Bookmarks Book Group
Bookmarks Book Discussion Group meets at the Robert Beverly Hale Library the last Thursday of the month at 7 p.m., September through May. There is no meeting in December. New members always welcome.
2021-2022
Book List
2021-2022
- Monogamy by Sue Miller
- Mill Town: Reckoning of What Remains by Kerri Arsenault
- The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell by Robert Dugoni
- The Familiar Dark by Amy Engel
- Homeland Elegies by Ayad Akhtar
- Send for Me by Lauren Fox
- The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
- What's Mine and Yours by Naima Coster
- A Long Petal of the Sea by Isabel Allende
- Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson
- The World that We Knew by Alice Hoffman
- Ask Again, Yes by Mary Beth Keane
- Code Name: Lise by Larry Loftis
- The Music Shop by Rachel Joyce
- Once We Were Brothers by Ronald Balson
- The Gown by Jennifer Robson
- Becoming by Michelle Obama
- The Woman Next Door by Yewande Omotoso
- The Stranger in the Woods: the Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit by Michael Finkel
- Saints for All Occasions by J. Courtney Sullivan
- The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah
- Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
- The Story of Arthur Truluv by Elizabeth Berg
- The Great Influenza by John Barry
- Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys
- Promise Me, Dad by Joe Biden
- Never Caught: the Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge by Erica Armstrong Dunbar
- Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate
- Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury
- Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult
- The Girl With Seven Names by Hyeonseo Lee
- Born A Crime by Trevor Noah
- A Gentlemen of Moscow by Amor Towles
- Hero of the Empire by Candice Millard
- We Were the Lucky Ones by Georgia Hunter
- The Book That Matters Most by Ann Hood
2016-2017
- A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
- H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald
- Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
- My Name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout
- Lila by Marilynne Robinson
- The Marriage of Opposites by Alice Hoffman
- The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
- A Common Struggle by Patrick Kennedy
2015-2016
- All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
- Being Mortal by Atul Gawande
- The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
- The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd
- The Italian Wife by Ann Hood
- Norwegian by Night by Derek Miller
- What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty
2013-2014
- Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter
- Defending Jacob by William Landay
- The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom
- The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman
- My Beloved World by Sonia Sotomayor
- Tell the Wolves I'm Home by Carol Rafka Brunt
- The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce
- Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson
2012-2013
- Caleb's Crossing by Geraldine Brooks
- The Camel Bookmobile by Masha Hamilton
- A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
- Killing Lincoln by Bill O'Reilly
- Left Neglected by Lisa Genova
- The Paris Wife by Paula McLain
- Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward
2011-2012
- Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
- The Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford
- Room by Emma Donoghue
- The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Someone Knows My Name by Lawrence Hill
- Still Alice by Lisa Genova
- The Unforgiving Minute by Craig Mullaney
- Valley Forge by Newt Gingrich
2010-2011
- Animal, Vegetable, Mineral by Barbara Kingsolver
- A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain by Robert Olen Butler
- The Help by Kathryn Stockett
- Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson
- Odd Girl Out by Rachel Simmons
- Sarah's Key by Tatiana DeRosnay
- That Old Cape Magic by Richard Russo
2009-2010
- American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House by Jon Meacham
- The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer
- Handle With Care by Jodi Picoult
- Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
- The Shack by William P. Young
- Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
- Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson
- The Zookeeper's Wife by Diane Ackerman
2008-2009
- The Botany of Desire by Michael Pollan
- Inheriting the Trade by Thomas Norman DeWolf
- Keeper and Kid by Edward Hardy
- Loving Frank by Nancy Horan
- Peony in Love by Lisa See
- Rebecca by Daphne DuMaurier
- A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
- Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri
2007-2008
- The Beast in the Garden by David Baron
- The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
- Mayflower: a Story of Courage, Community, and War by Nathaniel Philbrick
- The Measure of a Man by Sidney Poitier
- The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards
- My Antonia by Willa Cather
- The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
- Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
2006-2007
- The Boy Who Fell Out of the Sky by Ken Dornstein
- Emma by Jane Austen
- Leap of Faith by Queen Noor
- A Million Little Pieces by James Frey
- My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult
- The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
- Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks
2005-2006
- Big Russ and Me by Tim Russert
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime by Mark Haddon
- Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
- The Good Wife by Stewart O'Nan
- Ice Bound by Jerri Nielsen
- The Piano Tuner by Daniel Mason
- Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
2004-2005
- Border Passage by Leila Ahmed
- Don't Let's Go To the Dogs Tonight by Alexandra Fuller
- Empire Falls by Richard Russo
- The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
- The Life of Pi by Yann Martel
- Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
- The Prince of Providence by Mike Stanton
2003-2004
- Five Quarters of the Orange by Joanne Harris
- Island Justice by Elizabeth Winthrop
- The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
- The Pact by Jodi Picoult
- Seabiscuit by Laura Hillenbrand
- The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
- The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
2002-2003
- The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
- Fall on Your Knees by Ann-Marie MacDonald
- The Impressionist by Hari Kunzru
- Possession: a Romance by A.S. Byatt
- The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
- The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman
- While You Were Gone by Sue Miller
2001-2002
- The Bonesetter's Daughter by Amy Tan
- Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder
- Girl in Hyacinth Blue by Susan Vreeland
- The Hours by Michael Cunningham
- House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III
- Springs of Affection by Maeve Brennan
- We Were the Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol Oates
2000-2001
- Cider House Rules by John Irving
- Fortune's Rocks by Anita Shreve
- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
- Wait Till Next Year by Doris Kearns Goodwin
- Where the Heart Is by Billie Letts
- The Winter of Our Discontent by John Steinbeck
1999-2000
- Charming Billy by Alice McDermott
- The Color of Water by James McBride
- The Ginger Tree by Oswald Wynd
- Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
- Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
- Welcome to the World, Baby Girl by Fannie Flagg
1998-1999
- The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells
- A Good Scent From a Strange Mountain by Robert Olen Butler
- The Legacy (A Town Like Alice) by Nevil Shute
- Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
- The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
- Snow in August by Pete Hamill
- West With the Night by Beryl Markham