Previous Book Selections

Author Title­
Adams, Richard Watership Down
Adams, Sara Nisha The Reading List
Akunin, Boris The Winter Queen
Alcott, Louisa May Little Women
Aldrich, Bess Streeter A Lantern in Her Hand
Alexander, Robert The Kitchen Boy: A Novel of the Last Tsar
Allen, Sarah Addison Other Birds
Arbinger Institute, The Leadership and Self-Deception: getting out of the box
Austen, Jane Mansfield Park
Austen, Jane Persuasion
Avi Crispin : The Cross of Lead
Backman, Fredrik A Man Called Ove: A Novel
Backman, Fredrik Anxious People
Barbery, Muriel The Elegance of the Hedgehog
Beals, Melba Warriors Don’t Cry: a searing memoir of the battle to integrate Little Rock’s Central High
Benedict, Marie and Victoria Christopher Murray

The Personal Librarian

Bennett, Arnold

The Old Wives’ Tale

Benjamin, Melanie The Aviator’s Wife
Boulle, Pierre The Bridge Over the River Kwai
Boyd, Natasha The Indigo Girl
Bradbury, Ray Fahrenheit 451
Bradley, Kimberly Brubaker The War That Saved My Life
Brenner, Joël Glenn The Emperors of Chocolate: Inside the Secret World of Hershey and Mars
Bringley, Patrick All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
Bronte, Anne The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Bronte, Charlotte Jane Eyre
Bronte, Emily Wuthering Heights
Brooks, David The Road to Character
Brooks, Geraldine March
Brown, Daniel The boys in the boat : nine Americans and their epic quest for gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
Buck, Pearl S. The Good Earth
Burpo, Todd Heaven is for Real: A Little Boy’s Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back
Butler, Octavia Kindred
Buyea, Roy Because of Mr. Terupt
Calderón de la Barca, Pedro Life’s a Dream
Caldwell, Gail Let’s Take the Long Way Home
Callahan, Patti Once Upon a Wardrobe
Card, Orson Scott Pastwatch
Cather, Willa My Antonia
Christie, Agatha And Then There Were None
Chua, Amy Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother
Chua, Amy and Jed Rubenfeld The Triple Package: How Three Unlikely Traits Explain the Rise and Fall of Cultural Groups in America
Clark, Ron The Essential 55
Clark, Walter Van Tilburg The Ox-Bow Incident
Coelho, Paulo The Alchemist
Collins, Mary and Donald Collins At the Broken Places
Collins, Wilkie The Moonstone
Collins, Wilkie The Woman in White
Cooper, Anderson and Gloria Vanderbilt The Rainbow Comes and Goes: A Mother and Son on Life, Love, and Loss
Cooper, James Fenimore The Last of the Mohicans
Criddle, JoAnn To Destroy You is No Loss
De Becker, Gavin Protecting the Gift: Keeping Children and Teenagers Safe (and Parents Sane)
DeFede, Jim The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland
DiAngelo, Robin White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
Dickens, Charles A Christmas Carol
Doerr, Anthony All the Light We Cannot See
Doerr, Anthony Cloud Cuckoo Land
Dolnick, Edward The Forger’s Spell
Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Draper, Sharon M. out of my mind
Du Maurier, Daphne My Cousin Rachel
Du Maurier, Daphne Rebecca
Dumas, Alexandre (translated and abridged by Lowell Blair) The Count of Monte Cristo
Durrell, Gerald My Family and Other Animals
Dweck, Carol S. Mindset
Eger, Dr. Edith Eva The Choice: Embrace the Possible
Eliott, George Middlemarch
Eliott, George Silas Marner
Emmuska, Baroness Orczy The Scarlet Pimpernel
Enger, Leif Peace Like a River
Erdrich, Louise The Round House
Faulkner, William Absalom, Absalom!
Ferris, Jean Love Among the Walnuts
Ford, Jamie Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
Gaffigan, Jim Dad is Fat
Gaiman, Neil The Graveyard Book
Gale, Mike The Museum of Ordinary People
Galloway, Steven The Cellist of Sarajevo
Gaskell, Elizabeth Cranford
Gawande, Atul Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
Gibbons, Stella Cold Comfort Farm
Gilbreth Jr., Frank B. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey Cheaper by the Dozen
Givens, Terryl and Fiona All Things New
Gladwell, Malcolm Talking to Strangers
Goodwin, Joy The Second Mark : Courage, Corruption, and the Battle for Olympic Gold

