7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle – Stuart Turton
Absurdistan – Gary Shteyngart
Adderall Diaries – Stephen Elliott
All Fours – Miranda July
All the Ugly and Wonderful Things – Bryn Greenwood
American Gods – Neil Gaiman
Anansi Boys – Neil Gaiman
Ancillary Justice – Ann Leckie
Annie Year – Stephanie Wilbur Ash
Anxious People – Fredrik Backman
Arcadia – Lauren Groff
Art of Fielding – Chad Harbach
Atmospheric Disturbances – Rivka Galchen
Atonement – Ian McEwan
Autobiography of a Face – Lucy Grealy
Await Your Reply – Dan Chaon
Bear Town – Fredrik Backman
Beat the Reaper – Josh Bazell
Beautiful Ruins – Jess Walter
Beautiful Stranger – Hope Donahue
Beautyland – Marie-Helene Bertino
Before the Fall – Noah Hawley
Bel Canto – Ann Patchett
Big Machine – Victor LaValle
Black Swan Green – David Mitchell
Blankets – Craig Thompson
Blindness – Jose Saramago
Blue Shoes – Ann Lamont
BONK – Mary Roach
Book of Illusions – Paul Auster
Book Thief – Markus Zusak
Born a Crime – Trevor Noah
Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil – George Saunders
Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao – Junot Diaz
Bringing Down the House – Ben Mezrich
Burn Baby Burn – Meg Medina
Carrie Soto is Back – Taylor Jenkins Reid
Carry the One – Carol Anshaw
Carter Beats the Devil – Glen David Gold
Case Histories – Kate Atkinson
Cat’s Cradle – Kurt Vonnegut
Catch-22 – Joseph Heller
Chain – Adrian McGinty
Chain Gang All Stars – Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Children of God Go Bowling – Shannon Olson
Circe – Madeline Miller
City of Thieves – David Benioff
City We Became – NK Jemisin
Climate Justice – Mary Robinson
Cloud Cuckoo Land – Anthony Doerr
Cold Millions – Jess Walter
Confessions of a Memory Eater – Pagan Kennedy
Conversations with Friends – Sally Rooney
Crying in H Mart – Michelle Zauner
Curious Incident of the Dog…- Mark Haddon
Daisy Jones & the Six – Taylor Jenkins Reid
Dark Matter- Blake Crouch
Dear Committee Members – Julie Schumacher
Demon Copperhead – Barbara Kingsolver
Devil in the White City – Eric Larson
Devil’s Snake Curve – Josh Ostergaard
Devolution – Max Brooks
Dinner – Herman Koch
Dispossessed – Ursula K. LeGuin
Dog Stars – Peter Heller
Dracula – Bram Stoker
Dry – Augusten Burroughs
Dud Avocado – Elaine Dundy
Dune – Frank Herbert
Dutch House – Ann Patchett
Educated – Tara Westover
Eight Billion Genies – Charles Soule & Ryan Browne
Eleanor & Park – Rainbow Rowell
Ender’s Game – Orson Scott Card
Epicure’s Lament – Kate Christensen
Fates and Furies – Lauren Groff
Fault in Our Stars – John Green
Fellow Travelers – Thomas Mallon
Fifth Season – N.K. Jemisin
Final Girl Support Group – Grady Hendrix
Financial Lives of the Poets – Jess Walter
First Fifteen Lives of Harry August – Claire North
Fleishman is in Trouble – Taffy Brodesser-Akner
Fool – Christopher Moore
Frankenstein – Mary Shelley
Freedom – Jonathan Franzen
Friday Night Lights – H.G. Bissinger
Game of Thrones – George R.R. Martin
Gargoyle – Andrew Davidson
Geek Love – Katherine Dunn
Gentleman in Moscow – Amor Towles
Girl on the Train – Paula Hawkins
Girl with the Dragon Tattoo – Stieg Larsson
Glass Castle – Jeannette Walls
Glass Hotel – Emily St. John Mandel
Go Set a Watchman – Harper Lee
God of the Woods – Liz Moore
Golem and the Jinni – Helene Wecker
Good in Bed – Jennifer Weiner
Good Omens – Terry Pratchett
Good Thief – Hannah Tinti
Goodbye Lemon – Adam Davies
Graveyard Book – Neil Gaiman
Great Gatsby – K. Woodman-Maynard
Guest List – Lucy Foley
Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets – J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child – J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire – J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince – J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix – J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban – J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone – J.K. Rowling
