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Gathering informally at members’ homes, book-loving HLA members casually discuss titles and authors they are reading. Recommended books are then listed in the HLA newsletter. Meetings are held monthly March – October.

August 2019 Book Chatters

**April 2024 Books -- Margie**
Member	Title	Author	Genre	Quills
Abby D	Wellness	Nathan Hill	Fiction	5
Anna L	Tough Choices	Carly Fiorina	Nonfiction	3
Barbara T	Victory City	Salman Rushdie	Fiction	5
Beth T	Dinner with Ruth	Nina Totenburg	Memoir	5
Debbie W	Presidents Fact Book	Roger Matuz and Bill Harris	Reference	5
Kate L	Strong Poison	Dorothy L. Sayers	Mystery	5
Margie P	The Language of Flowers	Vanessa Diffenbaugh	Fiction	4
Walter T	Pickwick Papers	Charles Dickens	Fiction	5

**March 2024 Books -- Kate**
Member	Title	Author	Genre	Quills
Margie P	Apeirogan	Colum McCann	Novel	5
Abby D	Birnam Wood	Eleanor Catton	Fiction	5
Pamela B	Klara and the Sun	Kazuo Ishugiro	Novel	5
Anna L	In the Sanctuary of the Outcasts	Neil White	Memoir	5
Bob F	Tom Lake	Ann Patchett	Novel	4
Linda F	The White Lady	Jacqueline Winspear	Novel	4
Walter T	All The King's Men	Robert Penn Warren	Novel	5
Kate L	Secret Keeper of Jaipur	Alka Joshi	Novel	3

**September 2023 Books -- Carol**
Member	Title	Author	Genre	Quills
Abby D	Sea of Tranquility	Emily St. John Mandel	Fiction	5
Barb T	A Few Right Thinking Men	Sufari Gentill	Historical Mystery	5
Bob F	The Soul of an Octopus	Sy Montgomery	Nonfiction	4
Carole C	The Boys in the Boat	Daniel James Brown	Nonfiction	4
Margie P	The Exiles	Christina Baker Kline	Fiction	4
Debbie W	Color: A Natural History of the Palette	Victoria Finlay	Nonfiction	-
Linda F	The Second Mrs Astor	Shana Abe	Historical Fiction	4

**August 2023 Books -- Amina**
Member	Title	Author	Genre	Quills
Amina D	Selected Stories	Guy de Maupassant	Fiction	5
Anna L	The Good Pilot, Peter Woodhouse	Alexander McCall Smith	Fiction	4
Barb T	Demon Copperhead	Barbara Kingsolver	Fiction	4
Bob F	American Prometheus	Kai Bird & Martin J. Sherwin	Biography	4
Carole C	A Natural History of Love	Diane Ackerman	Lit review	2.5
Debbie W	Color: A Natural History of the Palette	Victoria Finlay	Nonfiction	4
Kate L	The Last Remains	Elly Graiffiths	Mystery	5
Linda F	Remarkably Bright Creatures	Shelby van Pelt	Fiction	5

**July 2023 Books -- Anna**
Member	Title	Author	Genre	Quills
Anna L	Truth and Beauty	Ann Patchett	Nonfiction	2
Beth T	Dear Edward	Ann Napolitano	Fiction	5
Bob F	Zero Days	Ruth Ware	Thriller	3
Bonnie B	Evicted: Poverty and Profit	Matthew Desmond	Nonfiction	4
Carole C	Truman	David McCullough	Biography	5
Debbie W	The Secret Lives of Colors	Kassia St Clair	Nonfiction	5
Elaine F	The Rhetoric of Death	Judith Rock	Mystery	-
Kate L	The Grass is Singing	Doris Lessing	Fiction	5
Linda F	The Maid	Nita Pross	Mystery	4

**June 2023 Books -- Bob & Linda**
Member	Title	Author	Genre	Quills
Carol C	In Silence: Growing Up Hearing in a Deaf World	Ruth Sidransky	Memoir	5
Bob F	Introduction to Declarer Play	Eddie Kantar	Bridge	5
Linda F	An American Beauty	Shana Abe	Historical Fiction	5
Nan H	Isaac’s Storm	Eric Larson	Nonfiction	5
Barbara T	The Librarian of Burned Books	Brianna Labuskes	Historical Fiction	5
Debbie W	Oil and Marble	Stephanie Storey	Historical Fiction	5

