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What the Social Book Munch Brunch Bunch is reading/ has read:

2024

January—“Hello Beautiful” by Ann Napolitano
February—“Demon Copperhead” by Barbara Kingsolver
March–“The Bookbinder” by Pip Williams
April–Marriage Portrait” byMaggie O’Farrell
May–“Dangerous Business” by Jane Smiley
June: “A Fever in the Heartland” by Timothy Egan
July: “Invisible Man” by Ralph Ellison
August: “The River We Remember” by William Kent Krueger
September: “Tom Lake” by Ann Patchett and “Venco” by Cherie Dimaline
October: “The Fraud” by Zadie Smith
November: “Heaven and Earth Grocery Store” by James McBride
December: “The Wager” by David Grann

2023

January — “If I Survive you” by Jonathan Escoffery
February — “Less in Lost” by Andrew Sean Greer
March —“Woman of Light” By KaliFarjardo-Anstine
April — “South to America” by Imani Perry
May — “The Rabbit Hutch” by Tess Gunty
June — “Horse” by Geraldine Brook
July — “The Candy House” by Jennifer Egan
August — “The Many Daughters” of Afong Moy by Jamie Ford
September — “The Dictionary of Lost Words” by Pip Williams
October — “Mercury Pictures Presents” by Anthony Marra
November — “The Sentence” by Louise Erdrich
December — “Lucy by the Sea” by Elizabeth Strout

2022

January —“This Tender Land” by William Kent Krueger
February — “The Night Watchman” by Louise Erdrich

March: — “Oh William!” by Elizabeth Strout

April: “Klara and the Sun” by Kazoo Ishuguro

May: “The Personal Librarian” by Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray
June: “Snuggie Bain” by Douglas Stuart
July: “Cloud Cuckoo Land” by Anthony Doerr
August: “The Lincoln Highway” by Amore Towles
September: “The Sweetness of Water” by Nathan Harris
October: “Great Circle” by Maggie Shipstead
November: “Hell of a Book” by Jason Mott

December: “Hamnet” by Maggie O’Farrell

2021

November: “The Upswing” by Robert Putnam
October: ”No Stopping Us Now” by Gail Collins
September: “Caste” by Isabel Wilkerson
August: “What Are You Going Through” by Sigrid Nunez
July: “Flight Behavior” by Barbara Kingsolver
June: “The Keepers of the House” by Shirley Ann Grau
May: “The Lying Life of Adults: by Elena Ferrante
April: “Redhead by the Side of the Road” by Anne Tyler
March: “The Remains of the Day” by Kazuo Ishiguro
February: “Radium Girls” by Kate Moore
January: “Becoming” by Michelle Obama

2020

December 2020 – “Nickel Boys” by Colson Whitehead
November 2020 – “The Overstory” by Richard Powers
October 2020 – “Unsheltered” by Barbara Kingsolver
September 2020 – “All Blood Runs Red” by Phil Keith and Tom Clavin
August 2020 – “Circe” by Madeline Miller
July 2020 – “The Dutch House” by Ann Pachett
June 2020 – “Olive , Again” by Elizabeth Strout
May 2020 – “Talking to Strangers” by Malcom Gladwell
April 2020 — “Beartown” by Fredrik Backman
March 2020 – “City of Girls” by Elizabeth Gilbert
February – “Women’s Hour” by Elaine Weiss – Spoke in Ev

2019

December 2019 –”The Book of Delights” by Ross Gay
November 2019 – “The Power” by Naomi Alderman
October 2019 – “Women Rowing North”
September 2019– “Bowlaway” by Elizabeth McCaracken
August 2019 – “The Library Book” by Susan Orlean
July 2019 – “The Ancient Nine” by Ian K. Smith
June 6, 2019 – “Where the Crawdads Sing” by Delia Owens
May 9, 2019 – ” The Plot Against America” by Phillip Roth
April 4, 2019 – “There There” by Tommy Orange
March 2019 — “The Red Pyramid” by Rick Riordan
March 7, 2019 – “The Friend, a Novel” by Sigrid Nunez

2018

Dec. 6, 2018 – “Less” by Andrew Sean Greer
Nov. 8, 2018 – “Southernmost” by Silas House
Oct. 4, 2018 – “Educated: a Memoir” by Tara Westover
Sept. 6, 2018 – “The Female Persuasion” by Meg Wolitzer
Aug. 9 – “The Death and Life of the Great Lakes” by Dan Egan
July 13 – “The Story of Arthur Truluv” by Elizabeth Berg
July ——“Sing, Unburied, Sing” by Jesmyn Ward
June ——“The Left Hand of Darkness” by Ursula K. LeGuin
May —— “Racism Without Racists” by Eduardo Bonilla-Silva
April 2018 – “The Red Badge of Courage” by Stephen Crane
March 2018 –

2017

December, 2017 – “Ordinary Grace” by William Kent Kreuger
Nov. 2, 2017 – “America’s Women – 400 years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates and Heroines” by Gail Collins
October 2017 – “The Underground Railroad” by Colson Whitehead
September 7, 2017 – “Ministry of Utmost Happiness” by Arundhai Roy
August 3, 2017 – “The Girl Who Sang to the Buffalo” by Kent Nerburn.
July 2017 – “Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI” by David Grann
June 2017 – “A Man Called Ove,” by Fredrick Backman
May 11, 2017 – “Commonwealth,” by Ann Patchett
April 6, 2017 – “Midnight in Broad Daylight,” by Pamela Rotner Sakamoto
March 9, 2017 – “My Brilliant Friend,” by Elena Ferrante

