Book Club History
| 2024 | Title | Author |
| April | The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store | James McBride |
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| February | Soil: The Story of A Black Mother's Garden | Camille Dungy |
| January | Trust | Herman Diaz |
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| 2023 | Title | Author |
| December | Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a black man in the natural world | Christian Cooper |
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| October | The Covenant of Water | Abraham Verghese |
| September | ||
| August | ||
| July | Lost and Found | Kathryn Schulz |
| June | ||
| May | Lessons in Chemistry | Bonnie Garmus |
| April | With the End in Mind: Dying, Death and Wisdom in an age of Denial | Kathryn Mannix |
| March | Astonish Me | Maggie Shipstead |
| February | Agent Josephine | Damien Lewis |
| January | The House of Broken Angels | Luis Alberto Urrea |
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| 2022 | Title | Author |
| December | The Summer of the Great Grandmother | |
| November | ||
| October | Where'd you go Bernadette | Maria Semple |
| September | The Last Kings of Shanghai: The rival Jewish dynasties that helped create modern China | Jonathan Kaufman |
| August | ||
| July | The Bar Mitzvah and the Beast: One family's crosscountry ride of passage by bike | Matt Biers-Ariel |
| June | Cloud Cuckoo Land | Anthony Doerr |
| May | ||
| April | These Precious Days | Ann Patchett |
| March | The Lincoln Highway | Amor Towles |
| February | ||
| January | Yuval Noah Harari | |
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| 2021 | Title | Author |
| December | The Vanishing Half | Brit Bennett |
| November | ||
| October | The Choice | Edith Eva Eger |
| September | ||
| August | The Thursday Murder Club | Richard Osman |
| July | Homeland Elegies: A Novel | Ayad Akhtar |
| June | Half Broke | Ginger Gaffney |
| May | Joseph Chapman: My Molly Life | James Lovejoy |
| April | The Righteous Mind | Jonathan Haidt |
| March | ||
| February | Memorial | Bryan Washington |
| January | Caste: The origins of our discontents | Isabelle Wilkerson |
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| 2020 | Title | Author |
| December | ||
| November | A Tale for the Time Being | Ruth Ozeki |
| October | The Alice Network | Kate Quinn |
| September | A backpack, a bear and eight crates of Vodka | Lev Golinkin |
| August | ||
| July | Bad Blood | John Carreyrou |
| June | Lillian Boxfish takes a walk | Kathleen Rooney |
| May | Love in the Time of Cholera | Gabriel Garcia Marquez |
| April | The Education of an Idealist | Samantha Power |
| March | ||
| February | The Library Book | Susan Orlean |
| January | The Topeka School | Ben Lerner |
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| 2019 | Title | Author |
| December | The Sense of an Ending | Julian Barnes |
| November | How to Change Your Mind | Michael Pollan |
| October | ||
| September | Pachinko | Min Jin Lee |
| August | Educated | Tara Westover |
| July | ||
| June | ||
| May | Less | Andrew Sean Greer |
| April | Sapiens | Yuval Noah Harari |
| March | ||
| February | Murder in the Melting Pot | Jane Isenberg |
| January | The Cooking Gene | Michael Twitty |
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| 2018 | Title | Author |
| December | The Heart's Invisible Furies | John Boyner |
| November | ||
| October | The Return | Hisham Matar |
| September | The Weight of Ink | Rachel Kadish |
| August | ||
| July | The Line of Beauty | Alan Hollinghurst |
| June | Homegoing | Yaa Gyasi |
| May | ||
| April | The Immortalists | Chloe Benjamin |
| March | A Gentleman in Moscow | Amor Towles |
| February | ||
| January | Michael Krasny | |
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| 2017 | Title | Author |
| December | The Story of a Marriage | Andrew S Greer |
| November | ||
| October | You don't have to say you love me: A memoir | Sherman Alexie |
| September | Out of Egypt: A memoir | Andre Aciman |
| August | ||
| July | Are you Anybody? | Jeffrey Tambor |
| June | The Turner House | Angela Flournoy |
| May | ||
| April | The Underground Railroad | Colson Whitehead |
| March | The Great Fire | Shirley Hazzard |
| February | ||
| January | Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything your American history textbook got wrong | James W Loewen |
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| 2016 | Title | Author |
| December | ||
| November | The Man called Ove | Fredrick Backman |
| October | ||
| September | The Underground Girls of Kabul | Jenny Nordberg |
| August | The Blackwater Lightship | Colm Toibin |
| July | Lab Girl | Hope Jahren |
| June | We're all completely beside ourselves | Karen Joy Fowler |
| May | Not in God's Name | Jonathan Sacks |
| April | ||
| March | The absolutely true diary of a part-time Indian | Sherman Alexie |
| February | ||
| January | On the Move: A Life | Oliver Sacks |
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| 2015 | Title | Author |
| December | ||
| November | Euphoria | Lily King |
| October | All the Light We Cannot See | Anthony Doerr |
| September | ||