**April 2023 Books -- Kate**
Member	Title	Author	Genre	Quills
Amina D	Quiet: The Power of Introverts..	Susan Cain	Nonfiction	4
Abby D	Mistborn: The Final Empire	Branon Sanderson	Fiction	4
Margie P	Taste: My Life through Food	Stanley Tucci	Nonfiction	4
Beth T	Lessons in Chemistry	Bonnie Garmus	Fiction	4
Anna L	Big Magic	Elizabeth Gilbert	Nonfiction	2
Debbie W	A Place Called Wiregrass	Michael Morris	Fiction	5
Barbara T	The Poisoned City	Anna Clark	Nonfiction	5
Carol C	Memoirs of General William T. Sherman	Wm Sherman	Memoir	5
Kate L	The Optimist's Daughter	Eudora Welty	Fiction	5

**March 2023 Books -- Debbie & Larry**
Member	Title	Author	Genre	Quills
Larry W	The Streets of Rocket City	Harold “Hutch” Hutchenson	Nonfiction	5
Barbara T	Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea	Barbara Dernick	Nonfiction	1
Beth T	Tongues of Flame	Mary Ward Brown	Fiction	4
Carol C	The Power of Gold: the History of Obsession	Peter Bernstein	Nonfiction	5
Abby D	Watergate: A New History	Garrett Graff	Nonfiction	5
Elaine F	The Dictionary of Lost Words	Pip Williams	Fiction	4
Anna L	Tongues of Flame	Mary Ward Brown	Fiction	2
Walter T	The Brothers Karamazov	Fyodor Dostoevski	Fiction	5
Debbie W	The Devil in the Junior League	Linda Frances	Fiction	5
Carol W	Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death, & Brain Surgery	Dr. Henry Marsh, MD	Nonfiction	5
Margie P	The Paris Seamstress	Natasha Lester	Fiction	4

**April 2022 Books -- via Zoom**
Member	Title	Author	Genre	Quills
Elaine F	The Bondwoman's Narrative	Hannah Crofts	Nonfiction	5
Beth T	The Sentence	Louise Erdrich	Fiction	5
Georgina C	All Dressed Up	Jilly Gagnon	Fiction	5
Abby D	Run Towards the Danger	Sarah Polley	Nonfiction	5
Monita S	The Red-Haired Woman	Orhan Pamuk	Fiction	5
Margie P	The Humans	Matt Haig	Fiction	5
Debbie W	At Home	Bill Bryson	Nonfiction	5

**October 2021 Books -- via Zoom**
Member	Title	Author	Genre	Quills
Abby D	Whisper Network	Chandler Baker	Nonfiction	4
Kate L	My Brilliant Friend	Elena Ferrante	Fiction	5
Monita S	A Trick of the Light	Louise Penny	Fiction	5
Margaret V	The Word is Murder	Anthony Horowitz	Fiction	5
Elaine F	The Orphan Collector	Ellen Marie Wiseman	Fiction	5
Margie P	Hamnet	Maggie O'Farrell	Fiction	4
Debbie W	Afghanistan	Stephen Tenner	Nonfiction	5

**August 2021 Books -- via Zoom**
Member	Title	Author	Genre	Quills
Abby D	Sweet Dreams	Dylan Jones	Nonfiction	5
Carol B	Code Name Helene	Ariel Lawhorn	Historical Fiction	5
Kate L	The Year of Magical Thinking	Joan Didion	Nonfiction	5
Linda F	The Puma Years	Laura Coleman	Nonfiction	3
Bob F	Aubrey and Maturin Series	Patrick O'Brian	Historical Fiction	5
Liz S	The President's Daughter	Bill Clinton and James Patterson	Fiction	4
Bob S	Epidemics and Society	Frank Snowdon	Nonfiction	4
Debbie W	Various Chinese History books		Nonfiction

