Next Up, Lazar,  at Paula's December 2

Whistler, Ann Patchett, Elizabeth's 10.28.26

The Daffodil Days, Helen Bain, Debbie's  9.23.26

The Book of Negro,  Lawrence Hill, Krista hosted (at Elizabeth's) 8.19.26

Lost Lambs, Madeline Cash, Jeanne's in Stevensville, 7.11.26

Behind the Scenes at the Museum, Kate Atkinson, Paula's, 6.16.26

The Correspondent,Virgina Evans, Karen's, 5.26.26

No One Is Talking About This, Patricia Lockwood, Liz's, 4.18.26

Buckeye, Patrick Ryan, Elizabeth's 3.25.26

What We Can Know, Ian McEwan, Debbie's, 2.18.26

The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny, Kiran Desai, Jodi's 1.21.26

The Land in Winter, Andrew Miller, Paula's 12.15.25

My Friends, Fredrik Bachman, Krista 11.18.25

Flashlight, Susan Choi, Karen's, 10/20/25

Playworld, Adam Ross, Elizabeth's, 9/9/25

The Humans, Matt Haig, Jeanne's MI, 7/12/25

This Other Eden, Paul Harding, Liz's 6/2/25

10:04, Ben Lerner,  Jodi's, 5/5/25

The White Tiger, Aravind Adiga,  Elizabeth's, 4/1/25

The Postcard, Anne Berest, Debbie's,  2/21/25

All Fours, Miranda July,  Paula's,  1/21/25

Orbital, Samantha Harvey,  Krista, at Cira, 12/17/24

Life After Life, Kate Atkinson,  Karen's, at 11/14/24

Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble and Coming of Age in the Bronx. Adrian Nicole LeBlanc,  Liz's 9/14/24

The Bee Sting, Paul Murray, Jeanne's in Stevensville, 7/13/24

James, Percival Everett,  Paula's, 6/10/24

Checkout 19, Claire-Louise Bennett, Jodi's, 4/18/24

What Are You Going Through, Sigrid Nunez,  Debbie's,  3/21/24

Take What You Need, Idra Novey, Karen's, 2/13/24

Heaven and Earth Grocery Store, James McBride, Paula's, 1/18/24

Trust, Hernan Diaz, Krista/Beatrix, 12/14/23

Leaves of Grass, Walt Whitman, Elizabeth’s, 11/13/23

Hello Beautiful, Ann Napolitano, Liz Willock’s 9/17/23

The Rabbit Hutch, Tess Gunty, Jodi‘s 8/30/23

Birnam Wood, Eleanor Catton, Jeanne's Mich, July 9

Demon Copperhead, Barbara Kingsolver, Debbie's, June 13

The Blue Flower, Penelope Fitzgerald, Paula's, 5.4.23

Lessons in Chemistry, Bonnie Garmus, Karen's, 4.5.23

The Book of Goose, Yiyun Li, Elizabeth's 2.28.23 

Braiding Sweetgrass, Robin Wall Kimmerer, Krista's 1.17.23

Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow, Gabrielle Zevin, Jodi's 12.6.22

The Candy House, Jennifer Egan, Debbie's 11.1.22

What's Left of Me is Yours, Stephanie Scott, Paula's 9.26.22

The Idiot, Elif Batuman, Liz Willock's 8.21.22

The Dictionary of Lost Words, Pip Williams, 7.9.22, Jeanne's (Michigan)

The Sentence, Louise Erdrich, 6.1.22, Karen's

The Committed, Viet Thanh Nguyen, 5.3.22, Elizabeth's

The Lincoln Highway, Amor Towles, 3.29.22, Debbie's

Cloud Cuckoo Land, Anthony Doerr, 3.7.22 Jodi's

The People We Keep, 1.27.22 Paula's

The Promise, Damon Galgut, 12.14.21 Karen's

Whereabouts, Jhumpa Lahiri, 12.5.21 Liz Willock's

Real Life, Brandon Taylor, 12.20.21, Elizabeth's

Klara and the Sun, 9.15.21 Debbie's

The Night Watchman, Louise Erdrich, 8.19.21, Paula's

Why You Should Be a Socialist, Nathan J. Robinson, 7.10.21 at Jeanne's Michigan home

The Children's Bible, Lydia Millet, 6.14.21, at Jodi's

Interior Chinatown, Charles Wu, 5.26.21, at Elizabeth's INSIDE AND IN PERSON!!

