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Book Club Selections-Megalist














Date

Title


Author

Library kit?

2021-Aug

The
Tattooist of Auschwitz

Morris,
Heather

Yes

2021-July

The Ministry
of Utmost Happiness

Roy, Arundhati

Yes

2021-Jun

Love and
Other Consolation Prizes

Ford, Jamie

Yes

2021-May

The Only
Woman in the Room

Benedict,
Marie

Yes

2021-Apr

Little Fires
Everywhere

Ng, Celeste

Yes

2021-Mar

The Last
Resort

Stapley,
Marissa

Yes

2021-Feb

The Nickel
Boys

Whitehead,
Colson

Yes

2021-Jan

High
Achiever

Jenkins,
Tiffany

Yes

2020-Dec

The Library
Book

Orleans,
Susan

Yes

2020-Nov

An American
Marriage

Jones,
Tayari

Yes

2020-Oct

The Sixth
Extinction

Kolbert,
Elizabeth

Yes

2020-Sep

Bird Box

Malerman,
Josh

Yes

2020-Aug

The Reason I
Jump

Highoshi, Naoki

No

2020-July

Me and White
Supremacy



No

2020-Jun

Girl Waits
With Gun

Stewart, Amy

No

2020-May

Cancelled
COVID





2020-Apr

Cancelled
COVID





2020-Mar

Cancelled
COVID





2020-Feb

The
Underground Railroad

Whitehead,
Colson

Yes

2020-Jan

A Man Called
Ove

Backman,
Fredrik

Yes

2019-Dec

Hillbilly Elegy

Vance, J.D.

Yes

2019-Nov

Mother
Daughter Me

Hafner,
Katie

Yes

2019-Oct

Another
Roadside Attraction

Robbins, Tom

Yes

2019-Sep

Astoria

Stark, Peter

Yes

2019-Aug

Behold the
Dreamers

Mbue, Imbolo

Yes

2019-Jul

Martin
Marten

Doyle, Brian

Yes

2019-Jun

The Storied
Life of AJ Fikry

Zevin,
Gabrielle

Yes

2019-May

The Walk

Evans,
Richard Paul

Yes

2019-Apr

Your Heart
is a Muscle the Size of a Fist

Yapa, Sunil

Yes

2019-Mar

Educated: a
Memoir

Westover,
Tara

No

2019-Feb

Any book by
author (Pierce Reads 2019!)

Hannah,
Kristin

No

2019-Jan

Beartown

Backman,
Fredrik

Yes

2018-Dec

Sacrifice*

Bolton,
Sharon

Yes

2018-Nov

Under the
Wide and Starry Sky*

Horan, Nancy

Yes

2018-Oct

The Uncommon
Reader

Bennett,
Alan

Yes

2018-Sep

The Lost
City of Z

Grann, David

Yes

2018-Aug

All the
Light We Cannot See

Doerr,
Anthony

Yes

2018-Jul

Truth Like
the Sun

Lynch, Jim

Yes

2018-Jun

Station
Eleven

Mandel,
Emily St. John

Yes

2018-May

100-Year-Old
Man Who Climbed Out…

Jonasson,
Jonas

Yes

2018-Apr

The Little
Paris Bookshop

George, Nina

Yes

2018-Mar

Caleb’s
Crossing

Brooks,
Geraldine

Yes

2018-Feb

Neverwhere

Gaiman, Neil

Yes

2018-Jan

The Girl on
the Train

Hawkins,
Paula

Yes

2017-Dec

The End of
Your Life Book Club

Schwalbe,
Will

Yes

2017-Nov

Longbourn

Baker, Jo

Yes

2017-Oct

Five Days at
Memorial

Fink. Sheri

Yes

2017-Sep

Life After
Life

Atkinson,
Kate

Yes

2017-Aug

Dead Wake

Larson, Erik

Yes

2017-Jul

Every Last
Cuckoo*

Malloy, Kate

Yes

2017-Jun

Philomena*

Sixsmith,
Martin

Yes

2017-May

The Girls
from Ames*

Zaslow, Jeffrey

Yes

2017-Apr

Grunt
(Pierce County Reads book)

