TLYCC Book Club

2023

 Horse by Geraldine Brooks
Remarkably Bright Creatures  by Shelby VanPelt
The Crooked Branch by Jeanine Cummings

The Only Woman in the Room by Marie Benedict
 Zero Days by Ruth Ware

2022

The Lincoln Highway: A Novel by Amor Towles 6-20

American Dirt: A Novel by Jeanine Cummins 7-11

Becoming Duchess Goldblatt by (Anonymous) 7-25

The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett 8-8

Becoming Nicole, The Transformation of an American Family by Amy Ellis Nutt 8-22

2021

The Invention of Nature by Andrea Wulf 6-21

The Lost Man by Jane Harper 7-12

The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes 7-26

A Most Beautiful Thing by Arshay Cooper 8-9

Peace by a River by Leif Enger 8-23

2020

The Sweetness of Immigration by Martha Aladjem Bloomfield and Stephen Garr Ostrander 6-22

Unsheltered by Barbara Kingsolver 7-13

The Art of Hearing Heartbeats by Jan-Philipp Senker 7-27

Isaac’s Storm by Eric Larson 8-10

The Book of Salt by Monique Truong 8-24

2019

Bear Town by Fredrick Backman 6-24

Educated by Tara Westover 7-12

A Piece of the World by Christina Baker Kline 7-26

Born a Crime by Trevor Noah 8-14

The Little French Bistro by Nina George 8-28

2018

A Gentleman in Moscow by Towles 6-25-18

Wedding of the Waters by Peter Bernstein 7-16-18

Our Souls at Night by Kent Haruf 7-30-18

Killers of the Flower Moon by David Gramm 8-13-18

Gold Fame Citrus by Claire Vaye Watkins 8-27-18

2017

LaRose by Louise Erdrich 6-26-17

Immortal Irishman by Timothy Egan 7-17-17

Orhan’s Inheritance by Aline Ohanesian 7-31-17

The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben 8-14-17

Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi 8-28-17

2016

Americanah by Adichie 6-20-16

Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown 7-11-16

Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins 7-25-16

Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger 8-8-16

Burial Rites by Hannah Kent 8-22-16

2015

The President’s Club by Nancy Gibbs

The Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline

The Other Typist by Suzanne Rindell

All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

The Husband’s Secret by LeAnn Moriarity

Euphoria by Lily King

2014

Once Upon a River Bonnie Jo Campbell

The English Major by Jim Harrison

A Thousand Mile Walk on the Beach by Loreen Niewenhuis

The Mural Writer by LaShelle VanHouten

Loving Together by Gloria Whelan

2013

Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President by Candice Millard

The State of Wonder by AnnPatchett

Isadore’s Secret by Mardi Link

Soloman’s Oak by JoAnn Napson

The Sandcastle Girls by Chris Bohjalian

2012?

Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness 

The Cat’s Table by Ondatje

Away by Amy Bloom

Don’t Sing at the Table by Adriana Trigiana

TLYCC Suggested books beginning with summer of 2015

Killing Lincoln by O’Reilly

Mister Pununbra’s 24 hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan

Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown

Me Before You by JoJo Moyes

Wine and War by Don and Petie Kladstrup

The Light Between Oceans by ML Stedman

Typhoid Mary by Anthony Bourdain

Still Life with Breadcrumbs by Anna Quindlen

The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt

Americanah by Adichie

Still Life by Louise Penney

Behold a Rainbow (The Sandpiper) by Susan Lovell

Rules of Civility by Amor Towles

The Painted Bird by Jerzy Kosinski

A Complicated Kindness by Miriam Toews

Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins

Sandpiper by Susan Lovell

The Painter by Peter Heller

Wicked Takes the Witness Stand by Mardi Link

The Birth of Venus by Sarah Dunant

We are Beside Ourselves by Karen Fowler

Being Mortal by Atul Gawande

The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee

2016

Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki

A Dog’s Life by Bruce Cameron

Chancers, by Sue Stellin

The Storied Life of AJ Fikry

Orhan’s Inheritance by Aline Ohanesian

The Japanese Lover by Allende

The Bartender’s Tale (B. Thayer)

Native American books by Tony Hillerman (B. Thayer, Ginnie G. Jeanne R.)