**July 2021 Books -- Liz & Bob**
Member	Title	Author	Genre	Quills
Liz S	Hamnet	Maggie O'Farrell	Fiction	4
Bob S	Dust Tracks on a Road	Zora Neal Hurston	Nonfiction	4
Monita S	The Secret Keeper of Jalpour	Alka Joshl	Fiction	4
Barbara T	Then the Fish Swallowed Him	Amir Ahmadi Arian	Fiction	5
Linda F	The Chelsea Girls	Fiona Davis	Fiction	3
Bob F	The Premonition	Michael Lewis	Nonfiction	4
Pamela B	The Midnight Library	Matt Haig	Fiction	4
Anna L	Spark Joy	Marie Kondo	Nonfiction	-
Walter T	In Search of Lost Time	Marcel Proust	Fiction	5
Beth T	A Woman of No Importance	Sonia Purnell	Nonfiction	4
Abby D	Saint X	Alexis Schaitkin	Fiction	5

**May 2021 Books -- Kate's in Five Points**
Member	Title	Author	Genre	Quills
Dinah G	A Time for Mercy	John Grisham	Fiction	5
Debbie W	A Season of Splendor: The Court of Mrs Astor in the Gilded Age	Greg Knight	Historical	5
Kate L	The Short Reign of Pippen IV	John Steinbeck	Fiction	4
Anna L	No Time to Clean!	Don Aslett	How To	4

**April 2021 Books -- via Zoom**
Member	Title	Author	Genre	Quills
Monita S	Fragile Monsters	Catherine Menon	Fiction	5
Bob F	Master & Commander	Patrick O'Brian	Fiction	5
Linda F	Transient Desires	Donna Leon	Fiction	5
Carol B	The Night Portrait	Laura Morelli	Fiction	5
Diane W	The Woman Who Smashed Codes	Jason Fagone	Fiction	5
Liz S & Elaine F	The Rose Code	Kate Quinn	Fiction	5
Bob S	Caste	Isabelle Wilkerson	Nonfiction	3
Abby D	The Luminaries	Eleanor Catton	Fiction	5

**March 2021 Books -- via Zoom**
Member	Title	Author	Genre	Quills
Peggy E	Our Souls at Night	Kent Haruf	Fiction	5
Monita S	The Death of Ivan Ilyich	Leo Tolstoy	Fiction	-
Abby D	Ninth House	Leigh Bardugo	Fiction	5
Debbie W	The Expanding Discourse	Broude & Garrard (ed.)	Nonfiction	5
Claire M	Hurricane Creek	Nancy Callahan	Nonfiction/Lore	5
Beth T	Isabelle Dalhausie Series	Alexander McCall Smith	Fiction	5

**February 2021 Books -- via Zoom**
Member	Title	Author	Genre	Quills
Margie P	The Vanishing Half	Brit Bennett	Fiction	5
Carol B	The Paris Seamstress	Natasha Lester	Fiction	5
Bob F	Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy	John le Carre	Fiction	4
Linda F	Behind Closed Doors	J.J. Morris	Fiction	4
Diane W	A Week in Winter	Maeve Binchy	Fiction	4
Elaine F	How to be an Anti-Racist	Ibram Kendi	Nonfiction	5
Abby D	The Fran Lebowitz Reader	Fran Lebowitz	Nonfiction	5
Judy V	The Great Alone	Kristin Hannah	Fiction	4
Peggy E	Have you seen Louis Velez?	Catherine Ryan Hyde	Fiction	5
Monia S	Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine	Gail Honeyman	Fiction	5

**January 2021 Books -- via Zoom**
Member	Title	Author	Genre	Quills
Margie P	Lost Children Archive	Valeria Luiselli	Fiction	3
Liz S	Miss Benson's Beetle	Rachel Joyce	Fiction	5
Debbie W	Song of Achilles	Madeline Miller	Fiction/Myth	5
Diane W	The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie (audio)	Alan Bradley	Fiction	5
Elaine F	Gods of the Upper Air	Charles King	Nonfiction	5
Bob S	The Vanishing Half	Brit Bennett	Fiction	5
Abby D	Interior Chinatown	Charles Yu	Fiction	5
Beth T	The Hidden Brain	Shankar Vedantam	Nonfiction	-

