Resources

Wowbrary
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Goodreads
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Fantastic Fiction
Provides bibliographies for over 30,000 authors and information on over 350,000 books.

Stop You’re Killing Me!
Resource for lovers of mystery, crime, thriller, spy, and suspense books. It contains lists of over 3,900 authors, with chronological lists of their books (over 44,000 titles).

Websites to Explore

• BookBrowse
• BookPage
• Bookreporter
• Genrify
• LibraryReads
• Literature-Map
• NPR
• Read It Forward
• Shelf Awareness
• Whichbook

Past Book Discussion Titles

2014

• The Light Between Oceans by M. L. Stedman
• Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline
• A Star for Mrs. Blake by April Smith
• The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd

2015

• The World We Found by Thrity Umrigar
• I Shall Be Near to You by Erin Lindsay McCabe
• The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin
• The Midwife’s Revolt by Jodi Daynard
• The Aviator’s Wife by Melanie Benjamin
• The Last Van Gogh by Alyson Richman
• All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
• The Art of Hearing Heartbeats by Jan-Philipp Sendker
• The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
• Gramercy Park by Paula Cohen
• Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty
• Me Before You by Jojo Moyes

2016

• The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
• Miss Hazel and the Rosa Parks League by Jonathan O’Dell
• Girl Waits With Gun by Amy Stewart
• The Madonnas of Leningrad by Debra Dean
• The Little Paris Bookshop by Nina George
• I Always Loved You:  A Story of Mary Cassatt and Edgar Degas by Robin Oliveira
• Last Night at the Lobster by Stewart O’Nan
• Under the Wide and Starry Sky by Nancy Horan
• A Dictionary of Mutual Understanding by Jackie Copleton
• Mrs. Poe by Lynn Cullen
• The Lost Concerto by Helaine Mario
• The One-in-a-Million Boy by Monica Wood

2017

• The Girl Who Wrote in Silk by Kelli Estes
• The Last Runaway by Tracy Chevalier
• Lady Cop Makes Trouble by Amy Stewart
• The Nest by Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney
• Lilac Girls by Martha Hall Kelly
• The Other Einstein by Marie Benedict
• The Book That Matters Most by Ann Hood
• Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult
• A Piece of the World by Christina Baker Kline
• The Stars are Fire by Anita Shreve
• A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
• The Women in the Castle by Jessica Shattuck

2018

• News of the World by Paulette Jiles
• The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
• Miss Kopp’s Midnight Confessions by Amy Stewart
• Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
• My Dear Hamilton: A Novel of Eliza Schuyler Hamilton by Stephanie Dray & Laura Kamoie
• Victoria by Daisy Goodwin
• The Last Ballad by Wiley Cash
• Mr. Dickens and His Carol by Samantha Silva
• My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry by Fredrik Backman
• Carnegie’s Maid by Marie Benedict
• The Velveteen Daughter by Laurel Davis Huber
• Sourdough by Robin Sloan

2019

• The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah
• Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate
• The Only Woman in the Room by Marie Benedict
• Beneath a Scarlet Sky by Mark T. Sullivan
• Sold on a Monday by Kristina McMorris
• The Masterpiece by Fiona Davis
• Finding Dorothy by Elizabeth Letts
• Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
• The Stationery Shop by Marjan Kamali
• Lost Roses by Martha Hall Kelly
• The Long Flight Home by Alan Hlad
• The Red Address Book by Sofia Lundberg

2020

• The Dutch House by Ann Patchett
• The Secrets We Kept by Lara Prescott
• This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger
• The Beekeeper of Aleppo by Christy Lefteri
• The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes
• The Engineer’s Wife by Tracey Enerson Wood
• Dear Edward by Ann Napolitano
• Redhead by the Side of the Road by Anne Tyler
• American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins
• The Red Lotus by Chris Bohjalian
• The Recipe Box: A Novel With Recipes by Viola Shipman

2021

• The Henna Artist by Alka Joshi
• The Book of Lost Friends by Lisa Wingate
• The Paris Library by Janet Skeslien Charles
• Hour of the Witch by Chris Bohjalian
• The Transatlantic Book Club : a novel by Felicity Hayes-McCoy
• Simon the Fiddler : a novel by Paulette Jiles
• Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
• Sunflower Sisters by Martha Hall Kelly
• The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
• The Exiles : a novel by Christina Baker Kline
• The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah
• The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman

2022

• The Children’s Blizzard by Melanie Benjamin
• The Reading List by Sara Nisha Adams
• The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict
• The Glorious Guinness Girls by Emily Hourican
• Eternal by Lisa Scottoline
• The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles
• The Lions of Fifth Avenue by Fiona Davis
• The Maid by Nita Prose