Books We Didn't Read

These are books that were considered but not selected: 


September 2024
Of Time and Turtles, Sy Montgomery
The Art of the Sun Warrior
Year of Wonders, Geraldine Brooks

August 2024
Bright Lights, Big Christmas, Mary Kay Andrews
Walking with Sam, Andrew McCarthy

July 2024
Beartown, Frederick Backman
The Making of a Motion Picture Masterpiece, Tom Hanks

June 2024
No Two Persons, Erica Bauermeister
The Gravity of Birds, Tracy Guzeman

May 2024
Dictionary of Lost Words, by Pip Williams
The Paris Apartment, by Lucy Foley

April 2024
Radar Girls, by Sara Ackerman
Artifact, by Gigi Pandian

March 2024
Mother Land, by Leah Franqui
The Light Between Oceans, by M.L. Stedman

February 2024
The Luster of Lost Things, by Sophie Chen Keller
Eon: Dragoneye Reborn, by Alison Goodman

January 2024
Rules of Civility, by Amor Towle
Tom Lake, by Ann Patchett

December 2023
Half Life, by Jillian Cantor
A Stash of One's Own, Clara Parkes, ed.

November 2023
Elegance of the Hedgehog, Muriel Barbery
Jane and the 12 Days of Christmas, Stephanie Barron

October 2023
The Wonder of Lost Causes, Nick trout
Little Fires Everywhere, Celeste, Ng

August 2023
Radar Girl, Sara Ackerman
City of Bones, Cassandra Clare

July 2023
Iron Lake, William Kent Krueger
Where the Lost Wander, Amy Harmon

June 2023
At the Edge of the Orchard, Tracy Chevalier
under the Golden Sun, Jenny Ashcroft

May 2023
The Green Mile, Stephen King
The Muse, Jessie Burton
Pelican Brief, John Grisham

April 2023
The Distant Hours, Kate Morton
Delicious! Ruth Reichl

March 2023
The Exiles, Christina Bakes Kline
A Long Petal of the Sea, Isabel Allende

February 2023
A Thousand Pieces of Gold, Ruth Lum McCunn 
(note that this was the fourth book we read, back in 2000)

January 2022

The Artifact, Gigi Pandian
Dance Up on the Air, Nora Roberts

December 2022

Heart of the Sun Warrior, Sue Lynn Tan
Six Crimson Cranes, Elizabeth Lim
Together Tea, Marjan Kamali

November 2022
And Then There Were None, Agatha Christie
The Redhead by the Side of the Road, Anne Tyler

October 2022

And Then There Were None, Agatha Christie
The Midnight Library, Matt Haig

September 2022

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August 2022

Olive Kittridge, Elizabeth Strout
The Four Winds,Kristin Hannah

June 2022

How It All Began, Penelope Lively
Elegance of the Hedgehog, Muriel Barbery

May 2022

America's First Daughter, Stephanie Dray

March 2022

The Moonlight School, Suzanne Woods Fisher
A Million Reasons Why, Jessica Strawser

February 2022

The Moonstone,  Wilkie Collins
All-girl Filling Station's Last Reunion, Fannie Flagg

January, 2022

The Bricklayer, Noah Boyd
A High Call, Adam Makos
Miss Graham's Cold War Cookbook, Celia Rees

December 2021

The Last Report on ther Miracles at Little No Horse, Louse Erdrich
Signature of all Things, Elizabeth Gilbert

November 2021

Educated, Tara Westover
The Book of Lost Friends, Lisa Wingate

October 2021

How It All Began, Penelope Lively
One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez

September 2021

The Guardian, Nickolas Sparks
An Unexpected Grace, Kristin Von Krieden

August 2021

Mudbound, Hilary Jordan
Fellowship of the Rings, JRR Tolkein
The Chilbury Ladies' Choir, Jennifer Ryan

July 2021
The Summer Before the War, Helen Simonson
The Color of Air, Gail Tsukiyama

May 2021

The Midnight Library, by Matt Haig
The Forgerer's Daughter, Bradford Morrow
The Progue Sonata, Bradford Morrow

April 2021

Carrying Albert Home, Homer Hickam
Island of Sea Women, Lisa See

March 2021

Confederacy of Dunces, by John Kennedy Toole
Enchantress of Florence, Salman Rushdie

