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- January: There There by Tommy Orange
- February: The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhorn
- March: The Barbizon: The Hotel That Set Women Free by Paulina Bren
- April: The Lion Women of Tehran by Mozhan Navabi
- May: The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War by Erik Larson
- June: Kitchens of the Great Midwest: A Novel by J. Ryan Stradal
- July: Between the World and Me Hardcover by Ta-Nehisi Coates
- August: Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid
- September: The Lost City of the Monkey God: A True Story by Douglas Preston
- October: There Are Rivers in the Sky: A Novel by Elif Shafak
- November: The Pull of the Stars: A Novel by Emma Donoghue
- The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride
- What an owl knows: the new science of the world's most enigmatic birds by Jennifer Ackerman
- The Phoenix crown: a novel by Kate Quinn
- Finding the mother tree: discovering the wisdom of the forest by S. Simard
- James: a novel by Percival Everett
- Life in five senses: how exploring the senses got me out of my head and into the world by Gretchen Rubin
- Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow: a novel by Gabrielle Zevin
- The pirate's wife: the remarkable true story of Sarah Kidd by Daphne Palmer Geanacopoulos
- The fox wife: a novel by Yangsze Choo
- Remarkably bright creatures: a novel by Shelby Van Pelt
- Best of 2025 Holiday Party
- January 16th or 18th: Anxious People by Fredrik Backman
- February 13th or 15th: The House at the End of the World by Dean Koontz
- March 12th or 14th: The Exceptions by Kate Zernike
- April 16th or 18th: Code 6 by James Grippando
- May 14th or 16th: The Codebreaker's Secret by Sara Ackerman
- June 11th or 13th: The Feather Thief by Kirk W Johnson
- July 9th or 11th: People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
- August 13th or 15th: The Wager by David Grann
- September 10th or 12th: Small Mercies by Dennis Lehane
- October 8th or 10th: The Bandit Queens by Parini Shroff
- November 12th or 14th: Rough Sleepers by Tracy Kidder
- December 10th or 12th: Favorites of 2024 Holiday Party!
- January: How to Stop Time by Matt Haig
- February: Bittersweet by Susan Cain
- March: Klara and the Sunday by Kazuo Ishiguro
- April: Remember by Lisa Genova
- May: Four Treasures of the Sky by Jenny Tinghui Zhang
- June: Beasts of a Little Land by Juhea Kim
- July: This Time Next Year We'll Be Laughing by Jacqueline Winspear
- August: When Two Feathers Fell from the Sky by Margaret Verble
- September: Hour of the Witch by Chris Bohjalian
- October: Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel
- November: Travels with George by Nathaniel Philbrick
- December: Best Books of 2023
- January: The Light of Days by Judy Batalion
- February: City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert
- March: Of Women And Salt by Gabriela Garcia
- April: In Order to Live by Yeonmi Park
- May: The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah
- June: Farhrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
- July: Fuzz by Mary Roach
- August: The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden
- September: The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
- October: The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green
- November: Twelve Tribes of Hattie by Ayana Mathis
- December: Best Books of 2022
- November 18th: Everything we've read since February 2020!
- December 16th: Favorite Book of All Time!
- January 13 &16: The little book of hygge : Danish secrets to happy living by Meik Wiking
- February 10 and 13: The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
- March 16 and 19: The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood
- April 13 and 16: Between the world and me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
- May 18 and 21: City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert
- June 15 and 18: A Map of Betrayal by Ha Jin
- July 20 and 23: The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women by Kate Moore
- August 17 and 20: Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
- September 21 and 24: Warlight by Michael Ondaatje
- October 19 and 22r: The Immortalists: A Novel by Chloe Benjamin
- November 16 and 19: Educated by Tara Westover
- December 14 and 17: No book - Social Hour! Happy Holidays!
- January 14 and 17: Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
- February 11 and 14: An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
- March 18 and 21: How to Walk Away by Katherine Center
- April 22 and 25: I'll Be Gone In The Dark by Michelle McNamara
- May 20 and 23: Commonwealth by Ann Patchett
- June 17 and 20: The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
- July 15 and 18: Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann
- August 19 and 22: Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
- September 16 and 19: The Alice Network by Kate Quinn
- October 21 and 24: The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
- November 18 and 21: Educated: a Memoir by Tara Westover
- December 16 and 19: No book - Social Hour! Happy Holidays!
