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2023
Date | Book Title | Author | |
January 26 | Book of Hope | Jane Goodall | |
February 23 | Crime and Punishment | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | |
March 30 | Woman in the Library | Sulari Gentill | |
April 27 | Starfish | Lisa Fipps | |
May 25 | Run | Ann Patchett | |
June 29 | Our Missing Hearts | Celeste Ng | |
October 26 | Such a Fun Age | Kiley Reid | |
November 30 | Lessons in Chemistry | Bonnie Garmus | |
December 28 | Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk | Kathleen Rooney |
2022
Date | Book Title | Author | |
January 27, 2022 | Bewilderment | Richard Powers | |
February 24, 2022 | Of Mice and Men | John Steinbeck | |
March 31, 2022 | Braiding Sweetgrass | Robin Wall Kimmerer | |
April 28, 2022 | Lincoln Highway | Amos Towles | |
May 26, 2022 | Midnight Library | Matt Haig | |
June 30, 2022 | The Mountain Between Us | Charles Martin | |
September 29, 2022 | Hamnet | Maggie O'Farrell | |
October 27, 2022 | True Biz | Sara Novic | |
December 1, 2022 | Small Things Like These | Claire Keegan |
2021
Date | Book Title | Author |
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January 28, 2021 | The Orphan Collector | Ellen Marie Wiseman |
February 25, 2021 | Say I'm Dead | E. Dolores Johnson |
March 25, 2021 | Behold The Dreamers | Imbolo Mbue |
April 29, 2021 | The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane | Lisa See |
May 27, 2021 | We Run the Tides | Vendela Vida |
June 24, 2021 | Homegoing | Yaa Gyasi |
September 30, 2021 | Anxious People | Fredrik Backman |
October 28, 2021 | An Evil Most Men Welcome | Leta Serafim |
December 1, 2021 | Nobody Somebody Anybody | Kelly McClorey |
2020
Date | Book Title | Author |
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January 30, 2020 | Townie | Andre Dubus III |
February 27, 2020 | Sounds Like Titanic | Jessica Chiccehitto Hindman |
March 26, 2020 | I Love You, but I Hate Your Politics-Postponed | Jean Safer |
April 30, 2020 | Funny, You Don't Look Autistic | Michael McCreary |
May 28, 2020 | Book Woman of Troublesome Creek | Kim Michele Richardson |
June 25, 2020 | The Mountains Sing | Phan Que Mai Nguyen |
July 30, 2020 | The New Jim Crow | Michelle Alexander |
September 24, 2020 | Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine | Gail Honeyman |
October 29, 2020 | The Island of Sea Women | Lisa See |
December 3, 2020 | Dear Edward | Ann Napolitano |
2019
Date | Book Title | Author |
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January 31, 2019 | The Circle | David Eggers |
February 28, 2019 | Testament of Youth | Vera Brittain |
March 28, 2019 | The March | John Lewis |
April 25, 2019 | Being Mortal | Atul Gawande |
May 30, 2019 | A House Among the Trees | Julia Glass |
June 27, 2019 | Hillbilly Elegy | J.D. Vance |
September 26, 2019 | Educated | Tara Westover |
October 24, 2019 | Fault in our Stars | John Green |
December 5, 2019 | Pachinko | Min Jin Lee |
2018
Date | Book Title | Author |
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January 25, 2018 | Madame Bovary | Gustave Flaubert |
February 22, 2018 | Never Let Me Go | Kazuo Ishiguro |
March 29, 2018 | Main Street | Sinclair Lewis |
April 26, 2018 | LaRose | Louise Erdrich |
May 24, 2018 | Stolen Marriages | Diane Chamberlain |
June 28, 2018 | Anything Is Possible | Elizabeth Strout |
September 28, 2018 | The Widower's Tale | Julia Glass |
October 25, 2018 | The Hate U Give | Angie Thomas |
November 29, 2018 | Just Mercy | Bryan Stevenson |
2017
Date | Book Title | Author |
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January 26, 2017 | Angle of Repose | Wallace Stegner |
February 23, 2017 | Lost in Shangri-La | Mitchell Zuckoff |
March 30, 2017 | The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society | Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows |
April 27, 2017 | Sweet Breath of Memory | Ariella Cohen |
May 24, 2017 | When the Devil's Idle | Leta Serafim |
June 29, 2017 | The Orphan Master's Son | Adam Johnson |
September 28, 2017 | A Man Called Ove | Fredrik Backman |
October 26, 2017 | Elizabeth Bishop: A Miracle for Breakfast | Megan Marshall |
November 30, 2017 | This Is How It Always Is | Laurie Frankel |
2016
Date | Book Title | Author |
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January 27, 2016 | Fates and Furies | Lauren Groff |
February 24, 2016 | The Book of Salt | Monique Truong |
March 30, 2016 | The Light Between Oceans | M.L. Stedman |
April 27, 2016 | If No Moon, and Incarnate Grace (Poetry) | Moira Linehan |
May 25, 2016 | Brooklyn | Colm Toibin |
June 29, 2016 | The Boston Girl | Anita Diamant |