Roach, Mary

No

2017-Mar

Narrow Road
to the Deep North

Flanagan,
Richard

Yes

2017-Feb

My Life in
France

Childs,
Julia

Yes

2017-Jan

The Life We
Bury

Eskens,
Allen

Yes

2016-Dec

Songs of
Willow Frost

Ford, Jamie

Yes

2016-Nov

In the
Shadow of the Banyan

Rattner,
Vaddey

Yes

2016-Oct

And the
Mountains Echoed

Hosseini,
Kaled

Yes

2016-Sep

Arcadia*

Groff,
Lauren

Yes

2016-Aug

Life and
Times of the Thunderbolt Kid

Bryson, Bill

Yes

2016-Jul

And Then
There Were None

Christie,
Agatha

Yes

2016-Jun

Behind the
Beautiful Forevers

Boo,
Katherine

Yes

2016-May

Round House

Erdich,
Louise

Yes

2016-Apr

Several
books by author (Pierce Reads!)

Alexie,
Sherman

No

2016-Mar

Quiet: The
Power of Introverts

Cain, Susan

Yes

2016-Feb

The Martian

Weir, Andy

Yes

2016-Jan

Housekeeping

Robinson,
Marilynne

Yes

2015-Dec

People of
the Book

Brooks,
Geraldine

Yes

2015-Nov

The
Invention of Wings

Kidd, Sue
Monk

Yes

2015-Oct

A History of
the World in Six Glasses

Standage,
Tom

No

2015-Sep

To the Field
of Stars

Codd, Kevin

No

2015-Aug

Go Set a
Watchman

Lee, Harper

No

2015-Jul

Best Exotic
Marigold Hotel

Moggach,
Deborah

Yes

2015-Jun

The Light
Between Oceans

Steadman,
M.L.

Yes

2015-May

Emily, Alone

O'Nan,
Stewart

Yes

2015-Apr

The Boys in
the Boat

Brown,
Daniel James

Yes

2015-Mar

The Rosie
Project

Simsion,
Graeme

Yes

2015-Feb

Whistling
Season

Doig, Ivan

Yes

2015-Jan

Please Look
After Mom

Shin,
Kyung-Sook

Yes

2014-Dec

Language of
Flowers

Diffenbaugh,
Vanessa

Yes

2014-Nov

Cutting for
Stone

Verghese,
Abraham

Yes

2014-Oct

Tales from
the Town of Widows*

Canon, James

Yes

2014-Sep

State of
Wonder

Patchett,
Ann

Yes

2014-Aug

My Stroke of
Insight

Taylor, Jill
Bolte

Yes

2014-Jul

Where Lilacs
Still Bloom*

Kirkpatrick,
Jane

Yes

2014-Jun

Imperfectionists

Rachman, Tom

Yes

2014-May

Secret Son

Lalami,
Laila

Yes

2014-Apr

Wild

Strayed,
Cheryl

No

2014-Mar

Wonder

Palacio, RJ

Yes

2014-Feb

Cat's Table

Ondaatje,
Michael

Yes

2014-Jan

Lacuna

Kingsolver,
Barbara

?

2013-Dec

Particular Sadness
of Lemon Cake

Bender,
Aimee

Yes

2013-Nov

Sense of an
Ending

Barnes,
Julian

Yes

2013-Oct

Last Time I
Saw You

Berg,
Elizabeth

Yes

2013-Sep

Wesley the
Owl:  The Remarkable Love Story of an Owl and His Girl

O'Brien,
Stacey


Yes

2013-Aug

Half Broke Horses:
A True Life Novel

Walls,
Jeannette

Yes

2013-Jul

Saving
CeeCee Honeycutt

Hoffman,
Beth

Yes

2013-Jun

Nothing
Daunted*

Wickenden,
Dorothy

Yes

2013-May

Elegance of
the Hedgehog

Anderson,
Alison

Yes

2013-Apr

Paris Wife

McLain,
Paula

No

2013-Mar

Physick Book
of  Deliverance Dane

Howe,
Katherine

Yes

2013-Feb

Sarah's Key

De Rosnay,
Tatiana

Yes

2013-Jan

Still Alice

Genova, Lisa

Yes

2012-Dec

Faith Club:
A Muslim, A Christian, A Jew - Three Women Search For Understanding

Idliby,
Oliver, and Warner


Yes


2012-Nov

Housekeeper
and the Professor

Ogaura, Yoko

Yes

2012-Oct

Immortal
Life of Henrietta Lacks

Skloot,
Rebecca

Yes

2012-Sep

Shanghai
Girls

See, Lisa

Yes

2012-Aug

Heart in the
Right Place

Jourdan,
Carolyn

Yes

2012-Jul

Day After
Night

Diamant, Anita

Yes

2012-Jun

Little Bee

Cleave,
Chris

Yes

2012-May

My
Abandonment

Rock, Peter

Yes

2012-Apr

Mister Pipp

Jones, Lloyd

Yes

2012-Mar

Handmaid and
the Carpenter

Berg,
Elizabeth

Yes

2012-Feb

Fragile
Beasts

O'Dell,
Twani

?

2012-Jan

Meeting
postponed - Snow





2011-Dec

Heaven is
for Real

Burpo, Todd

No

2011-Nov

Loving Frank

Horan, Nancy

Yes









2011-Oct

Tipping
Point

Gladwell,
Malcolm

?

2011-Sep

Out Stealing
Horses

Petterson,
Per

Yes

2011-Aug

Girl with
the Dragon Tattoo

Larsson,
Stieg

Yes

2011-Jul

Monique and
the Mango Rains:  Two Years with a Midwife in Mali

Holloway,
Kris


Yes

2011-Jun

Beneath a
Marble Sky:  A Novel of the Taj Mahal*

Shors, John


Yes

2011-May

The Big Burn

Egan,
Timothy

No

2011-Apr

Lottery

Wood,
Patricia

Yes

2011-Mar

Camel
Bookmobile

Hamilton,
Marsha

Yes

2011-Feb

Mudbound

Jordon,
Hillary

Yes

2011-Jan

Chasing
Through:  A True Story of Risk, Adventure and the Man Who Dared to See

Kurson,
Robert


Yes

2010-Dec

Hotel on the
Corner of Bitter and Sweet

Ford, Jamie

Yes

2010-Nov

Chasing
Fireflies

Martin,
Charles

Yes

2010-Oct

A Northern
Light

Donnelly,
Jennifer

Yes

2010-Sep

Esparanza
Rising

Munoz, Pam

Yes

2010-Aug

Olive
Kitteridge

Strout,
Elizabeth

Yes

2010-Jul

Truck:  A
Love Story

Perry,
Michael

Yes

2010-Jun

City of Thieves

Benioff,
David

Yes

2010-May

Couch

Parzbok,
Benjamin

?

2010-Apr

Rosewater
and Soda Bread

Mehran,
Marsha

Yes

2010-Mar

Complete
Persepolis

Satrapi,
Marjane

Yes

2010-Feb

The Help

Stockett,
Kathryn

?

2010-Jan

The Art of
Racing in the Rain

Stein, Garth

Yes

2009-Dec

The Guernsey
Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

Barrows,
Annie


Yes

2009-Nov

Water for
Elephants

Gruen, Sara

Yes

2009-Oct

Because They
Hate:  A Survivor of  Islamic Terror Warns America*

Gabriel,
Bridgette


?

2009-Sep

Rebecca

Du Maurier,
Daphne

?

2009-Aug

Guernica

Boling, Dave

?

2009-Jul

One Thousand
White Women

Fergus, Jim

Yes

2009-Jun

Songs of the
Gorilla Nation*

Prince-Hughes,
Dawn

Yes

2009-May

Prize Winner
of Defiance, Ohio

Ryan, Terry

Yes

2009-Apr

Love in the
Driest Season

Tucker,
Neely

Yes

2009-Mar

Highest Tide

Lynch, Jim

?

