Year |
Book |
Author |
Chosen by |
2025 |
2025 | #9 |
Turbulence |
David Szalay |
John |
2025 | #8 |
Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole |
Susan Cain |
Sharon |
2025 | #7 |
The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry |
Gabrielle Zevin |
Suzanne |
2025 | #6 |
The Address |
Fiona Davis |
Mary |
2025 | #5 |
The Storyteller’s Secret |
Sejal Badani |
John |
2025 | #4 |
Flags of Our Fathers |
James D. Bradley, Ron Powers |
Sharon |
2025 | #3 |
All the Ugly and Wonderful Things |
Bryn Greenwood |
Suzanne |
2025 | #2 |
The Wedding People |
Alison Espach |
Mary |
2025 | #1 |
A Gentleman in Moscow |
Amor Towles |
John |
2024 |
2024 (#14, #15, #16) |
Go, Planes, Go
Are You My Mother?
Love Makes a Family
|
Addie Boswell
P.D. Eastman
Sophie Beer |
Sharon
Sharon
John |
2024 (#13) |
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine |
Gail Honeyman |
Suzanne |
2024 (#12) |
The Little Paris Bookshop |
Nina George |
Mary |
2024 (#11) |
Tom Lake |
Ann Patchett |
John |
2024 (#10) |
Grandma Gatewood’s Walk: The Inspiring Story of the Woman Who Saved the Appalachian Trail |
Ben Montgomery |
Sharon |
2024 (#9) |
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants |
Robin Wall Kimmerer |
Suzanne |
2024 (#8) |
The Last Negroes at Harvard: The Class of 1963 and the 18 Young Men Who Changed Harvard Forever |
Kent Garret, Jeanne Ellsworth |
Mary |
2024 (#7) |
The Age of Innocence |
Edith Wharton |
John |
2024 (#6) |
Crossing to Safety |
Wallace Stegner |
Sharon |
2024 (#5) |
Gift from the Sea |
Anne Morrow Lindbergh |
Suzanne |
2024 (#4) |
The Floating Feldmans |
Elyssa Friewdland |
Mary |
2024 (#3) |
The Sense of an Ending |
Julian Barnes |
John |
2024 (#2) |
Jane Eyre |
Charlotte Brontë |
Sharon |
2024 (#1) |
A Good Neighborhood |
Therese Anne Fowler |
Suzanne |
2023 |
2023 (#16) |
The Radcliffe Ladies’ Reading Club |
Julia Bryan Thomas |
Mary |
2023 (#15) |
The Professor & the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, & the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary |
Simon Winchester |
John |
2023 (#14) |
The Authenticity Project |
Clare Pooley |
Sharon |
2023 (#13) |
Rules of Civility |
Amor Towles |
Suzanne |
2023 (#12) |
The Woman in the Library |
Sulari Gentill |
Mary |
2023 (#11) |
The Secret Life of Albert Entwistle |
Matt Cain |
John |
1023 (#10) |
The Paris Apartment |
Lucy Foley |
Suzanne |
2023 (#9) |
The Thursday Murder Club |
Richard Osman |
Mary |
2023 (#8) |
The Last Mrs. Parrish |
Liv Constantine |
John |
2023 (#7) |
Lessons in Chemistry |
Bonnie Garmus |
Sharon |
2023 (#6) |
Anxious People |
Fredrik Backman |
Sharon |
2023 (#5) |
Necessary Lies |
Diane Chamberlain |
Suzanne |
2023 (#4) |
Lucy by the Sea |
Elizabeth Strout |
Mary |
2023 (#3) |
Mrs. March |
Virginia Feito |
John |
2023 (#2) |
North to Paradise |
Ousman Umar |
Sharon |
2023 (#1) |
The Dutch House |
Ann Patchett |
Suzanne |
2022 |
2022 (#14) |
Murder in the First Edition |
Lauren Elliott |
Mary |
2022 (#13) |
Summer at the Cape |
RaeAnne Thayne |
John |
2022 (#12) |
The Only Woman in the Room |
Marie Benedict |
Sharon |
2022 (#11) |
The People We Keep |
Allison Larkin |
Suzanne |
2022 (#10) |
The Midnight Library |
Matt Haig |
Mary |
2022 (#9) |
Here for It; Or, How to Save Your Soul in America: Essays |
R. Eric Thomas |
John |
2022 (#8) |
The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek |
Kim Michele Richardson |