Having and Being Had, Eula Biss, 4.20.21

The Color of Water, James McBride, 3.23.21

Caste The Origins of Our Discontents, Isabel Wilkerson, 2.24.21

Whereabouts, Scott Gould, 1.27.20

Deacon King Kong, James McBride, 12.29.20

The Lying Life of Adults, Elena Ferrante, 11.23.20

The Vanishing Half, Brit Bennett, 10.22.20

Homegoing, Yaa Gyasi, 9/9/20 Elizabeth's

Why We Can't Sleep, Ada Calhoun, 8.10.20

Uncanny Valley, Anna Weiner, 7.13.20

All Adults Here, Emma Straub, 6/15/20 Zoom. Debbie picked. 

Trust Exercise, Susan Choi, 5/20/20 Book Zoom. Paula picked, 

Tough Love, Susan Rice, 4/27/20 Book Zoom. Liz Brune picked

Weather, Jenny Offill, 3/26/20 Book Zoom. Liz Brune "hosted" via Skype.

Late Migrations by Margaret Renkl, at Krista's 2/19/20 

Olive, Again, Elizabeth Strout, at Jodi's 1/23/20

The Testaments, Margaret Atwood, 12/19, restaurant

The Water Dancer, Ta Nehisi Coates, at Paula's (Elizabeth picked) 11/25/19

On the Other Side of Freedom, DeRay Mckesson, at Elizabeth's (Paula picked) 10/21/19

The Overstory, Richard Powers, 8/7/19, Liz Brune's 9/19/19

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, Yuval Noah Harari, 7/13-14/19, Jeanne's

Americanah, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, 6/17/19, Debbie's

Shadow Divers, Robert Kurston, 5/13/19, Jodi's

Where the Crawdad’s Sing, Delia Owens, 4/14/19, Martha's

These Truths (Parts 3 and 4), 2/28/18, Elizabeth’s 

These Truths, Jill Lepore, (Parts 1 and 2), 1/15/18, Liz Brune’s 

There There, Tommy Orange. 12/5/18, Paula's

A Woman in Berlin, Anonymous. 10/29/18, Krista's

Warlight, Michael Ondaatje.  9/13/18, Liz Brune's

Less, Andrew Sean Greer, 8/20/18, Debbie's

Educated, Tara Westover,  7/18/18, Jeanne's

Little Fires Everywhere, Celeste Ng, 6/18/18, Elizabeth's

Sing, Unburied, Sing, Jesmyn Ward, 5/21/18, Paula's

The Faraway Nearby,  Rebecca Solnit, 4/23/18 Jodi's

Unfinished Business, Anne Marie Slaughter, 3/10/18, Jeanne's

Pachinko, Min Jin Lee, 2/12/18, Liz Brune's 

Autumn, Ali Smith, 1/10/18, Debbie's

Strangers to Temptation, Scott Gould, Barbie Chang, Victoria Chang, 12/6/2017, Paula's

The Sound of Things Falling, Juan Gabriel Vasquez, 10/26/17 @ Krista's

My Name is Lucy Barton and Anything is Possible, Elizabeth Strout, 9/17/17 Martha's

Being Mortal, Atul Gawande, 8/8/17 Elizabeth's

Ministry of Utmost Happiness, Arundhati Roy, 7/8/17 Jeanne's

Exit West, Mohsin Hamid, 6/12/17 Liz Brune's

Monika's Blues, Herbert Quell, 5/16/16 Liz Willock's

The Gap of Time, Jeanette Winterson, 4/11/17 Paula's 

Good Girls Revolt, Lynn Povich, 3/21/17 Jodi's 

Commonwealth, Ann Patchett, 2/23/17 Krista's

The Girls, Emma Cline, 1/31/17 Debbie's

Hillbilly Elegy, JD Vance, 12/20/16  Elizabeth's

The Mare, Mary Gaitskill, 11/14/16 Liz Willock's

The Sympathizer, Viet Thanh Nguyen, 10/20/16, Paula's

The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead, 9/18/16, Martha's

Ancillary Justice, Ann Leckie, 8/8/16, Liz Brune's

Hamilton, Ron Chernow, 7/9/16, Jeanne's

Get in Trouble, Kelly Link, 5/23/16, Elizabeth's

The Door, Magda Szabo 4/25/16 Jodi's

A Brief History of 7 Killings Marlon James 3/23/16 Paula's

The Japanese Lover: A Novel Isabel Alende 1/19/16, Debbie's

Voices from Chernobyl, Svetlana Alexievich 12/14/15, Liz Willock's

A Constellation of Vital Phenomenon, Anthony Marra, 11/16/15, Liz Brune's

Bad Feminist, Roxane Gay, 10/14/15, Elizabeth's

Ragtime, E. L. Doctorow, 9/16/15, Krista (Basil Leaf)

Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates, and The Fire Next Time, James Baldwin, 8/10/15, Paula's

My Brilliant Friend, Elena Ferrante, 7/11-12/15, Jeanne's Michigan house

Dead Wake, Erik Larson, 6/15/15,  Jodi's

The Buried Giant, Kashuo Ishiguro, 5/19/2015 at Volo Wine Bar

The Lake, George Moore, 4/14/15 at Martha's

The Dinner, Herman Koch, 3/16/15 at Debbie's

Unbroken, Lauren Hillenbrand, 2/16/15 at Elizabeth's

All the Light We Can Not See, Anthony Doerr,1/14 /15 at Liz Brune's

The Boys in the Boat: Daniel James Brown, 12/9/14 at Liz Willock's

Notes from No Man's Land, Eula Biss, 10/27/14 at Krista's

Honor, Elif Shafak, 9/29/14, Paula's

Swamplandia!, Karen Russell, 8/26/14, Martha's

The Orphan Master's Son, Adam Johnson 7/22/14, Debbie's

Gilead, Marilynne Robinson, 6/16/14 Elizabeth's

The Goldfinch, Donna Tartt, 5/6/14 Jodi's

The Man Without a Face, Masha Gessen, 3/15/14 Jeanne's (MIch)

The Good Lord Bird, James McBride, 2/18/14 Liz Brune's

Midnight in Peking, Paul French, 1/21/14 Krista's

The Yellow Birds by Kevin Powers, 12/14/13 Paula's

The Sense of an Ending, Julian Barnes, 11/12/13 Martha's

The Lowland, Jhumpa Lahiri, 10/22/13 Debbie's

State of Wonder, Ann Patchett, 9/5/13 Farley's

Orange is the New Black, Piper Kerman, 8/5/13, Elizabeth's

The Flamethrowers, Rachel Kushner, 7/9/13, Liz Willock

Yes, Chef, Marcus Samuelsson, 5/21/13 Jodi's

The History of Love,  Nicole Krauss,  4/25/13 Liz Brune's

Behind the Beautiful Forevers, Katherine Boo, 3/27/13 Elizabeth's

Big Girls Don't Cry, Rebecca Traister, 2/23/13 Jeanne's (Michigan)

Telegraph Avenue, Michael Chabon, 1/23/13 Krista's

The Round House, Louise Erdrich, 12/19/12 Paula's

The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, David Wroblewski 11/1/12 Debbie's

The Newlyweds, Nell Freudenberger, 9/26/12 , Jodi's

The Art of Fielding, Chad Harbach, 8/20/12 Farley's

Freedom, Jonathan Franzen, 7/17/12 Liz Brune's

Salvage the Bones, Jesmyn Ward, Elizabeth's 6/18/12

The March, E.L. Doctorow, Paula's 5/30/12

The Lemon Tree, Sandy Tolan, Liz Willock's 4/17/12

Catherine the Great, Robert Massie, 2/25/12, Jeannie's (Michigan)

Zeitoun, Dave Eggers, 1/19/12, Debbie's

Olive Kitteridge, Elizabeth Strout 12/13/11, Krista's

The Leftovers, Tom Perrotta 11/8/11, Jodi's

Skippy Dies, Paul Murray, 9/28/11 Liz Brune's

A Visit from the Goon Squad, Jennifer Egan, 8/22/11 Paula's

"The Consequentialist, New Yorker article by Ryan Lizza, 7/8/11 Blindermans'

A Long, Long, Time Ago and Essentially True, Elizabeth Psulka, 6/27/11 Jeanne's

The Warmth of Other Suns, Isabelle Wilkerson 5/11/11 Wishbone

Cutting for Stone, Abraham Verghese, 4/5/11 Farley's

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Diaz,  3/1/11 Liz Willock

Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert (Lydia Davis translation), 1/19/11 Debbie's

Little Bee, Chris Cleave 12/7/10  Paula's

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Rebecca Skloot, 11/2/10 Liz Brune's

In Defense of Food, Michael Pollen, 10/5/10 Krista's

The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, David Mitchell, 9/1/10, Jeanne's

The Inheritance of Loss, Kiran Desai,  7/21/10  Lisa's

Let the Great World Spin, Colum McCann, 6/15/10 Jodi's

Await Your Reply, Dan Chaon, 5/7/10 Elizabeth's

Half the Sky, Nicholas Christoff, 3/23/10 A Tivola (Farley)

Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel, 2/25/10  Liz Brune's

Man in the Wooden Hat, Jane Gardam 1/20/10 Lisa's (Old Filth)

Lark and Termite, Jane Ann Phillips, 12/2/09 Debbie's

The Resistance, Agnes Humbert, 11/03/09 Paula's

Dignity and Defiance: Stories from Bolivia, Jim Schultz, Krista's 9/22/09

Death in Venice, Thomas Mann, 8/20/09

Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi, Geoff Dyer, 7/20/09, Jeanne

The Emperor's Children, Claire Messud, 6/16/09, Martha's

Rabbit Run, John Updike, 5/19/09, Liz W.