February 2021

How It All Began, by Penelope Lively
Murder at the Vicarage, by Agatha Christie

January 2021

Never Let Me Go, by Kazuo Ishiguro
America's First Daughter, by Stephanie Dray & Laura Kamoie

December 2020

Call Upon the Water, Stella Eillyard
Wild, Cheryl Strayed

November 2020

Women Rowing North, Mary Piper
The Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter, Hazel Gaynor

October, 2020

The Lacuna, Barbara Kingsolver
Beartown, Frederick Backman

September, 2020

The Mummy, Anne Rice
Good Me Bad Me, Ali Land

August, 2020

Animal Dreams, Barbara Kingsolver
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine, Gail Honeyman

July, 2020

The whole town's Talking, Fannie Flagg
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine, Gail Honeyman

June 2020

Travels with Charley,  John Steinbeck
The Story of a Happy Marriage, Ann Patchett

May 2020

The Land that Time Forgot,  Edgar Rice Burroughs
Timeline, Michael Chrichton
Storm Clouds Rolling In, Ginny Dye

April 2020

The Song of the Jade Lily, Kirsty Manning
The Winter King, Bernard Cornwell

March 2020

Hidden Figures, Margot Lee Shetterly
Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan

February 2020

Martin Dressler, Stephen Millhauser
The Road, Cormac McCarthy

2019

The Baker's Secret, Stephen Kiernan
Watching You, Lisa Jewell
A Gentleman in Moscow, Amor Towles
The Stone Carvers, Jane Urquhart
The Story of Arthur Truluv, Elizabeth Berg

The Rosie Project, Graeme Simsion
Delta Wedding, Eudory Welty
A Gentleman in Moscow, Amor Towles
Heart and Soul, Maeve Binchy
Lost Horizon, James Hilton
The Half-Drowned King, by Linnea Hartsuyker
Genghis: Birth of an Empire, Conn Iggulden
The Probable Future, Alice Hoffman
The Chilbury Ladies Choir, Jennifer Ryan
The Home Front, by Kristin Hannah
The Light of Evening, by e\Edna O'Brien
The Serpent King, by Jeff Zentner
Because You'll Never Meet Me, by Leah Thomas
The Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter, by Hazel Gaynor
A Gentleman in Moscow, by Amor Towle
Language of Flowers, by Vanessa Diffen
The Orchardist, by Amanda Coplin
How It All Began, by Penelope Lively
The Summer Before the War, Helen Simonson

2018

Violets of March, by Sarah Jio
City of Bones, by Cassandra Clare
Amazing Adventures of Aaron Broom, by A.E. Aotchner
A Gentleman's Murder, by Christopher Huang
Jane and the 12 Days of Christmas, by Stephanie Barron
How it All Began, by Penelope Lively
Nomadland, Jessica Bruder
The Dinner, by Herman Kock
Wildtrack, by Bernard Cornwell
The Dress Lodger, by Sheri Holman
A Reliable Wife, by Robert Goodrick
Language of Flowers, by Vanssa Diffenbaugh
Falling Together, by Marisa de los Santos
An Unnecessary Woman, by Rabih Alameddine
The Orchid House, by Lucinda Riley
A Dictionary of a Mutual Understanding, by Jackie Copleton
The Cobra Event, by Richard Preston (proposed re-read)
Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot
Life after Life, by Kate Atkinson

2017
The Magic  Presto, by Mitch Albom
The Virginian, by Owen Wister 
Tara Rd, by Maeve Binchy
That Old Ace in the Hole, by Annie Proulx
My Name is Lucy Barton, by Elizabeth Strout
Olive Kitteridge, by Elizabeth Strout
The Hundred Secret Senses, by Amy Tan
The Color Purple, by Alice Walker
Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen
The Beautiful Mystery, by Louise Penny
At the Edge of the Orchard, by Tracy Chevalier
A Northern Light, by Jennifer Donnelly
 Where'd You Go Bernadette, by Maria Semple
The World's Strongest Librarian, by Joss Hanagarne
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Next, by Ken Kesey
Gravity of Birds, by Tracy Guzman
Locked Rooms, by Laurie King
Dreamers of the Day, by Mary Doria Russell
Flight Behavior, by Barbara Kingsolver
A Memory of Violets, by Hazel Gaynor
The Reivers, by William Faulkner
Ordeal by Hunger, by George Stewart