2009-Feb

Love
Medicine*

Erdrich,
Louise

Yes

2009-Jan

The Book
Thief

Zusak,
Markus

?

2008-Dec

Bel Canto*

Patchett,
Ann

?

2008-Nov

The Shack

Young,
William P.

No

2008-Oct

The
Thirteenth Tale

Setterfield,
Darlene

?

2008-Sep

The Friday
Night Knitting Club*

Jacobs, Kate

Yes

2008-Aug

Angry
Housewives Eating Bon Bons

Landvik,
Lorna

Yes

2008-Jul

Snow Flower
and the Secret Fan

See, Lisa

Yes

2008-Jun

The
Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian

Alexis,
Sherman


Yes

2008-May

Alas Babylon

Frank, Pat

?

2008-Apr

The Color of
Water

McBride,
James

?

2008-Mar

A Tree Grows
in Brooklyn

Smith, Betty

?

2008-Feb

Three Cups
of Tea

Mortenson,
Gregg

Yes

2008-Jan

Bold Spirit

Hunt, Linda
Lawrence

Yes

2007-Dec

The
Shepherd, the Angel, and Walter the Christmas Miracle Dog

Barry, Dave


No

2007-Nov

The Glass
Castle

Walls,
Jeannette

?

2007-Oct

Wicked

Maguire,
Gregory

?

2007-Sep

The Family
Tree

Cadwalladr,
Carole

Yes

2007-Aug

The Sunday
Wife

King, Cassandra

?

2007-Jul

Crescent

Aba-Jabar,
Diane

Yes

2007-Jun

Mountains
Beyond Mountains

Kidder,
Tracy

?

2007-May

Broken for
You

Kallas,
Stephanie

?

2007-Apr

Memory
Keeper’s Daughter

Edwards, Kim

Yes

2007-Mar

Alive

Read, Piers
Paul

Yes

2007-Feb

Middlesex

Eugenides,
Jeffrey

?

2007-Jan

American
Nightingale

Welch, Bob

No

2006-Dec

The History
of Love

Krauss,
Nicole

?

2006-Nov

Devil in the
White City

Larson, Erik

Yes

2006-Oct

The Woman
with the Alabaster Jar

Starbird,
Margaret

?

2006-Sep

My Sisters
Keeper

Picoult,
Jodi

?

2006-Aug

 Potluck
Dinner – no book





2006-Jul

Eat Cake

Ray, Jeanne

Yes

2006-Jun

Cane River*

Tademy,
Lalita

?

2006-May

The Curious
Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

Haddon, Mark


No

2006-Apr

When the
Emperor Was Divine

Otsuka,
Julie

?

2006-Mar

Mudhouse
Sabbath

Winner,
Lauren

?

2006-Feb

Gilead

Robinson,
Marilynne

?

2006-Jan

A Million
Little Pieces

Frey, James

No

2005-Dec

No meeting





2005-Nov

The Kite
Runner

Hosseini,
Khaled

No

2005-Oct

Into the
Forest*

Hegland,
Jean

Yes

2005-Sep

Balzac and
the Little Chinese Seamstress

Dai, Sijie

Yes

2005-Aug

The Time
Traveler’s Wife

Niffenegger,
Audrey

?

2005-Jul

The Shunning

Lewis,
Beverly

?

2005-Jun

Liar’s Club

Karr, Mary

Yes

2005-May

Blue Bottle
Club

Stokes, Penelope

Yes

2005-Apr

Dreaming
Water*

Tsukiyama,
Gail

?

2005-Mar

The
Bonesetter’s Daughter

Tan, Amy

?

2005-Feb

The Touch*

McCullough,
Colleen

?

2005-Jan

Reading
Lolita in Tehran

Nafisi, Azar

No

2004-Dec

Holes

Sachar,
Louis

?

2004-Nov

Stuffed

Volk, Patricia

?

2004-Oct

Predator,
Prey and Other Kinfolk*

Solomon,
Dorothy Allred

?