**December 2020 Books -- via Zoom**
Member	Title	Author	Genre	Quills
Debbie W	Late Winter Poems	Bill Brown	Poetry	5
Linda F	The Rhyme of the Magpie	Marty Wingate	Fiction	3
Bob F	Shakespeare in a Divided America	James Shapiro	Nonfiction	4
Carey L	A Prayer for Owen Meany	John Irving	Fiction	5
Elaine F	The Buddha in the Attic	Julie Otsuka	Fiction	5
Abby D	Blood in the Water	Heather Ann Thompson	Nonfiction	5
Monita S	There is No Me without You	Melissa Fay Greene	Nonfiction	5
Margie P	The Song of Achilles	Madeline Miller	Fiction	5
Bob S	The Moral Equivalent of War	William James	Essay	5
Liz S	News of the World	Paulette Jiles	Fiction	5
Beth T	On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous	Ocean Vuong	Fiction	5
Bob & Linda F	Citizens of London companion to The Splendid and the Vile	Lynne Olson	Nonfiction	5

**November 2020 Books -- via Zoom**
Member	Title	Author	Genre	Quills
Tom P	A Confederacy of Dunces	John Kennedy Toole	Fiction	5
Bob F	The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie	Alan Bradley	Fiction	5
Linda F	The Golden Tresses of the Dead	Alan Bradley	Fiction	4
Abby D	A Field Guide to the North American Family	Garth Risk Hallberg	Fiction	5
Margie P	The Magpie Murders	Anthony Horowitz	Fiction	5
Liz S	The Guest List	Lucy Foley	Fiction	5
Diane W	The Underground Railroad	Colson Whitehead	Fiction	5
Amina D	Dead Aid	Dambisa Moyo	Nonfiction	4
Debbie W	Strapless	Deborah Davis	Nonfiction	5

**October 2020 Books -- via Zoom**
Member	Title	Author	Genre	Quills
Debbie W	Circe	Madeline Miller	Fiction	5
Margie P	A Woman of No Importance	Sonia Pernell	Nonfiction	5
Linda F	All the Devils are Here	Louise Penny	Mystery Fiction	5
Bob F	Late Migrations	Margaret Renkl	Nonfiction Essays	5
Elaine F	1Q84	Haruki Murakami	Fiction	5
Tom P	Rage	Bob Woodward	Nonfiction	4
Abby D	Milkman	Anna Burns	Fiction	5
Beth T	Lab Girl	Hope Jahren	Nonfiction Biography	5
Pamela B	Troubled Blood	Robert Gailbraith	Mystery Fiction	5
Carol B	This Tender Land	William Kruger	Fiction	5
Diane W	The Bone Thief	Jefferson/Bass	Fiction	5
Walter T	Swann's Way	Marcel Proust	Classic Fiction	5

**September 2020 Books -- via Zoom**
Member	Title	Author	Genre	Quills
Margie P	The Good Terrorist	Doris Lessing	Fiction	5
Monita S	Murder in Old Bombay	Neve March	Fiction	5
Abby D	Gould's Book of Fish	Richard Flanagan	Fiction	5
Liz S	Bliss Remembered	Frank Deford	Fiction	5
Bob S	Between the World and Me	Ta-Nehisi Coates	Nonfiction Essay	5
Linda F	The Turn of the Key	Ruth Ware	Fiction	4
Bob F	Alexander Hamilton	Ron Chernow	Nonfiction History	5
Carol B	Hidden Valley Road	Robert Kolker	Nonfiction	5
Pamela B	Circe	Madeline Miller	Fiction	5
Elaine F	The Diary of a Good Neighbor	Doris Lessing	Fiction	5
Debbie W	Suck Your Stomach In and Put Some Color On	Shellie Rushing Tomlinson	Nonfiction	5

**August 2020 Books -- via Zoom**
Member	Title	Author	Genre	Quills
Bob F	The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking)	Katie Mack	Nonfiction	4
Linda F	The Library Book	Susan Orlean	Nonfiction	4
Amina D	The Enchanter	Vladimir Nabokov	Fiction	4
Margie P	Educated	Tara Westover	Memoir	5
Diane W	Dissolution	C.J. Sansom	Historical Fiction	5
Liz S	News of the World	Paulette Jiles	Historical Fiction	5
Bob S	Bruno, Chief of Police Series	Martin Walker	Fiction	4
Pamela B	Nothing to See Here	Kevin Wilson	Fiction	5
Elaine F	A Woman is No Man	Etaf Rum	Historical Fiction	5
Abby D	The Opposite of Loneliness	Marina Keegan	Essays	5
Debbie W	Bending Toward Justice	Doug Jones	Nonfiction	5