2016 
A Dictionary of Mutual Understanding,  by Jackie Copleton
Little House in he Big Woods, by Laura Ingalls Wilder
My Antonia, by Willa Cather
Winnie the Pooh, by A.A. Milne
The Paris Key, by Juliet Blackwell
Ana of California, by Andi Teren 
Halloween Tree, by Ray Bradbury
Doll Face, by Renee Rosen
In the Cafe of Lost Youth, by Patrick Modiano
Her Fearful Symmetry, by Audrey Niffenegger
A Week in Winter, by Maeve Binchy
Life after Life, by Kate Atkinson
The Aviator's Wife, by Melani;e Benjamin 
Tinkers, by Paul Harding
Shipping News, by Annie Proulx 
Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Sunburned Country, by Bill Bryson
Watership Down, by Richard Adams
Goodnight, June, by Sarah Jio
Under the Jeweled Sky, by Alison McQueen
Picture of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde
To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee 
Small Indiscretions, by Jan Ellison
Cats Cradle, by Kurt Vonnegut

2015 

Go Set a Watchman, by Harper Lee
Dreaming Water, by Gail Tsukiyama
Beautiful Ruins, by Jess Walters
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, by Deborah Moggach
Tuck Everlasting, by Natalie Babbit
The Moonlight Palace, by Liz Rosenberg
Sand, by Hugh Howey
Little Men, by Louisa May Alcott
Shane, by Jack Schaefer
Anne of Green Gables, by L.M. Montgomery
Ashenden, by Elizabeth Wilhide
 What is This Thing Called Love? by Gene Wilder
The Sixth Wife, by Jean Plaidy
 Caramelo, by Sandra Cisneros
The Known World, by Edward P Jones
Mr Penumbra's 24-hour Bookstore, by Robin Sloan
84 Charing Cross Road, by Helene Hauff
The Most Exotic Marigold Hotel, by Deborah Moggach
A House in the Sky: A Memoir, by Amnda Lindhout & Sara Corbett
Hidden Order, by Brad Thor
An Officer and a Spy, by Robert Harris

2014


The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, by Deborah Moggach
Longbourne, by Jo Baker
The Pieces We Keep, by Kristina McMorris
The Boston Girl, by Anita Diamante
 Dancing Dog: Stories, by John Katz
Flowers for Algernon, by Daniel Keyes
Elizabeth Street, by Laurie Fabiano
 Queen's Gambit, by Diane A.S. Stuckart
The Big Year, by Mark Obmascik
 When It Happens to You, by Molly Ringwald
The English Patient, by Michael Ondaatje
Corelli's Mandolin, by  Louis De Bernieres
Still Life, by Louise Penny
 All Cry Chaos, by Leonard Rosen
How It All Began, by Penelope Lively
Where'd You Go Bernadette, by Maria Semple
We are All Welcome Here, by Elizabeth Berg
The Dog Stars, by Peter Heller
State of Wonder, by Ann Patchett
The Parrot who Owns Me, by Joanna Burger
An Unexpected Grace, by Kristin von Kreisler 
Women in Love, by D.H. Lawrence
The Pursuit of Love, by Nancy Mitford


2013

Wallflower in Bloom, by Claire Cook
Tapestry of Fortune, by Elizabeth Berg 
When the Killing's Done, by T.C. Boyle
Oracle of Stamboul, by Michael David Lukas
Redwall, by Brian Jacques
 Death of a Red Heroine, by Qiu Xiaolong
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
Under the Lemon Tree, by Bhira Balkhais
Rules of Civility, by Amor Towles
The American Gods, Neil Gaiman
Saturday, Ian McEwan
The Street Sweeper, by Elliott Perlman
The Last Days of Dogtown, by Anita Diamante
Painted Dresses, by Patricia Hickman
The Buddha in the Attic, by Julie Otsuka
 Bastard out of Carolina, by Dorothy Alison
Queen of Dreams, by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni 
The Book Thief, by Markus Zusak
One Good Dog, by Susan Wilson 
The Embers, by Hyatt Bass
Whistlin' Dixie in a Nor'easter, by Lisa Patton 

