Booked for Lunch Discussion Group – Selections Archive

2025

1. The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters
2. Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers by Jesse Q. Sutanto
3. Horse by Geraldine Brooks
4. The Midnight Library by Matt Haig 
5. Heat & Light by Jennifer Haigh 
6. Lady Tan’s Circle of Women by Lisa See
7. What You Are Looking For Is in the Library by Michiko Aoyama
8. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
9. Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt

2024

1. Miss Benson’s Beetle by Rachel Joyce
2. Under the Whispering Door by TJ Klune
3. Bookworm by Robin Yeatman
4. A Death at the Party by Amy Stuart
5. The Daughter of Doctor Moreau by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
6. The Reading List by Sara Nisha Adams
7. The Maid by Nita Prose
8. The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka
9. The Radcliffe Ladies’ Reading Club by Julia Bryan Thomas
10. Hollow Kingdom by Kira Jane Buxton
11. The Wager: a Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny, and Murder by David Grann
12. The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict & Victoria Christopher Murray

2023

1. The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich
2. Anxious People by Frederik Backman
3. The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
4. Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell
5. The Stolen Lady by Laura Morelli
6. The Confessions of Frannie Langton by Sara Collins
7. The Guncle by Steven Rowley
8. Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb
9. The Girl with the Louding Voice by Abi Dare
10. The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner
11. One Italian Summer by Rebecca Serle
12. Portrait of a Thief by Grace D. Li

2022

1. Intimations by Zadie Smith
2. Mother-in-law by Sally Hepworth
3. Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart
4. The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Richardson
5. Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi
6. Stories from Suffragette City edited by MJ Rose
7. Next Year in Havana by Chanel Cleeton
8. The Greatest Beer Run Ever by John Donohue
9. The Book of Longings by Sue Monk Kidd
10. Ask Again, Yes by Mary Beth Keane
11. The Guest List by Lucy Foley
12. The Invisible Life of Addie Larue by V.E. Schwab

2021

1. The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
2. Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
3. The Woman Who Smashed Codes: a true story of love, spies, and the unlikely heroine who outwitted America’s enemies by Jason Fagone
4. Roar by Cecelia Ahern
5. Midnight in Chernobyl: the untold story of the world’s greatest nuclear disaster by Adam Higginbotham

2020

1. Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
2. The Keeper of Lost Things by Ruth Hogan
3. The Witch Elm by Tana French
4. The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
5. Midnight in Chernobyl by Adam Higginbotham
6. Circe by Madeline Miller

2019

1. Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan
2. The Other Einstein by Marie Benedict
3. Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
4. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
5. News of the World by Paulette Jiles
6. Furiously Happy by Jenny Lawson
7. Number One Chinese Restaurant by Lillian Li
8. French Exit by Patrick DeWitt
9. The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris
10. Rust and Stardust by T. Greenwood
11. There There by Tommy Orange
12. Carnegie’s Maid by Marie Benedict

2018

1. Difficult Women by Roxane Gay
2. The Nest by Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney
3. Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance
4. The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
5. The Cuckoo’s Calling by Robert Galbraith
6. The Child Finder by Rene Denfeld
7. My Name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout
8. Glass Houses by Louise Penny
9. Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann
10. Uncommon Type: Some Stories by Tom Hanks
11. Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
12. The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend by Katarina Bivald

2017

1. Station Eleven Emily St. John Mandel
2. The Secrets of Flight  Maggie Leffler
3.  A Spool of Blue Thread Anne Tyler
4. Five Days Left Julie Lawson Timmer
5. The Nightingale Kristin Hannah
6. Did you Ever Have a Family Bill Clegg
7. Commonwealth Ann Patchett
8. A Man Called Ove Fredrik Backman
9. The Kitchen House Kathleen Grissom
10. The Sympathizer Viet Thanh Nguyen
11. Moonglow Michael Chabon
12. Firefly Lane Kristen Hannah

2016

1. The Invention of Wings Sue Monk Kidd
2. Isobel on the Way to the Corner Shop Amy Witting
3. My Brilliant Friend Elena Ferrante
4. Brooklyn Colm Toibin
5. Me Before You Jojo Moyes
6. Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore Robin Sloan
7. Kitchens of the Great Midwest J. Ryan Strada
8. The Watchmaker of Filigree Street Natasha Pulley
9. Everything I Never Told You Celeste Ng
10. Dietland Sara Walker
11. The Life We Bury Allen Eskens
12. Fates and Furies Lauren Groff

