Books

2021

January – Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz – Zoom only through May
January – The Hotel New Hampshire by John Irving
February – The Stars and the Blackness between Them by Junauda Petrus
February – Anxious People by Fredrik Backman
March – The Chain by Adrian McKinty
March – The Cold Millions by Jess Walter
April – Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre by Max Brooks

April – Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam

May – Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

May – Writers & Lovers by Lily King – IRL only, first at Local Roots

June – When No One is Watching by Alyssa Cole – Wed 6/9 & Thu 6/10 Local Roots

July – Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir  – 7/7 & 7/8 Local Roots

August – Luster by Raven Leilani – 8/11 & 8/12 Local Roots
September – Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy – 9/8 & 9/9 Local Roots

October – The Guest List by Lucy Foley – 10/6 Zoom & 10/7 Local Roots

November – Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi 11/10 Zoom

& 11/11 Local Roots (in event room)

December – The Midnight Library by Matt Haig

2020

January – Climate Justice by Mary Robinson
February – The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North
March – The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin (last in-person meeting before COVID-19 pandemic) April – Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid (first “virtual meeting” via Zoom)
May – Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons
May – Recursion by Blake Crouch (started a 2nd monthly meeting, also via Zoom)
June – The 71⁄2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
June – The Dutch House by Ann Patchett
July – Circe by Madeline Miller
July – Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney
August – Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid
August – Educated by Tara Westover
September – The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead.
September – The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers
October – We Ride Upon Sticks by Quan Berry
October – Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson
November – The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
November – The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel
December – Fleishman Is in Trouble by Taffy Brodesser-Akner
December – Ready Player One by Ernest Cline

2019

January – Burn Baby Burn by Meg Medina
February – Good Omens by Terri Pratchett and Neil Gaiman March – The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
April – Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin
May – Born A Crime by Trevor Noah
June – The Nix by Nathan Hill
July – A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
August – Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
September – There There by Tommy Orange

October – Locke & Key, Vol. 1 & 2 by Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez

November – My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinken Braithwaite

December – Once Upon A River by Diane Setterfield

2018

January – Before the Fall by Noah Hawley
February – Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
March – Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
April – Bear Town by Fredrik Backman
May – All the Ugly and Wonderful Things by Bryn Greenwood

June – The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
July – They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us by Hanif Abdurraqib

August – Vision 1 & 2 by Tom King
September – Dune by Frank Herbert
October – The Passage by Justin Cronin
November – The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

December – Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain

2017

January – The Kind Worth Killing by Peter Swanson

February – American Gods by Neil Gaiman
March – The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss

April – The Sellout by Peter Beatty

May – Locally Laid by Lucie Amundsen
June – Sweetbitter by Stephanie Danier
July – Dark Matter by Blake Crouch
August – Wintering by Peter Gaye
September – Saga Vol. 1 & Vol. 2 by Brian K. Vaughn and Fiona Staples

October – The Other Einstein by Marie Benedict

November – Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

December – The Annie Year by Stephanie Wilbur Ash

2016

January – The Circle by Dave Eggers
February – The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan

March – Blindness by José Saramago
April – Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie
May – The Library of Mount Char by Scott Hawkins
June – A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
July – My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
August – Harry Potter and the Cursed Child by John Tiffany and Jack Thome

September – Oreo by Fran Ross
October – The Turner House by Angela Flournoy
November – Kitchens of the Great Midwest by J. Ryan Stradahl

December – Fates & Furies by Lauren Groff

2015

January – An Untamed State by Roxane Gay
February – The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wicker
March – Shotgun Lovesongs by Nickolas Butler
April – The Martian by Andy Weir
May – We Were Liars by E. Lockhart
June – The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
July – Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
August – Dear Committee Members by Julie Schumacher

September – Go Tell A Watchman by Harper Lee
October – The Secret History by Donna Tartt
November – The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
December – How Star Wars Conquered the Universe by Chris Taylor

2014

January – The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
February – Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
March – Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell
April – The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien (with MN Hist. Theater play)

May – Lexicon by Max Barry

June – The Dinner by Herman Koch
July – The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman
August – The Devil’s Snake Curve by Josh Ostergaard
September – Seconds by Bryan Lee O’Malley
October – The Shining Girls by Lauren Beukes
November – The Humans by Matt Haig
December – We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler

2013

January – Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legend by Susan Orlean (author video chat)

February – Carry the One by Carol Anshaw (author video chat)
March – The Round House by Louise Erdrich
April – Arcadia by Lauren Groff

May – Where’d You Go Bernadette by Maria Semple

June – The Dog Stars by Peter Heller
July – The Orphan Master’s Son by Adam Johnson

