Books read by the Mercer Library Book Club
New members are always welcome to join our discussions. Visit our events calendar for details on upcoming book club meetings, or stop by the library to borrow a copy of the next book on the list.
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March 2012 – Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin
April 2012 – The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
May 2012 – A Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrick
June 2012 – Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
July 2012 – Stones from the River by Ursula Hegi
August 2012 – Population 485 by Michael Perry
September 2012 – My Antonia by Willa Cather
October 2012 – The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
November 2012 – The Dive from Clausen’s Pier by Ann Packer
December 2012 – Moloka’i by Alan Brennert
January 2013 – Still Alice by Lisa Genova
February 2013 – The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls
March 2013 – Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver
April 2013 – Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Ann Burns
May 2013 – State of Wonder by Ann Patchett
June 2013 – The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
July 2013 – The Fault in our Stars by John Green
August 2013 – Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
September 2013 – The Language of flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh
October 2013 – People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
November 2013 – The Hotel on the corner of bitter & sweet by Jamie Ford
February 2014 – Where’d you go, Bernadette? By Maria Semple
March 2014 – Final Frontiersman by James Campbell
April 2014 – The Midwife of Hope River by Patricia Harman
May 2014 – Cabin Fever by Tom Montgomery Fate
June 2014 – Joy for Beginners by Erica Baumeister
July 2014 – Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
August 2014 – Orange is the new black by Piper Kerman
September 2014 – Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki
October 2014 – Still Life by Louise Penny
November 2014 – Zeitoun by David Eggers
December 2014 – Open Season by C.J. Box
January 2015 – Grandma’s Wartime Kitchen by Joanne Lamb Hayes (cookbook!)
February 2015 – The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion
March 2015 – The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman
April 2015 – The Boys in the Boat by Daniel Brown
May 2015 – Fever by Mary Beth Keane
October 2015 – The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
November 2015 – Paddling to Winter by Julie Buckles
December 2015 – Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline
January 2016 – Farm Recipes and Food Secrets from the Norske Nook by Helen Myhre
February 2016 – Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger
March 2016 – One Plus One by Jojo Moyes
April 2016 – The Last Train to Zona Verde by Paul Theroux
May 2016 – The Husband’s Secret by Liane Moriarty
November 2016 – Boys in the Boat by Daniel Brown
December 2016 – Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain
January 2017 – The Sandcastle Girls by Chris Bohjalian
February 2017 – All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
March 2017 – One Thousand White Women by Jim Fergus
April 2017 – The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
May 2017 – Hidden Figures by Margo Lee Shetterley
June 2017 – Wonder by R.J. Palacio
January 2018 – “Select your own cookbook”
February 2018 – The Tale of Halcyon Crane by Wendy Webb
March 2018 – The Girls of Atomic City by Denise Kiernan
April 2018 – Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
May 2018 – The Chilbury Ladies Choir by Jennifer Ryan
2018-2019 – Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
2018-2019 – The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah
2018-2019 – Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
2018-2019 – Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko (evening club)
2018-2019 – Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng
2018-2019 – Jimmy Hendrix Turns Eighty by Tim Sandlin (evening club)
2018-2019 – Ice Hunter by Joseph Heywood
2018-2019 – Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson (evening club)
2018-2019 – Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury (evening club)
2018-2019 – Three Things About Elsie by Joanna Cannon
2018-2019 – Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand by Helen Simonson
2018-2019 – The Zookeeper’s Wife by Diane Ackerman
2018-2019 – Death at Gill’s Rock by Patricia Skalka
2018-2019 – The Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann
2018-2019 – Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate
2018-2019 – Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan
2018-2019 – Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
2018-2019 – The Dry by Jane Harper
March 2020 – Fall of Marigolds by Susan Meissner
April 2020 – Tender at the Bone by Ruth Reichel
September 2020 – The Long Flight Home by Alan Hlad
September 2020 (evening) – Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
October 2021 – Raven Black by Ann Cleeves
November 2021 – Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman
December 2021 – Winter Garden by Kristin Hannah
January 2021 – A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles