I’ve been participating in the Book Group discussions at the Haston Free Public Library in North Brookfield since March 2003. Here is a list of the books we’ve read since then.

Our book for October 2019 meeting is Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women.

2019

• Sep-Lafayette in the Somewhat United States
• Aug-Hunchback of Notre Dame
• Jun-The Life We Bury
• May-Crack in the Edge of the World
• Apr-Favorite Poems
• Mar-Delight of Being Ordinary
• Feb-Killers of the Flower Moon
• Jan-Go Went Gone

2018

• Nov-Longitude
• Oct-A Man Called Ove
• Sep-Soul of an Octopus
• Aug-The Plague
• Jun-Brunelleschi’s Dome
• May-Man in the High Castle
• Apr-“Common Threads: Eight Poems on Connection”
• Mar-The Sympathizer
• Feb-The Wright Brothers
• Jan-The Good Earth

2017

• Nov-Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
• Oct-Things Fall Apart
• Sep-Arcadia
• Aug-Cape Cod
• Jun-Valiant Ambition
• May-The Boston Girl
• Apr-Favorite Poems
• Mar-Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life
• Feb-Girl with a Pearl Earring
• Jan-The Oregon Trail: A New American Journey

2016

• Nov-The Cuckoo’s Calling
• Oct-Dead Wake
• Sep-Code Talker
• Aug-Master and Commander
• Jun-H Is for Hawk
• May-One Hundred Year Old Man Who Climbed out the Window
• Apr-“Common Threads: Seven Poems about Thresholds”
• Mar-American Canopy
• Feb-Orphan Master’s Son
• Jan-Boys in the Boat

2015

• Dec-Remains of the Day
• Oct-A History of Reading
• Sep-Light Between Oceans
• Aug-Orphan Train
• Jun-How We Got to Now
• May-TransAtlantic
• Apr-“Common Threads: Eight Poems on Love”
• Mar-Bunker Hill
• Feb-Plainsong
• Jan-Skeletons at the Feast

2014

• Dec-One Summer: America, 1927
• Oct-Lost Crown of Colonnade
• Sep-The Book Thief
• Aug-First American Revolution
• Jun-Nineteen Eighty-Four
• May-Cellist of Sarajevo
• Apr-“Common Threads: Ten Poems”
• Mar-Johnstown Flood
• Feb-San Miguel
• Jan-Outermost House

2013

• Nov-Art Forger
• Oct-Emperor of All Maladies
• Sep-The Talk-Funny Girl
• Aug-Churchill
• Jun-Istanbul Passage
• May-River of Doubt
• Apr-“Common Threads: Ten Pastorals”
• Mar-Tinkers
• Feb-The Proud Tower
• Jan-Cutting for Stone

2012

• Nov-1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
• Oct-Death Comes for the Archbishop
• Sep-Unbroken
• Aug-Great Expectations
• Jun-The Tiger’s Wife
• May-Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
• Apr-“Common Threads: Nine Poets and a Wealth of Readers”
• Mar-Tipping Point
• Feb-Hunger Games
• Jan-Common Ground

2011

• Nov-Housekeeping
• Oct-Rewilding the World
• Aug-Reading the Forested Landscape
• Jun-Killer Angels
• May-Ninnuock
• Apr-“Common Threads: Seven Poets and a Wealth of Readers”
• Mar-Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
• Feb-Their Eyes Were Watching God
• Jan-Endurance

2010

• Dec-Dark Tide
• Nov-A Walk in the Woods
• Oct-The Last Stand
• Sep-Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight
• Aug-Adventures of Tom Sawyer
• Jun-Bookseller of Kabul
• May-The Alchemist
• Mar-Animal Vegetable Miracle
• Feb-Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
• Jan-Sister Carrie

2009

• Dec-Black Elk Speaks
• Oct-Soul Mountain
• Sep-Bridge of San Luis Rey
• Aug-Truman
• Jun-To Kill a Mockingbird
• May-Emily Dickinson Is Dead
• Apr-Woman’s Voice, Woman’s Place
• Mar-Teacher Man
• Feb-Oracle Bones
• Jan-East of Eden

2008

• Nov-Three Cups of Tea
• Oct-Needful Things
• Sep-Dreams From My Father
• Aug-The Omnivore’s Dilemma
• Jun-Water for Elephants
• May-Original Sin
• Apr-Great Plains
• Mar-Time Traveler’s Wife
• Feb-Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
• Jan-Mayflower

2007

• Nov-Gilead
• Oct-Evening
• Sep-Breakfast at Tiffany’s
• Aug-Team of Rivals
• Jun-True North
• May-The Namesake
• Apr-Rats
• Mar-The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
• Feb-Friends of Eddie Coyle
• Jan-Heart of the Sea

2006

• Nov-Founding Mothers
• Oct-Hoopi Shoopi Donna
• Sep-The Secret Thief
• Aug-1776
• Jun-Secret Life of Bees
• May-A Cup of Tea
• Apr-Mountains Beyond Mountains
• Mar-Kite Runner
• Feb-Moving Violations
• Jan-Two Years Before the Mast

2005

• Nov-The Shipping News
• Oct-A Place for Us
• Sep-The Great Gatsby
• Aug-Face of an Angel
• Jun-Reading Lolita in Teheran
• May-Cod
• Apr-Lobster Chronicles
• Mar-Persuasion
• Feb-Waiting for Snow in Havanna
• Jan-Devil in the White City

2004

• Nov-Bel Canto
• Oct-Da Vinci Code
• Sep-The Name of War
• Aug-Life of Pi
• Jun-Beloved
• May-The Color of Water
• Apr-All the Pretty Horses
• Mar-Into Thin Air
• Feb-Undaunted Courage
• Jan-Rabbit Run

2003

• Nov-Atonement
• Oct-Empire Falls
• Sep-Galileo’s Daughter
• Aug-John Adams
• Jun-Road from Coorain
• May-The Hobbit
• Apr-Seabiscuit
• Mar-Islam: A Short History