Book Lists

BOOK GROUP LISTS FOR 2023-24:

Morning Books

Beloved by Toni Morrison
The Perfumist of Paris by Alka Joshi
The Memory Keepers’ Daughter by Kim Edwards
Someone Else’s Shoes by Jojo Moyes
Looking for Jane  by Heather Marshall
The Lion in the Room Next Door by Merilyn Simmonds
Homecoming by  Kate Morton
Rules of Civility by Amor Towles


BOOK GROUP LISTS FOR 2022-23:

Morning Books
The Secret Keeper by Alka Joshi
Inconspicuous Consumption by Tatiana Scholossberg
Land by Simon Winchester
The Reading List by Sar Nisha Adams
The Code Breaker by Walter Isaacson
The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert
The World We Found by Thrity Umrigar
The Naked Don’t Fear the Water by Mattieu Aikins
The Diamond Eye by Kate Quinn


Book Group lists for 2021-22:


“4 Books”
Lost Immunity by Daniel Kalla
Wilful Blindness: How a Criminal Network of Narcos, Tycoons, and CCP Agents Infiltrated the West  by Sam Cooper
Any novel by Ernest Hemingway
All Passion Spent by Vita Sackville-West
Evolution Gone Wrong: The Curious Reasons Why Our Bodies Work (or Don’t)` by Alex Bezzerides
The Woman Who Stole Vermeer: The True Story of Rose Dugdale and the Russborough House Art Heist by Anthony M. Amore
Greenwood: a Novel by Michael Christie
The Inconvenient Indian:  A Curious Account of Native People in North America by Thomas King
Five Little Indians: A Novel by Michelle Good
The Dictionary of Lost Words:  A Novel by Pip William

Hot off the Press
A Room Made of Leaves by Kate Grenville
Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
A Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams
Island of the Sea Wolves by Lisa See
Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell
Greenwood by Michael Christie
Shadow Play by Joseph O’Connor
Talking to Strangers by Malcolm Gladwell
A Burning by Maghda Majundar

Morning Books List:
The Rope Walk by Carrie Brown
The Splendid and the Vile by Erik Larson
The Caste – the Origins of our Discontent by Isabel Wilkerson
How to Pronounce Knife by Souvankham Thammavongsa
How to Avoid a Climate Disaster by Bill Gates
The Henna Artist by Alka Joshi
The Book of Gutsy Women- Favourite Stories of Courage and Resilience by
Hilary Clinton and Chelsea Clinton
The Weight of Ink by Rachel Kadish
The Rose Code by Kate Quinn

Book Group lists for 2020-21:

Hot Off the Press:
The Splendid and the Vile by Erik Larson
The Secrets We Kept by Lara Prescott
The Mirror and the Light by Hilary Mantel
Miss Austen by Gill Hornby
The Long Petal of the Sea by Isabel Allende
Aria by Nazanine Hazar
American Dirt by Jennie Cummins
Apeirogon by Colum McCann
Antigone Rising by Helen Morales

Morning Books:
Claude and Camille by Stephanie Cowell
The Man in the Glass House: Philip Johnson
Architect of the Modern Century by Mark Lamster
The Difference by Marina Endicott
Truth be Told by Beverley McLachlin
The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton
Coming Ashore by Catherine Gildiner
The Massey Murder by Charlotte Gray
The Wake by Linden Macintyre

4 Books:
The Dutch House by Ann Patchett
Too Much and Never Enough: How My family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man by Mary L. Trump
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We’re Wrong about the World – and Why Things are Better than You Think by Hans Rosling, Anna Rosling Ronnlund, et al.
Julian Fellowes’s Belgravia by Julian Fellowes
Restoring Democracy in an Age of Populists and Pestilence by Jonathan Manthorpe
Clementine: the Life of Mrs. Winston Churchill by Sonia Purnell
The Man in the Red Coat by Julian Barnes
The Back of the Turtle by Thomas King
Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right by Arlie Russell Hochschild
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens

Book Group lists for 2019-2020:

4 Books:
A Gentleman in Moscow  by Amor Towles
Claws of the Panda: Beijing’s Campaign of
Influence and Intimidation in Canada by Jonathan Manthorpe
The Lost Vintage by Ann Mah
The Massey Murder by Charlotte Gray
Last Hope Island: Britain, Occupied Europe,
and the Brotherhood that Helped Turn the Tide of War by Lynne Olson
Washington Black by Esi Edugyan
A Spark of Light by Jodi Picoult
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Warlight by Michael Ondaatje
Becoming by Michelle Obama

Hot Off the Press:
Claws of the Panda  by John Manthorpe
Warlight by Michael Ondaatje
The Feather Thief by Kirk W Johnson
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk
Milkman by Anna Burns
The Air You Breathe by Frances de Pontes Peebles
Madame Foucarde’s Secret War by Lynne Olson

Morning Books:
Elizabeth is Missing by Emma Healey
Prison Book Club by Ann Walmsley
Becoming by Michelle Obama
Homes: A Refugee Story by Abu Bakr al Rabeeah
Paper Shadow by Wayson Choy
21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Harari
Elephant Whisperer by Anthony Lawrence
Washington Black by Esi Edugyan
Cat’s Eye by Margaret Atwood