Hate U Give – Angie Thomas
Heaven and Earth Grocery Store – James McBride
Help – Kathryn Stockett
High Fidelity – Nick Hornby (Feb 2004, 1st book event)
History of Love – Nicole Krauss
Homegoing – Yaa Gyasi
Horse – Geraldine Brooks
Hotel New Hampshire John Irving
House of Tomorrow – Peter Bognanni
How Should a Person Be? – Sheila Heti
How Star Wars Conquered the Universe – Chris Taylor
How to Be Perfect – Mike Schur
Humans – Matt Haig
Hunger Games – Suzanne Collins
Hunger Games: Catching Fire – Suzanne Collins
Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Suzanne Collins
I Cheerfully Refuse – Leif Enger
I Have Some Questions for You – Rebecca Makkai
I Must Betray You – Rupa Sepetys
If You Lived Here You’d Already Be Home – John Jodzio
Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks – Rebecca Skloot
Ink Blood Sister Scribe – Emma Törzs
James – Percival Everett
Just Kids – Patti Smith
Kafka on the Shore – Haruki Murakami
Kid – Dan Savage
Killers of the Flower Moon – David Grann
Kind Worth Killing – Peter Swanson
Kissing in Manhattan – David Schickler
Kitchen Confidential Deluxe – Anthony Bourdain
Kitchens of the Great Midwest – J. Ryan Stradal
Klara and the Sun – Kazuo Ishiguro
Lager Queen of Minnesota – J. Ryan Stradal
Leave the World Behind – Rumaan Alam
Lessons in Chemistry – Bonnie Garmus
Let the Great World Spin – Colum McCann
Lexicon – Max Barry
Liars & Saints – Maile Meloy
Life After Life – Kate Atkinson
Likeness – Tana French
Lincoln Highway – Amor Towles
Listen for the Lie – Amy Tintera
Little Children – Tom Perotta
Little Fires Everywhere – Celeste Ng
Locally Laid – Lucie Amundson
Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
Lonely Polygamist – Brady Udall
Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet – Becky Chambers
Looking Forward to It – Stephen Elliott
Losers Club – Richard Perez
Lost City of Z – David Grann
Love in the Time of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Love Monkey – Kyle Smith
Loyalty – Lisa Scottoline
Luster – Raven Leilani
Magicians – Lev Grossman
Magpie Murders – Anthony Horowitz
Maid – Nita Prose
Man Called Ove – Fredrik Backman
Martian – Andy Weir
Martyr! – Kaveh Akbar
Meet Me in the Bathroom – Lizzy Goodman
Mercury Pictures Presents – Anthony Marra
Mexican Gothic – Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Midnight Library- Matt Haig
Migrations – Charlotte McConaghy
Ministry of Time – Kaliane Bradley
Monkeewrench – P.J. Tracy
Monsters of Templeton – Lauren Groff
Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore- Robin Sloan
My Brilliant Friend – Elena Ferrante
My Heart is a Chainsaw – Stephen Graham Jones
Name of the Wind – Patrick Rothfuss
Namesake – Jhumpa Lahiri
Narrow Road to the Deep North – Richard Flanagan
Natasha – David Bezmozgis
Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro
Nickel Boys – Colson Whitehead
Nineties – Chuck Klosterman
No One Belongs Here More Than You – Miranda July
Nothing to See Here – Kevin Wilson
Ocean at the End of the Lane – Neil Gaiman
Olga Dies Dreaming – Xóchitl González
Omnivore’s Dilemma – Michael Pollan
On Beauty – Zadie Smith
One Day – David Nicholls
Oreo – Fran Ross
Orphan Master’s Son – Adam Johnson
Other Einstein – Marie Benedict
Other Woman – Hank Phillipi Ryan
Out Stealing Horses – Per Petterson
Paper Girls – Brian K. Vaughan
Parable of the Sower – Octavia Butler
Passage – Justin Cronin
People’s Act of Love – James Meek
Playground – Richard Powers
Pretty Little Mistakes: A Do-Over Novel – Heather McElhatton
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies – Seth Grahame-Smith
Project Hail Mary – Andy Weir
Raw Shark Texts – Steven Hall
Ray of the Star – Laird Hunt
Ready Player One – Ernest Cline
Ready Player One – Ernest Cline (encore!)