Sharon |
2022 (#7) |
The Personal Librarian |
Marie Benedict & Victoria Christopher Murray |
Suzanne |
2022 (#6) |
The Brilliant Life of Eudora Honeysett |
Annie Lyons |
Mary |
2022 (#5) |
The Editor |
Steven Rowley |
John |
2022 (#4) |
The Plot |
Jean Hanff Korelitz |
Sharon |
2022 (#3) |
Digital Body Language: How to Build Trust and Connection, No Matter the Distance (abandoned) |
Erica Dhawan |
Suzanne |
2022 (#2) |
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life |
Mark Manson |
Mary |
2022 (#1) |
Oona Out of Order |
Margarita Montimore |
John |
2021 |
2021 (#14) |
The Good Sister |
Sally Hepworth |
Suzanne |
2021 (#13) |
Everything I Never Told You |
Celeste Ng |
Suzanne |
2021 (#12) |
The Souvenir Museum: Stories |
Elizabeth McCracken |
John |
2021 (#11) |
Guests on Earth |
Lee Smith |
Mary |
2021 (#10) |
Far from the Tree |
Robin Benway |
Suzanne |
2021 (#9) |
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone |
Lori Gottlieb |
John |
2021 (#8) |
Running with Sherman |
Christopher McDougall |
Suzanne |
2021 (#7) |
Man’s Search for Meaning |
Viktor E. Frankl |
Sharon |
2021 (#6) |
Where the Crawdads Sing |
Delia Owens |
Suzanne |
2021 (#5) |
The Nature of Fragile Things |
Susan Meissner |
Mary |
2021 (#4) |
Tell the Wolves I’m Home |
Carol Rifka Brunt |
Suzanne |
2021 (#3) |
The Best of Enemies: Race and Redemption in the New South |
Osha Gray Davidson |
Sharon |
2021 (#2) |
Have You Seen Luis Velez? |
Catherine Ryan Hyde |
John |
2021 (#1) |
The Things We Cannot Say |
Kelly Rimmer |
Mary |
2020 |
2020 (#9) |
Hercule Poirot’s Christmas |
Agathie Christie |
John |
2020 (#8) |
Christmas Cake Murder |
Joanne Fluke |
John |
2020 (#7) |
A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership |
James Comey |
Mary |
2020 (#6) |
The Great Believers |
Rebecca Makkai |
John |
2020 (#5) |
White Fragility |
Robin DiAngelo |
John |
2020 (#4) |
The Husband’s Secret |
Liane Moriarty |
John |
2020 (#3) |
Be Frank With Me |
Julia Claiborne Johnson |
John |
2020 (#2) |
What Alice Forgot |
Liane Moriarty |
John |
2020 (#1) |
The Underground Railroad |
Colson Whitehead |
Suzanne |
2019 |
2019 (#8) |
Sissy: A Coming-of-Gender Story |
Jacob Tobia |
John |
2019 (#7) |
The Wonder of All Things |
Jason Mott |
Mary |
2019 (#6) |
Winter in Paradise |
Elin Hilderbrand |
Sharon |
2019 (#5) |
One Plus One |
Jojo Moyes |
Suzanne |
2019 (#4) |
The Last Romantics |
Tara Conklin |
John |
2019 (#3) |
Becoming |
Michelle Obama |
Mary |
2019 (#2) |
Eileen |
Ottessa Moshfegh |
Sharon |
2019 (#1) |
Before We Were Yours |
Lisa Wingate |
Suzanne |
2018 |
2018 (#7) |
Logical Family: A Memoir |
Armistead Maupin |
John |
2018 (#6) |
A Day No Pigs Would Die Breakfast at Tiffany’s |
Robert Newton Peck Truman Capote |
Sharon |
2018 (#5) |
Aging: An Apprenticeship |
Nan Narboe |
Mary |
2018 (#4) |
Me Before You |
Jojo Moyes |
Suzanne |
2018 (#3) |
People of Darkness |
Tony Hillerman |
Janet |
2018 (#2) |
Anansi Boys |
Neil Gaiman |
John |
2018 (#1) |
The Ninth Hour |
Alice McDermott |
Mary |
2017 |
2017 (#8) |
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan |
Lisa See |
Sharon |
2017 (#7) |
All My Puny Sorrows |
Miriam Toews |
Suzanne |
2017 (#6) |
small great things |
Jodi Picoult |
Janet |
2017 (#5) |
The Rainbow Comes and Goes: A Mother and Son on Life, Love, and Loss |
Anderson Cooper, Gloria Vanderbilt |
John |
2017 (#4) |
Still Alice |
