Here are the previous selections for the Adult Book Group from June 2015 - present.
Adult Book Group (Literary Merits)
June 2015: Christina Schwarz - Drowning Ruth
July 2015: Emma Donoghue - Room
August 2015: Wells Tower - Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned
September 2015: Geraldine Brooks - People of the Book
October 2015: Erik Larson - In the Garden of Beasts
November 2015: F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby
December 2015 - no meeting
2016
January 2016: Alice Munro - The View from Castle Rock
February 2016: no record
March 2016: Kati Morton - Hidden Power
April 2016: Toni Morrison - God Help the Child
May 2016: Kate Atkinson - Life After Life
June 2016: Bill Bryson - In a Sunburned Country
July 2016: Malala Yousafzi - I Am Malala
August 2016: Jane Smiley - Some Luck
September 2016: Buck Rinker - The Oregon Trail
October 2016: J.L. Carr - A Month in the Country
November 2016: Fredrick Backman - A Man Called Ove
December 2016: no meeting
2017
January 2017: Alexander McCall Smith - Tears of the Giraffe
February 2017: Bradley Somer - Fishbowl
March 2017: Lacey Baldwin Smith - English History Made Brief, Irreverent, and Pleasurable
April 2017: Robin Sloan - Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
May 2017: Marilynne Robinson - Home Led by Judy
June 2017: William Kent Krueger - Ordinary Grace
July 2017: Olivia Manning - School For Love Led by Antony
August 2017: Imbolo Mbue - Behold the Dreamers Led by Linda
September 2017: Virginia Reeves - Work Like Any Other Led by Betty
October 2017: Fredrick Backman - Beartown
November 2017: Colson Whitehead - The Underground Railroad
December 2017: no meeting
2018
January 2018: Alan Sillitoe - The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
February 2018: Phaedra Patrick - The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper
March 2018: John Steinbeck - The Grapes of Wrath
April 2018: Poetry of Choice
May 2018: Gabrielle Zevin - The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
June 2018: Paul Kalanithi - When Breath Becomes Air
July 2018: Mark Sullivan - Beneath a Scarlet Sky
August 2018: Penelope Fitzgerald - The Bookshop
September 2018: David Grann - Killers of the Flower Moon
October 2018: Isabel Allende - The Japanese Lover
November 2018: Lisa Wingate - Before We Were Yours
December 2018: No meeting
2019
January 2019 - Martha Hall Kelly - Lilac Girls
February 2019 - Upton Sinclair - The Jungle
March 2019m - Willa Cather - Death Comes For the Archbishop
April 2019 - The poetry of Mary Oliver
May 2019 - Michael Pollan - Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation
June 2019 - The Invisible Girls - Sarah Thebarge
July 2019 - Little Fires Everywhere - Celeste Ng
August 2019 - The Works of Fannie Flagg
September 2019 - Kate Moore - The Radium Girls
October 2019 - Mari Sandoz - Crazy Horse: The Strange Man of the Oglalas
November 2019 - Toni Morrison - Home
2020
January 2020: Alan Paton - Cry The Beloved Country
February 2020: Toni Morrison DVD
March 2020: Natalia Ginzburg - Family Lexicon
April 2020: - The Poetry of Joy Harjo
(The rest of the 2020 meetings were canceled due to COVID-19.)
2021
All meetings were canceled due to COVID-19.
2022
Literary Merits resumed meeting in July of 2022.
July 26, 2022: "State of Wonder" by Ann Patchett
August 23, 2022: "Educated" by Tara Westover
September 27, 2022: "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
October 25, 2022: "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics"
November 22, 2022: "The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek" by Kim Michele Richardson
December 2022: no meeting