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2023 Book Selections
January – The Girl with Seven Names: A North Korean Defector’s Story by Hyeonseo Lee (NF)
February – Amerikanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (F)
March – Unholy Messenger: The Life and Crimes of the BTK Serial Killer by Stephen Singular (NF)
2022 Book Selections
January – Privilege:A Novel, (f) Mary Adkins
February – Everything I Never Told You, (f) Celeste Ng
March – Annabel:A Novel, (f) Kathleen Winter
May– Dancing in the Mosque, (nf) Homeira Qaderi
June– Cloud Cuckoo Land, (f) Anthony Doerr
July – 1,000 Years of Joys and Sorrows: A Memoir, (nf) Ai Weiwei
August – Red at the Bone – (f) Jacqueline Woodson
September– Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted A Faith and Fractured A Nation, (nf) Kristin Kobes DuMez
October – Hum if you Don’t Know the Words (f) Bianca Marais
November – Born A Crime (nf) Trevor Noah
December – Miss Benson’s Beetle (f) Rachel Joyce
2021 Book Selections
January– The Braid by Laetitia Colombani
February– Just Mercy by Brian Stevenson
March– Elinor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
April– American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins
May– Once I Was You by Maria Hinojosa
June– The House That Love Built by Sarah Jackson
July– Indian Horse by Richard Wagamese
August– One for the Blackbird, One for the Crow by Olivia Hawker
September– Maisie Dobbs (Maisie Dobbs Mysteries Series Book 1) Kindle Edition by Jacqueline Winspear
October– Running with Sherman by Christopher McDougall
November– West With Giraffes by Linda Rutledge
December– The Power of Half– One Family’s Decision to Stop Taking and Start Giving Back by Hannah Salwen and Kevin Salwen
2020 Book Selections
January- The Rent Collector by Cameron Wright
February- The Home for Unwanted Girls by Joanna Goodman
March– Readers choice of any book by Toni Morrison
April- Still Life: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel (A Chief Inspector Gamache Mystery Book 1) by Louise Penny
May- The Blue Sweater: Bridging the Gap Between Rich and Poor in an Interconnected World by Jacqueline Novogratz
June- Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult
July- God’s Double Agent by Bob Fu
August- Sold on Monday: A Novel by Kristina McMorris
September- In the Bleak Midwinter: A Clare Fergusson and Russ Van Alstyne Mystery by Julia Spencer-Fleming
October- Unsheltered by Barbara Kingsolver
November- The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Michelle Richardson or The Giver of Stars by JoJo Moyes
December- Braiding Sweet Grass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
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