Ready Player Two – Ernest Cline
Recursion – Blake Crouch
Remarkably Bright Creatures – Shelby Van Pelt
Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legend – Susan Orlean
Road – Cormac McCarthy
Room – Emma Donoghue
Round House – Louise Erdrich
Rules of Civility – Amor Towles
Saga Vol 1 + 2 – Brian K. Vaughan
Sea of Tranquility – Emily St. John Mandel
Seconds – Bryan Lee O’Malley
Secret History – Donna Tartt
Sellout – Paul Beatty
Sense of Ending – Julian Barnes
Sentence – Louise Erdrich
Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo – Taylor Jenkins Reid
Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs – Chuck Klosterman
Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Shining Girls – Lauren Beukes
Shotgun Lovesongs – Nickolas Butler
Silver Nitrate – Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Sisters Brothers – Patrick deWitt
Song of Achilles – Madeline Miller
Sparrow – Mary Doria Russell
Special Topics in Calamity Physics – Marissa Pessl
Stars and the Blackness Between Them – Junauda Petrus
Station Eleven Emily – St. John Mandel
Stumbling on Happiness – Daniel Gilbert
Submergence – J.M. Ledgard
Such a Fun Age – Kiley Reid
Survivor – Chuck Palahniuk
Swamplandia! – Karen Russell
Sweetbitter – Stephanie Danler
Temps – Andrew DeYoung
The Candy House – Jennifer Egan
The Circle – Dave Eggers
The Future – Naomi Alderman
The Librarianist – Patrick DeWitt
The Library at Mount Char – Scott Hawkins
The Marriage Portrait – Maggie O’Farrell
The Night Circus – Erin Morgenstern
The Nix – Nathan Hill
Theft – Peter Carey
Then We Came to the End – Joshua Ferris
They Can’t Kill Us until They Kill Us – Hanif Abdurraqib
Things They Carried – Tim O’Brien
This Is Where I Leave You – Jonathan Tropper
Time Traveler’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger
Tiny Beautiful Things – Cheryl Strayed
Tipping Point – Malcolm Gladwell
To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow – Gabrielle Zevin
Tragedy of Arthur – Arthur Phillips
Transcendent Kingdom – Yaa Gyasi
Turn of Mind – Alice LaPlante
Turn of the Key – Ruth Ware
Turner House – Angela Flournoy
Underground Railroad – Colson Whitehead
Untamed State – Roxane Gay
Vanishing Half – Brit Bennett
Vision 1 & 2 – Tom King
Visit from the Goon Squad – Jennifer Egan
Wake Up, Sir! – Jonathan Ames
WATCHMEN – Alan Moore
Water for Elephants – Sara Gruen
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves – Karen Joy Fowler
We Ride Upon Sticks – Quan Berry
We Were Liars – E. Lockhart
Wellness – Nathan Hill
When No One is Watching – Alyssa Cole
When Women Were Dragons – Kelly Barnhill
Where’d You Go Bernadette – Maria Semple
White Tiger – Aravind Adiga
Who is Maud Dixon – Alexandra Andrews
Wicked – Gregory Maguire
Wild – Cheryl Strayed
Wind-Up Bird Chronicle – Haruki Murakami
Wintering – Peter Geye
Writers & Lovers – Lily King
Y the Last Man – Brian K. Vaughan
Yellowface – RF Kuang
Yiddish Policemen’s Union – Michael Chabon
Zeitoun – Dave Eggers
Zeroville – Steve Erickson
| Books & Bars 2026 picks | ||
| Eight Billion Genies by Charles Soule | Jan | 300th book! |
| Heaven and Earth Grocery Store by James McBride | Feb | |
| Playground by Richard Powers | Mar | |
| I Cheerfully Refuse by Leif Enger | Apr | |
| Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar | May | |
| Beautyland by Marie-Helene Bertino | June | |
| Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler | Jul | |
| Skydaddy by Kate Folk | Aug |
2025:
All Fours by Miranda July JAN
Chain Gang All Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah FEB
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver MAR
Great Gatsby by K. Woodman-Maynard APRIL
Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley MAY
Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt JUNE
