Past Book Lists for Booktalk by year (incomplete)

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2024-2025

  • August 30 –Master, Slave, Husband, Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom by Ilyon Woo
  • September 27 — Joan is Okay by Weike Wang 
  • October 25 — As Long as the Lemon Tree Grows by Zoulfa Katouh 
  • December 6 — Fever in the Heartland by Timothy Egan 
  • January 31 — Fresh Water for Flowers by Valerie Perrin
  • February 28 — The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store by James McBride
  • March 28 — James by Percival Everett
  • April 25 — Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders

2023-2024

  • August 25 — Abe: Abraham Lincoln in his Timeby David Reynolds
  • September 29  – A Hell of a Book by Jason Mott
  • October 27 – A Madness of Sunshine by Nalani Singh
  • December 1 — Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
  • January 26 —  Trust by Hernan Diaz
  • February 23 — Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
  • March 29 —  Horse — Geraldine Brooks
  • April 26 – All the Beauty in the World by Patrick Bringley

2022-2023

    • August 26             The 1619 Project — Hannah-Jones
    • September 23    These Precious Days — Patchett
    • October 28      The Sentence — Erdrich
    • December 2      The Sum of Us — McGhee
    • January 27       Cloud Cukooland — Doerr
    • February 24      The River of the Gods — Millard
    • March 24        The Night Watchman — Erdrich
    • April 28         Allow me to Retort — Mystal

    2021-2022

    • August   Caste by Isabel Wilkerson
    • September 24The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates
    • October 29  Nomadland by Jessica Bruder
    • Dec 3 Premeditated Myrtle by Elizabeth Bunce
    • January 28  Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
    • February 25 The Coddling of the American Mind by Jonathan Haidt & Greg Lukainoff
    • March 25 Klara & the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
    • April 24  The Premonition by Michael Lewis

    2020-2021

    • August, 2020  — Dying of Whiteness by Jonathan Metzl
    • September 25, 2020 —  The Guest Book by Sarah Blake
    • October 23, 2020  — Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
    • November 20, 2020 —  Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
    • January 29, 2021 —    Dirt by Bill Buford
    • February 26, 2021  —  Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
    • March 26, 2021  — The Years that Matter Most by Paul Tough
    • Friday, April 23, 2021  — The Topeka School by Ben Lerner

 

2019-2020

  • August — And the Ladies of the Club by Helen Hooven Santmyer
  • Friday, September 27, 2019     Word by Word  by Kory Stamper
  • Friday, October 25, 2019    Beloved by Toni Morrison
  • Friday, November 22, 2019     The Feather Thief by Kirk Wallace Johnson
  • Friday, January 24, 2020         Becoming  by Michelle Obama
  • Friday, February 28, 2020       There There  by Tommy Orange
  • Friday, March 27, 2020            The Soul of an Octopus by Sy Montgomery
  • Friday, April 24, 2020        Open Read — Books to get you through the Pandemic

2018-2019

Friday, August, 2018   A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
Friday, September 28. 2018    Killers of the Flower Moon by David Gann
Friday, October 26, 2018       The Deaths on Pleasant Street by Chris Fowler
Friday, November 30, 2018   The Invisibility Cloak by Ge Fei
Friday, January 25, 2019        Americanah by  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Friday, February 22, 2019       Go Went Gone by Jenny Erpenbeck
Friday, March 29, 2019         Educated by Tara Westover
Friday, April 26, 2019   Factfulness by Hans Rosling and Anna Ronnlund
2017-2018
  • August, 2017  The Nix by Nathan Hill
  • Friday, September 29. 2017 Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
  • Friday, October 27, 2017 1493 by Charles Mann
  • Friday, December 1, 2017 Sellout by Paul Beatty
  • Friday, January 26, 2018 The Undoing Project by Michael Lewis
  • Friday, February 23, 2018 God’s Wolf by Jeffrey Lee
  • Friday, March 23, 2018  Al Franken, Giant of the Senate by All Franken
  • Friday, April 27, 2018  The Teagirl of Hummingbird Lane by Lisa See

2016-2017

      • August, 2016 The Boys in the Boat  by Daniel James Brown
      • Friday, Sept. 23, 2016 –Smoke Gets in Your Eyes byCaitlin Doughty
      • Friday, Oct. 28, 2016 — The Hour of the Land – by Terry Tempest Williams
      • Friday, Dec. 2, 2016 –Baba Dunja’s Last Love byAlina Bronsky
      • Friday, Jan. 27, 2016 — Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond
      • Friday, Feb. 24, 2016 — Excellent Daughters:The Secret Lives of Young Women Who Are Transforming the Arab World by Katherine Zoepf
      • Friday, March 24, 2016 —Hero of the Empire by Candice Millard
      • Friday, April 28, 2016 —Black Hole Blues by Janna Levin

2015-2016

  • August 2015 — All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
  • Friday, September 25, 2015  —   The Ruins of Us by Keira Parssian
  • Friday’ October 23, 2015   —    Deadly Wandering by Matt Richtel
  • Friday, November 20, 2015  —    We Are Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler
  • Friday, January 29, 2016  —    Jacksonland  by Steve Inskeep
  • Friday, February, 26, 2016   —   A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler
  • Friday, March 25, 2016  —     Dead Wake by Erik Larsen
  • Friday, April 22, 2016  —    Being Mortal by Atul Gwande

2014-2015

      • August, 20, 2014 — Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
      • Friday, September 26, 2014 — Wild by Cheryl Strayed
      • Friday October 24, 2014  —  The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson
      • Friday, November 21, 2014 — Five Days at Memorial by Sheri Fink
      • Friday, January 23, 2015  —  The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton
      • Friday, February 27, 2015 —  The Art of Mastering Soviet Cooking by Anya Von Bremzen
      • Friday, March 27, 2015  — Big Fat Surprise by Nina Teichotz
      • Friday, April 24, 2015 Spill Over by David Quammen

2013-2014

      • August, 2013 — Mrs. Lincoln’s Dressmaker by Jennifer Chiaverini
      • Friday, September 27, 2013 – Garden of the Evening Mists by Tan Twan Eng
      • Friday, October 25, 2013 – Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver
      • Friday, November 22, 2013 – Black like Me: 50th Anniversary Edition by John Howard Griffen
      • Friday, January 24, 2014  – The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker
      • Friday, February 28, 2014 – The Devil in the Grove by Gilbert King
      • Friday, March 28, 2014  – A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki
      • Friday April 25, 2014  – The Girls of the Atomic City by Denise Kiernan

2012-2013

      • August 2012 — Into the Silence by Wade Davis
      • September 28, 2012 —  The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
      • October 26, 2012  —   Destiny of the Republic  by Candace Millard
      • November 30, 2012 —   The Fat Years  by Koonchung Chan
      • January 25, 2013  —  In the Garden of the Beasts  by Eric Larson
      • February 22, 2013   — The Lost Memory of Skin by Russel Banks
      • March 29, 2013  — Beyond the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo
      • April 26, 2013  — Tear Out this Heart by Angeles Mastretta