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| YEAR |
BOOK |
PRESENTER |
| 2022-2023 |
The Lincoln Highway - Amor Towles
The Plot to Seize the White House: The Shocking True Story of the Consipiracy to Overthrow FDR - Jules Archer
Jacqueline in Paris - Ann Mah
Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America - Nancy MacLean
The Use and Misuse of Language - S. I. Hayakawa
Rough Draft - Katy Tur
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration - Isabel Wilkerson
The Kitchen Front - Jennifer Ryan
|
Kathryn Lee
Dan Kegel
Craig Lee
Liz Fuller
Max Epstein
Charles Haskell
Karen Haskell
Judy Carr |
| 2021-2022 |
Still Life: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel - Louise Penny
The Sacrament: A Novel - Olaf Olafsson
A Time of Gifts: On Foot to Constantinople - From the Hook of Holland to the Middle Danube - Patrick Leigh Fermor
An Incomplete Education: 3,684 Things You Should Have Learned but Probably Didn't - Judy Jones and William Wilson
Liquid Rules: The Delightful and Dangerous Substances That Flow Through Our Lives - Max Miodownik
The Paris Library: A Novel - Janet Skeslien Charles
All In: An Autobiography - Billie Jean King |
Dan Kegel
Liz Fuller
Judy Carr
Max Epstein
Craig Lee
Kathryn Lee
Charles Haskell |
| 2020-2021 |
Breakfast at Tiffany's - Truman Capote
Readhead by the Side of the Road - Anne Tyler
A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies and Leadership - James Comey
The Thread - Victoria Hislop
Giver of Stars - Jo Jo Moyes
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind - Yuval Noah Harari
Stamped from the Beginning - Ibram X. Kendi
The Splendid and the Vile - Erik Larson |
Craig Lee
Charles Haskell
Dan Kegel
Judy Carr
Christine Haskell
Max Epstein
Liz Fuller
Kathryn Lee |
| 2019-2020 |
The Storied Life of A. J. Fickry - Gabrielle Zevin
If Beale Street Could Talk - James Baldwin
The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner
The Editor - Steven Rowley
Born a Crime - Trevor Noah
Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe
At the Drop of a Veil - Marianne Alireza
Predisposed: Liberals, Conservatives, and the Biology of Political Differences - John R. Hibbing, Kevin B. Smith, et al. |
Kathryn Lee
Charles Haskell
Craig Lee
Christine Haskell
Liz Fuller
Dan Kegel
Judy Carr
Max Epstein |
| 2018-2019 |
Orphan Train - Christina Baker Kline
The Sleepwalker's Guide to Dancing - Mira Jacob
Death of a Witch: A Hamish Macbeth Mystery - M.C. Beaton
Pearl of China - Anchee Min
The Story of the Lost Child: Neapolitan Novels Book Four - Elena Ferrante
Stuff Matters - Mark Miodownik
The Optimist's Daughter - Eudora Welty
Educated: A Memoir - Tara Westover
|
Christine Haskell
Liz Fuller
Dan Kegell
Judy Carr
Charles Haskell
Max Epstein
Craig Lee
Kathryn Lee |
| 2017-2018 |
Maisie Dobbs - Jacqueline Winspear
The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness - Sy Montgomery
The Great Passage - Shion Miura
Gertrude Bell: Queen of the Desert, Shaper of Nations - Georgina Howell
"A" is for Alibi - Sue Grafton
Who Thought This Was a Good Idea?: And Other Questions You Should Have Answers to When You Work in the White House - Alyssa Mastromonaco
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman - Laurence Sterne
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City - Matthew Desmond
My Brilliant Friend: Neapolitan Novels Book One - Elena Ferrante
|
Christine Haskell
Marjorie Annapav
Charles Haskell
Judy Carr
Craig Lee
Max Epstein
Dan Kegel
Liz Fuller
Kathryn Lee |
| 2016-2017 |
A Man Called Ove: A Novel - Fredrick Backman
It Can't Happen Here - Sinclair Lewis
The Little Paris Bookshop: A Novel - Nina George
American Savior: A Novel of Divine Politics - Roland Merullo
The Secret Life of Bletchley Park: The WWII Codebreaking Center and the Men and Women Who Worked There - Sinclair McKay
