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NML Book Discussion

2023 List

Fiction

Non-Fiction

The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman

The Book of Hope by Jane Goodall and Douglas Abrams

The Book of Lost Friends by Lisa Wingate

No Bone Unturned by Jeff Benedict

West with Giraffes by Lynda Rutledge

Riverman: an American Odyssey by Ben McGrath

Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

On the Brink of Ev­ery­thing: ­Grace, ­Grav­i­ty, and Get­ting Old by Parker J. Palmer

The Maid by Nita Prose

The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man by Paul Newman

Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus

Dinners With Ruth by Nina Totenberg

Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson


The Japanese Lover by Isabell Allende


Wish You Were Here by Jodi Picoult


The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O'Farrell


2022 List

Fiction

Non-Fiction

City of Thieves by David Benioff

Call the Midwife by Jennifer Worth

The Zookeepers Wife by Diane Ackerman

Address Unknown by Katherine Kressmann

Unsheltered by Barbara Kingsolver

Breakfast with Buddha by Roland Merullo

Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng

Presidents of War by Michael Beschloss

The Lincoln Highway by Amor Toles

The Overstory by Richard Powers

Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline

Forget the Alamo by Bryan Burrough

The Dutch House by Ann Patchett

Devil in the White City by Erik Larson

Pull of the Stars by Emma Donoghue

Founding Mothers by Cokie Roberts

Our Country Friends by Gary Shteyngart

The Lost City of the Monkey God by Douglas Preston

American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins

Catherine the Great by Robert K. Massie.

The Chanel Sisters by Judithe Little

The Color of Water by James McBride

2020 List

Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Ownes

My Antonia by Willa Cather

Nothing Daunted by Dorothy Wickenden

The Pioneers by David McCullough

We Were the Lucky Ones by Georgia Hunter

Giver of the Stars by Jojo Moyes

Radium Girls by Kate Moore

Sea of Memories by Fiona Valpy

2018 List

Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks

News of the World by Paulette Jiles

Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance

My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult

The Postmistress by Sarah Blake

Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward

Killer Stuff and Tons of Money by Maureen Stanton

Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow

Happy All the Time by Laurie Colwin

My Name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout

Anything is Possible by Elizabeth Strout

A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles

2021 List

Wicked Woman by Jack London

Same Kind of Different As Me by Ron Hall and Denver Moore

The Dancing Partner by Jerome K Jerome

Island of Sea Women by Lisa See

Jury of Her Peers by Susan Glasspell

End of Your Life Book Club by Will Schwalbe

Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving

This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger

The Awakening by Kate Chopin

The Library Book by Susan Orlean

The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah

The Stationery Shop by Marjan Kamali

Things You Would Know if You Grew Up Around Here by Nancy Wayson Dinan


What Unites Us by Dan Rather and Elliot Kirschner


Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell


The Paris Wife by Paula McClain


The Midnight Assassin by Skip Hollandsworth


2019 List

The Life We Bury by Allen Eskens

A Place for Us by Fatima Farheen Mirza

The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak

The Art Forger by B.A.Shapiro

The Freedom Writer’s Diary by Erin Gruwell

Harry’s Trees by Jon Cohen

The Sun Does Shine by Anthony Ray Hinton

The Way of Being Lost by Victoria Price

A Fall of Marigolds by Susan Meissner

Educated by Tara Westover

2017 List

Stars at Night by Paula D’Arcy

The Underground Railroad Colson Whitehead

Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain

What It is Like to Go to War by Karl Marlantes

You Know When the Men are Gone by Siobhan Fallon

The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin

The Round House by Louise Erdrich

A Piece of the World by Cristina Baker Kline

Lucky Boy by Shanthi Sekaran

The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah

Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman