen Oyeyemi
  • MAY - Evening Class by Maeve Binchy
  • APR - The Dante Club by Matthew Pearl
  • MAR - The Best of Everything by Rona Jaffe
  • FEB - Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • JAN - Snow by Orhan Pamuk
2005
  • DEC - The Known World by Edward P. Jones
  • NOV - The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
  • OCT - Guardian of the Dawn by Richard Zimler
  • SEPT - The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
  • AUG - Sacred Hunger by Barry Unsworth
  • JUNE - Summer of the Big Bachi by Naomi Hirahara
  • MAY - The Ladies' Paradise by Emile Zola
  • APR - The Amateur Marriage by Anne Tyler
  • MAR - Our Man in Havana by Graham Greene
  • FEB - Bangkok 8 by John Burdett
2004
  • DEC - The Pursuit of Alice Thrift by Elinor Lipman
  • NOV - Dragon Bones by Lisa See
  • OCT - Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
  • SEPT - Anil's Ghost by Michael Ondaatje
  • AUG - Naomi by Junichiro Tanizaki
  • JUNE - Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively
  • MAY - The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
  • APR - The DaVinci Code by Dan Brown
  • MAR - Desirable Daughters by Bharati Mukherjee
  • FEB - Caramelo by Sandra Cisneros
  • JAN - Stuffed: Adventures of a Restaurant Family by Patricia Volk
2003
  • DEC - Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
  • NOV - Run with the Horsemen by Ferrol Sams
  • OCT - Unless by Carol Shields
  • SEPT - Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
  • AUG - The Lovely Bones by ALice Sebold
  • JULY - So Long a Letter by Mariama Ba
  • JUNE - An American Summer by Frank Deford
  • APR - Atonement by Ian McEwan
  • MAR - Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
  • FEB - Quetzalcoatl by D.H. Lawrence
  • JAN - Hanna's Daughters by Marlanne Fredriksson
2002
  • DEC - Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks
  • NOV - Blue Diary by Alica Hoffman
  • OCT - The Red Tent by Aniya Diamant
  • SEPT - The World Below by Sue Miller
  • AUG - Back When We Were Grownups by Anne Tyler
  • JULY - Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder
  • MAY - The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
  • APR - Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
  • MAR - The Secret History by Donna Tartt
  • FEB - Drowning Ruth by Christina Schwartz
  • JAN - A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
2001 - 5th Anniversary Celebration
  • DEC - Women of Sand and Myrrh by Hanan Al-Shaykh
  • NOV - Celebration by Mary Lee Settle
  • OCT - St. Urban's Horseman by Mordecai Richler
  • AUG - The Music of Chance by Paul Aster
  • JULY - The Patron Saint of Liars by Ann Patchett
  • JUNE - Headlong by Michael Frayn
  • MAY - The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
  • APR - Wild Swans by Jung Chang
  • FEB - Fortune's Rocks by Anita Shreve
  • JAN - The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
2000
  • DEC - Corelli's Mandolin by Louis dr Bernieres
  • NOV - Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Ann Burns
  • OCT - A Yellow Raft in White Water by Michael Dorris
  • SEPT - The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell
  • AUG - Cousin Bette by Honore de Balzac
  • JULY - The First Man by Albert Camus
  • MAY - The Archivist by Martha Cooley
  • APR - The Wedding by Dorothy West
  • MAR - Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt
  • FEB - Lying on the Couch by Irvin D. Yalom
  • JAN - The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
1999
  • DEC - The Foreign Student by Susan Choi
  • NOV - Memories of a Catholic Girlhood by Mary McCarthy
  • OCT - The Color of Water by James McBride
  • SEPT - Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
  • AUG - One Thousand White Women: The Journal of Mary Todd by Jim Fergus
  • JULY - The Moviegoer by Walker Percy
  • JUNE - The Farming of Bones by Edwidge Damticat
  • MAY - In the Beauty of Lilies by John Updike
  • APR - Regeneration by Pat Barker
  • MAR - Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather
  • FEB - Paula by Isabel Allende
  • JAN - Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner
1998
  • DEC - The Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger
  • NOV - Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
  • OCT - My Own Country: A Doctor's Memoir by Abraham Verghese
  • SEPT - Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
  • AUG - The Deep End of the Ocean by Jacquelyn Mitchard
  • JULY - Pope Joan by Donna Cross
  • JUNE - Kowloon Tong by Paul Theroux
  • MAY - The Mistress of Spices by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
  • APR - The Tortilla Curtain by T. Coraghessan Boyle
  • MAR - Native Speaker by Chang-Rae Lee
  • FEB - A Civil Action by Jonathan Harr
  • JAN - Written on the Body by Jeanette Winterson

1997
  • DEC - A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley
  • NOV - The Book of Ruth by Jane Hamilton
  • SEPT - She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb
  • AUG - Poison by Kathryn Harrison
  • JULY - Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
  • JUNE - The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood
  • MAY - Pride and Prejudice by Jan Austen
  • APR - The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
  • MAR - Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
  • FEB - Before and After by Rosellen Brown
  • JAN - The Liar's Club by Mary Karr
1996 - Inaugural Year of the Zodiac Book Group
  • DEC - The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields
  • NOV - Palace Walk by Naguib Mahfouz
  • OCT - Ordinary Love and Goodwill by Jane Smiley
  • SEPT - Snow Falling on Cedars by David Gutterson

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