2016

December 2016 – Our discussion of our other favorite books of the year
November 3, 2016 – “Oleander Girl,” by Divakaruni
October 2016 – “Loving Frank,” by Nancy Horan
September 2016 – “The Mocking Bird Next Door” by Marja Mills
August 2016 – “In the Unlikely Event” by Judy Blume
July 2016 – “Necessary Lives” by Diane Chamberlin
June 2016 – “My Kitchen Year” by Ruth Reichl
May 2016 – “Little Women” by Louisa Mae Alcott
April 2016 – “Between the World and Me” Ta-Neisi Coates
March 2016 – “The Boys in the Boat” by Daniel James Brown

2015

December 2015 – “The Secret of Wonder Woman” by Jill Lepore
November 4 2015 – Author of Orange is the New Black appearing at the Victory
October 2015 – “All the Light You Cannot See” by
September 2015 – “Go Set a Watchman” by Harper Lee
August 2015 – “Cleopatra: A Life” by Stacy Schiff
July 2015 – “Cover Her Face” by P.D. James
June 2015 – “Confederates in the Attic – Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War” by Tony Horwitz
May 2015 – “Leaving Time” by Jodi Picoult
April 2015 – “Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Coast Trail” by Cheryl Strayed
March 2015 – Snowed out
February 2015
January 8, 2015 “And the Mountains Echoed” by Khaled Hosseini

2014

December 2014 Discussion of personal favorite books of the year
November 2014 “The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
October 2014 “In the Garden of the Beasts” by Erik Larsen (one Book)
August 2014 “Bel Canto” by Ann Patchett
July 2014 “Lean In” by Sheryl Standberg
June 2014 “The Time Travellers Wife” by Audrey Niffenegger
May 2014 “The Golem and the Jinnii”
April “Walden” by Thoreau
March 2014 – “Mornings on Horseback”– Mornings on Horseback”
Feb. 13, 2014 – “Arcadia” by Laureen Groff
January 9, 2014 – “A Land More Kind Than Home” by Wesley Cash
- or “The Marvelous Bones of Time.” By Brenda Coultas

2013

December 2013 Cancellation 0Snowed Out
November 2013 “A Land More Kind Than Home” by Wesley Cash
October 2013 ” Hidden America: From Coal Miners to Cowboys, an Extraordinary Exploration of the Unseen People Who Make This Country Work by Jeanne Marie Laskas — One Book
September 2013 “The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope” by William Kamkwamba
July 31, 2013 “Paperboy” by Vince Vawter
June
May 2013 “Best Exotic Marigold Hotel”
April
March 19, 2013 – “A Singular Woman: The Untold story of Barack Obama’s Mother” by Janny Scott
Feb. 7, 2013 – “The End of Your Life Book Club by Will Schwalbe
Jan. 10, 2013 “A Tale of Two Cities” by Dickens

2012

Dec. 6 , 2012 – Discussion favorite books of the year
November “A Visit From the Goon Squad” by Jennifer Egan
Oct. 4, 2012 – “Emma,” by Jane Austen
Sept. 6, 2012 – “A Prayer for Owen Meany,” by John Irving
August 2012 Cancelled
July 2012 – cancelled The White Seed by Paul Clayton
June 2012 “Emma” by Jane Austen
May: “White Seed” by Paul Clayton
April 12, 2012 – “The Tao of Equus,” by Linda Kohanov
March 2012 “The Martian Chronicles” by Ray Bradbury
Feb. 2, 2012 – “Beach Music,” by Pat Conroy
January, 2012: “The Day I Ate Whatever I Wanted” by Elizabeth Berg

2011

Dec. 1, 2011, — “The Little Prince” by Saint Exupery
November, 2011 – The Color of Water” by James McBride
October 6, 2011 – “Once Upon a River,” by Bonnie Jo Campbell
September 30, 2011 – “The Last Days of Summer,” by Steve Kluger
August 4, 2011 – “The Lacuna,”
May 5, 2011 – “In the Hand of Dante,” by Nick Tosches

2010

September 2010
August 2010 – “The Outliers” by Malcom Gladwell
June 2010 :The Washingtons of Wessyngton Plantation: Stories of My Family’s Journey to Freedom by John F. Baker (Rosi)
May 2010 “The Yiddish Policeman’s Union” by Michael Chabon
April 2010Voices of a People’s History of the United States
March – “The Tao of Equus” by Linda Kohanov (Linda C)
February – “The Late hector Kipling ” by David Thewlis (Lynne M.)
January 2010 “Eat, Pray, Love”

2009

December– “Edgar Sawtelle” by David Wroblewski
November – “Where there’s a will There’s a Way: Or, All I Really Need to Know, I Learned from Shakespeare” by Laurie Maguire
October- “Pride and Prejudice” by Jane Austen
September – “Tall Woman” by Wilma Dykeman
August- “Peace Like a River”
July-
June – “Guernsey Potato Peel Pie Society,”
May 7,2009 “The Girl with the Dragon Tatoo,” Stieg Larsson
April 2, 2009 “Possessing the Secret of Joy” by Alice Waters
March- The Devil In The White City by Erik Larson (Selected by Rosie Weatherwax)
March 31, 2009 Voted on Name for the club (“overwhelming choice was WHAM BAM: Women having a meeting because books are marvelous
February — Letters to my Daughter by Maya Angelou (selected by Lynne Mlady)
January: “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao”