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2024
- January - The Lives of Others by Neel Mukherpe
- February - The Magician by Colm Toibín
- March - Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
- April - Lessons by Ian McEwan
- May - no meeting
- June - The House of Doors by Tan Twan Eng
- September - Homecoming by Kate Morton
- October - Crooked Plow by Itamar Vieira Junior
- November- Strong Female Character by Fern Brad
2023
- January - Homeland by Fernando Aramburu
- February - In An Instant by Suzanne Redfearn
- March - The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak
- April - The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O'Farrell
- May - On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
- June - Dinner at Petiscos in the Cascais market
- September -Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles
- October - The Perfect Golden Circle by Benjamin Myers
- November - The Winemaker's Wife by Kristen Harmel
2022
- January - The Girl with the Louding Voice by Abi Daré
- February - Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell
- March - A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles (postponed until April due to lack of attendance)
- April - A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
- May - A Long Petal of the Sea by Isabel Allende
- June - Love Marriage
- September - American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins
- October - The Promise by Damon Galgut
- November . - The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls
2021
- November - The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
2020
- January - The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey
- February - The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
- March - Cancelled due to pandemic (Covid-19)
- April - The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas (Zoom meeting)
- May - Notes on a Scandal by Zoe Heller (Zoom meeting)
- June - A Manuel for Cleaning Women by Lucia Berlin (Zoom meeting)
- September -The Librarian by Salley Vickers
- October - Middlemarch by George Eliot
- November - Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
2019
- January - Alice Munro short stories (Something I've Been Meaning To Tell You or another book)
- February - Waking Lions, Ayelet Gundar-Goshen
- March - Stay With Me by Ayobami Adebayo
- April - The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides
- May - Milkman by Anna Burns
- June - meeting cancelled due to lack of participation
- September - My Brilliant Career by Miles Franklin
- October - In the Body of the World: A Memoir of Cancer and Connection by Eve Ensler
- November - The Children Act" by Ian McEwan
2018
- Meeting postponed to February
- February - The Essex Serpent, Sarah Perry
- March - Ghachar Ghochar, Vivek Shanbhag
- April - Shadows of the Pomegranate Tree, Tariq Ali
- May - The Piano Tuner, Daniel Mason
- June - Asymmetry by Lisa Halliday
- September - Happiness, Aminatta Forna
- October - Elmet, Fiona Mozley
- November - memorial evening to remember and honor Kathie Bowen who was our bookclub captain and beloved friend of all who passed away on November 17, 2018.
- January - Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay, Elena Ferrante (book
three of the Neapolitan Quartet). - February - The Vegetarian, Han Kang
- March - The Wolf Border, Sarah Hall
- April - Leaving Time, Jodie Picoult
- May - As Close to Us as Breathing, Elizabeth Poilmer
- June - The Story of the Lost Child, Elena Ferrante (book four of the Neapolitan Novels)
- September - Defending Jacob, William Landay
- October - The Noise of Time, Julian Barnes
- November - The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead
- January - The Girl On The Train, Paula Hawkins
- February - Between the World and Me, Ta-Nahisi Coates*
- March - Everything I Never Told You, Celeste Ng
- April - The Story of a New Name, Elena Ferrente (Book 2 - Neapolitan Novels)
- May - The Nightengale, Kristin Hannah (our dear friend Pat Westheimer passed away on May 12, 2016. She will be missed by all who knew her.)
- June - H is for Hawk, Helen MacDonald
- September - The Orchardist by Amanda Coplin.
- October - The Garden of evening mists by Tan Twan Eng.
- November - The Hacienda by Lisa St. Aubin de Teranç
- January - A Tale For The Time Being, Ruth Ozeki
- February - Last Train To Istanbul, Ayse Kulin
- March - Stoner - John Wiliams
- April - The Orphan Train, Christina Baker Kline
- May - Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life,Death and Hope In A Mumbai Slum, Katherine Boo*
- June - The Price of Salt, Patricia Highsmith
- September - My Brilliant Friend, Elena Ferrante (Book 1 - Neapolitan Novels)
- October - A Sentimental Education, Gustave Flaubert*
- November -Lila, Marilynne Robinson
- January - The Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, Jamie Ford
- February - And the Mountains Echoed, Khaled Hosseini
- March - The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, Mary Ann Schaffer
- April - The Infatuations, Javier Marías
- May - The Holy Woman, Qaisra Shahraz *
- June - Americanah - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- September - The Lowland, Jhumpa Lahiri