August – How Should a Person Be? By Sheila Heti

September – The Fault in Our Stars by John Green

October – Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter

November – Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Book Store by Robin Sloan

December – Submergence by J.M. Ledgard

2012
January – Just Kids by Patti Smith
February – Swamplandia! By Karen Russell
March – Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
April – The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt
May – Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
June – The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach
July – The Sense of Ending by Julian Barnes
August – Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
September – The Rules of Civility by Amor Towles (live appearance)

October – Tiny Beautiful Things or Wild by Cheryl Strayed (live appearance)

November – The Tragedy of Arthur by Arthur Phillips (author video chat)

December – Turn of Mind by Alice LaPlante

2011

January – The Financial Lives of Poets by Joss Walter

January – The Likeness by Tana French
February – The Adderall Diaries by Stephen Elliott

February – One Day by David Nicholls

March – Carter Beats the Devil by Glen David Gold
March – Monkeewrench by P.J. Tracy
March – The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
April – House of Tomorrow by Peter Bognanni (live appearance)
May – A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
June – The Help by Kathryn Stockett
July – HARRY POTTER DAY (all 7 books, with Azkaban being our 100th book) by J.K. Rowling

August – Room by Emma Donoghue
September – The Lonely Polygamist by Brady Udall
October – The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson
November – Friday Night Lights by H.G. Bissinger
December – Freedom by Jonathan Franzen

2010

January – The History of Love by Nicole Krauss
January – The Road by Cormac McCarthy
February – Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card (B&B 6th Anniversary)

February – Ray of the Star by Laird Hunt (author video chat)
March – The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
March – City of Thieves by avid Benioff
April – Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann (our 75th meeting)

May – Big Machine by Victor Lavalle (author video chat)
June – The Lost City of Z by David Grann
July – The Magicians by Lev Grossman (author video chat)
August – Zeitoun by Dave Eggers

September – Blankets (an illustrated novel) by Craig Thompson
October – This is Where I Leave You by Jonathan Tropper (author video chat)

October – If You Lived Here You’d Already Be Home by John Jodzio (live appearance)

November – To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
November – The Hunger Games Trilogy: The Hunger Games, Catching Fire,

Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins December – Await Your Reply by Dan Chaon

2009

January – No One Belongs Here More Than You by Mirandy July

February – The Monsters of Templeton by Laura Groff
March – The Dispossessed by Ursula K. LeGuin
April – Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami

May – Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Classic Regency Romance—Now with Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem! By Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith

June – Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex by Mary Roach

July – Atmospheric Disturbances: A Novel by Rivka Galchen
August – The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
September – The Dud Avocado by Elaine Dundy

October – The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson

November – Beat the Reaper by Josh Bazell
December – The Good Thief by Hanna Tinti

2008

January – Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel Gilbert

February – The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell

March – Geek Love by Katherine Dunn
April – Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris

May – The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

June – The Raw Shark Texts by Steven Hall
July – Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
August – Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman
September – Zeroville by Steve Erickson
October – The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz

November – The Yiddish Policemen’s Union by Michael Chabon

December – Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson

2007

January – The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell

February – On Beauty by Zadie Smith
March – The People’s Act of Love by James Meek

April – Black Swan Green by David Mitchell

May – Absurdistan by Gary Shteyngart
June – Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marissa Pessi

July – Pretty Little Mistakes: A Do-Over Novel by Heather McElhatton

August – Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
September – Theft by Peter Carey
October – Wake Up, Sir! By Jonathan Ames

November – The Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan

December – Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

2006

January – Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs by Churk Klosterman

February – Children of God Go Bowling by Shannon Olson

March – The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
April – Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

May – Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

June – The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
July – The Devil in the White City by Eric Larson
August – Confessions of a Memory Eater by Pagan Kennedy

September – Goodbye Lemon by Adam Davies
October – Atonement by Ian McEwan
November – Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk
December – Case Histories by Kate Atkinson

2005

January – Bringing Down the House by Ben Mezrich

February – Little Children by Tom Perotta
March – The Epicure’s Lament by Kate Christensen

April – Love Monkey by Kyle Smith

May – Natasha by David Bezmozgls
September – The Book of Illusions by Paul Auster
October – The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil by George Saunders

November – Wicked by Gregory Maguire
December – Beautiful Stranger: A Memoir of an Obsession with Perfection

by Hope Donahue

2004

February – High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
March – Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Greely
April – Good in Bed by Jennifer Weiner
May – The Losers Club by Richard Perez
June – Blue Shoes by Ann Lamont
July – The Kid by Dan Savage
August – The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon

September – Kissing in Manhattan by David Schickler
October – Dry by Augusten Burroughs
November – Looking Forward to It: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying

and Love the American Electoral Process by Stephen Elliott

December – Liars & Saints by Maile Meloy