A Doubter’s Almanac by Ethan Canin

The Immortal Irishman by Timothy Ethan (B. Thayer)

Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter (G. Griffis)

A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara (B. Manning)

The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah (B. Van Pelt)

Tribe by Sebastian Junger

The Roundhouse by Louise Erdlich

Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert

Rising Strong by Brene Brown

Miller’s Valley by Anna Quinlan

Secret Chord by Geraldine Brooks

Orhan’s Inheritance by Aline Ohanesian

Nightingale by Kristen Hannah

Me Before You by JoJo Moyes

Immortal Irishman by Timothy Egan

LaRose by Louise Erdrich

2017

Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben

The Hillbilly Elegy by JD Vance

Hero of the Empire by Candace Millard

A Gentleman in Moscow, by Towles

The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay

Our Souls at Night by Kent Haruf

A Man Called Ove by Frederick Backman

Wedding of the Waters by Peter Bernstein

Lilac Girls by Martha Hall Kelly

The Marsh King’s Daughter by Karen Dionne

2018

Atomic City Girls by Janet Beard

Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate

Rules of Civility by Amor Towles

Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson

Born a Crime by Trevor Noah 

The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay

Eventide by Kent Haruf

Plainsong by Kent Haruf

The Battling Brothers of Battle Creek by Howard Markel

Unsettled by Barbara Kingsolver

Bear Town By Fredrik Backman

The News of the World by Paulette Jiles

The Lost City of Z by David Grann

A Thief of Time by Tony Hillerman

Educated by Tara Westover

Less  by Andrew Sean Greer

Fly Girls by Keith O’Brien

Clara and Mr. Tiffany by Susan Vreeland

The President is Missing by James Patterson and Bill Clinton

The Little French Bistro by Nina George

A Piece of the World by Christina Baker Kline

Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman

Wicked Takes the Witness Stand by Mardi Link

An Undisturbed Peace by Mary Glickman

2020

The Sweetness of Freedom by Martha Aladjem Bloomfield and Stephen Garr Ostrander

Summer of “69 by Elian  Hilderbrand

Where Did You Go Bernadette, by Maria Semple

The Art of Hearing Heartbeats by Jan-Philipp Sendker

That Month in Tuscany, by Inglath Cooper

Unshelterred by Barbara Kingsolver

Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

The Book of Salt, by Monique Truong

Gilead by Marilynne Robinson

Isaac’s Storm by Erik Larson

A Woman of No Importance by Sonia Purnell

2021

The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert

The Book of Longings by Sue Monk Kidd

The River by Peter Heller

Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli

Caste by Isabel Welkerson

Leadership in Turbulent Times by Doris Kearns Goodwin

Splendid in the Vile by Eric Larson

The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson

The Dutch House by Ann Patchett

The Last Bus to Wisdom by Ivan Doig

The Whistling Season by Ivan Doig

The Overstory by Richard Powers

The Alice Network by Kate Quinn

The One Man by Andrew Gross

2022

The Nature of Oaks by Doug Tallamy

The Final Revival of Opal and Nev by Dawnie Walton

The Bees: A Novel by Laline Paull

Untamed by Glennon Doyle

Still Alice by Lisa Genova

Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver

The Night Watchman by Louise Erdich

The Guest List by Lucy Foley

Miss Benson’s Beetle by Rachel Joyce

Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr

Four Seasons in Rome by Anthony Doerr

The Girl with the Louding Voice by Abi Dare

The Last Letter from your Lover by Jojo Moyes

Me Before You by Jojo Moyes

Chasing Fireflies: A Novel of Discovery by Adam Verner

The Getaway Girls by Dee MacDonald

2023

West with Giraffes by Lynda Rutledge
The Bees by Laline Paull

The Only Woman in the Room by Marie Benedict
The Day the World Came to Town by Jim DeFede
The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich
The Sentence by Louise Erdrich
Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell
Minor Feelings by Cathy Park Hon
The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot by Marianne Cronin

2024

Forty Autumns: A Family’s Story of Courage and Survival on Both Sides of the Berlin Wall by Nina Willner

The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese

An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us by Ed Yong

The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store by James McBride

Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead

Lady Tan’s Circle of Women by Lisa See

This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger

Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward

The Rose Code by Kate Quinn

Why Fish Don’t Exist by Lulu Miller

Pineapple Street by Jenny Jackson

Absolution by Alice McDermott (to be published October 2023)

James by Percival Everett (to be published March 2024)