| August | Heretic: Why Islam needs a reformation now | Ayaan Hirsi Ali |
| July | Being Mortal | Atul Gawande |
| June | An officer and a spy | Robert Harris |
| May | Bettyville | George Hodgman |
| April | Let's Take the Long Way Home | Gail Caldwell |
| March | Native Seattle: Histories from the crossing-over place | Coll Thrush |
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| 2014 | Title | Author |
| December | A Passage to India | E.M. Forster |
| November | ||
| October | Do you remember me? | Judith Levine |
| September | The Boys in the Boat | Daniel James Brown |
| August | ||
| July | Love and Treasure | Ayelet Waldman |
| June | ||
| May | For All of Us, one today | Richard Blanco |
| April | My Promised Land | Avi Shavit |
| March | Dressed for Death | Donna Leon |
| February | The Family: Three journeys into the heart of the twentieth century | David Laskin |
| January | ||
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| 2013 | Title | Author |
| December | Timothy Egan | |
| November | The Tiger's Wife | Tea Obreht |
| October | ||
| September | ||
| August | The Last Chinese Chef | Nicole Mones |
| July | Stories for Boys | Gregory Martin |
| June | Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet / When the Emperor Was Divine | Jamie Ford / Julie Otsuka |
| May | ||
| April | The Assault | Harry Mulisch |
| March | The Bones and the Book | Jane Isenberg |
| February | Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady | Florence King |
| January | In the Garden of the Beasts | Erik Larson |
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| 2012 | Title | Author |
| December | My Stroke of Insight | Jill Bolte Taylor |
| November | ||
| October | The Submission | Amy Waldman |
| September | The Fault in Our Stars | John Green |
| August | ||
| July | Are You My Mother? A comic drama | Alison Bechdel |
| June | Like Me | Chely Wright |
| May | The Hare with Amber Eyes | Edmund De Waal |
| April | ||
| March | The Elegance of the Hedgehog | Muriel Barbery |
| February | To the End of the Land | David Grossman |
| January | The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society | MaryAnn Staffer and Annie Barrows |
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| 2011 | Title | Author |
| December | ||
| November | Dovekeepers | Alice Hoffman |
| October | Zeitoun | Dave Eggers |
| September | Annie's Ghosts | Steve Luxemburg |
| August | ||
| July | The Jew Store | Stella Suberman |
| June | Hot, Flat and Crowded | Thomas Friedman |
| May | A Lily of the Field | John Lawton |
| April | The Lacuna | Barbara Kingsolver |
| March | ||
| February | Dreamers of the Day | Mary Doria Russell |
| January | Sarah's Key (WWII) | Tatiana de Rosnay |
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| 2010 | Title | Author |
| December | Shanghai Moon | SJ Rozen |
| November | ||
| October | Rashi's Daughters. Book 1. Joheved | Maggie Anton |
| September | Cutting for Stone | Abraham Verghese |
| August | ||
| July | Miscellaneous Deductions (a play) | Roy Hamrick |
| June | The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks | Rebecca Skloots |
| May | Jewish with Feeling: A Guide to Meaningful Jewish Practice | Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi |
| April | ||
| March | ||
| February | The Kill Artist | Daniel Silva |
| January | The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story | Diane Ackerman |
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| 2009 | Title | Author |
| December | Fun Home: A family tragicomic | Alison Bechdel |
| November | Exodus | Leon Uris |
| October | ||
| September | Wrestling With God and Men: Homosexuality in the Jewish Tradition | Rabbi Steven Greenberg |
| August | A Tale of Love and Darkness | Amos Oz |
| July | ||
| June | When You Lie About Your Age the Terrorists Win: Reflections on Looking in the Mirror | Carol Leifer |
| May | A Thread of Grace | Mary Doria Russell |
| April | The Yiddish Policeman's Union | Michael Chabon |
| March | ||
| February | The Great Man | Kate Christensen |
| January | Nicole Krauss | |
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| 2008 | Title | Author |
| December | The Book Thief | Markus Zusak |
| November | The Light Within: The Extraordinary Friendship of a Doctor and Patient Brought Together by Cancer | Lois M. Ramondetta and Deborah Sills |
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| September | The World to Come | Dara Horn |
| August | People of the Book | Geraldine Brooks |
| July | ||
| June | ||
| May | Will the Circle Be Unbroken: Reflections on Death, Rebirth, and Hunger for a Faith | Studs Terkel |
| April | An Island Called Home: Returning to Jewish Cuba | Ruth Baher |
| March | Away | Amy Bloom |
| February | Writing a Jewish Life | Lev Raphael |
| January | The Trouble with Islam Today: A Muslim's Call for Reform in Her Faith | Irshad Manji |
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| 2007 | Title | Author |
| December | The Far Euphrates | Aryeh Lev Stollman |
| November | ||
| October | Disobedience | Naomi Alderman |
| September | ||
| August | Lost in America | Sherwin Nuland |
| July | The Genizah at the House of Sepher | Tamar Yellin |
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