2004-Sep

Under the
Banner of Heaven

Krakauer,
Jon

?

2004-Aug

Nickel and
Dimed

Ehrenreich,
Barbara

?

2004-Jul

Under the
Tuscan Sun*

Mayes,
Frances

?

2004-Jun

The Five People
You Meet in Heaven

Albom, Mitch

?

2004-May

The Girl
with the Pearl Earring

Chevalier,
Tracy

?

2004-Apr

Life of Pi

Martel, Yann

?

2004-Mar

Peace Like A
River

Enger, Leif

Yes

2004-Feb

Let’s Roll

Beamer, Lisa

No

2004-Jan

The Secret
Life of Bees

Kidd, Sue
Monk

?

2003-Dec

The No. 1
Ladies’ Detective Agency

Smith,
Alexander McCall

No

2003-Nov

The Passion
of Artemisia

Vreeland,
Susan

Yes

2003-Oct

First They
Killed My Father

Ung, Loung

?

2003-Sep

The Storm

Buechner,
Frederick

?

2003-Aug

Empire Falls

Russo,
Richard

Yes

2003-Jul

One for the
Money

Evanovich,
Janet

?

2003-Jun

White
Oleander

Fitch, Janet

?

2003-May

The Blessing

Smalley,
Gary & John Trent

No

2003-Apr

The Lovely
Bones

Sebold,
Alice



2003-Mar

Buster
Midnight’s Cafe

Dalles,
Sandra



2003-Feb

Seabiscuit

Hillenbrand,
Laura



2003-Jan

Years of
Wonder

Brooks,
Geraldine



2002-Dec

To Dance
with the White Dog

Kay, Terry



2002-Nov

The Bee
Season

Goldberg,
Myla



2002-Oct

The God of
Small Things

Roy,
Arundhati



2002-Sep

A Book of
Angels

Burnham,
Sophy



2002-Aug

The Spirit
Catches You and You Fall Down

Fadiman,
Anne



2002-Jul

Motherless
in Brooklyn

Letham,
Jonathan



2002-Jun

Bald in the
Land of Big Hair

Rogers, Joni



2002-May

Joan of Arc:
Her Story*

Pernoud,
Regine



2002-Apr

In the Company
of Angels

Kelby, N. M.



2002-Mar

Friendship
Cake

Hinton,
Lynne



2002-Feb

Nothing But
the Truth

AVI



2002-Jan

Princess

Sasson, Jean



2001-Sep

A Walk in
the Woods

Bryson, Bill



2001-Sep

Arrowsmith*

Lewis,
Sinclair



2001-Sep

The Red Tent

Diamant,
Anita



2001-Sep

The
Archivist

Cooley,
Martha



2001-Aug

Their Eyes
Were Watching God

Hurston,
Zora Neale



2001-Jul

More Than
Petticoats: Remarkable Washington Women*

Bragg, L. E.



2001-Jun

We Were the
Mulvaneys

Oakes, Joyce
Carol



2001-May

Big Stone Gap

Trigiani,
Adriana



2001-Apr

A Severe
Mercy

Vanauken,
Sheldon



2001-Mar

Winterdance:
The Fine Madness of Running the Iditarod

Paulsen,
Gary



2001-Feb

Biography of
Choice





2001-Jan

Tortilla
Curtain

Boyles, T.
Coraghessan



2000-Dec

Santa &
Pete

Moore,
Christopher



2000-Nov

Falling
Leaves

Mah, Adeline
Yen



2000-Oct

Evensong

Godwin, Gail



2000-Sep

Left Behind

Lahaye, Tim,
and Jerry Jenkins



2000-Aug

Quite a Year
for Plums

White,
Bailey



2000-Jul

Handmaid’s
Tale

Atwood,
Margaret



2000-Jun

Emma

Austen, Jane



2000-May

Tender at
the Bone

Reichl, Ruth



2000-Apr

Traveling
Mercies

Lamott, Anne



2000-Mar

The Chosen

Potok, Chaim



2000-Feb

The All-True
Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton

Smiley, Jane



2000-Jan

The
Poisonwood Bible

Kingsolver, Barbara



1999-Dec

The
Professor and the Madman

Winchester,
Simon



1999-Nov

Harry Potter
and the Sorcerers Stone

Rowling, J.
K.