- October - The Light Between Oceans, M.L. Stedman
- November - The Favored Daughter, Fawzia Koofi *
- January - The Paris Wife - Paula McLain
- February - The Crime of Father Amaro, Eça de Queiroz
- March - My Dear, I Wanted to Tell You, Louisa Young
- April - Beautiful Souls, Eyal Press *
- May - Bend, Not Break, Ping Fu *
- June - The Seamstress, Maria Duenas
- September - Gone Girl, Gillian Flynn
- October - A Garden of Eden in Hell, Melissa Müller (November 5 meeting date) *
- November - Wonder, R.J. Palacio
- January - State of Wonder , Ann Pachette
- February - Woman at Point Zero, Nawal El Saadawi *
- March - Factory Girls, Leslie Chang
- April - The Boy in the Moon, Ian Brown *
- May - Sarah's Key,
- June - Snowdrops, A.D. Miller
- August - The Sense of an Ending, Julian Barnes
- September - A Venetian Affair, Andrea di Robilant
- October - Red Dust, Gillian Slovo
- November - Painter of Silence, Georgina Harding
- January - The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Mohsin Hamid
- February - The Lacuna, Barbara Kingsolver
- March - Solar, Ian McEwan
- April - Alone in Berlin (aka Every Man Dies Alone), Hans Fallada *
- May - Love and Summer, William Trevor
- June - The Friday Night Knitting Club, Kate Jacobs
- September - In Search of Fatima: a Palestinian Story, Ghada Karmi *
- October - Freedom, Jonathan Franzen
- November - Faith, Jennifer Haigh *
- Jan - White Tiger, Aravind Adiga. *
- Feb - A Tale of Love and Darkness, Amos Oz
- March - The Chosen, Chaim Potok
- April - A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth
- May - Equator, Miguel Sousa Tavares
- June - The Help, Kathryn Stockett
- September - Cutting for Stone, Abraham Verghese
- October - Olive Kitteridge, Elizabeth Strout
- November - The Jewel of Medina, Sherry Jones
- Jan - The Inheritance of Loss, Kiran Desai
- Feb - The First Global Village, Martin Page
- March - The Book Thief, Markus Zusak
- April - The Road Home, Rose Tremain
- May - The Translation of Dr. Appeles, David Treuer *
- June - The Post Office Girl, Stepfan Zweig
- September - Things Fall Apart, Chinua Acheve
- October - The Outliers, Malcome Gladwell
- November - Gertrude Bell: Queen of the Dessert, Shaper of Nations, Georgina Howell
- Jan - Palace Walk, Naguib Mahfouz
- Feb - A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini
- Mar - The Grass is Singing, Doris Lessing
- April - Bauldino, Umberto Eco
- May - Eat, Pray, Love, Elizabeth Gilbert
- June - When The Emperor Was Divine, Julie Otsuka
- Sept -
- Oct - The Yacoubian Building, Alaa Al Aswany
- Nov - The Gift of Rain, Tan Twan Eng
- Jan-The Bookseller of Kabul
- Feb - River Town
- Mar - Oscar and Lucinda, Peter Carey
- April - The Lost Painting, Jonathan Harr
- May - Suite Française, Irène Némirovsky
- June - The Birth of Venus, Sarah Dunant
- Sept - Digging to America, Anne Tyler
- Oct - Tenderness of Wolves, Stef Penney
- Nov - Enduring Love, Ian McEwan
- Jan - The Namesake, Jhumpa Lahiri
- Feb - The Spiral Staircase, Karen Armstrong
- Mar - Almost French, Sarah Turnbull
- Apr -Purple Hibiscus, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- June - Demian, Hermann Hesse
- Sept - The Alchemy of Desire, Tarun J. Tejpal
- Oct - Oracle Night, Paul Auster
- Nov - Beloved, Toni Morrison
- Jan - The Shadow of the Wind, Carlos Ruiz Zafón
- Feb - Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides
- Mar - The Time Traveler's Wife, Audrey Niffenegger
- April - The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers
- May - Are you Somebody? , Nuala O´Faolain
- June - The Last Kabbalish of Lisbon, Richard Zimmler
- Sept - The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini
- Oct - The Garden of the Finzi-Continis, Giorgio Bassini
- Nov - Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight, Alexandra Fuller
- Jan - The Discovery of Heaven, Harry Mulich
- Feb - Embers, Sandor Marai
- Mar - The Coffee Trader, David Liss
- April - The Lovely Bones, Alice Seabold
- May - The Secret Life of Bees, Sue Monk Kidd
- June - The Life of Pi, Yann Martel
- Sept - The DiVinci Code, Dan Brown
- Oct - Reading Lolita in Tehran, Azar Nafisi
- Nov - The Inquisitor's Manual, António Lobo Antunes
- Jan -Memories of Hadrian, Marguerite Yourcenar
- Feb - White Teeth, Zadie Smith
- Mar - Atonement, Ian McEwan
- April - The Death of Vishnu, Manil Suri
- May - Sula, Toni Morrison
- June - A Gesture Life, Chang-Rae Less
- Sept - Baltazar and Blimunda, José Saramago
- Oct - Clara: Biography of Clara Shumann, Janice Galloway
- Nov - Bel Canto, Ann Pachet
2002
Half a Life, V.S. NaipaulMy Name is Red, Orhan Pamuk
The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen
The Reader, Bernhard Schlink
Good Harbor, Anita Diamant
Angle of Repose, Wallace Stegner
2001
Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver
The Blind Assassin, Margaret Atwood
Once Upon The River Love, Andrei Makine
Music and Silence, Rose Tremain
Waiting, Ha Jin
The Tragedy of the Street of Flowers, Eça da Queiros
One Hundred Years of Solitude, Garcia Marques
Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres
Man and Boy, Tony Parsons
2000
The Map of Love, Ahdaf Soueif
