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Meetings are held the first Tuesday of every month at 6:30 PM at the Peace Dale Library.
Our Book List
2023
- Halsey Street by Naima Coster
- The Kindest Lie by Nancy Johnson
- Island of Sea Women by Lisa See
- Arrest by Jonathan Lethem
- Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger
- The Family Chao by Lan Samantha Chang
- The Beekeeper of Aleppo by Christy Lefteri
- Unsheltered by Barbara Kingsolver
- Inside the O'Briens by Lisa Genova
2022
- A Woman of No Importance: the untold story of the American spy who helped win World War II by Sonia Purnell
- Ask Again, Yes by Mary Beth Keane
- A Long Petal of the Sea by Isabel Allende
- The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes
- When Ghosts Come Home by Wiley Cash
- All This Could Be Yours by Jami Attenberg
- There Your Heart Lies by Mary Gordon
- As Good As Gone by Larry Watson
- Northern Spy by Flynn Berry
- The Authenticity Project by Claire Pooley
- The Violin Conspiracy by Brendan Slocomb
- The Plot by Jean Hanff Korelitz
2021
- The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper by Phaedra Patrick
- Inheritance by Dani Shapiro
- The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
- Normal People by Sally Rooney
- I Am, I Am, I Am by Maggie O'Farrell
- Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid
- Talking to Strangers by Malcolm Gladwell
- The Library Book by Susan Orlean
- Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi
- A House Among the Trees by Julia Glass
- The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson
- The Secrets We Kept by Lara Prescott
2020
- The Dakota Winters by Paul Barbash
- Clock Dance by Anne Tyler
- Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover
- Washington Black by Esi Edugyan
- The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
- A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
- My Antonia by Willa Cather
- The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
- "Our Favorite Books"
- A Friend of Mr. Lincoln by Stephen Harrigan
- The Piano Tuner by Daniel Mason
- News of the World by Paulette Giles
2019
- Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
- Faithful by Alice Hoffman
- Varina by Charles Frazier
- A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
- Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate
- Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid that Sparked the Civil War by Tony Horwitz
- Transcription by Kate Atkinson
- Warlight by Michael Ondaatje
- The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion
- Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan
- There There by Tommy Orange
2018
- The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert
- The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen
- The Last Painting of Sarah de Vos by Dominic Smith
- Before the Fall by Noah Hawley
- The Sound of Gravel by Ruth Wariner
- The Music Shop by Rachel Joyce
- Lab Girl by Hope Jahren
- All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
- Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue
- Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn West
2017
- The Turner House by Angela Flournoy
- The Marriage of Opposites by Alice Hoffman
- LaRose by Louise Erdrich
- Claire of the Sea Light by Edwidge Danticat
- Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
- The Little Paris Bookshop by Nina George
- Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed
- The Boy Detective: A New York Childhood by Roger Rosenblatt
- Heroes of the Frontier by Dave Eggers
- The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown
- Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
- The Expatriates by Janice Y. K. Lee
2016
- China Dolls by Lisa See
- The Engagements by J. Courtney Sullivan
- Gold by Chris Cleave
- The Harder They Come by T. C. Boyle
- The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters
- The Secret Chord by Geraldine Brooks
- West of Sunset by Stuart O'Nan
- The Finest Hours by Michael Tougias
- Dead Wake by Erik Larson
- Mama Day by Gloria Naylor
- The Forgotten Waltz by Anne Enright
2015
- Arthur and George by Julian Barnes
- Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter
- The Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin by Jill Lepore
- The Chaperone by Laura Moriarty
- The Children's Crusade by Ann Packer
- Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki And His Years of Pilgrimage by Haruki Marukami
- The Love of My Youth by Mary Gordon
- Nora Webster by Colm Toibin
- Someone by Alice McDermott
- The Woman Upstairs by Claire Messud
2014
- The Aviator's Wife by Melanie Benjamin
- The Cat's Table by Michael Ondaatje
- Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
- The Dressmaker of Khair Khana by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
- A Hundred Flowers by Gail Tsukiyama
- Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann
- The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri
- The Sandcastle Girls by Chris Bohjalian
- Sandrine's Case by Thomas H. Cook
- San Miguel by T. C. Boyle
- That Old Cape Magic by Richard Russo
2013
- Blackberry Wine by Joanne Harris
- Caleb's Crossing by Geraldine Brooks
- Gardens of Water by Alan Drew
- Going Home to Glory by David Eisenhower