2012

Prodigal Summer, by Barbara Kingsolver
Forgotten Garden, by Kate Morton 
Shanghai Girls, by Lisa See
Half Broke Horses, by Jeannette Walls 
Conquistadora, by Esmeralda Santiago
Dressmaker of Khair Khang, by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
The Last Night at the Lobster, by Stewart O'Nan
Brooklyn, by Colin Tobin
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot
The Kitchen House, by Kathleen Grissom
Song Yet Sung, by James McBride
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, by Annie Dillard
Tales of the South Pacific, by James Michener
The Lies that Bind, by Edward DeAngelo
All the Names, by Jose Maramago
I See You Everywhere, by Julia Glass
The Writing Circle, by Corinne Demas
Shadow Tag, by Louise Erdrich
Olive Kitteridge, by Elizabeth Strout
American Woman, by Susan Choi
The Friday Night Knitting Club, by Kate Jacobs
Half Broke Horses, by Jeannette Walls
The Road from Coorain, by Jill Ker Conway
Boogaloo on 2nd Avenue, by Mark Kurlansky

2011

World Made by Hand, by James Howard Kunst
Olive Kittredge, by Elizabeth Stout
True Grit, by Charles Portis
A Cup of Light, by Nicole Moyes
Oscar and Lucinda, by Peter Carey
The Shipping News, by Annie Proulx
Street of a Thousand Blossoms, by Gail Tsukiyama
Elegance of the Hedgehog, by Muriel Barbery
Little Bee, by Chris Cleaves 
The Book Thief, by Markus Zusak
Stiff, by Mary Roach
Corduroy Mansions, by Alexander McCall Smith
Rebecca's Tale, by Sally Beauman
A Reliable Wife, by Robert Goolrick
The Bell Jar, by Sylvia Plath
The Hundred Secret Senses, by Amy Tan
The Gathering, by Anne Enright 
The Line of Beauty, by Alan Hollinghurst
Midnight's Children, by Salman Rushdie 
The Lace Makers of Glenmarra, by Heather Barbieri
Corduroy Mansions, by Alexander McCall Smith 
The Lace Makers of Glenmarra, by Heather Barbieri
Corduroy Mansions, by Alexander McCall Smith
Walking Across Egypt, by Cyde Edgerton
Her Fearful Symmetry, by Audrey Niffenegger

2010
Rumors of Peace, by Ella Leffland
The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint, by Brady Udall
The Help, by Kathryn Stockard
Garden Spells, by Sarah Addison Allen
The Constant Princess, by Phillipa Gregory
The Lace Reader, by Brunonia Barry
The Book Thief, Markus Zusak
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, by Stieg Larsson
Stuffed, by Patricia Volk
The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane, by Katherine Howe
Population: 485, by Michael Perry
Some Assembly Required, by Lynn Kiele Bonasia
Wilderness Tips, by Margaret Atwood
Runaway, by Alice Munro
Five Quarters of the Orange, by Joanne Harris
Beside a Burning Sea, by John Shors
A Cup of Light, by Nicole Mones
The Spy who Came in from the Cold, by John LeCarre
The Hunt for Red October, by Tom Clancey
From Russia with Love, by Ian Fleming
Heretic Queen, by Michele Moran
Portrait in Sepia, by Isabel Allende
The 19th Wife, by David Evershoff
Under the Banner of Heaven, by Jon Krakauer
Into Thin Air, by Jon Krakauer

