Booktalk List of Lists

2020-21

  • The Overstory  by Richard Powers
  • The Guest Book by Sarah Blake
  • Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
  • Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
  • Dirt by Bill Buford
  • Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
  • The Years that Matter Most by Paul Tough
  • The Topeka School by Ben Lerner

2019-2020

  • The Ladies of the Club by Helen Hoover Santmeyer
  • Word by Word  by Kory Stamper
  • Beloved by Toni Morrison
  • The Feather Thief by Kirk Wallace Johnson
  • Becoming  by Michelle Obama
  • There There  by Tommy Orange
  • The Soul of an Octopus by Sy Montgomery
  • Dying of Whiteness by Jonathan Metzl

2018-2019

  • A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
  • Killers of the Flower Moon by David Gann
  • The Deaths on Pleasant Street by Chris Fowler
  • The Invisibility Cloak by Ge Fei
  • Americanah by  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  • Go Went Gone by Jenny Erpenbeck
  • Educated by Tara Westover
  • Factfulness by Hans Rosling and Anna Ronnlund

2017-2018

  • The Nix by Nathan Hill
  • Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
  • 1493 by Charles Mann
  • Sellout by Paul Beatty
  • The Undoing Project by Michael Lewis
  • God’s Wolf by Jeffrey Lee facilitated
  • Al Franken, Giant of the Senate by All Franken
  • The Teagirl of Hummingbird Lane by Lisa See

2016-2017

  • The Boys on the Boat by Daniel Brown
  • The Hour of the Land – by Terry Tempest Williams
  • Smoke Gets in Your Eyes by Caitlin Doughty
  • Baba Dunja’s Last Love byAlina Bronsky
  • Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond
  • Excellent Daughters:The Secret Lives of Young Women Who Are Transforming the Arab Worldby Katherine Zoepf
  • Hero of the Empire by Candice Millard
  • lack Hole Blues by Janna Levin