**July 2020 Books -- via Zoom**
Member	Title	Author	Genre	Quills
Tom P	The Red Platoon: A True Story of American Valor	Clinton Romesha	Nonfiction	5
Abby D	The Glass Hotel	Emily St. John Mandel	Fiction	5
Walter T	Tom Jones	Henry Fielding	Classic Fiction	5
Linda F	The Body in the Kelp: A Mystery	Katherine Hall Page	Mystery	3
Bob F	A Wilderness So Immense	Jon Kukla	Nonfiction	5
Liz S	The Splendid and the Vile	Erik Larson	Nonfiction	4
Beth T	The Library Book	Susan Orlean	Nonfiction	5
Margie P	Educated: A Memoir	Tara Westover	Nonfiction	5
Debbie W	The Diary of Samuel Pepys: The Great Plague of London and The Great Fire of London, 1665-1666	Samuel Pepys	Nonfiction	5

**June 2020 Books -- via Zoom**
Member	Title	Author	Genre	Quills
Monita S	Silver Sparrow	Tayari Jones	Fiction
Liz S	Without Reservations: The Travels of an Independent Woman	Alice Steinbach	Nonfiction
Bob S	Book Woman of Troublesome Creek	Kim Michele Richardson	Fiction
Margie P	Crossing to Safety	Wallace Stegner	Fiction
Linda F	The Splendid and the Vile	Erik Larson	Nonfiction
Bob F	Citizens of London: Americans Who Stood...	Lynne Olson	Nonfiction
Kate L	The Girl in Room 105	Chetan Bhagat	Fiction
Debbie W	A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century	Barbara Tuchman	Nonfiction
Larry W	The Presidents Fact Book	Roger Matuz, et al	Nonfiction

**October 2019 Books -- Debbie & Larry**
Member	Title	Author	Genre	Quills
Joseph M	The Daughter of Time	Josephine Tey	Mystery	5
Debbie W	Alabama Creates	Elliott A. Knight	Art History	5
Monita S	American Moonshot	Douglas Brinkley	Nonfiction	5
Abby D	A Gambler's Anatomy	Jonathan Lethem	Fiction	4
Larry W	Immoderate Greatness: Why Civilizations Fail	William Ophuls	Philosophy	1
Margie P	Waking Lions	Ayelet Gundar-Goshen	Fiction	5

**September 2019 Books -- Pamela & Ted**
Member	Title	Author	Genre	Quills
Kate L	The Paris Wife	Paula McLain	Historical Fiction	5
Pamela B	Transcription	Kate Atkinson	Fiction	5
Amina D	The Lover & The North China Lover	Marguerite Duras	Novels	4
Abby D	Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud and the Last Trial of Harper Lee	Casey Cep	Nonfiction	5

**August 2019 Books -- Kate & Joseph**
Member	Title	Author	Genre	Quills
Anna L	They Too Call Alabama Home	Richard Bailey	Nonfiction	4
Kate L	Oscar Wilde and the Death of No Importance	Gyles Brandreth	Mystery	4
Joseph M	The Ragnarok Conspiracy	Eric Stebbins	Mystery	3
Jacob D	The Weed Agency: A Comic Tale of Federal Bureaucracy	Jim Geraghty	Political Comedy	4
Amina D	Three Women	Lisa Taddeo	Nonfiction	4
Beth T	Last Bus Out	Beck McDowell	Fiction	5
Walter T	Collected Poems	William Butler Yeats	Poetry	5
Barbara T	Fallen	David Baldaci	Fiction	4
Margie P	Brooklyn	Calm Toibin	Fiction	4
Abby D	Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland	Patrick Radden Keefe	Nonfiction	5

