Fall Reads 2013

Lean In/Sheryl Sandberg
Velva Jean Learns to Fly/ Jennifer Niven
The Orphan Master's Son/ Adam Johnson
Twelve Years a Slave (with other slave narratives)/ Solomon Northup
Ship Fever /Andrea Barrett

Summer Reads 2013

Devil in the Grove/ Gilbert King (Pulitzer - nonfiction)
Flight Behavior/ Barbara Kingsolver
The Orchardist/ Amanda Coplin
Ten Days in a Madhouse/ Nellie Bly
The Baker's Daughter/ Sarah McCoy
Like Lesser Gods/ Mari Tomasi  (Naples Library Humanities Selection)
The Secretary/Kim Ghattas
The House Girl/ Tara Conklin
Defending Jacob/William Landay
Sum It Up/Pat Summit
Abide with Me/ Elizabeth Strout
The Sisterhood/Helen Bryan
TransAtlantic/Colum McCann
Ernie's Ark (related short stories)/ Monica Wooid
Any Bitter Thing/Monica Wood
My Only Story/Monica Wood
Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker/Jennifer Chiaverini
You Are One of Them/Elliott Holt

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