- Hillbilly Elegy by J. D. Vance
- I Liked my Life by Abby Fabiaschi
- The Badass Librarians of Timbuktu: And Their Race to Save the World's Most Precious Manuscripts by Joshua Hammer
- Anything is Possible by Elizabeth Strout
- Abide with Me by Elizabeth Strout
- My Name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout
- Neverhome by Hunt Laird
- Elizabeth is Missing by Emma Healey
- You Will Know Me by Megan Abbott
- Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell
- The Versions of Us by Laura Barnett
- Where'd You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple
- Five Days at Memorial by Sheri Fink
- The Good Good Pig by Sy Montgomery
- Charcoal Joe by Walter Mosley
- The Pigeon Tunnel by John Le Carre
- My Grandmother Asked Me To Tell You She's Sorry by Fredrik Backman
- Britt-Marie Was Here by Fredrik Backman
- A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
- The Good Earth by Pearl S Buck
- The Paris Architect by Charls Belfoure
- Dead Wake by Erik Larson
- Family Tree by Susan Wiggs
- Maggie Smith by Michael Coveney
- LaRose by Louise Erdrich
- The Year of Yes by Shonda Rhimes
- I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai
- The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro
- The Greatest Generation by Tom Brokaw
- The Heist by Janet Evanovich and Lee Goldberg
- The Unexpected Waltz by Kim Wright
- The Ship of Brides by Jojo Moyes
- The Girl You Left Behind by Jojo Moyes
- One Plus One by Jojo Moyes
- The Island at the Center of the World by Russell Shorto
- Longbourn by Jo Baker
- The Wrong Girl by Hank Phillippi Ryan
- The Astronaut Wives Club by Lily Koppel
- Faceoff by David Baldacci ed.
- Vatican Waltz by Roland Merullo
- Breakfast with Buddha by Roland Merullo
- A Little Love Story by Roland Merullo
- The Husband's Secret by Liane Moriarty
- Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
- The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabriele Zevin
- The Men Who United the States by Simon Winchester
- Sweet Tooth by Ian McEwan
- In the Kingdom of Ice by Hampton Sides
- China Dolls by Lisa See
- Defending Jacob by William Landay
- The Opposite of Fate by Amy Tan
- The Postmistress by Sarah Blake
- Caleb's Crossing by Geraldine Brooks
- Shannon by Frank Delaney
- Bossypants by Tina Fey
- The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
- Code to Zero by Ken Follett
- The Art Forger by B. A. Shapiro
- Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson
- I'm a Stranger Here Myself by Bill Bryson
- In a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson
- The Supremes at Earl's All-You-Can-Eat by Edward Kelsey Moor
- The Girls from Ames by Jeffrey Zaslow
- The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey
- Happier at Home by Gretchen Craft Rubin
- Still Life by Louise Penny
- The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court by Jeffrey Toobin
- Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
- The Last Time I Saw You by Elizabeth Berg
- Terminal Freeze by Lincoln Child
- Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman: Adventures of a Curious Character by Richard Feynman
- What Do You Care What Other People Think?: Further Adventures of a Curious Character by Richard Feynman
- The Pleasure of Finding Things Out: The Best Short Works of Richard P. Feynman by Richard Feynman
- A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
- On Agate Hill by Lee Smith
- North River by Pete Hamill
- Zero Day by David Baldacci
- Travels with Charley by John Steinbeck
- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
- Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
- Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
- The Surgeon by Tess Gerritsen
- The Lady and the Unicorn by Tracy Chevalier
- Remarkable Creatures by Tracy Chevalier
- The Virgin Blue by Tracy Chevalier
- Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
- The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story by Diane Ackerman
- Leap of Faith: Memoirs of an Unexpected Life by Queen Noor
- The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara
- The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
- American Gods by Neil Gaiman
- Little Bee by Chris Cleave
- Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford
- The Help by Kathryn Stockett
- The Weight of Water by Anita Shreve
- Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
- Before You Know Kindness by Christopher Bohjalian
- The Double Bind by Christopher Bohjalian
- Midwives by Christopher Bohjalian
- The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
- Orange is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison by Piper Kerman
- The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton
- The Piano Teacher by Janice Y.K. Lee
- Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay
- Ten Little Indians by Sherman Alexie
- The Heretic's Daughter by Kathleen Kent
- The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
- In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex by Nathaniel Philbrick
- The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
- The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver
- I Know This Much Is True by Wally Lamb
- The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch
- Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane
- Loving Frank by Nancy Horan
- The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
- The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak
- The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
- Nature Girl by Carl Hiaasen
- The Color of Water by James McBride
- The Monsters of Templeton by Lauren Groff
- Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey
- Here If You Need Me by Kate Braestrup
- A Dog's Life by Peter Mayle
- The White Darkness by Geraldine McCaughrean
- Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
- Baker Towers by Jennifer Haigh
- The Ghost by Robert Harris
- Tender at the Bone by Ruth Reichl
- Garlic and Sapphires by Ruth Reichl
- Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
- Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
- Dress Your Family in Corderoy and Denim by David Sedaris
- When You are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris
- Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell
- A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka
- Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell
- Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
- Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
- Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris
- A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
- The Tortilla Curtain by T.C. Boyle
- Pompeii: A novel by Robert Harris
- How to Be Good by Nick Hornby
- Truth and Beauty by Ann Patchett
- Crow Lake by Mary Lawson