**July 2019 Books -- Barbara**
Member	Title	Author	Genre	Quills
Anna L	Americanah	Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie	Fiction	1
Abby D	Grand Hotel	Vicki Baum	Fiction	5
Bob F	In the Sanctuary of Outcasts	Neil White	Memoir	4
Linda F	Gift from the Sea	Anne Morrow Lindbergh	Essays	4
Amina D	The Painted Bird	Jerzy Kosinski	Fiction	1
Jacob D	Call it Sleep	Henry Roth	Fiction	2
Barbara T	One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich	Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn	Historical Fiction	4
Joseph M	Bridge of Sighs	Richard Russo	Fiction	5

**June 2019 Books -- Pamela and Ted**
Member	Title	Author	Genre	Quills
Barbara T	The Scarlet Pimpernel	Baroness Emma Orczy	Fiction	5
Debbie W	The Mueller Report: Part II	Robert Mueller	Nonfiction	5
Abby D	Slow Horses	Mick Herron	Fiction	4
Dinah G	No Safe Place	Richard North Patterson	Fiction	3
Beth T	The Overstay	Richard Powers	Fiction	4
Walter T	This Side of Paradise	F. Scott Fitzgerald	Fiction	5
Kate L	The Dollhouse	Fiona Davis	Fiction	4
Monita S	The Unfinished Palazzo	Judith Mackrell	Nonfiction	4
Amina D	The Writing Life	Annie Dillard	Nonfiction	3
Margie P	The Narrow Road to the Deep North	Richard Flanagan	Fiction	5
Elaine F	The Invention of Wings	Sue Monk Kidd	Historical Fiction	5
Joseph M	The Adventures of Miles and Isabel	Tom Grilling	Historical Fiction	3
Linda F	All the Missing Girls	Megan Marande	Fiction	4
Bob F	Maisie Dobbs (Series)	Jacqueline Winspear	Mystery	4
Pamela B	A Discovery of Witches	Deborah Harkness	Fiction	4
Ted B	The Book of Joy	14th Dalai Lama & Desmond Tutu	Spiritual	5

**May 2019 Books -- Margie P**
Member	Title	Author	Genre	Quills
Debbie W	White People	Allan Gurganus	Short Stories	5
Margie P	Cranford and Other Stories	Elizabeth Gaskell	Short Stories	4.5
Monita S	Shadow Princess	Indu Sundaresan	Historical Fiction	4.5
Anna L	Lab Girl	Hope Jahren	Nonfiction	3
Dottie L	The Beneficiary	Janny Scott	Nonfiction	4
Barbara T	The Books that Mattered	Frye Galliard	Memoir	5
Kate L	The Italian Secretary	Caleb Carr	Mystery	4
Dinah G	Two Old Women	Velma Wallis	Fiction	4
Linda F	The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind	William Kamkwamba	Nonfiction	4

**April 2019 Books -- Liz and Bob**
Member	Title	Author	Genre	Quills
Barbara T	Lincoln's Last Trial	Dan Abrams	Biography	5
Monita S	What She knew	Gilly Macmillan	Thriller	3
Dinah G	Beach Music	Pat Conroy	Fiction	5
Kate L	The Snake Stone	Jason Goodwin	Mystery	4
Abby D	The Immortalists	Chloe Benjamin	Fiction	4
Bob S	Where the Crawdads Sing	Delia Owens	Fiction	4
Beth T	Henry the Boy	Molly Felder	Children's	5

**March 2019 Books -- Beth and Walter**
Member	Title	Author	Genre	Quills
Monita S	The Enchantress of Florence	Samon Rushdie	Romance	5
Abby D	Sling Time	Zadie Smith	Fiction	5
Beth T	The Great Alone	Kristen Hannah	Memior	4
Dinah G	The Final Solution	Michael Chabon	Fiction	4.5
Nannette S	Salt: A World History	Mark Kurlansky	History	4
Anna L	Forest Bathing	Qing Li	Nonfiction	5
Barbara T	The Perfect Storm	Sebastian Junger	Nonfiction	5
Joseph M	The Closing of the American Mind	Allan Bloom	Nonfiction	5
Margie P	The Captures	Scott Zesch	Nonfiction	5
Walter T	The Tempest	Wm. Shakespeare	Comedy	5
Kate L	Atomic City Girls	Janet Beard	Novel	3
Debbie W	Alabama, The Making of an American State	Edwin C. Bridges	History	5