Grabenstein, Chris

Escape From Mr. Lemoncello’s Library
Gratz, Alan Refugee
Green, John The Fault in Our Stars
Grisham, John Skipping Christmas
Gruen, Judy The Skeptic and the Rabbi
Hale, Shannon The Actor and the Housewife
Hale, Shannon Book of a Thousand Days
Hall, Ron Same Kind of Different as Me
Han, Jenny The Summer I Turned Pretty
Hanff, Helene 84, Charing Cross Road
Hannah, Kristin The Nightingale
Hardy, Thomas Far From the Madding Crowd
Hardy, Thomas Tess of the D’Urbervilles
Hashimi, Nadia The Pearl That Broke Its Shell
Heller, Joseph Catch-22
Hemingway, Ernest A Farewell to Arms
Hillenbrand, Laura Unbroken: a World War II story of survival, resilience and redemption
Hoff, Benjamin The Tao of Pooh
Holm, Anne I Am David
Honeyman, Gail Eleanor Oliphant is completely fine
Horowitz, Anthony Magpie Murders
Hosseini, Khaled A Thousand Splendid Suns
Hosseini, Khaled The Kite Runner
Hugo, Victor Les Miserables
Irving, Washington The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.
Isay, David Listening is an Act of Love
Jackson, Helen Hunt Ramona
Jacobs, A.J. The Year of Living Biblically : one man’s humble quest to follow the Bible as literally as possible
James, Henry Washington Square
Jerome, Jerome K. Three Men in a Boat
Jones, Christopher JH Trinity Flynn and the Five Points Gang
Jordan-Lake, Joy Blue Hole back home
Joyce, Rachel Miss Benson’s Beetle
Kalish, Mildred Little heathens : hard times and high spirits on an Iowa farm during the Great Depression
Kerr, Christopher Death is but a Dream
Kibler, Julie calling me home
Kidd, Sue Monk The Secret Life of Bees
King, Laurie R. The Beekeeper’s Apprentice
Kingsolver, Barbara Poisonwood Bible: A Novel
Kiyosaki, Robert T. Rich Dad, Poor Dad
Klassen, Julie Lady of Milkweed Manor
Knight, Phil Shoe Dog
Krakauer, Jon Into The Wild
Krakauer, Jon Into Thin Air : A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
Krueger, William Kent This Tender Land
Lahiri, Jhumpa Interpreter of Maladies: stories
Lai, Thanhha Inside Out and Back Again
Lansing, Alfred Endurance : Shackleton’s incredible voyage
Larsen, Erik The Devil in the White City
Lee, Harper To Kill a Mockingbird
Lee, Hyeonseo The Girl with Seven Names: Escape from North Korea
Letts, Elizabeth The Ride of Her Life: The True Story of a Woma, Her Horse, and Their Last Chance Journey Across America
Levitt, Steven and Stephen Dubner Freakonomics : a rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything
Lewis, C.S. Surprised by joy: the shape of my early life
Lewis, C.S. Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold
Lewis, C.S. The ScrewTape Letters
Leyson, Leon The boy on the wooden box : how the impossible became possible…on Schindler’s list
Lin, Grace Where the Mountain Meets the Moon
Lotz, Miranda Healed
Lowry, Lois The Giver
Macomber, Debbie Can This Be Christmas?
Manning, Molly Guptill When Books Went to War: the stories that helped us win World War II
Marshall, Catherine A Man Called Peter: The Story of Peter Marshall
Martel, Yann Life of Pi
Maugham, Somerset The Razor’s Edge
Mayle, Peter A Year in Provence
McBride, James The Color of Water : A Black Man’s Tribute to His White Mother
McCabe, Erin Lindsay I Shall Be Near To You
McCullough, David 1776
McCullough, David The Wright Brothers
Meyer, Marissa Cinder
Meissner, Susan A Fall of Marigolds
Metaxas, Eric Amazing Grace
Millard, Candice Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President
Millard, Candice Hero of the Empire
Mirvis, Tova The Ladies’ Auxiliary
Montgomery, L.M. Anne of Green Gables
Montgomery, L.M. The Blue Castle
Moore, Graham The Last Days of Night
Mortenson, Greg Three Cups of Tea: One man’s mission to fight terrorism and build nations
Morton, Kate The Forgotten Garden
Morton, Kate The Lake House
Mundy, Liza Code Girls: the untold story of the American women code breakers of World War II
Munson, Lynne Exhibitionism: Art in an Era of Intolerance
Nafisi, Azar Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
Nayeri, Daniel The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams
Noor, Queen Leap of Faith: Memoirs of an Unexpected Life
Ogawa, Yoko The Housekeeper and the Professor
Orwell, George Animal Farm
Osman, Richard The Thursday Murder Club
Owens, Delia Where the Crawdads Sing
Palacio, R. J. Wonder
Parker, Priya The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters
Patchett, Ann Bel Canto
Patchett, Ann These Precious Days: Essays
Paton, Alan Cry, the Beloved Country
Pausch, Randy The Last Lecture
Pearsall, Shelley The Seventh Most Important Thing
Philbrick, Nathaniel Mayflower, a story of courage, community and war
Picoult, Jodi My Sister’s Keeper
Picoult, Jodi small great things
Potok, Chaim The Chosen
Potok, Chaim My Name is Asher Lev
Pratchett, Terry Small Gods
Preston, Richard The Hot Zone
Rasband, Ester and Richard Wilkins A Sacred Duty
Richardson, Kim Michelle The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek
Roach, Mary Stiff: the curious lives of human cadavers
Robinson, Marilynne Gilead
Rosnay, Tatiana de Sarah’s Key
Ryan, Jennifer The Chilbury Ladies Choir
Sandberg, Sheryl Lean In: women, work, and the will to lead
Schmidt, Gary D. The Wednesday Wars
Schor, Juliet B. Born to Buy: The Commercialized Child and the New Consumer Culture
Schwalbe, Will
The End of Your Life Book Club
Seligman, Martin E. P. Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life
Sepetys, Ruta Salt to the Sea
Shaffer, Mary Ann and Annie Barrows The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Sheinkin, Steve Bomb : the race to buildand stealthe world’s most dangerous weapon
Sheinkin, Steve Undefeated
Shelley, Mary Frankenstein
Siddoway, Richard The Christmas Wish
Simonson, Helen Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand
Skloot, Rebecca The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Smith, Alexander McCall The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency
Smith, Dodie I Capture the Castle
Spencer, Lynn Touching History
Spinelli, Jerry The Warden’s Daughter
Stegner, Wallace Crossing to Safety
Steinbeck, John The Pearl
Stevenson, D.E. Miss Buncle’s Book
Stockett, Kathryn The Help
Stowe, Harriet Beecher Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Strout, Elizabeth My Name is Lucy Barton
Taylor, Dennis E. We Are Legion (We Are Bob) Bobiverse Book 1
Taylor, Jill Bolte My Stroke of Insight: a brain scientist’s personal journey
Ten Boom, Corrie The Hiding Place
Thomas, Angie The Hate U Give
Tóibín, Colm Nora Webster
Tolan, Sandy The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Hearts of the Middle East (yellow cover)
Tolkien, J.R.R. Letters from Father Christmas
Towles, Amor A Gentleman in Moscow
Tsukiyama, Gail The Samurai’s Garden : A Novel
Twain, Mark Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Twain, Mark The Innocents Abroad
Van Pelt, Shelby Remarkably Bright Creatures
Verne, Jules Around the World in 80 Days
Von Arnim, Elizabeth The Enchanted April
Vonnegut, Kurt Player Piano
Walker, Stephen Shockwave: Countdown to Hiroshima
Wallis, Velma Two Old Women
Walls, Jeannette The Glass Castle

Walton, Sam with John Huey

Sam Walton: Made in America

Wariner, Ruth

The Sound Of Gravel
Washington, Booker T. Up From Slavery
Webber, Heather Midnight at the Blackbird Cafe
Weir, Andy Project Hail Mary
West, J. B. Upstairs at the White House: My Life with the First Ladies
West, Jessamyn The Friendly Persuasion
Westmacott, Mary Absent in the Spring
Wiesel, Elie Night
Wilde, Oscar An Ideal Husband
Wilde, Oscar The Importance of Being Earnest
Wingate, Lisa Before We Were Yours
Wolf, Bonny Talking with my mouth full : crab cakes, bundt cakes, and other kitchen stories
Wolke, Robert L. What Einstein told his cook : kitchen science explained
Wood, Mrs. Henry East Lynne
Woodard, Colin American Nations
Worth, Jennifer Call the midwife. A memoir of birth, joy, and hard times
Wouk, Herman The Caine Mutiny: A Novel
Wright, Camron The Orphan Keeper
Wright, Camron The Rent Collector
Zevin, Gabrielle The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
Zoboi, Ibi Pride