Commonwealth - Ann Patchett
Station Eleven - Emily St. John Mandel
The Invention of Wings - Sue Monk Kidd
The Sellout: A Novel - Paul Beattie
|
Christine Haskell
Dan Kegel
Charles Haskelll
Max Epstein
Craig Lee
Judy Carr
Liz Fuller
Marjorie Annapav
Kathryn Lee |
| 2015-2016 |
Euphoria - Lily King
Salmon Fishing in the Yemen - Paul Torday
Thank You for Smoking: A Novel - Christopher Buckley
The Kind Worth Killing: A Novel - Peter Swanson
The Orchards of Ithaca - Harry Mark Petrakis
Test of Courage: The Michel Thomas Story - Christopher Robbins
Wild - Cheryl Strayed
Mary Coin - Marisa Silver
In the Light of What We Know: A Novel - Zia Hader Rahman
The Periodic Table - Primo Levi
The Patient Will See You Now: The Future of Medicine is in Your Hands - Eric Topol |
Charles Haskell
Liz Fuller
Dan Kegel
Christine Haskell
Max Epstein
Judy Carr
JoAn Peters
Marjorie Annapav
Craig Lee
Kathryn Lee
Tom Peters |
| 2014-2015 |
The Light Between Oceans- M. L. Stedman
The Omnivore's Dilemma - Michael Pollan
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet - Jamie Ford
1Q84 - Haruki Murakami
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern - Stephen Greenblatt
Lost Horizon - James Hilton
Breakfast with Buddha - Roland Merullo
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry - Rachel Joyce
Caught in the Pulpit: Leaving Belief Behind- Daniel C. Dennet and Linda LaScola
Out Stealing Horses - Per Petterson (translation by Ann Born)
|
Christine Haskell
Liz Fuller
JoAn Peters
Tom Peters
Max Epstein
Craig Lee
Judy Carr
Charles Haskell
Kathryn Lee
Dan Kegel |
| 2013-2014 |
The Burgess Boys - Elizabeth Stroud
Drive - Daniel Pink
Flight Behavior - Barbara Kingsolver
State of Wonder - Ann Patchett
The Journal of Best Practices: A Memoir of Marriage, Asperger Syndrome, and One Man's Quest to Be a Better Husband - David Finch
The Book of Salt - Monique Truong
The Spy Who Came in From the Cold - John Le Carré
House of Sand and Fog - Andre Dubus III
|
Christine Haskell
Liz Fuller
Max Epstein
Charles Haskell
Dan Kegel
Judy Carr
Craig Lee
Kathryn Lee |
| 2012-2013 |
Fifty Shades of Grey - E. L. James
Cutting for Stone - Abraham Verghese
Lone Wolf - Jodi Picoult
Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
A Handful of Dust - Evelyn Waugh
V is for Vengeance - Sue Grafton
True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements- Eric Hoffer
Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand - Helen Simonson
|
Charles Haskell
Judy Carr
Christine Haskell
Liz Fuller
Max Epstein
Dan Kegel
Craig Lee
Kathryn Lee
Lee Voegtlen |
| 2011-2012 |
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - Stieg Larsson
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay - Michael Chabon
God on the Rocks - Jane Gardam
The Oracle of Stamboul - Michael David Lukas
Red Hook Road - Ayelet Waldman
Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro
Rumpole of the Bailey - John Mortimer
Townie - Andre Dubus
Dreams of Joy - Lisa See
|
Christine Haskell
Liz Fuller
Lee Voegtlen
Kathryn Lee
Dan Kegel
Charles Haskell
Max Epstein
Craig Lee
Judy Carr |
| 2010-2011 |
The Thin Man - Dashiell Hammett
The Help - Kathryn Stockett
Run - Ann Patchet
The Elegance of the Hedgehog - Muriel Barbery
The Lacuna -Barbara Kingsolver
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - Steig Larsson
The Bastard of Istanbul - Elif Shafak
Tropic of Cancer - Henry Miller
City of Thieves - David Benioff
Abraham Lincoln - George McGovern
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis - Giorgio Bassani
|
Craig Lee
Liz Fuller
Lee Voegtlen
Christine Haskell
Charles Haskell
Don Hewitt
Judy Carr
Max Epstein
Cindy Hewitt
Dan Kegel
Kathryn Lee |
| 2008-2009 |
Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card
Hot, Flat & Crowded
- Thomas Friedman
Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
Crescent - Diana Abu Jaber
Mindfulness - Ellen J. Langer
Mara and Dann: An Adventure - Doris Lessing
1876 - Gore Vidal
A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
Three Cups of Tea - Greg Mortenson
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle - David Wroblewski
The Belly of Paris - Emile Zola
|
Don Hewitt
Charles Haskell
Craig Lee
Christine Haskell
Judy Carr
Lee Voegtlen
Max Epstein
Liz Fuller
Dan Kegel
Cindy Hewitt
Kathryn Lee |
| 2007-2008 |
The Amateur Marriage - Anne Tyler
The Assault on Reason - Al Gore
The Last Town on Earth - Thomas Mullen
Dead Souls - Nikolai Gogol
The Nine - Jeffrey Toobin
The Leopard - Giuseppe di Lampedusa
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - Betty Smith
To Know a Woman - Amos Oz
The Return of the Native - Thomas Hardy
Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius - Dave Eggers
|
Liz Fuller
Dan Kegel
Don Hewitt
Craig Lee
Charles Haskell
Judy Carr
Christine Haskell
Max Epstein
Lee Voegtlen
Kathryn Lee
Cindy Hewitt |
| 2006-2007 |
The Memory Keeper's Daughter -
Kim Edwards
Oryx and Crake - Margaret Atwood
The Bookseller of Kabul - Asne Seierstad
Empire Falls - Richard Russo
Spring Snow - Yukio Mishima
The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
Blue Nude - Elisabeth Rosner
The March - E. L. Doctorow
The Left Hand of God - Michael Lerner
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan - Lisa See
The Historty of Love - Nicole Krauss
The Lady and the Monk - Pico Iyer
|
Christine Haskell
Dan Kegel
Charles Haskell
Katie Malich
Judy Carr
Cindy Hewitt
Craig Lee
Max Epstein
Liz Fuller
Lee Voegtlen
Don Hewitt
Kathryn Kramer Lee |
| 2005-2006 | The Inner Circle - T. C. Boyle
Old School - Tobias Wolff
The Towers of Trebizond - Rose MacCaulay
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without
Thinking - Malcolm
Gladwell
The Machine Stops - E. M. Forster & As
We May Think - Vannevar Bush
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
Specimen Days - Michael Cunningham
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress - Dai Sijie
The Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka
On Politics and the Art of Acting - Arthur Miller
Super-Cannes - J. G. Ballard |
Liz Fuller
Charles Haskell
Judy Carr
Cindy Hewitt
Dan Kegel
Christine Haskell
Don Hewitt
Max Epstein
Lee Voegtlen
Craig Lee
Kathryn Kramer Lee |
| 2004-2005 |
Middlesex - Jeffrey
Eugenides
The DaVinci Code
- Dan Brown
Bel Canto - Ann Patchett
An Equal Music - Vikram
Seth
The Devil in the White City: Murder,
Magic and Madness at the Fair that Changed America
- Erik Larson
Rebecca - Daphne du
Maurier
A Primate's Memoir -
Robert M. Sapolsky
Anna Karenina - Leo
Tolstoy
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir
in Books - Azar Nafisi
Raising Fences: A Black Man's Love
Story - Michael Datcher
The High Flyer - Susan
Howatch
Poor People - Fyodor
Dostoyevsky
A Confederacy of Dunces
- John Kennedy Toole |
Liz Fuller
Christine Haskell
Don Hewitt
Dean Voegtlen
Liz Fuller
Lee Voegtlen
Cindy Hewitt
Charles Haskell
Kathryn Lee
Dan Kegel
Judy Carr
Max Epstein
Craig Lee |
| 2003-
2004 |
Atonement - Ian McEwan
A Tale of Two Cities -
Charles Dickens
Bee Season - Myla Goldberg
Variety of Men - C. P.
Snow
Pick-Your-Own Mozart Biography
- Various
Nickel and Dimed - Barbara
Eherenreich
Heart of Darkness - Joseph
Conrad
The Blank Slate - Steven
Pinker
A Moveable Feast - Ernest
Hemingway
Life of Pi - Yan Martel
The Human Stain - Phillip
Roth |
Christine Haskell
Dan Kegel
Liz Fuller
Craig Lee
Dean Voegtlen
Charles Haskell
Lee Voegtlen
Max Epstein
Kathryn Kramer Lee
Cindy Davis Hewitt
Judy Carr |
| 2002 |
Daughter of Fortune
- Isabel Allende
Double Indemnity &
Los Angeles Stories: Great Writers on the
City - James M. Cain & John M.
Miller (ed.)