**October 2018 Books -- Debbie and Larry**
Member	Title	Author	Genre	Quills
Barbara T	Winter Dance: The Fine Madness of Running the Ididerod	Gary Paulsen	Nonfiction	5
Anna L	Gone Baby Gone	Dennis Lehane	Suspense	3
Rebecca M	Standard Deviation	Katherine Heiny	Fiction	5
Larry W	A Higher Loyalty	James Comey	Nonfiction	5
Linda F	Anne of Green Gables	Lucy Maud Montgomery	Fiction	5
Bob F	Bad Blood	John Carreyrou	Nonfiction	5
Monita S	Toba, Tek Singh and Other Stories	Saadat Hasan Manto	Fiction	5
Joseph M	Barney's Version	Mortecai Richler	Fiction	5
KateL	Missing, Presumed	Susie Steiner	Mystery	4
Margie F	Salvage the Bones	Jesmyn Ward	Fiction	5
Debbie W	Women who Read are Dangerous	Stefan Bollman	Art	5
Dottie L	21 Lessons for the 21st Century	Yuval Noah Harari	Nonfiction	4

**September 2018 Books -- Pamela**
Member	Title	Author	Genre	Quills
Abby D	The Mars Room	Rachel Kushner	Fiction	5
Bonnie S	Mrs. Osmond	John Banville	Fiction	4
Bob F	Earning the Rockies	Robert D. Kaplan	Nonfiction	3
Linda F	The Girl with Seven Names	Hyeonseo Lee & David John	Nonfiction	5
Barbara T	Beneath a Scarlett Sky	Mark Sullivan	Historical Fiction	5
Pamela B	The Secret Lives of Color	Kassia St. Clair	Nonfiction	5
Monita S	Deception Point	Dan Brown	Fiction	4

**August 2018 Books -- Kate and Joseph**
Member	Title	Author	Genre	Quills
Elaine H	The Charm School	Nelson DeMille	Fiction	4
Beth T	Educated	Tara Westover	Memior	3
Anna L	Between Breaths	Elizabeth Vargas	Biography	1
Dinah G	Exit West	Mohsin Hamid	Fiction	4
Abby D	Nixonland	Rick Perlstein	Historical	4
Bonnie S	Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind	Yuval Noah Harari	Nonfiction	4
Joseph M	Something Rotten	Jasper Fforde	Mystery	4
Bob F	The Soul of America	Jon Meacham	Nonfiction	3
Linda F	The Killers of the Flower Moon	David Grann	Historical	3
Barbara T	Defending Jacob	William Landay	Fiction	4
Mary L	A Manual for Cleaning Women	Lucia Berlin	Short Stories	5
Mary C	Astrophysics for People in a Hurry	Neil de Grasse Tyson	Science	5
Kate L	Inspector Ghote Hunts the Peacock	H.R. F. Keating	Mystery	4
Margie P	The House at the Edge of Night	Catherine Banner	Fiction	4
Monita S	Sea of Poppies	Amitav Ghosh	Fiction	4

**July 2018 Books -- Linda and Bob**
Member	Title	Author	Genre	Quills
Joseph M	Hades	Candace Fox	Mystery	5
Monita S	The Secrets Between Us	Thrity Umrigar	Novel	4
Abby D	I'll be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer	Michelle McNamara	True Crime	5
Bonnie S	Less	Andrew Sean Greer	Fiction	4
Barbara T	A Gentlemen in Moscow	Amor Towles	Novel	5
Debbie W	Tipperary	Frank Delaney	Novel	4
Linda F	Educated, A Memoir	Lara Westover	Memoir	5
Bob F	Word by Word; The Secret Life of Dictionaries	Kory Stamper	Nonfiction	4