Listen for the Lie by Amy Tintera JULY
Yellowface by RF Kuang Aug
The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O’Farrell Sep
The Final Girl Support Group by Grady Hendrix OCT
The God of the Woods by Liz Moore NOV
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett DEC
2024:
Who is Maud Dixon by Alexandra Andrews 1/17 1/23
The City We Became by NK Jemisin 2/21 2/27 – 20 years of B&B, 277th book!
Olga Dies Dreaming by Xóchitl González 3/13 3/19
I Have Some Questions for You by Rebecca Makkai 4/17 4/23
When Women Were Dragons WITH Kelly Barnhill 5/15 5/21
Horse by Geraldine Brooks 6/19 6/25
Silver Nitrate by Silvia Moreno-Garcia 7/17 7/23
The Librarianist by Patrick DeWitt 8/21 8/27
Wellness by Nathan Hill 9/18 9/17
James by Percival Everett 10/16 10/22
Mercury Pictures Presents by Anthony Marra 11/20 11/26
The Future by Naomi Alderman 12/18 12/17
2023
Dec – Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann
Nov – Blood Ink Sister Scribe by Emma Torzs with author live
Oct – Dracula by Bram Stoker
Sep – Turn of the Key by Ruth Ware
Aug – Carrie Soto is Back by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Jul – Loyalty by Lisa Scottoline
Jun – Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel
May – Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
Apr – The Candy House by Jennifer Egan
Mar – I Must Betray You by Ruta Sepetys
Feb – Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
Jan – How to Be Perfect by Michael Schur
2022
Dec – 7 Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Nov – Paper Girls (complete) by Brian K. Vaughan and Cliff Chiang
Nov – Meet Me in the Bathroom by Lizzy Goodman (with Sound Unseen film fest/author event)
Oct – My Heart is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones
Sep – The Nineties by Chuck Klosterman
Aug – The Maid by Nita Prose
Jul – The Sentence by Louise Erdrich
Jun – Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner
May – The Temps by Andew DeYoung with author live
Apr – Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
Mar – Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr
Feb – The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles
Jan – Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
2021
Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz Jan 6, 2021
The Hotel New Hampshire by John Irving Jan 2021
2021:
Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz 1/6
The Hotel New Hampshire by John Irving 1/20
The Stars and the Blackness Between Them by Junauda Petrus 2/10
Anxious People by Fredrik Backman 2/24
The Chain by Adrian McGinty 3/10
The Cold Millions by Jess Walter 3/24
Devolution by Max Brooks 4/7/2020 Zoom
Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam 4/21/2021 Zoom
Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia 5/5/2021 Zoom
Wed Zoom and Thurs IN PERSON
Writers & Lovers by Lily King 5/19 Zoom and 5/20 Local Roots
When No One is Watching by Alyssa Cole 6/9 Zoom and 6/10 Local Roots
Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir 7/7 Zoom and 7/8 Local Roots
Luster by Raven Leilani (8/11 Zoom) and 8/12 Local Roots
Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy (9/8 Zoom) and 9/9 Local Roots
The Guest List by Lucy Foley (10/6 Zoom) and 10/7 Local Roots
Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi Nov
The Midnight Library by Matt Haig Dec
2020
Ready Player TWO by Ernest Cline Dec 16
Fleishman Is in Trouble by Taffy Brodesser-Akner Dec 2
The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel Nov 18
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett Nov 4
Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson Oct 20
We Ride Upon Sticks by Quan Berry Oct 7
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers Sep 23