Lisa Genova |
Sharon |
2017 (#3) |
When Breath Becomes Air |
Paul Kalanithi |
Mary |
2017 (#2) |
The Liars’ Club |
Mary Karr |
Suzanne |
2017 (#1) |
Born a Crime |
Trevor Noah |
Janet |
2016 |
2016 (#4) |
So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed |
Jon Ronson |
John |
2016 (#3) |
The Rosie Project |
Graeme Simsion |
Sharon |
2016 (#2) |
A Place at the Table |
Susan Rebecca White |
Mary |
2016 (#1) |
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail |
Bill Bryson |
Suzanne |
2015 |
2015 (#5) |
Circling the Sun |
Paula McLain |
Janet |
2015 (#4) |
The Astronaut Wives Club |
Lily Koppel |
John |
2015 (#3) |
The Call |
Yannick Murphy |
Sharon |
2015 (#2) |
Benediction |
Kent Haruf |
Mary |
2015 (#1) |
Room |
Emma Donoghue |
Suzanne |
2014 |
2014 (#5) |
Love in the Time of Cholera |
Gabriel García Márquez |
Janet |
2014 (#4) |
South of Broad |
Pat Conroy |
John |
2014 (#3) |
Divergent |
Veronica Roth |
Sharon |
2014 (#2) |
The Interestings |
Meg Wolizer |
Mary |
2014 (#1) |
Life After Life |
Jill McCorkle |
Suzanne |
2013 |
2013 (#3) |
The Pillars of the Earth |
Ken Follet |
Janet |
2013 (#2) |
The Great Gatsby |
F. Scott Fitzgerald |
John |
2013 (#1) |
The Fault in Our Stars |
John Green |
Sharon |
2012 |
2012 (#3) |
A Whole New Mind |
Daniel Pink |
Mary |
2012 (#2) |
Cutting For Stone |
Abraham Verghese |
Suzanne |
2012 (#1) |
The Art of Racing in the Rain |
Garth Stein |
Janet |
2011 |
2011 (#4) |
Outliers: The Story of Success |
Malcolm Gladwell |
John |
2011 (#3) |
The Hunger Games |
Suzanne Collins |
Sharon |
2011 (#2) |
The Color Purple |
Alice Walker |
Mary |
2011 (#1) |
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks |
Rebecca Skloot |
Suzanne |
2010 |
2010 (#4) |
The Help |
Kathryn Stockett |
Janet |
2010 (#4) |
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time |
Mark Haddon |
John |
2010 (#4) |
The Blind Side |
Michael Lewis |
Sharon |
2010 (#4) |
My Stoke of Insight |
Jill Bolte Taylor |
Mary |
2009 |
2009 (#4) |
Three Cups of Tea |
Mortenson & Relin |
Suzanne |
2009 (#3) |
Anna Karenina |
Leo Tolstoy |
Janet |
2009 (#2) |
Dewey: The Small-town Library Cat Who Touched the World |
Vicki Myron |
Sharon |
2009 (#1) |
Lost on Planet China |
J. Maarten Troost |
John |
2008 |
2008 (#3) |
The Color of Water: A Black Man’s Tribute to His White Mother |
James McBride |
Suzanne |
2008 (#2) |
Eat, Pray, Love |
Elizabeth Gilbert |
Mary |
2008 (#1) |
The Shipping News |
Annie Proulx |
Janet |
2007 |
2007 (#4) |
The Glass Castle |
Jeannette Walls |
Sharon |
2007 (#3) |
Lucky in the Corner (Note: It’s debatable whether we really read this book as a book club. John is the only one who remembers anything about it.) |
Carol Anshaw |
John |
2007 (#2) |
My Sister’s Keeper |
Jodi Picoult |
Suzanne |
2007 (#1) |
Excuse Me, Your Life is Waiting |
Lynn Grabhorn |
Mary |
2006 |
2006 (#1) |
Memoirs of a Geisha |
Arthur Golden |
Janet |
2005 |
2005 (#1) |
The Power of Full Engagement |
Loehr & Schwartz |
Sharon |
2004 |
2004 (#4) |
The Nuclear Age |
Tim O’Brien |
John |
2004 (#3) |
Eats, Shoots, & Leaves |
Lynn Truss |
Suzanne |
2004 (#2) |
The Five People You Meet in Heaven |
Mitch Albom |
Mary |
2004 (#1) |
The Life of Pi: A Novel |
Yann Martel |
Janet |
2003 |
2003 (#2) |
Seabiscuit: An American Legend |
Laura Hillenbrand |
Sharon |
2003 (#2) |
Read My Lips: Sexual Subversion and the End of Gender |
Riki Wilchins |
John |