2009

The Widow of the South, by Robert Hicks
March, by Geraldine Brooks
The Lace People, by Brunoma Barry
Keeper and Kid, by Edward Hardy
Gilead, by Marilynne Robinson
The Bean Trees, by Barbara Kingsolver
Rebecca, by Daphne Du Maurier
The Bean Trees, by Barbara Kingsolver
The Gift of Rain, by Tan Twan Eng
Duma Key, by Stephen King
Empire Falls, by Richard Russo
The Shipping News, by Annie Proulx
Funny in Farsi, by Firoozen Dumas
Garden Spells, by Sarah Addison Allen
The Alchemist, by Paulo Coelho
Firefly Lane, by Kristin Hanna
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, by Lisa See (Read July 2009)
Sons, by Pearl S. Buck
Moloka’i, by Alan Brennert
Song Yet Sung, by James McBride
A Woman of Independent Means, by Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey
Consequences, by Penelope Lively
Emma, by Jane Austen
Washington Square, by Henry James
2008
The Book Thief, by Markus Zusak
Laughing without an Accent, by Firoozeh Dumas
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society, by Annie Barrows, Mary Ann Shaffer
The Necklace: Thirteen Women and the Experiment That Transformed Their Lives, by Cheryl Jarvis
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society, by Annie Barrows, Mary Ann Shaffer
The Time Traveler's Wife, by Audrey Niffenberger
Witches of Eastwick, by John Updike
Shoot the Moon, by Billie Letts
I Capture the Castle, by Dodie Smith
Peace Like a River, by Leif Enger
Blackberry Wine, by Joanne Harris
Blackberry Wine, by Joanne Harris
If You Lived Here, I'd Know Your Name, by Heather Lende
The Last Days, by Joel Rosenberg
Beneath a Marble Sky, by John Shors
The Sea Wolf, by Jack London
Martin Eden, by Jack London
Small Island, by Andrea Levy
Last Days of Summer, by Steve Kluger
2007
The Time Traveler's Wife, by Audrey Niffenegger
The Shipping News, by Annie Proulx
One True Thing, by Anna Quindlen
Infidel, by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Manhunt by Jane Swanson
Midwives by Chris Bohjalian
The Song Reader, by Lisa Tucker
Back Roads, by Tawni O'Dell
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, by Lisa See  (read July 2009)
Water for Elephants, by Sara Gruen
The Namesake, by Lhumpa Lahiri
I Never Promised You A Rose Garden, by Joanne Greenberg
One True Thing, by Anna Quindlin
The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini
The Joy Luck Club, by Amy Tan
A Hundred Secret Senses, by Amy Tan
The Lilac Bus, by Maeve Binchy
Master and Commander, by Patrick O'Brien
The Jane Austen Book Club, by Karen Fowler
The Geographer's Library, by John Fasman
Scorpion's Gate, by Richard A. Clarke
Cold, by John Smolens
Anno-Dracula, by Kim Newman
Last chance to See, by Douglas Adams
The Cape Ann, by Faith Sullivan
Before 2007
The Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, by Lisa See (read July 2009)
The Smoke Jumper, by Nicholas Evans
The Forgotten, by Elie Wiesel
Kingdom of Mists, by Jane Jakeman
Carolina Moon, by Jill McCorkle
Conspiracy of Paper, by David Liss
The Club Dumas, by Arturo Perez-Reverte
The Hills at Home, by Nancy Clark
The Best of Robert Service
The Sea Wolf, by Jack London
The Amateur Marriage, by Anne Tyler
The Money Dragon, by Pam Chun
The Count of Monte Cristo, by Alexandre Dumas
Small Island, by Andrea Levy
Women of the Silk, by Gail Tsukuyama
The Glass Castle, by Jeannette Walls (read September 2008)
Like Water for Chocolate, by Laura Esquivel
The Dive from Clausen's Pier, by Ann Packer
The Queen's Fool, by Philippa Gregory
The Innocents Abroad, by Mark Twain
Empire Falls, by Richard Russo
The Virgin Blue, by Tracy Chevalier
Slow Way Home, by Michael Morris
A Room of One's Own, by Virginia Woolf
Epitaph for a Peach: Four Seasons on My Family Farm, by David Mas Masumoto
A Hole in Texas, by Herman Wouk
A Long Way Down, by Nick Hornby
Charms for the Easy Life, by Kaye Gibbons
A Long Fatal Love Chase, by Louise May Alcott
The Pianist, by Wadyslaw Szpilman
Becoming Madame Mao, by Anchee
Standing in the Rainbow, by Fannie Flagg
House on Mango Street, by Sandra Cisneros
Crow Lake, by Mary Lawson
Stolen Lives, by Mailka Qufkir
Montana, 1948
Stones for Ibarra, by Harriett Doerr
Three, by Ted Decker
The Lovely Bones, by Alice Sebold
Spell of Winter, by Helen Dunmore
The Bonesetter's Daughter, by Amy Tan
Welcome to the World, Baby Girl, by Fannie Flagg
Seabiscuit
Blue Shoe, by Annie Lamott
Shipping News, by Annie Proulx
The Lost Garden, by Helen Humphries
Fast Food Nation, by Eric Schlosser
Beginner's Luck, Laura Pederson
Dancer, by McCann
Into the Wild, Jon Krakauer
What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day, by Pearl Cleage
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe, by Fannie Flagg
Corelli's Mandolin, by Louis de Bernieres
Losing Julia, by Jonathon Hull
Chocolat, by Joanne Harris
Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck

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