The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead Sep 9
Educated by Tara Westover Aug 26
Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid Aug 11
Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney July 22
Circe by Madeline Miller July 8
The Dutch House by Ann Patchett June 24
The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton June 10
Recursion by Blake Crouch 5/27
WATCHMEN – Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons 5/13
The Lager Queen of Minnesota by J. Ryan Stradal 4/29
Daisy Jones & the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid 4/15
Mar – The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin
Feb – The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North
(and our 215th book together)
Jan – Climate Justice by Mary Robinson
2019
Jan – Burn Baby Burn by Meg Medina
Feb – Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
Mar – The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
Apr – Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin
May – Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
Jun – The Nix by Nathan Hill
Jul – A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
Aug – There There by Tommy Orange
Sep – Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
Oct – Locke & Key Vol 1 and 2 by Joe Hill & Gabriel Rodriguez
Nov – My Sister the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
Dec – Once Upon a River by Diane Setterfield
2018
Dec – Kitchen Confidential (updated deluxe) by Anthony Bourdain (our 200th book together!)
Nov – The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
Oct – The Passage by Justin Cronin
Sept – Dune by Frank Herbert
Aug – Vision vol 1-2, by Tom King
July – They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us by Hanif Abdurraqib
Jun – The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas (our book #194)
May – Fellow Travelers by Thomas Mallon with MN Opera (5/22)
May – All the Ugly and Wonderful Things by Bryn Greenwood
Apr – All the Ugly and Wonderful Things by Bryn Greenwood with MN Opera (4/24)
Apr – Bear Town by Fredrik Backman
Mar – Ready Player One by Ernest Cline at Dangerous Man, special re-read request
Mar – Fool by Christopher Moore with MN Opera (3/12)
Mar – Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
Feb – Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi (Books & Bars 14th birthday!)
Jan – Dead Man Walking by Sister Helen Prejean with MN Opera (1/23)
Book #186 – Jan – Before the Fall by Noah Hawley
2017
Dec – The Annie Year by Stephanie Wilbur Ash
Nov – Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Oct – Mozart’s Women by Jane Glover with MN Opera
Oct – The Other Einstein by Marie Benedict
Sept – Beautiful Ruins (re-read) by Jess Walter with MN Opera
Sept – Saga Vol 1 & Vol 2 (issues #1-12) by Brian K. Vaughan & Fiona Staples
(Sept marks Our 180/181st reads for the book club)
Aug – Wintering by Peter Geye
Jul – Dark Matter by Blake Crouch
Jun – Sweetbitter by Stephanie Danler
May – Locally Laid by Lucie Amundsen
Apr – The Sellout by Paul Beatty
Mar – The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
Feb – American Gods by Neil Gaiman
Jan – The Kind Worth Killing by Peter Swanson
2016
Dec – Fates & Furies by Lauren Groff
Nov – Kitchens of the Great Midwest by J. Ryan Stradahl
Oct – The Turner House by Angela Flournoy
Sept – Oreo by Fran Ross
Aug – Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
Based on an original new story by J.K. Rowling, Jack Thorne and John Tiffany, a new play by Jack Thorne, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is the eighth story in the Harry Potter series and the first official Harry Potter story to be presented on stage. The play will receive its world premiere in London’s West End on July 30, 2016.
