Previous Selections

2003

April – The Lovely Bones (Alice Sebold)

May – Atonement (Ian McEwan)

July – Memoirs of a Geisha (Arthur Golden)

August – How to Be Good (Nick Hornby)

September – Cold Mountain (Charles Frazier)

October – Le Divorce/Le Mariage (Diane Johnson)

November – Oscar and Lucinda (Peter Carey)

December – About the Author (John Colapinto)

2004

February – The Corrections (Jonathan Franzen)

March – Cane River (Lalita Tademy)

April – Prague (Arthur Phillips)

May – Year of Wonders (Geraldine Brooks)

June – Sushi for Beginners (Marian Keyes)

July – A Woman of Passion (Virginia Henley)

August – Can You Keep a Secret? (Sophie Kinsella)

October – The Bonesetter’s Daughter/ The Hundred Secret Senses (Amy Tan)

November – The Secret Life of Bees (Sue Monk Kidd)

December – Drowning Ruth (Christina Schwarz)

2005

February – Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy)

March – The Kite Runner (Khaled Hosseini)

April – The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time (Mark Haddon)

May – Wicked (Gregory Maguire)

June – Tuesdays with Morrie (Mitch Albom)

July – The Birth of Venus (Sarah Dunant)

August – Jane Austen Book Club (Karen Fowler)

September – Couldn’t Keep It to Myself (Wally Lamb)

October – The Red Tent (Anita Diamant)

November – All That Matters (Wayson Choy)

December – A Complicated Kindness (Miriam Toews)

2006

February - Fall on Your Knees (Ann-Marie McDonald)

April – The Time Traveler’s Wife (Audrey Niffenegger)

May – Middlesex (Jeffrey Eugenides)

June – Brick Lane (Monica Ali)

July – Breakfast at Tiffany’s (Truman Capote)

August – The Left Hand of Darkness (Ursula K. Le Guin)

October – Three Junes (Julia Glass)

November – Daughter of Fortune (Isabel Allende)

December – Portrait in Sepia (Isabel Allende)

2007

February – Emma (Jane Austen)

March – Fahrenheit 451 (Ray Bradbury)

April – Kim: Empty Inside (Beatrice Sparks)

May - The Birth House (Ami McKay)

June - Enemy Women (Paulette Jiles)

July – On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (Ian Fleming)

August - Death on the Nile (Agatha Christie)

September - Saving Fish From Drowning (Amy Tan)

November – Still Life with Woodpecker (Tom Robbins)

December – The Mermaid Chair (Sue Monk Kidd)

2008

February – Gone With the Wind (Margaret Mitchell)

March - The Bridges of Madison County (Robert James Waller)

April - The Alchemist (Paulo Coelho)

May - Friday Night Lights (H.G. Bissinger)

June - Infidel (Ayaan Hirsi Ali)

July - Stardust (Neil Gaiman)

August - Guards! Guards! (Terry Pratchett)

September - Molokai (Alan Brennert)

November - Ender's Game (Orson Scott Card)

December - The Stupidest Angel: A Heartwarming Tale of Christmas Terror (Christopher Moore)

2009

February – A Thousand Splendid Suns (Khaled Hosseini)

March - Last Chance to See (Douglas Adams & Mark Carwardine)

April - Dooms Day Book (Connie Willis)

May - Gods Behaving Badly (Marie Phillips)

June - The Golden Spruce (John Valliant)

July - Any Bill Bryson Book

August - Eat Pray Love (Elizabeth Gilbert)

October - The Friday Night Knitting Club (Kate Jacobs)

November - My Sister's Keeper (Jodi Picoult)

December - Tim Burtons The Nightmare Before Christmas (Tim Burton)

2010

January - The Tiger Claw (Shauna Singh Baldwin)

March - The Secret River (Kate Grenville)

April - The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Mary Ann Shaffer)

May - The Art of Racing in the Rain (Garth Stein)

June - The Other Boleyn Girl (Phillipa Gregory)

July - Honolulu (Alan Brennert)

August - Snow Flower and the Secret Fan (Lisa See)

September - Watchmen (Alan Moore)

November - Shadow of the Wind (Carlos Ruiz Zafon)

December - Redbird Christmas (Fannie Flagg)

2011

January - Little Women (Louisa May Alcott) & March (Geraldine Brooks)

February - The Great Gatsby (F.Scott Fitzgerald)

April - Think and Grow Rich (Napolean Hill)

May - The Woman in White (Wilkie Collins)

June - Sarah's Key (Tatiana De Rosnay)

July - French Lessons: Adventures with Knife, Fork and Corkscrew (Peter Mayle)

August - Julie & Julia (Julie Powell)

October - The Help (Kathryn Stockett)

November - The Omnivore's Dilemma (Michael Pollan)

December - Room (Emma Donoghue)

2012

February - The Name of the Wind (Patrick Rothfuss)

March - Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (Jane Austen & Seth Grahame-Smith)

April - Lamb (Christopher Moore)

May - Six Suspects (Vikas Swarup)

June - Chrysalids (John Windham)

July - A Handful of Time (Kit Pearson)

August - The Hunger Games, Catching Fire, Mockingjay (Suzanne Collins)

September -Beside a Burning Sea (John Shors)

November - The Lake of Dreams (Kim Edwards)

December  - The Virgin Cure (Ami McKay)


2013

February - The Night Circus (Erin Morgenstern)

March - Never Let Me Go (Kazuo Ishiguro)

April - Once Were Warriors (Alan Duff)

May - Cloud Atlas (David Mitchell)

June -  Secret Daughter (Shilpi Gowda)

July - Bard on the Beach Performance (Twelfth Night)

August - Shakespeare Movie Night and Potluck (Much Ado About Nothing)