1999-Oct

Divine
Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

Wells,
Rebecca



1999-Sep

The Pilot’s
Wife

Shreve,
Anita



1999-Aug

Undaunted
Courage

Ambrose,
Stephen



1999-Jul

Summer
Sisters

Blume, Judy



1999-Jun

Midwives

Bohjalian,
Chris



1999-May

Crossing to
Safety

Stegner,
Wallace



1999-Apr

When God
Interrupts*

Barnes,
Craig



1999-Mar

Stones from
the River

Hegi, Ursula



1999-Feb

At Home in
Mitford

Karon, Jan



1999-Jan

First You
Have to Row a Little Boat

Bode,
Richard



1998-Dec

This Year It
Will Be Different

Binchy,
Maeve



1998-Nov

UH-OH

Fulgham,
Robert



1998-Oct

Memoirs of a
Geisha

Golden,
Arthur



1998-Sep

The Notebook

Sparks, Nicholas



1998-Aug

Angela’s
Ashes

McCourt,
Frank



1998-Jul

Into Thin
Air

Krakauer,
Jon



1998-Jun

Tuesdays
with Morrie

Albom, Mitch



1998-May

Fearfully
& Wonderfully Made

Brand, Paul
and Philip  Yancey



1998-Apr

Song of
Solomon*

Morrison,
Toni



1998-Mar

The
Irrational Season*

L’Engle,
Madeline



1998-Feb

Miz Lil and
Chronicles of Grace

Wangerin,
Walt



1998-Jan

Mutant
Message Down Under

Morgan,
Marlo



1997-Dec

The
Christmas Letters

Smith, Lee



1997-Nov

Angle of
Repose

Stegner,
Wallace



1997-Oct

The Odd
Women

Gissing,
George



1997-Sep

Twilight

Wiesel, Elie



1997-Aug

The Rapture
of Canaan

Reynolds,
Sheri



1997-Jul

Life and
Death in Shanghai

Cheng, Nien



1997-Jun

Stick a
Geranium in Your Hat and Be Happy*

Johnson,
Barbara



1997-May

Paula*

Allande,
Isabel



1997-Apr

A Simple
Path

Mother
Theresa



1997-Mar

The Book of
Ruth

Hamilton,
Jane



1997-Feb

Two Old
Women

Wallis,
Velma



1997-Jan

Emotional
Intelligence

Goleman,
Daniel



1996-Dec

No Meeting





1996-Nov

Reviving
Ophelia

Pipher, Mary



1996-Oct

Road from
Coorain

Conway, Jill
Ker



1996-Sep

A Grace
Disguised

Sittser,
Gerald



1996-Aug

Horse
Whisperer

Evans,
Nicholas



1996-Jul

Shipping
News

Proulx, E.
Annie



1996-Jun

Wouldn’t
Take Nothing for My Journey Now

Angelou,
Maya



1996-May

The
Education of Little Tree

Carter,
Forrest



1996-Apr

Great
Divorce

Lewis, C. S.



1996-Mar

Montana 1948

Watson,
Larry



1996-Feb

A Midwife’s
Tale: the Life of Martha Ballard

Ulrich,
Laurel



1996-Jan

Snow Falling
on Cedars

Guterson,
David



1995-Dec

No Meeting





1995-Nov

How to Make
an American Quilt *

Otto,
Whitney



1995-Oct

The Stone
Diaries

Shields,
Carol



1995-Sep

Couplehood

Reiser, Paul



1995-Aug

The Bean
Trees

Kingsolver,
Barbara



1995-Jul

Men are from
Mars, Women are from Venus

Gray, John



1995-Jun

Cold Sassy
Tree

Burns, Olive
Ann



1995-May

Road Less
Traveled (cont)

Peck, M.
Scott



1995-Apr

Road Less
Traveled

Peck, M.
Scott