These are the books we’ve consumed over the years. There are 177 as of December 2023.

• The titles are mostly fiction (from literary fiction to popular fiction, including a hefty dose of science fiction), yet we’ve been leaning towards more non-fiction over the years in genres from history and memoir to economics and philosophy.
• When the months and years we discussed the books are not listed, it is because we have lost track of what we read when.
• Unless one of us suggested an “optional” book for months when we did not hold a meeting, that month is left blank.
  
• Some of our members have lists of their favorites (links below).
  Scott’s Top Lists
  John’s Top Lists

2024
January		The Night Circus	Erin Morgenstern
2023
Nov./Dec.		The Wager	David Grann
October		California Soul	Keith Corbin
September		This Other Eden	Paul Harding
August		Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow	Gabrielle Zevin
July		Demon Copperhead	Barbara Kingsolver
June		Where I Was From	Joan Didion
May		(No meeting)
April		Small Things Like These	Claire Keegan
March		Backpacking with the Saints	Belden C. Lane
February		The Sense of Wonder	Matthew Sallesses
January		The Rabbit Hutch	Tess Gunty
2022
December		(Postponed)
November		Shuggie Bain	Douglas Stuart
October		A People’s History of the Supreme Court	Peter Irons
September		(No meeting)
August		Sea of Tranquility	Emily St. John Mandel
July		Great Circle	Maggie Shipstead
June		Where the Crawdads Sing	Delia Owens
May		The Lincoln Highway	Amor Towles
April		Bullet Train	Kotaro Isaka
March		Mesopotamia	Serhiy Zhadan
February		Dad’s Maybe Book	Tim O’Brien
January		The Plundered Planet	Paul Collier
2021
December		Dune	Frank Herbert
November		Klara and the Sun	Kazuo Ishiguro
October		Circe	Madeline Miller
September		The Bomber Mafia	Malcolm Gladwell
August		The Sweetness of Water	Nathan Harris
July		The Blacktop Blues	Richard Levesque
June		A Man Called Ove	Fredrik Backman
May
April		The Soul of an Octopus	Sy Montgomery
March		We Have Been Harmonized	Kai Strittmatter
February		Interior Chinatown	Charles Yu
January		The Pale-Faced Lie	David Crow
2020
December		Anxious People: A Novel	Fredrik Backman
November		Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents	Isabel Wilkerson
October		Blacktop Wasteland	S. A. Cosby
September		The Dearly Beloved	Cara Wall
August		The Devil’s Half Mile	Paddy Hirsch
July		The Luminaries	Eleanor Catton
June		American Dirt: A Novel	Jeanine Cummins
May		The Splendid and the Vile	Erik Larson
April		Daisy Jones & The Six	Taylor Jenkins Reid
March		Dark Towers: Deutsche Bank, Donald Trump, and an Epic Trail of Destruction	David Enrich
February		The Woman in the Window	A. J. Finn
January		Life 3.0	Max Tegmark
2019
December
November		The Overstory	Richard Powers
October		This Tender Land	William Kent Krueger
September		Educated	Tara Westover
August		Why We Sleep	Matthew Walker
July		Master and Commander	Patrick O’Brian
June
May		Norwegian by Night	Derek B. Miller
April		The Library Book	Susan Orleans
March		The Falconer	Cana Czapnik
February		Red Notice	Bill Browder
January		How to Change Your Mind	Michael Pollan
2018
December
November		Undermajordomo Minor	Patrick deWitt
October		The Kindness of the Hangman	Henry Oster
September		The Soul of America	Jon Meacham
August
July		Ready Player One	Ernest Cline
June
May		The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy	Douglas Adams
April		Imagine Me Gone	Adam Haslett
March
February		The Doomsday Machine	Daniel Ellsberg
January		A Gentleman in Moscow	Amor Towles
2017
December		The Underground Railroad	Colson Whitehead
November
October
September		Moriarty	Anthony Horowitz
August		Orange County: A Literary Field Guide	Lisa Alvarez & Andrew Tonkovich
July		Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis	J. D. Vance
June		Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind	Yuval Noah Harari
May
April		The True Flag: Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain, and the Birth of American Empire	Stephen Kinzer
March		War and Turpentine	Stefan Hertmans
February		The Mothers	Britt Bennett
January
2016
December		The Watchmaker of Filigree Street	Nataxha Pulley
November		The Fifth Season	N. K. Jemisin
October		American Heiress	Jeffrey Toobin
September		Hamilton	Ron Chernow
August		The Unfair	Adam Benforado
July
June		The Sympathizer	Viet Thanh Nguyen
May
April		Little Bee	Chris Cleave
March
February		Future Imperfect	Scott Chambers
January		Pacific	Simon Winchester
2015
December		Straight Man	Richard Russo