September - The Paris Wife (Paula McLain)

November -  The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Rebecca Skloot)

December - Fifty Shades of Grey Trilogy (EL James)


2014

February - Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (Robert Pirsig)

March -  Major Pettigrew's Last Stand: A Novel (Helen Simonson)

April - Galore (Michael Crummey)

May - Lean In: Women, Work, And The Will To Lead (Sheryl Sandberg)

June - Case Histories (Kate Atkinson)

July - The Jade Peony (Wayson Choy)

August - City of Glass (Revised): Douglas Coupland's Vancouver (Douglas Coupland);
                    Bard on the Beach (The Tempest)

September - Someday, Someday Maybe (Lauren Graham)

November - The Best Laid Plans (Terry Fallis)

December - Water for Elephants (Sara Gruen)


2015

February - Bossypants (Tina Fey)

March - For Today I Am a Boy (Kim Fu)

April - The Postmistress (Sarah Blake)

May - Call the Midwife (Jennifer Worth)

June - Mistress of the Art of Death (Ariana Franklin)

July - The Serpent's Tale (Ariana Franklin)

August - Grave Goods (Ariana Franklin)

October - An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth (Chris Hadfield)

November - Story of My Life (Jay McInerney)

December - The Descendants (Kaui Hart-Hemingo)


2016

February  - Yes Please (Amy Poehler)

March - We Were Liars (E. Lockhart)

April - The Illegal (Lawrence Hill)

May -  The Book Thief (Markus Zusak)

June -  The Secret History (Donna Tartt)

July -  Harry Potter Books 1-4

August - Harry Potter Books 5-7

September - The Martian (Andy Weir)

November - You're Never Weird on the Internet (almost) (Felicia Day)

December - The Chaperone (Laura Moriarty)


2017

February - Heart-Shaped Box (Joe Hill)

March - Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (Ransom Riggs)

April - The Flight of Gemma Hardy (Margot Livesey)

May - Sense and Sensibility (Joanna Trollope)

July - Northanger Abbey (Val McDermid) &  Emma (Alexander McCall Smith)

August - Eligible (Pride and Prejudice) (Curtis Sittenfeld)

October - The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian (Sherman Alexie)

November - The Secret Letters of the Monk who Sold his Ferrari (Robin Sharma)

December - Get In the Van (Henry Rollins)


2018

February - Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (J.K. Rowling)

March -  Sweet Tooth (Ian McEwan)

April - Away (Jane Urquhart)

May - People of the Book (Geraldine Brooks)

June - Caroline: Little House Revisited (Sara Miller)

July - Sex, Murder and a Double Latte (Kyra Davis)

August - Scrooge McF*ck (May Sage)

September - Cinnamon and Gunpowder: A Novel (Eli Brown)

November - The Nest (Cynthia D'aprix Sweeney)

December - The Alice Network (Kate Quinn)


2019

February - Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (J.D. Vance)

March - The Ghost Bride (Yangsze Choo)

April - Next Year in Havana (Chanel Cleeton)

May - The Feather Thief (Kirk Wallace Johnson)

June  - The Baker's Secret (Stephen P. Kiernan)

July - Girls Weekend at Keats; Where'd You Go Bernadette (Maria Semple)

September - Murder Mystery Party; The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle (Stuart Turton)

October - The Dollhouse (Fiona Davis)

November - The Family Next Door (Sally Hepworth)

December - Ready Player One (Ernest Cline)


2020

February - Educated - (Tara Westover)

March - The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (Taylor Jenkins Reid)

April - The Simple Wild - (K.A. Tucker)

May - Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine (Gail Honeyman)

June - Daisy Jones and the Six (Taylor Jenkins Reid)

July - Station Eleven (Emily St. John Mandel)

September - The Man in the High Castle (Philip K. Dick)

October - Artemis (Andy Weir)

November - Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness (Peter Godfrey-Smith)

December - Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet (Jamie Ford)


2021

February - Dark Matter (Blake Crouch)

March - The Atomic City Girls (Janet Beard)

April - Universe of Two (Stephen P. Kiernan)

May - The Other Einstein (Marie Benedict)

June - A Deadly Education (Naomi Novik)

July - The Midnight Library (Matt Haig)

September - Life After Life (Kate Atkinson) 

October - Moon of the Crusted Snow (Waubeshig Rice)

November - The Personality Brokers (Merve Emre)
 
December - Maybe in Another Life (Taylor Jenkins Reid)


2022

February -  The Flight Girls (Noelle Salazar)

March - The Humans (Matt Haig)

April -  Gutter Child (Jael Richardson)

May - The Library Book (Susan Orlean)

June - The Vanishing Half (Brit Bennett)

July - The Bear and the Nightingale (Katherine Arden)

September - Gods of Jade and Shadow (Silvia Moreno-Garcia)     

October - The Rules of Magic (Alice Hoffman)

November - A Lullaby for Witches (Hester Fox)

December - The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek (Kim Michele Richardson)

2023

February - Greenwood (Michael Christie)

March - The Da Vinci Code (Dan Brown)

April - 20 Year Book Club Anniversary & 2003 Album Release Murder Mystery Party

May - Oryx and Crake (Margaret Atwood)

June - Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game (Michael Lewis & Vancouver Canadians Baseball Game at Nat Bailey Stadium

July - Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas (Tom Robbins) & Book Club Retreat at Keats

September - Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows (Balli Kaur Jaswal)

October - Purple Hibiscus (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie)

November - This is Where I Leave You (Jonathan Tropper)

December - Absolute Friends (John Le Carre)


2024

February - The Devil in the White City (Erik Larson)

March - A Woman is No Man (Etaf Rum)

April - The Boston Girl (Anita Diamant)

May - The Woman in the Library (Sulari Gentill)

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