September 29, 2016 | Washington Square | Henry James |
October 27, 2016 | The Shoemaker's Wife | Adriana Trigiani |
November 30, 2016 | Dear John | Nicholas Sparks |
2015
Date | Book Title | Author |
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January 28, 2015 | I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Snowed out) | Maya Angelou |
February 25, 2015 | The Fault in Our Stars | John Green |
March 25, 2015 | The Orphan Train [Burlington Reads 2015] | Christina Baker Kline |
April 29, 2015 | I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings | Maya Angelou |
May 27, 2015 | The Traitor's Wife | Allison Pataki |
June 24, 2015 | Waking up White: and finding myself in the story of race | Deborah Irving |
September 30, 2015 | The Devil Takes Half | Leta Serafim |
October 28, 2015 | The Nightingale | Kristin Hannah |
November 18, 2015 | Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End | Atul Gawande |
2014
Date | Book Title | Author |
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January 30, 2014 | A Tale for the Time Being | Ruth Ozeki |
February 26, 2014 | The Snow Child | Eowyn Ivey |
March 26, 2014 | Dressmaker of Khair Khana | Gayle Tzemach Lemmon |
April 30, 2014 | A Faithfulness of Birds | Millie Nash |
May 28, 2014 | Mistress of the Art of Death | Ariana Franklin |
June 25, 2014 | The Book Thief | Markus Zusak |
September 24, 2015 | Still Alice | Lisa Genova |
October 29, 2015 | The Little Prince | Antoine de Saint-Exupery |
November 19, 2014 | Defending Jacob | William Landay |
2013
Date | Book Title | Author |
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January 30 2013 | The Hummingbird's Daughter | Luis Alberto Urrea |
February 27, 2013 | Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet | Jamie Ford |
March 27, 2013 | Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox | Maggie O'Farrell |
April 24, 2013 | Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay | Michael Chabon |
May 29, 2013 | The Glass Room | Simon Mawer |
June 26, 2013 | The White | Deborah Larsen |
September 25, 2013 | Damaged Goods | Jodi Blase |
October 30, 2013 | The Language of Flowers | Vanessa Diffenbaugh |
November 20, 2013 | The Five People You Meet in Heaven | Mitch Albom |
2012
Date | Book Title | Author |
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January 25, 2012 | Someone to Run With | David Grossman |
February 29, 2012 | Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks | Rebecca Skloot |
March 28, 2012 | Unbroken | Laura Hillenbrand |
April 25, 2012 | Let the Great World Spin | Colum McCann |
May 30, 2012 | The World We Found | Thrity Umrigar |
September 26, 2012 | Fifty Shades of Grey | E. L. James |
October 24, 2012 | The Sense of an Ending | Julian Barnes |
November 28, 2012 | The Help | Kathryn Stockett |
2011
Date | Book Title | Author |
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January 26, 2011 | The "PostSecret" Books | Frank Warren |
February 23, 2011 | Dark Tide | Stephen Puleo |
March 30, 2011 | Stephen Puleo Speaks | N/A |
April 27, 2011 | The Postmistress | Sarah Blake |
May 25, 2011 | Lost and Forgotten Languages of Shanghai | Ruiyan Xu |
September 29, 2011 | The Bell Ringers | Henry Porter |
October 26, 2011 | The Constant Princess | Philippa Gregory |
November 30, 2011 | Cutting for Stone | Abraham Verghese |
2010
Date | Book Title | Author |
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January 27, 2010 | The Red Tent | Anita Diamant |
February 24, 2010 | Dewey: the Small-Town Library Cat | Vivki Myron |
March 31, 2010 | 'Robert Parker Night' | Robert B. Parker |
April 28, 2010 | Q&A/Slumdog Millionaire | Vikas Swarup |
May 26, 2010 | The Diving Bell and the Butterfly | Jean-Dominique Bauby |
June 30, 2010 | Suite Francaise | Irene Nemirovsky |
July 28, 2010 | Born to Run | Christopher McDougall |
September 29, 2010 | Kitchen Confidential | Anthony Bourdain |
October 27, 2010 | Stitches: a Memoir | David Small |
November 17, 2010 | The Glass Castle | Jeannette Walls |
2009
Date | Book Title | Author |
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January 28, 2009 | China Road [Snowed out] | Rob Gifford |
February 25, 2009 | Indignation | Philip Roth |
March 25, 2009 | Animal, Vegetable, Miracle | Barbara Kingsolver |
April 29, 2009 | China Road | Rob Gifford |
May 27, 2009 | The Devil's Advocate | Morris L. West |
June 24, 2009 | Dreams From My Father | Barack Obama |
July 29, 2009 | The World Without Us | Alan Weisman |
August 26, 2009 | Counting Heads | David Marusek |
September 30, 2009 | Time Paradox | Philip Zimbardo |
October 28, 2009 | Vanishing Acts | Jodi Picoult |
November 18, 2009 | Ellen Foster | Kaye Gibbons |