NML Book Discussion
2024 List
On the brink of everything: grace, gravity, and getting old by Parker J. Palmer |
The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck |
The Fraud by Zadie Smith |
Out of the Easy by Ruta Sepetys |
The Women by Kristin Hannah |
The Violin Conspiracy by Brendan Slocumb |
The Tenth Gift: a novel by Jane Johnson |
In the Kingdom of Ice: the Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette by Hampton Sides |
The Family Izquierdo: a novel by Rubén Degollado |
Remarkably Bright Creatures: a novel by Shelby Van Pelt |
The Covenant of Water: a novel by Abraham Verghese |
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 |