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Book Club: Book Club Picks Lists 2023

A guide for Book Club members and those not participating to find books that we are reading and discussing. Event updates are also available here.

Book List March

Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman
ISBN: 9780399140556
Publication Date: 1995
Anatomy: a Love Story by Dana Schwartz
ISBN: 9781250774156
Publication Date: 2022
John Adams by David McCullough
ISBN: 9780743223133
Publication Date: 2002
Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones
ISBN: 9780062244512
Publication Date: 2012
Kusama by Elisa Macellari
ISBN: 9781786277169
Publication Date: 2020
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
ISBN: 9780679775430
Publication Date: 1998
Trust by Hernan Diaz
ISBN: 9780593420317
Publication Date: 2022
March: Book One by John Lewis; Andrew Aydin; Nate Powell (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9781603093002
Publication Date: 2013
Triptych by Karin Slaughter
ISBN: 9780385339469
Publication Date: 2006
The Radium Girls by Kate Moore
ISBN: 9781492650959
Publication Date: 2018
The Alice Network by Kate Quinn
ISBN: 9780062654199
Publication Date: 2017
The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
ISBN: 9780451225245
Publication Date: 2007
The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah
ISBN: 9780312577230
Publication Date: 2018
Mask of Shadows by Linsey Miller
ISBN: 9781492660897
Publication Date: 2018
Code Girls by Liza Mundy
ISBN: 9780316352536
Publication Date: 2017
Laura Dean Keeps Breaking up with Me by Mariko Tamaki; Rosemary Valero-O'Connell (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9781626722590
Publication Date: 2019
Kindred: a Graphic Novel Adaptation by Octavia E. Butler; John Jennings (Illustrator); Damian Duffy (Adapted by)
ISBN: 9781613128626
Publication Date: 2017
The Song of the Cell by Siddhartha Mukherjee
ISBN: 9781982117351
Publication Date: 2022
Between Two Kingdoms by Suleika Jaouad
ISBN: 9780399588587
Publication Date: 2021
Carrie Soto Is Back by Taylor Jenkins Reid
ISBN: 9780593158685
Publication Date: 2022
The Invisible Life of Addie Larue by V. E. Schwab
ISBN: 9780765387561
Publication Date: 2020

Book List April

Labyrinth by Catherine Coulter
ISBN: 9781501193651
Publication Date: 2019
Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng
ISBN: 9781594205712
Publication Date: 2014
Just As I Am by Cicely Tyson
ISBN: 9780062931061
Publication Date: 2021
Feral Pride by Cynthia Leitich Smith
ISBN: 9780763659110
Publication Date: 2015
Take My Hand by Dolen Perkins-Valdez
ISBN: 9780593337714
Publication Date: 2023
Attack on Titan Omnibus 1 (Vol. 1-3) by Hajime Isayama
ISBN: 9781646513741
Publication Date: 2021
Flavor Girls by Loïc Locatelli-Kournwsky; Angel De Santiago (Colorist (comics))
ISBN: 9781684158898
Publication Date: 2023
The Meaning of Mariah Carey by Mariah Carey
ISBN: 9781250164681
Publication Date: 2020
The Many Deaths of Laila Starr by Ram V; Filipe Andrade (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9781684158058
Publication Date: 2022
Nixonland by Rick Perlstein
ISBN: 9780743243025
Publication Date: 2008
Legendborn by Tracy Deonn
ISBN: 9781534441606
Publication Date: 2020

Book List August

Hello Beautiful (Oprah's Book Club) by Ann Napolitano
ISBN: 9780593243732
Publication Date: 2023
The Kid by Ben Bradlee
ISBN: 9780316614351
Publication Date: 2013
River Sing Me Home by Eleanor Shearer
ISBN: 9780593548042
Publication Date: 2023
The Escape Artist by Jonathan Freedland
ISBN: 9780063112339
Publication Date: 2022
The Night Eaters: She Eats the Night (the Night Eaters Book #1) by Marjorie Liu; Sana Takeda (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9781419758706
Publication Date: 2022
The Botany of Desire by Michael Pollan
ISBN: 9780375501296
Publication Date: 2001
Coraline Graphic Novel by Neil Gaiman; P. Craig Russell (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780060825454
Publication Date: 2009
Love, Pamela by Pamela Anderson
ISBN: 9780063226562
Publication Date: 2023
Paris by Paris Hilton
ISBN: 9780063224629
Publication Date: 2023
A Walk Across America by Peter Jenkins
ISBN: 9780060959555
Publication Date: 2001
Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book One: Lightning Thief, the-Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book One by Rick Riordan
ISBN: 9780786856299
Publication Date: 2005
The Sisters of Auschwitz by Roxane van Iperen
ISBN: 9780063097629
Publication Date: 2021
Process by Sarah Stodola
ISBN: 9781477801086
Publication Date: 2015
The Daughter of Auschwitz by Tova Friedman; Malcolm Brabant; Ben Kingsley (Foreword by)
ISBN: 9781335449306
Publication Date: 2022

Book List September

The Gifted School by Bruce Holsinger
ISBN: 9780525534969
Publication Date: 2019
I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy
ISBN: 9781982185824
Publication Date: 2022
The Jim Dilemma by Jocelyn A. Chadwick
ISBN: 9781578060610
Publication Date: 1998
The Summer's End by Mary Alice Monroe
ISBN: 9781476709024
Publication Date: 2015
Second Nature by Michael Pollan
ISBN: 9780871134431
Publication Date: 1991
I'll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara; Gillian Flynn (Introduction by); Patton Oswalt (Afterword by)
ISBN: 9780062319784
Publication Date: 2018
The Collected Regrets of Clover by Mikki Brammer
ISBN: 9781250284396
Publication Date: 2023
Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke; M. D. Herter Norton (Translator)
ISBN: 9780393310399
Publication Date: 1993
Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur
ISBN: 9781449474256
Publication Date: 2015
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
ISBN: 9780812993547
Publication Date: 2015
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison (Afterword by)
ISBN: 9780679433736
Publication Date: 1993
Finding Me by Viola Davis
ISBN: 9780063037366
Publication Date: 2023

Book List November

Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
ISBN: 9780385547345
Publication Date: 2022-04-05
Discovering American History in England by Catherine Leitch
ISBN: 9781904832386
Publication Date: 2007
The Sleepwalkers by Christopher Clark
ISBN: 9780061146657
Publication Date: 2013
Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann
ISBN: 9780385534246
Publication Date: 2017
The Wager by David Grann
ISBN: 9780385534260
Publication Date: 2023
The Lost City of Z by David Grann
ISBN: 9781400078455
Publication Date: 2010
90 Minutes in Heaven by Don Piper; Cecil Murphey
ISBN: 9780800759490
Publication Date: 2004
Bad Blood by John Carreyrou
ISBN: 9781524731656
Publication Date: 2018
Lovely War by Julie Berry
ISBN: 9780451469939
Publication Date: 2019
The Vaster Wilds by Lauren Groff
ISBN: 9780593418390
Publication Date: 2023
Circe by Madeline Miller
ISBN: 9780316556347
Publication Date: 2018
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
ISBN: 9780062060617
Publication Date: 2012
The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
ISBN: 9780786868711
Publication Date: 2003
Good Vibes, Good Life by Vex King
ISBN: 9781788171823
Publication Date: 2018
William Shakespeare's Avengers: the Complete Works by Ian Doescher
ISBN: 9781683692072
Publication Date: 2021-09-28
Straw Dogs of the Universe by Ye Chun
ISBN: 9781646220625
Publication Date: 2023-10-17
The Walled City by Ryan Graudin
ISBN: 9780316405065
Publication Date: 2015-09-08
A Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin
ISBN: 9780553386790
Publication Date: 2011-03-22
His Dark Materials: the Golden Compass (Book 1) by Philip Pullman
ISBN: 9780440238133
Publication Date: 2003-09-09
Divergent by Veronica Roth
ISBN: 9780062024039
Publication Date: 2012-02-28
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
ISBN: 9780307454546
Publication Date: 2009-06-23
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (a Hunger Games Novel) by Suzanne Collins
ISBN: 9781338635171
Publication Date: 2020-05-19
A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas
ISBN: 9781619634442
Publication Date: 2015-12-03
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
ISBN: 9780399501487
Publication Date: 2003-12-16
Marvel Studios the Marvel Cinematic Universe an Official Timeline by Anthony Breznican; Amy Ratcliffe; Rebecca Theodore-Vachon
ISBN: 9780744081671
Publication Date: 2023-10-24
All My Sons by Arthur Miller
ISBN: 9780141185460
Publication Date: 2000-11-01
The Diamond Eye by Kate Quinn
ISBN: 9780062943514
Publication Date: 2022-03-29
Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano
ISBN: 9780593243732
Publication Date: 2023-03-14
Scott Pilgrim Vol. 1 by Bryan Lee O'Malley
ISBN: 9781932664089
Publication Date: 2004-08-14

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