Spring Reads 2013

Freeman/Leonard Pitts, Jr.****
Olive Kitteredge/ Elizabeth Strout*****
The Burgess Boys/Elizabeth Strout *****
The Widow's War/Sally Gunning ****
The Round House/ Louise Erdrich *****
Wash/ Margaret Wrinkle *****

Winter Reads 2013

Mrs. Kennedy and Me/ Clint Hill with Lisa McCubbin *****
Prague Winter/ Madeleine Albright ****
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao/ Junot Diaz *****
An Echo Through the Snow/ Adrea Thalasinos****

Fall Reads 2012

The Big Roads: The Untold Story/ Earl Swift*****
The Red Chamber/Pauline Che****
Wesley the Owl/ Stacey O"Brien*****
When We Were the Kennedys/ Monica Wood *****
Wilderness/ Lance Weller
Counselor: A Life at the Edge of History/ Ted Sorensen *****
Wild/ Cheryl Strayed*****

New England Summer Reads 2012

Running the Rift/ Naomi Benaron*****
Unbroken/Laura Hillenbrand*****
The Audacity of Hope/Barack Obama****
AWOL on the Appalachian Trail/David Miller****
The Hunger Games/Suzanne Collins****
Catching Fire/Suzanne Collins****
Mockingjay/ Suzanne Collins****
The Long Way Home/ Karen McQuestion***
Dreams of my Father/Barack Obama*****
The Last Explorer/ Simon Nasht ******
A Night to Remember/ Walter Lord*****
Calico Joe/John Grisham****
Behind the Beautiful Forevers/Katherine Boo ******
Canada/Richard Ford******
The Kitchen House/Kathleen Grissom ****
The Sandcastle Girls/Chris Bohjalian *****
The Snow Child/Eowyn Ivey*****
The Chaperone/Laura Moriarty ****

Winter 2011-12 Reads

The Housekeeper and the Professor/ Yoko Ogawa *****
Life in a Jar/Jack Mayer ******
Steve Jobs/Walter Isaacson *****
Catherine the Great/Robert K. Massie ****
The Autobiography of Mrs. Tom Thumb/Melanie Benjamin
Tender at the Bone/ Ruth Reichl
A Covert Affair/ Jennet Conant

Fall Reading List 2011

New Rating System: 0-5 *s, 5 the highest "must read"

Empire of the Summer Moon/ S.C.Gwynne *****
The Last Time I Saw Paris/ Lynne Sheene ***
Clarence Darrow - American Iconoclast/ Andrew E. Kersten ***
The Story of Beautiful Girl/ Rachel Simon*****
The Wild Girl/ Jim Fergus*****
The Red Garden/ Alice Hoffman ****
Strength in What Remains/ Tracy Kidder ******
Eden's Outcasts/ John Matteson *****
The Warmth of Other Suns/ Isabel Wilkerson *****
The Other Barack/ Sally H. Jacobs *****
we is got him The Kidnapping That Changed America/ Carrie Hagen****
The Wrong Blood/ Manuel De Lope ****
The Blue Orchard/ Jackson Taylor *****
Nightwoods/Charles Frazier****

Summer 2011 Good Reads

Caleb's Crossing/ Geraldine Brooks
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin/ Erik Larson
The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey/ Walter Mosley
Dear Bess/Letters of Harry Truman edited by Robert Ferrell
West of Here/Jonathan Evison
The Lake Shore Limited/Sue Miller
The Reading Promise/Alice Ozma
Rodin's Debutante/Ward Just
The Long Snapper/ Jeffrey Marx
A Night Too Dark/Dana Stabenow
Extraordinary, Ordinary People/Condoleezza Rice
River of Darkness/ Buddy Levy
Nothing Daunted/ Dorothy Wickenden
The Remembrances of Marietta Lufford/ Virginia Chute
The Slap/ Christos Tsiolkas
Papa Martel/Gerard Robichaud
Lost in Shangri-La: A True Story/ Mitchell Zuckoff
Madam Bovary's Daughter/ Linda Urbach
The Paris Wife/ Paula McLain
Mississipppi Mud/Edward Humes
Clara and Mr. Tiffany/ Susan Vreeland