- An Irish Country Doctor by Patrick Taylor
- Nightwoods by Charles Frazier
- Red Wolf by Liza Marklund
- Sweet Tooth by Ian McEwan
- The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce
- The View from Castle Rock by Alice Munro
2012
- Aloft by Chang-rae Lee
- Broken by Karin Slaughter
- Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness by Alexandra Fuller
- Family Album by Penelope Lively
- Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson
- Run by Ann Patchett
- Shannon by Frank Delaney
- Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
- Still Alice by Lisa Genova
- The Submission by Amy Waldman
- Tortilla Curtain by T. C. Boyle
- Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford
2011
- Breakfast with Buddha by Roland Merullo
- Cleopatra by Stacy Schiff
- Faithful Place by Tana French
- The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
- Little Bee by Chris Cleave
- Mornings on Horseback by David McCullough
- Pompeii by Robert Harris
- The Postmistress by Sarah Blake
- Strength in What Remains by Tracy Kidder
- The Whistling Season by Ivan Doig
2010
- Animals in Translation by Temple Grandin
- The Broken Shore by Peter Temple
- Brother, I'm Dying by Edwidge Danticat
- The Comedians by Graham Greene
- Little Heathens by Mildred Armstrong Kalish
- Living Witness by Jane Haddam
- Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder
- Mudbound by Hillary Jordan
- The Piano Teacher by Janice Y. K. Lee
- Shanghai Girls by Lisa See
- The Tender Bar by J. R. Moehringer
- The Commoner by John Burnham Schwartz
2009
- Crashing Through by Robert Kurson
- Dreamers of the Day by Mary Doria Russell
- Forgery of Venus by Michael Gruber
- The Geography of Bliss by Eric Weiner
- Jackson's Dilemma by Iris Murdoch
- The March by E L. Doctorow
- Rebecca by Daphne DuMaurier
- Saffron Kitchen by Yasmin Crowther
- The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O'Farrell
- Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston
- The Zookeeper's Wife by Diane Ackerman
2008
- Blessings by Anna Quindlen
- Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell
- Born on a Blue Day by Daniel Tammet
- Brick Lane by Monica Ali
- Deafening by Frances Itani
- Founding Brothers by Joseph Ellis
- Garlic and Sapphires by Ruth Reichl
- North River by Pete Hamill
- The Old American by Ernest Hebert
- Peace Like a River by Lief Enger
- Snow Goose by Paul Gallico
- Winter of our Discontent by John Steinbeck
2007
- An American Summer by Frank Deford
- Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner
- Digging to America by Anne Tyler
- Fair and Tender Ladies by Lee Smith
- The Good Good Pig by Sy Montgomery
- The Lost Painting by Jonathan Harr
- March by Geraldine Brooks
- My Life in France by Julia Child
- The Story of Lucy Gault by William Trevor
- Waiting by Ha Jin
- The Widow's War by Sally Gunning
- A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
2006
- Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie
- Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
- The Clearing by Tim Gautreaux
- Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand
- Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
- Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
- A Hole in the Universe by Mary McGarry Morris
- The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
- Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg by Mark Twain
- The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
- Sea Glass by Anita Shreve
- The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman
2005
- All Over But the Shoutin' by Rick Bragg
- Bartleby the Scrivener by Herman Melville
- Black Betty by Walter Mosley
- Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich
- Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
- Outermost House by Henry Beston
- Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov
- Razor's Edge by W Somerset Maugham
- Snow Angels by Stewart O'Nan
- The Soloist by Neil Salzman
- A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
- Tortilla Curtain by T. Coraghessan Boyle
2004
- Arabian Nights and Days by Naguib Mahfouz
- Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee
- In the Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel Philbrick
- The Magician's Wife by Brian Moore
- Manly Pursuits by Ann Harries
- O Pioneers by Willa Cather
- Pope Joan by Donna Woolfolk Cross
- Portrait in Sepia by Isabel Allende
- Red Poppies by Alai
- Red Scarf Girl by Ji Li Jiang
- Storyteller's Daughter by Saira Shah
- The Orchard by Adele Crockett Robertson
2003
- The Ash Garden by Dennis Bock
- The Banyan Tree by Christopher Nolan
- The Brass Dolphin by Joanna Trollope writing as Caroline Harvey
- The Color of Water by James McBride
- Embers by Sandor Marai
- Empire Falls by Richard Russo
- Gertrude and Claudius by John Updike
- The Quiet American by Graham Greene
- Roommates by Max Apple
- The Special Prisoner by Jim Lehrer
- Too Late the Phalarope by Alan Paton
- Until I Have No Country by Michael Tougias
2002
- Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner
- Borrowed Finery by Paula Fox
- The Ginger Tree by Oswald Wynd
- The Industry of Souls by Martin Booth
- Selling the Lite of Heaven by Suzanne Strempek Shea
- The Snow Goose by Paul Gallico