July – My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
June – A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
May – The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins
Apr – Ancillary Justice By Ann Leckie
Mar – Blindness by José Saramago
Feb – The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan
Jan – The Circle by Dave Eggers
2015
Dec – How Star Wars Conquered the Universe – Chris Taylor
Nov – The Graveyard Book – Neil Gaiman
Oct – The Secret History – Donna Tartt
Sep – Go Set a Watchman – Harper Lee
Aug – Dear Committee Members by Julie Schumacher
July – Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
June – The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
May – We Were Liars by E. Lockhart
Apr – The Martian by Andy Weir
Mar – Shotgun Lovesongs by Nickolas Butler (our 150th read)
Feb – The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker
Jan – An Untamed State by Roxane Gay
2014
Dec – We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler
Nov – The Humans by Matt Haig
Oct – The Shining Girls by Lauren Beukes
Sept – Seconds by Bryan Lee O’Malley
Aug – The Devil’s Snake Curve by Josh Ostergaard
July – The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman
June – The Dinner by Herman Koch
May – Lexicon by Max Barry
April – Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell
March – The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien
February – Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
January – The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
2013
Dec – Submergence by J.M. Ledgard
Nov – Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan
Oct – Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter
Sept – The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
Aug – How Should a Person Be? by Sheila Heti
July – The Orphan Master’s Son by Adam Johnson
June 2013 – The Dog Stars by Peter Heller
May 2013 – Where’d You Go Bernadette by Maria Semple
Apr 2013 – Arcadia by Lauren Groff
Mar 2013 – The Round House by Louise Erdrich
Feb 2013 – Carry the One by Carol Anshaw (video chat)
Feb 2013 – The Other Woman by Hank Phillipi Ryan (road trip to Big Book Club Getaway at Mohegan Sun Casino, CT)
Jan 2013 – Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legend by Susan Orlean (video chat)
2012
Dec 2012 – Turn of Mind by Alice LaPlante
Nov 2012 – The Tragedy of Arthur by Arthur Phillips
Wed Nov 7 – Chanhassen / Nov 13th – Bryant Lake Bowl with Arthur Phillips video chat / Nov 20th – Amsterdam
October 2012 – TWO BOOKS – Pick to read one or both for our author visit with Cheryl Strayed as we cover
Tiny Beautiful Things and Wild. Strayed will be with us at Amsterdam and we’ll also return to 3x a month with Chanhassen added along with Mpls.
Sept 2012 – The Rules of Civility by Amor Towles. Author will join us at Bryant Lake Bowl on 9/11. We continue with 2nd Tues at BLB in 2012-2013.
Aug 2012 – Ready Player One by Ernest Cline – Mpls and St. Paul
July 2012 – The Sense of Ending by Julian Barnes – Mpls and St. Paul
June 2012 – The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach – Mpls and St. Paul
May 2012 – Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Tue, May 1 – The School II Chanhassen
Tue, May 8 – Aster Cafe – Minneapolis
Tue, May 15 – Amsterdam – St. Paul
April 2012 – The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt
Tue, Apr 3 – The School II Chanhassen
Tue, Apr 10 – Aster Cafe – Minneapolis
Tue, Apr 17 – Amsterdam – St. Paul
March 2012 – Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Tues, Mar 6 – The School II Chanhassen
Tues Mar 13 – Aster Cafe, Mpls
Tues, Mar 20 – Amsterdam Bar and Hall – St. Paul
February 2012 – Swamplandia! by Karen Russell
Feb 7 – The School II – Chanhassen
WEDNESDAY, Feb 15 – Aster Cafe – Minneapolis
WEDNESDAY, Feb 29 – Amsterdam Bar and Hall – St. Paul
January 2012 – Just Kids by Patti Smith
Jan 3- The School II – Chanhassen
Jan 10 – Aster Cafe – Minneapolis
Jan 17 – Amsterdam Bar and Hall – St. Paul
2011
December 2011 – Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
Dec 6 – The School II – Chanhassen
Dec 13 – Aster Cafe – Minneapolis
Dec 20 – Amsterdam Bar – St. Paul
November 2011 – Friday Night Lights by H.G. Bissinger
Nov 1st – The School II – Chanhassen
Nov 8th – Aster Cafe – Minneapolis
Nov 15th – Amsterdam Bar – St. Paul
October 2011 – The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson
Oct 4th – The School II – Chanhassen (Our 100th Discussion!)