Three Cups of Tea, Gregg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin, 4/21/09, Film at Parker

Unaccustomed Earth, Jhumpa Lahiri, 3/24/09, Elizabeth's

The Nine, Jeffrey Toobin, 2/18/09, Liz Brune's

Revolutionary Road, Richard Yates, 1/14/09, Lisa Lande's

Loving Frank, Nancy Horan, 12/4/08, Paula's

March, Geraldine Brooks 10/28/08, Jodi's

The Last Campaign, Thurston Clarke,  9/30/08 Liz W's

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, Mary Ann Shaffer  8/27/08 Krista's

The Song of the Lark, Willa Cather, 7/29/08 Jeanne's

Lavinia, Ursula Le Guin 6/26/08 Martha's

Tender at the Bone, Ruth Reichl 5/21/08 Debbie's

The Known World, Edward Jones 4/16/08 Liz Brune

Tree of Smoke, Denis Johnson 3/11/08 Elizabeth's

Little Heathens, Mildred Armstrong Kalish 1/23/08 Paula's

Half a Yellow Sun, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Krista's 12/11/07

The Savage Detectives, Roberto Bolano, Jodi's 10/23/07

Charlie Wilson's War, George Crile, Debbie's 9/11/07

Speaking of Faith, Krista Tippett, Jeanne's 8/2/07

Yiddish Policeman's Union, Michael Chabon, Liz Willock's 6/27/07

The Prince of Marshes, Rory Stewart, Elizabeth's 5/24/07

Feast of Love, Charles Baxter, Martha's 4/19/07

Persuasion, Jane Austen, Paula's 3/14/07

The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion, Liz Brune, 2/22/07

The Historian, Elizabeth Kostava, Jodi's, 1/3/07

Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell, 11/15/06 Krista's

Collapse, Jared Diamond, 10/4/06, Trattoria Roma

Kafka on the Shore, Haruki Murakami, Elizabeth, 8/21/06

On Beauty, Zadie Smith, Las Palmas, 7/19/06  

Perilous Times, Geoffrey Stone, Debbie's, 6/7/06

Dresden, Frederick Taylor, Jeanne's, 5/2/06

In Cold Blood, Truman Capote, Martha's, 3/15/06,

The Shadow of the Wind, Ruiz Zafron, Liz Willock, 2/15/06

You Remind Me of Me, Dan Chaon, Liz Brune, 1/17/06

Freakonomics, 12/17/05

Dreams from My Father, Barack Obama, Paula's 11/28/05

The Children's War, Monique Charlesworth, Blinderman's 10/24/05

The Ten Thousand Things, Maria Dermout, Krista's 9/15

The Plot Against America, Philip Roth, Debbie Ryan's 7/25/05

The Adventures of Augie March, Saul Bellow, Jeanne's 6/1/05

Desert Queen, Janet Wallach, 4/7/05, Tizi Malloul

Empire Falls, Richard Russo, Martha's 2/15/05

Everything is Illuminated, Jonathan Safran Foer, Dee's Restaurant, 1/18/05

Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenedies Jodi's, 12/13/04

Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini, Liz Brune, 10/27/04

Kavalier & Clay, Michael Chabon Blinderman 9/22/04

Various short stories, Paula's, 7/22/04,

Haj, Leon Uris, Reza's, 6/8/04

The Passion of Artemisia, Susan Vreeland, Liz Willock's 4/20/04

Three Junes, Julia Glass, Martha's,  3/23/04

Wicked, Gregory Macguire, Debbie Ryan 2/11/04

Devil in the White City, Erik Larson, Liz Simpler's 1/5/04

Life of Pi, Yann Martel, Liz Brune, 12/5/03

No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency and Tears of The Giraffe, Alexander McCall Smith, Liz Blinderman 10/23/03