November		Fates and Furies	Lauren Groff
October		All the Light We Cannot See	Anthony Doerr
September		Half World	Scott O’Connor
August		The Brothers K	David James Duncan
July
June		Station Eleven	Emily St. John Mandel
May
April		Waterloo: The History of Four Days and Four Armies	Bernard Cornwell
March		Citizen: An American Lyric	Claudia Rankine
February		Deep Down Dark	Hector Tobar
January		The Gods of Olympus	Barbara Graziosi
2014
December
November		The Narrow Road to the Deep North	Richard Flanagan
October		The Zone of Interest	Martin Amis
September		The Children Act	Ian McEwan
August		The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August	Claire North
July		Room	Emma Donaghue
June		One Summer	Bill Bryson
May		A Tale for the Time Being	Ruth Ozeki
April
March		The Goldfinch	Donna Tartt
February		On Such a Full Sea	Chang-Rae Lee
January		Dr. Sleep	Stephen King
2013
December
November		Dear Life: Stories	Alice Munro
October		Faith in Carlos Gomez and Failing Paris	Samantha Dunn
September		The Sound of Things Falling	Juan Gabriel Vasquez
August		The Barbarian Nurseries	Hector Tobar
July
June		A Delicate Truth	John LeCarre
May		Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk	Ben Fountain
April		As They See ‘Em	Bruce Weber
Aug. 2008 —		March 2013
		The Afrika Reich	Guy Saville
		The Tenth of December	George Saunders
		Flight Behavior	Barbara Kingsolver
		The Dispossessed	Ursula Le Guin
		Four Fishes	Paul Greenberg
		Lastingness	Nicholas DelBanco
		The Sisters Brothers	Patrick DeWitt
		The Windup Girl	Paolo Bacigalupi
		Under Heaven	Guy Gavriel Kay
		Rin Tin Tin	Susan Orlean
		Snow Crash	Neal Stephenson
		The Gravedigger’s Daughter	Joyce Carol Oates
		The Chinese Nail Murders	Robert Van Gulik
		Spin	Robert Charles Wilsons
		An Unpardonable Crime	Andrew Taylor
		Survivor	Chuck Palahniuk
		McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern #13	Chris Ware
		Parrot and Oliver in America	Peter Carey
		Super Sad True Love Story	Gary Shteyngart
		The Imperfectionists	Tom Rachman
		Winter’s Tale	Mark Helprin
		A King of Infinite Space	Tyler Dilts
		Why Architecture Matters	Paul Goldberger
		At Day’s Close	Roger Ekirch
		The Swerve	Steven Greenblatt
		How Doctor’s Think	Gerome Groopman
		Between the Assassinations	Aravind Adiga
		The Increment	David Ignatius
		The Sense of an Ending	Julian Barnes
		To Say Nothing of the Dog	Connie Willis
		The Garden of Evening Mists	Tan Twan Eng
		A Visit from the Goon Squad	Jennifer Egan
		Winter and Night	S. J. Rozan
		For Kings and Planets	Ethan Canan
		The Long Walk	Slavomir Rawicz
		What Should I Do?	Alexander George
		The White Tiger	Aravind Adiga
		The Bottom Billion	Paul Collier
2010
March		Shooting Polaris	John Hales
2008
June/July		The Man Who Loved China	Simon Winchester
May		The World Made By Hand	James Kunstler
April		Blood Meridian	Cormac McCarthy
March		Blindness	Jose Saramago
February		Christine Falls	Benjamin Black
January		Confessions of an Economic Hit Man	John Perkins
2007
December		The White Castle	Orhan Pamuk
November		Ask the Dust	John Fante
Sept./October		Underworld	Don DeLillo
August		California, A History	Kevin Starr
July		March	Geraldine Brooks
June (optional)		The God Delusion	Richard Dawkins
May		The Glass Castle	Jeannette Walls
April		Soldier of the Great War	Mark Helprin
March		A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier	Ishmael Beah
February		A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius	Dave Eggers
January		The Dante Club	Matthew Pearl
2006
December		American Gods	Neil Gaiman
November		A Long Way Down	Nick Hornsby
October		A Poverty of Reason	Wilfred Beckerman
September
August		Running with Scissors	Augusten Burroughs
July (optional)		Time and Again	Jack Finney
June		Beloved	Toni Morrison
May		Fooled by Randomness	Nassim Nicholas Taleb
April		The History of Love	Nicole Krauss
March		The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the 21st Century	Thomas Friedman
February		A History of the World in Six Glasses	Tom Standage
January		Popco	Scarlett Thomas
2005
December		Funny in Farsi	Firouzeh Dumas
Nov. (optional)		The Life of Pi	Yann Martel
October		The Left Hand of Darkness	Ursula Le Guin
September		Gilead	Marilynne Robinson
July/August		The Nine Parts of Desire	Geraldine Brooks
June/July		Cloud Atlas	David Mitchell
May		The Kite Runner	Khaled Hosseini
April		The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love	Oscar Hijuelos
March		The Coffee Trader	David Liss
February		Stiff: The Curious Life of Human Cadavers	Mary Roach
January		Empire Falls	Richard Russo