Book Club Archives

 Interested in what we have read in previous years? Here are the previous year's book club selections.

2022

• The Shadow of the Sun by Ryszard Kapuściński
• How Beautiful We Were by Imbolo Mbue
• Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal by George Packer 
• The Power of Women: A Doctor's Journey of Hope and Healing by Denis Mukwege
• A Few Minor Adjustments: Two Years in Afghanistan: A Peace Corps Odyssey by Elana Hohl

2021

• The Famished Road by Ben Okri
• Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line by Deepa Anappara
• King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa by Adam Hochschild
• Crooked Hallelujah by Kelli Jo Ford
• Pull of the Stars by Emma Donoghue

2020

• What Truth Sounds Like - Robert F. Kennedy, James Baldwin, and Unfinished Conversation about Race in America by Michael Eric Dyson
• In the Midst of Winter by Isabel Allende
• The Prison Letters of Nelson Mandela by Nelson Mandela
• On the Plain of Snakes by Paul Theroux
• Small Country by Gael Faye

2019

• A House Without Windows by Nadia Hashimi
• The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After by Clemantine Wamariya and Elizabeth Weil
• The Far Away Brothers: Two Young Migrants and the Making of an American Life by Lauren Markham
• Then Again by Ben Berman
• Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah

2018

• Notes on a Foreign Country: An American in a Post-American World by Suzy Hansen
• Migrant, Refugee, Smuggler, Savior by Peter Tinti & Tuesday Reitano
• The Sympathizer  by Viet Thanh Nguyen
• Thieves of State  by Sarah Chayes
• Lola’s House: Filipino Women Living With War  by M Evelina Galang

2017 

• The Badass Librarians of Timbuktu by Joshua Hammer by Ishmael Beah
• Here Comes the Sun by Nicole Dennis-Bennett
• Pumpkin Flowers by Matti Friedman
• Lessons of Love in Afghanistan by Suzanne Griffin
• Evicted: Poverty & Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond
• Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

2016 

• A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah
• The Yacoubian Building by Ala Aswani
• Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a Bicycle by Dervia Murphy
• Ghana Must Go by Taiye Selasi
• Iran Awakening by Shīrīn ʻIbādī
• Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

2015 

• In the Time of Butterflies by Julia Alvarez
• The Sky Unwashed by Irene Zabytko
• Oracle Bones: A Journey Through Time in China byPeter Hessler
• A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
• Landfall by Ellen Urbani
• The Memory of Love by Aminatta Forna
• An Unnecessary Woman by Rabih Alameddine

2014 

• Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo
• The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri
• The Unheard by Josh Swiller
• River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze by Peter Hessler
• Americanah by Chimimanda Ngozi Adichie
• I Heard the Owl Call My Name by Margaret Craven

2013

• The Turn-Around Bird by Lucinda Wingard
• The Springs of Namje by Rajeev Goyal
• Fieldwork by Mischa Berlinski
• The Village of Waiting by George Packer 
• This is How You Lose Her by Junot Diaz

2012

• The Tiger's Wife by Tea Obreht
• The Year of Living Dangerously by C.J. Koch 
• Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages by Guy Deutscher
• Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh
• The Pickup by Nadine Gordimer
• Mighty Be Our Powers: How Sisterhood, Prayer, and Sex Changed A Nation at War : A Memoir by Leymah Gbowee
• Even the Smallest Crab Has Teeth: 50 Years of Amazing Peace Corps Stories
• Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared M. Diamond
• The Submission by Amy Waldman
• A Bend in the River by V.S. Naipaul
• The Blue Sweater: Bridging the Gap between Rich and Poor in an Interconnected World by Jacqueline Novogratz
• Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford

2011

• Purge by Sofi Oksanen
• Even Silence Has An End: My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle by Ingrid Betancourt
• Baking Cakes in Kigali. A Novel by Gaile Parkin
• Nomad by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
• Saving the World by Julia Alvarez
• Little Bee by Chris Cleave