Shopgirl - Steve Martin
As I Lay Dying - William
Faulkner
Days of Awe - Achy Obejas
The Europeans - Henry
James
Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
Longitude - Dava Sobel
The Map of Love - Ahdaf
Soueif
Babel Tower - A. S. Byatt
The Mayor of Casterbridge -
Thomas Hardy |
Christine Haskell
Liz Fuller
Dan Kegel
Laura Sympson & Chris Smith
Max Epstein
Dean Voegtlen
Charles Haskell
Craig Lee
Judy Carr
Kathryn Kramer Lee
Lee Voegtlen |
| 2001 |
Harry Potter & the Sorcerer's
Stone - J. K. Rowling
Blind Eye - James B. Stewart
The Dress Lodger - Sheri
Holman
Larry's Party - Carol
Shields
The Mistress of Spices
- Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
The Reader - Bernhard
Schlink
Northanger Abbey - Jane
Austen
...And Still We Rise -
Miles Corwin
My Century - Gunter Grass
Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
- Helen Fielding
French Lessons - Alice
Kaplan |
(Bonus Book)
Charles Haskell
Liz Fuller
Lee Voegtlen
Judy Carr
Christine Haskell
Dean Voegtlen
Dan Kegel
Max Epstein
Kathryn Kramer Lee
Craig Lee |
| 2000 |
Tuesdays with Morrie
- Mitch Albom
Of Love & Other Demons -
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Spectator Bird - Wallace
Stegner
Pope Joan - Donna Woolfolk
Cross
Empress of the Splendid Season
- Oscar Hijuelos
The Poisonwood Bible -
Barbara Kingsolver
Green Light - Lloyd C.
Douglas
Miramar - Naguib Mahfouz
The Bloody Chamber - Angela
Carter |
Christine Haskell
Charles Haskell
Dean Voegtlen
Liz Fuller
Max Epstein
(Bonus Book)
Judy Carr
Dan Kegel
Lee Voegtlen |
| 1999 |
The Bookshop - Penelope
Fitzgerald
The Sin Eater - Alice
Thomas Ellis
The Volcano Lover - Susan
Sontag
The White Boy Shuffle
- Paul Beatty
The God of Small Things
- Arundhati Roy
The Priest Fainted - Catherine
Temma Davidson
The Professor and the Madman
- Simon Winchester
A Lesson Before Dying
- Earnest Gaines
Small World - David Lodge
Huckleberry Finn - Mark
Twain |
Christine Haskell
Anita Brenner
Lee Voegtlen
Liz Fuller
Teresa Castelli
Judy Carr
George Brenner
Max Epstein
Kathryn Kramer Lee
Dean Voegtlen |
| 1998 |
We the Living - AynRand
Bingo Palace - Louise
Erdrich
Offshore - Penelope
Fitzgerald
Cold Mountain - Charles
Frazier
Shooting Star - Wallace
Stegner
Continental Divide -
Russell Banks
The Virgin in the Garden
- A. S. Byatt
Master and Commander
- Patrick O'Brien
The Little Prince -
Antoine St. Exupery
None to Accompany Me
- Nadine Gordimer |
Susan Slatin
Ann Gillespie
Lee Voegtlen
Christine Haskell
Anita Brenner
Beverly Alison
Charles Haskell
Dean Voegtlen
Dan Kegel
Charles Haskell |
| 1997 |
Immortality - Milan
Kundera
The Double Flame - Octavio
Paz
The Celestine Prophecy
- James Redfield
The John McPhee Reader
- John McPhee
Ship's Fever - Andrea
Barrett
The Cunning Man - Robertson
Davies
The Moor's Last Sigh -
Salman Rushdie
In the Beauty of the Lillies
- John Updike
We Were the Mulvaneys
- Joyce Carol Oates |
Christine Haskell
Charles Haskell
Christine Haskell
Dean Voegtlen
George Brenner
Teresa Castelli
Beverly Alison
George Brenner
Teresa Castelli |
| 1996 |
Island of the Day Before
- Umberto Eco
Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness
- Kenzaburo Oe
The Magus - John Fowles
Snow Falling on Cedars
- David Guterson
Possession - A. S. Byatt
The Fifth Business - Robertson
Davies
The Shipping News - E.
Annie Proulx
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
- John Brandt
Stones from the River
- Ursula Hegi
Edison: Inventing the Century
- Neil Baldwin |
Kathryn Kramer
Anita Brenner
Theresa Castelli
Myrtle Stowitts
Ann Gillespie
Lee Voegtlen
George Brenner
Esther Mann
Anita Brenner
Alex Mann |