Reading Lolita in Tehran, Azar Nafisi, Jeanne's  9/9/03

Seabiscuit, Arlington Park/Pegasus, 7/03

King Leopold's Ghost, Adam Hochschild, Martha's 6/26/03

Botany of Desire, Michael Pollan, Lisa Healey 5/21/03

Duke of Deception, Geoffrey Wolff; This Boy's Life, Tobias Wolff, Jodi's 4/14/03

The Weight of Water, Anita Shreve 2/19/03 Paula's

The Blind Assassin, Margaret Atwood, Amy Schacter's 1/13/03

Bel Canto, Ann Patchett, Liz Simpler 11/11/02

Interpreter of Maladies, Jhumpa Lahiri, Liz Blinderman 10/9/02

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Robert Pirsig, Liz Willock's 9/5/02

Cold Mountain, Charles Frazier, Liz Brune's 7/11/02

The Poet and the Murderer, Simon Worrall, Lisa Healey's 6/10/02

Personal History, Katherine Graham, Amy Schacter's 5/15/02

Inspired Sleep, Robert Cohen, Liz Blinderman's 3/19/02

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain, Martha's 2/7/02

The Red Tent, Anita Diamant, Jeanne's 1/3/02

My Name is Red, Orhan Pamuk, Jodi's 11/01

At Swim Two Birds, Erwin's 10/01

To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee, Bistrot Margot 9/01

Girl with a Pearl Earring, Tracy Chevalier, Paula's 8/01

Galileo's Daughter, Dava Sobel 7/01

Eleni, Nicholas Gage, Liz Blinderman's 6/26/01

A Gesture Life, Chang-rae Lee, Liz's 5/15/01

The Widow's Children, Paula Fox, Martha's 4/11/01

The Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula le Guin, 3/20/01 Rina's

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou, Paula's 2/21/01

Layover, Lisa Zeidner, Jodi's 1/11/01

Regeneration, Pat Barker, Jennifer's, 11/15/00

The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver, Jeanne's 10/3/00p

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, J. K. Rowling, Robyn's 8/22/00

The Abyss, Marguerite Yourcenar, Liz's 7/11/00

The Hours, Michael Cunningham; Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Wolff; Rina's 5/16/00

The Vision of Emma Blau, Ursula Hegi, Jodi's 4/4/00

Corelli's Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres, Kathy's 2/20/00

Best American Short Stories of the Century, ed. John Updike, Jennifer, 1/16/00

City of Light, Lauren Belfer, Paula's

A Prayer for the Dying, Stewart O'Nan, Maggie's 10/26/99

Emma, Jane Austen, Victoria's 9/21/99

Homestead, Rosina Lippi, Shannon, 8/23/99

The Group, Mary McCarthy, Robyn's 6/14/99

The Reader, Bernhard Schlink, restaurant

Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov, Rina's 5/99

Strange Pilgrims, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Liz's 4/99

Many Lives, Many Masters, Brian L. Weiss, Jodi's 3/99

Offshore, Penelope Fitzgerald, Paula's, 2/99

Hope in the Unseen, Ron Suskind, Victoria's, 1/99

Amsterdam, Ian McEwan, Maggie's

Man in Full, Thomas Wolfe, Jennifer's 12/7/98

House of Mirth, Edith Wharton, Robyn's 11/2/98

Memoirs of a Geisha, Arthur Golden, Shannon's 9/20/98

Spending, Mary Gordon, Liz's

To the Lighthouse, Virginia Wolff, Rina's 6/8/98

Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka; Pig Tales, Marie Darrieussecq, Rhinoceros, Eugene Ionesco, Jodi's 5/98

Fall on Your Knees, Anne Marie MacDonald, Paula's

Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Dina's 3/30/98

Paula, Isabel Allende, Wendy's 2/9/98

Till We Have Faces, C. S. Lewis, Liz's 12/15/97

The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy, Jodi's 11/10/97

The Good Earth, Pearl S. Buck, Paula's 9/29/97

Henderson the Rain King, Saul Bellow, Shannon's

Yellow Raft in Blue Water, Michael Dorris, Ashley's

Angela's Ashes, Frank McCourt, extra 7/97

Perfume, Patrick Suskind, 6/25/97

Rule of the Bone, Russell Banks and Catcher in the Rye, J. D. Salinger, Wendy's 4/26/97

A Map of the World, Jane Hamilton, Paula's 2/26/97

Geek Love, Katherine Dunn, Jodi's 1/14/97

Because it is Bitter, Because it's My Heart, Joyce Carol Oates, Mollie's 12/9/96

Slaughterhouse 5, Kurt Vonnegut, Shannon's

Charms for the Easy Life, Kaye Gibbons, Ashley's

Beloved, Toni Morrison, Dina's

Stones from the River, Ursula Hegi, Wendy's

Snow Falling on Cedars, David Guterson, 1996