SOCWBC Master reading List Established October 2008 2008 Oct The Time Traveler’s Wife Audrey Niffenegger Nov The Last Lecture Randy Pausch Dec Emma Jane Austin 2009 Jan Water for Elephants S. Gruen Feb Honeymoon w/ my Brother F. Wisner Mar Girl with the Dragon Tattoo S. Larsson Apr Life of PI Yann Martel May The Giver L. Lowery Jun The Secret Life of Bees Sue Kidd Jul 3 Cups of Tea G. Mortenson Aug Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Shaffer & Barrow’s Sep The Devil in White City Erik Larson Oct Darkly Dreaming Dexter J. Lindsey Nov Lucky Man: A Memoir Michael J.

Fox Dec A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens 2010 Jan The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane K. Howe Feb Around the World in 80 Dates Mar Girl who Played with Fire S. Larsson Apr A Thousand Splendid Suns K. Hossein May Saving Fish from Drowning Amy Tan Jun The Idiot Girls Adventure Club L. Notaro Jul The Help K. Sockett Aug The Lovely Bones A. Sebold Sep The Know It All A. J. Jacobs Oct The Shining Steven King Nov The Kite Runner K. Hosseini Dec n/a 2011 Jan Little Bee C. Clive

Feb One Day D. Nicholls Mar The Art of Racing in the Rain Stein Apr The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets Nest S. Larsson May Hotel on the Corner of Bitter & Sweet J. Ford Jun Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand H. Simonson Jul The Hunger Games S. Collins Aug Unbroken L. Hillenbrand Sep The Book Thief M. Zuzak Oct Room: A Novel E. Donaghue Nov The Glass Castle J. Walls Dec n/a 2012 Jan The Passage J. Cronin Feb Possession A. S. Bryant Mar 2 books: Catching Fire, and Mocking Jay S. Collins Apr Snow Flower and the Secret Fan Lisa See May Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar

Children R. Riggs Jun Saving CeeCee Honeycutt B. Hoffman Jul Poisonwood Bible Barbara Kingsolver Aug A Stolen Life Jaycee Lee Dugan Sep A Room with a View E. M. Forester Oct One Second After W. Forsten Nov Steve Jobs: A Biography W. Isaacson Dec n/a 2013 Jan Cutting for Stone A. Verghese Feb The Paris Wife Paula McCain Mar The Night Circus Erin Morgenstern Apr Love in the Time of Cholera Gabriel Garcia Marquez May “members choice” individual read and share Jun Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Rebecca Skoot Jul Daisy Fay and the Miracle Man Fannie Flagg Aug Spartan Gold Clive Cussler

Sep The Sound and the Fury William Faulkner Oct Lightning Dean Koontz Nov The End of Your Life Book Club Will Schwalbe Dec n/a 2014 January: Little Dorrit, by Charles Dickens February: The First Patient, by Michael Palmer March: The Orphan Train, by Christina Baker Kline April: The Namesake: A Novel, by Jhumpra Lahiri May: Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail, by Cheryl Strayed June: The Fault in Our Stars, by John Green July: Beautiful Ruins, by Jess Walter August: A Sliver of Light, by Shane Bauer, Joshua Fattal, and Sarah Shourd

September: Moloka'i, by Alan Brennert October: The Handmaid's Tale, by Margaret Atwood November: Homer's Odyssey, by Gwen Cooper 2015 December/January: The Goldfinch: A Novel, by Donna Tartt February: L'Affair, by Diane Johnson March: The Invention of Wings, by Sue Monk Kidd April: The Boys in the Boat, by Daniel James Brown May: Defending Jacob, by William Landay June: The Circle, by Dave Eggers July: The Rosie Project, by Graeme Simsion August: The Language of Flowers, by Vanessa Diffenbaugh September: Never Let Me Go, by Kazuo Ishiguro October: The Husbands Secret, by Liane

Moriarty November: Mary Coin, by Marisa Silver 2016 Jan: All The Light We Cannot See, by Anthony Doerr February: The Last Letter from Your Lover, By Jojo Moyes March: The Elegance of the Hedgehog, by Muriel Barbery April: The Mountain Story, by Lori Lansens May: The Marriage of Opposites, by Alice Hoffman June: The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry: A Novel by Gabrielle Zevin July: Indignation, by Philip Roth August: Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clarke, by B Dedman September: The Girl on the Train, by Paula Hawkins October: The Nightingale, by Kristin

Hannah November: A Man Called Ove: A Novel, by Frederik Bachman 2017 January: The Dovekeepers: A Novel. By Alice Hoffman Feb: The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving, by Jonathan Evison March: Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania, by Erik Larson April: The Sympathizer, by Viet Thanh Nguyen May: The Samurai's Garden, by Gail Tsukiyama June: The Girls: A Novel, by Lori Larson July: Where'd you go, Bernadette: A Novel, By Maria Semple August: Rules of Civility, by Amor Towles September: Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy October: The Haunting of Hill House by

Shirley Jackson November: A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles 2018 January: Lilac Girls by Martha Hall Kelly February: The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro March: I Called Him Necktie by Milena Michiko Flasar April: The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom May: Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng June: Devil in the White City by Erik Larson July: The Little Paris Bookshop by Nina George August: The Professor and The Madman by Simon Winchester September Read: Necessary Lies by Diane Chamberlain

October Read: The Death of Mrs Westaway by Ruth Ware November Read: Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate 2019 January Read: Pachinko by Min Jin Lee February Read: Commonwealth by Ann Patchett March Read: Need to Know by Karen Cleveland April Read: Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman May Read: Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult June Read: Educated: a Memoir by Tara Westover July Read: The Blood of Flowers by Anita Amirrezvani August Read: Fruit of the Drunken Tree by Ingrid Rojas Contreras September Read: Small Fry by Lisa

Brennan-Jobs October Read: Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier November Read: Sing Unburied Sing by Jesmyn Ward 2020 January Read: Outlander by Diana Gabaldon