**June 2018 Books -- Bonnie**
Member	Title	Author	Genre	Quills
Abby D	The Big Clock	Kenneth Fearing	Noir	5
Linda F	Before We Were Yours	Lisa Wingate	Thriller	5
Bob F	Educated	Tara Westover	Memoir	5
Deb W	Elegy for a Southern Drawl	Rodney Jones	Poetry	5
Bonnie S	Franklin and Winston	Jon Meachem	History	5
Monita S	How I Taught my Grandmother to Read the Stones	Sudha Murthy	Short Stories	5
Pamela B	The Dud Avocado	Elaine Dundy	Comic Novel	5
Kate L	The Perfect Murder	H. R. F. Keating	Mystery	4

**May 2018 Books -- Sally & Bob**
Member	Title	Author	Genre	Quills
Bob N	The Soul of America	Jon Meacham	History	5
Sally N	The Woman in the Window	A. J. Finn	Thriller	4
Sally N	Little Fires Everywhere	Celeste Ng	Fiction	2
Joseph M	Dark Ages America: the Final Phase of An Empire	Morris Berman	History	4
Kate L.	Dime Store: A Writer's Life	Lee Smith	Bio -Short Stories	4

**April 2018 Books -- Liz & Bob**
Member	Title	Author	Genre	Quills
Kate L	Everything I Never Told You	Celeste NG	Thriller	5
Joseph M	Blue Latitudes	Tony Horwitz	Nonfiction	4
Liz S	Loving Eleanor	Susan Wittig Albert	Novel	4
Bob S	Golden Hill	Francis Spufford	Novel	4
Donna B	Stripped	Brian Freeman	Thriller	4
Sarah C	Chronicles of Avonlea	Lucy Maude Montgomery	Short Stories	4
Abby D	Trainwreck: The Women we Love to Hate…	Sady Doyle	Nonfiction	4
Margie P	The Summer Before the War	Helen Simonson	Historical Fiction	4
Beth T	My Venice and Other Essays	Donna Leon	Essays	4

**October 2017 Books -- Debbie & Larry**
Member	Title	Author	Genre	Quills
Barbara T	The Badass Librarians of Timbuktu	Joshua Hammer	Nonfiction	5
Anna L	Espresso Tales	Alexander McCall Smith	Fiction	4
Margie P	Great Expectations	Charles Dickens	Fiction	5
Dinah G	Glass Houses	Louise Penny	Mystery	5
Kate L	The Tiger in the House	Jacqueline Sheehan	Fiction	4
Abby D	Lincoln in the Bardo	George Sanders	Fiction	5
Monita S	Never Let me Go	Kazao Ishiguro	Fiction	5
Joseph M	China Lake	Anthony Hyde	Historical Fiction	4
Debbie W	The Judgement of Paris	Ross King	Historical Fiction	5
Mona P	The North Water	Ian McGuire	Fiction	5
Larry W	Fantasyland - How America Went Haywire in a 500 year History	Kurt Andersen	Revisionist History	4

**September 2017 Books -- Evie**
Member	Title	Author	Genre	Quills
Barbara T	The Widow	Fiona Barton	Fiction	3
Abby D	Dark Sparkler	Amder Tamblyn	Poetry	4
Kate L	Seventh Plaque	James Rollins	Fiction	3
Evie S	The Christ-Haunted Landscape	Susan Ketchin	Anthology	5
Joseph M	A World Lit by Fire	Willian Manchester	Nonfiction	4
Anna L	The Hour of the Star	Clarice Lispector	Fiction	1

**August 2017 Books -- Kate & Joseph**
Member	Title	Author	Genre	Quills
Elaine	Gut Bucket Blues	Anita August	Fiction	5
Bonnie	The Rules of Civility	Amor Towles	Fiction	3.5
Barb	The Girls	Emma Cline	Fiction	5
Bob	Thank You for Being Late	Thomas Friedman	Nonfiction	3
Linda	I Will Always Write Back	Caitlin Alifirenka & Martin Ganda	Nonfiction	5
Essie	Find Her	Lisa Gardner	Fiction	3
Joseph	The Defense	D. W. Buffa	Fiction	3.5
Monita	The Sense of an Ending	Julian Barnes	Fiction	4
Kate	The Rent Collector	Cameron Wright	Fiction	5
Dottie	The Genius of Birds	Jennifer Ackerman	Nature	5
Kay	Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar	Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein	Philosophy	3
Abby	Priestdaddy	Patricia Lockwood	Memoir	5