2015

1. The Dinner Herman Koch
2. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit Jeanette Winterson
3. The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry Gabrielle Zevin
4. Five Days at Memorial Sheri Fink
5. The Rosie Project Graeme Simsion
6. The Husband’s Secret Liane Moriarty
7. Sycamore Row John Grisham
8. Family Life: A Novel Akhil Sharma
9. The Vacationers Emma Straub
10. The Children Act Ian McEwan
11. Unbroken Laura Hillenbrand
12. Stone Mattress: Nine Tales Margaret Atwood

2014

1. Where’d You Go, Bernadette?  Maria Semple
2. Dear Life Alice Munro
3. The Dog Stars Peter Heller
4. Transatlantic Colum McCann
5. The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry Rachel Joyce
6. The Absolutist  John Boyne
7. The House of Mirth  Edith Wharton
8. No meeting
9. We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves Karen Joy Fowler
10. Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury
11. Faith Jennifer Haigh
12. The 100-Year-Old-Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared Jonas Jonnason

2013

1. Mister Pip Lloyd Jones
2. Arcadia Lauren Groff
3. Shadow Tag Louise Erdrich
4. People of the Book Geraldine Brooks
5.  The Expats  Chris Pavone
6.  The Orchardist  Amanda Coplin
7. Beautiful Ruins Jess Walter
8. How It All Began Penelope Lively
9. The Language of Flowers Vanessa Diffenbaugh
10. Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk Ben Fountain
11. Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen
12. The Light Between Oceans M. L Stedman

2012

1. No meeting (snow)
2. I Think I Love You Allison Pearson
3. State of Wonder Ann Patchett
4. This I Believe:The Personal Philosophies of Remarkable Men and Women (One Book/One Community selection)
5. Caleb’s Crossing Geraldine Brooks
6. Before I Go To Sleep S. J. Watson
7. The Tiger’s Wife Tea Breht
8. No meeting in August
9. In the Garden of Beasts Erik Larson
10. Sense of An Ending Julian Barnes
11. Emily Alone Stewart O’Nan
12. Falling Together Marissa De Los Santos

 2011

1. Peace Richard Bausch
2. Major Pettigrew Helen Simonson
3. Run Ann Patchett
4. 29 Gifts: How a Month of Giving Can Change Your Life Cami Walker.
5. So Long, See You Tomorrow William Maxwell
6. Little Bee Chris Cleave
7. Family Album Penelope Lively
8. No meeting in August
9. So Much for That Lionel Shriver
10. The Sunday Philosophy Club Robert McCall Smith
11. The Help Kathryn Stockett
12. Tinkers Paul Harding

2010

1. Out Stealing Horses Per Petterson
2. Revolutionary Road Richard Yates
3. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo Stieg Larsson
4. A Walk in the Woods Bill Bryson
5. The White Tiger Aravind Adiga
6. The Outcast Sadie Jones
7. Olive Kitteridge Elizabeth Strout
8. No meeting in August
9. Let the Great World Spin Collum McCann
10. Bright-sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America Barbara Ehrenreich
11. In Other Rooms, Other Wonders Daniyal Mueenuddin.
12. Straight Man Richard Russo

2009

1. Close Range: Wyoming Stories Annie Proulx
2. The Women at the Washington Zoo Marjorie Williams
3. The Thirteenth Tale Diane Setterfield
4. The Giver Lois Lowry
5. The Tender Bar: A Memoir J.R. Moehringer
6. The Lay of the Land Richard Ford
7. Water For Elephants Sara Gruen
8. No meeting in August
9. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society Mary Ann Shaffer
10. The Tenderness of Wolves: A Novel Stef Penney
11. Brideshead Revisited Evelyn Waugh
12. Loving Frank: a Novel Nancy Horan

 2008

1. The House on Mango Street Sandra Cisneros
2. The Inheritance of Loss Kiran Desai
3. The Road Cormac McCarthy
4. I’m Proud of You Tim Madigan
5. Double Bind Chris Bohjalian
6. Astrid and Veronika Linda Olsson
7. Moral Disorder: Stories Margaret Atwood
8. No meeting in August
9. The Maytrees Annie Dillard
10. Snow Country Yasunari Kawabata
11. The Pilot’s Wife Anita Shreve
12. The Ghost At The Table Suzanne Berne

 2007

1. Purple Hibiscus Chimamanda Adichie
2. Wonder Boys Michael Chabon
3. Shalimar the Clown Salman Rushdie
4. Amy and Isabelle Elizabeth Strout
5. My Sister’s Keeper Jodie Picoult
6. To the Lighthouse Virginia Woolf
7. The Plot Against America Philip Roth
8. No meeting in August
9. The Memory Keeper’s Daughter Kim Edwards
10. An Unquiet Mind Kay Redfield Jamison
11. Everything Is Illuminated Jonathan Safran Foer
12. When the Emperor Was Divine Julie Otsuka