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Book club Selections –

The Red Tent by Anita Diamant

Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden

Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen

A Yellow Raft in Blue Water by Michael Dorris

The Awakening, by Kate Chopin

The Parting (The Courtship of Nellie Fisher, Book 1) by Beverly Lewis

The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel by Barbara Kingsolve

The Tea Rose: A Novel by Jennifer Donnelly

The Namesake: A Novel by Jhumpa Lahiri

The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield

The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

Loop Group: A Novel by Larry McMurtry

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel by Jonathan Safran Foer

The Ghost Orchid: A Novel by Carol Goodman

The Gathering by Anne Enright

Jemima J: A Novel About Ugly Ducklings and Swans by Jane Green

Thirteen Moons: A Novel by Charles Frazier

Bitter is the New Black by Jen Lancaster

We Need to Talk about Kevin by Lionel Shriver

The Friday Night Knitting Club by Kate Jacobs

Sarah’s Key by Tatiana De Rosnay

A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood

Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali

The Help by Kathryn Stockett

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows

The Double Bind: A Novel by Chris Bohjalian

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

The Shack by William P. Young

The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan: A Novel by Lisa See

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

Something Borrowed by Emily Giffin

One Day by David Nicholls

A Discovery of Witches: A Novel (All Souls Trilogy) by Deborah Harkness

The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy: A George Smiley Novel by John le Carré

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

The Flame Alphabet by Ben Marcus

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

The Marriage Plot: A Novel by Jeffrey Eugenides

The Language of Flowers: A Novel by Vanessa Diffenbaugh

The Hangmans Daughter Oliver Pötzsch

The Tiger’s Wife: A Novel by Téa Obreht

Gone Girl: A Novel by Gillian Flynn

The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery

Strength in What Remains by Tracy Kidder

The Dinner by Herman Koch

Persuasion by Jane Austen

The Lion is In by Delia Ephron

LOLITA by Vladimir NABOKOV

Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman

Shadow of Night: A Novel by Deborah Harkness

The Fault in Our Stars by John Green

What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty

Lost Child of Philomena Lee by Martin Sixsmith

Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich

Dark Places: A Novel by Gillian Flynn

Margot: A Novel by Jillian Cantor

The Next Thing on My List: A Novel by Jill Smolinski

Hens Dancing: A Novel by Raffaella Barker

The Book of Life: A Novel (All Souls Trilogy) by Deborah Harkness

The Princess Bride by William Goldman

The Goldfinch: A Novel by Donna Tartt

Someone Else’s Love Story: A Novel by Joshilyn Jackson

Still Life with Bread Crumbs: A Novel by Anna Quindlen

The Chaperone by Laura Moriarty

A Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrick

Sister of My Heart : A Novel by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell

How Evan Broke His Head and Other Secrets by Garth Stein

Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption

by Laura Hillenbrand

Defending Jacob: A Novel by William Landay

City of Women by David R. Gillham

The Ocean at the End of the Lane: A Novel by Neil Gaiman

The Never List: A Novel by Koethi Zan

LaRose: A Novel by Louise Erdrich

The Good Nurse: A True Story of Medicine, Madness, and Murder by Charles Graeber

My Lady Jane by Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, Jodi Meadows

State of Wonder: A Novel by Ann Patchett

Today Will Be Different by Maria Semple

The Alchemist, 25th Anniversary: A Fable About Following Your Dream by Paulo Coelho

Beasts of Extraordinary Circumstance: A Novel by Ruth Emmie Lang

Let’s Pretend This Never Happened by Jenny Lawson

The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin

The Dry: A Novel by Jane Harper

Truly Madly Guilty by Liane Moriarty

My View from Heaven: A Boy’s Story of His Journey to Heaven and the Purpose to Life on Earth by Sarina Baptista

Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens

Swimming Lessons by Claire Fuller

The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America

by Erik Larson

The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides

I’ll Never Tell by Catherine McKenzie

The Last Mrs. Parrish: A Novel by Liv Constantine

False Step by Victoria Helen Stone

Verity by Colleen Hoover

The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware

Last Summer: A Novel by Kerry Lonsdale

Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout

The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek: A Novel by Kim Michele Richardson

The Third Rainbow Girl: The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia by Emma Copley Eisenberg

The Vanishing Half: A Novel by Bennett Brit

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo: A Novel by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine: A Novel by Gail Honeyman

Tom Lake: A Novel by Ann Patchett

All Good People Here: A Novel by Ashley Flowers

The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store: A Novel by James McBride

Solito: A Memoir by Javier Zamora

The Lost Bookshop by Evie Woods

The Teacher by Freida McFadden

Where the Forest Meets the Stars by Glendy Vanderah

Rock Paper Scissors: A Novel by Alice Feeney

Isola: A Novel by Allegra Goodman

The Ministry of Time: A Novel by Kaliane Bradley

Wild Dark Shore: A Novel by Charlotte McConaghy

She’s come Undone – Wally Lamb

The Girl Upstairs by Georgina Lees

Layla by Colleen Hoover

The Villa by Rachel Hawkins

Never Lie by Freida McFadden

Pretty Girls Karin Slaughter

The Drowning Woman by Robyn Harding

You Killed me First by John Marrs

Keep it in the Family by John Marrs

The Lake of Lost Girls by Katherine Green

The Missing Half by Ashley Flowers

The Tenant Freida McFadden

Postmortem by Patricia Cornwell

Before I met you by Lisa Jewell

The Librarian of Crooked Lane by C.J. Archer

The Boyfriend by Freida McFadden

The Story Collector by Evie Woods

The Last Party by A.R Torre

The Butterfly Garden (Book 1 – The Collector series) by Dot Hutchison

Resting Scrooge Face – Meghan Quinn

Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder by Joanne Fluke

The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner

All the Water in the World by Eiren Caffall

Pen Pal by J.T. Geissinger

Body of Evidence by Patricia Cornwell

The Palace at the end of the Sea by Simon Tolkien

All that Remains by Patricia Cornwell

No lie Last forever by Mark Stevens

Cruel & Unusual by Patricia Cornwall

The Echo of Old Books by Barbara Davis

Deadly Waters by Dot Hutchison

The Body Farm by Patricia Cornwall

The Only one Left b Riley Sager

Four Letter Word Four Intercourse By Bendingsignpost

The Pumpkin Spice Café by Laurie Gilmore

The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion

Unspeakable Things by Jess Lourey

From Potter’s Field by Patricia Cornwell

How My Neighbor Stole Christmas by Meghan Quinn