Oct 11th – Aster Cafe – Mpls
9/29/11 – Room by Emma Donoghue
9/13/11 – The Lonely Polygamist by Brady Udall
8/9/11 – Room by Emma Donoghue
7/12/11 – HARRY POTTER DAY (all 7 books, with Azkaban being our 100th book) by J.K. Rowling
6/14/11 – The Help by Kathryn Stockett
5/10/11 – A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
4/26/11 – House of Tomorrow by Peter Bognanni (live appearance)
3/29/11 – The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
3/24/11 – Monkeewrench by P.J. Tracy
3/8/11 – Carter Beats the Devil by Glen David Gold
2/22/11 – One Day by David Nicholls
2/8/11 – The Adderall Diaries by Stephen Elliott
1/25/11 – The Likeness by Tana French
1/11/11 – The Financial Lives of the Poets by Jess Walter
2010
12/14/10 – Await Your Reply by Dan Chaon
11/23/10 – The Hunger Games Trilogy: The Hunger Games, Catching Fire, and Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
11/9/10 – To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
10/26/10 – If You Lived Here You’d Already Be Home by John Jodzio (live appearance)
10/12/10 – This Is Where I Leave You by Jonathan Tropper (with video chat)
9/14/10 – Blankets (an illustrated novel) by Craig Thompson
8/24/10 – (note: 4th Tuesday) – Zeitoun by Dave Eggers
7/13/10 – The Magicians by Lev Grossman (video chat)
6/8/10 – The Lost City of Z by David Grann
5/11/10 – Big Machine by Victor LaValle (video chat)
4/13/10 – Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann (Our 75th Meeting!)
3/23/10 – City of Thieves by David Benioff
3/9/10 – The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
2/23/10 – Ray of the Star by Laird Hunt (video chat)
2/9/10 – Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
(B&B 6th Anniversary)
1/26/10 – The History of Love by Nicole Krauss
1/12/10 – The Road by Cormac McCarthy
2009
12/09 The Good Thief by Hannah Tinti
(video chat with author)
Date: November 2009
Book: Beat the Reaper
Author: Josh Bazell
Date: October 2009
Book: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Author: Stieg Larsson
Date: September 2009
Book: The Dud Avocado
Author: Elaine Dundy
Date: August 2009
Book: The Time Traveler’s Wife
Author: Audrey Niffenegger
Date: July 2009
Book: Atmospheric Disturbances: A Novel
Author: Rivka Galchen
Date: June 2009
Book: Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex
Author: Mary Roach
Date: May 2009
Book: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Classic Regency Romance – Now with Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem!
Author: Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith
Date: April 2009
Book: Kafka on the Shore
Author: Haruki Murakami
Date: March 2009
Book: The Dispossessed
Author: Ursula K. LeGuin
Date: February 2009
Book: The Monsters of Templeton
Author: Lauren Groff
Date: January 2009
Book: No One Belongs Here More Than You
Author: Miranda July
Date: December 2008
Book: Out Stealing Horses
Author: Per Petterson
Date: November 2008
Book: The Yiddish Policemen’s Union
Author: Michael Chabon
Date: October 2008
Book: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Author: Junot Diaz
Date: September 2008
Book: Zeroville
Author: Steve Erickson
Date: August 2008
Book: Anansi Boys
Author: Neil Gaiman
Date: July 2008
Book: Lolita
Author: Vladimir Nabokov
Date: June 2008
Book: The Raw Shark Texts
Author: Steven Hall
Date: May 2008
Book: The Book Thief
Author: Markus Zusak
Date: April 2008
Book: Then We Came to the End
Author: Joshua Ferris
Date: March 2008
Book: Geek Love
Author: Katherine Dunn
Date: February 2008
Book: The Sparrow
Author: Mary Doria Russell
Date: January 2008
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