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Hooked on Books Archive

Hooked on Books (previously Tuesday Evening Book Group) Archive

2024

  • January - Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing
  • February - West with Giraffes by Lynda Rutledge

2023

  • January – The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman
  • February – The Day the World Came to Town by Jim DeFede
  • March – Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
  • April – The Forest of Vanishing Stars by Kristin Harmel
  • May – Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
  • June – Wish You Were Here by Jodi Picoult
  • July – Grandma Gatewood's Walk by Ben Montgomery
  • August – The Only Woman in the Room by Marie Benedict 
  • September - The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley
  • October - Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb
  • November - The Christie Affair by Nina de Gramont
  • December - The Invincible Miss Cust by Penny Haw

2022

  • January – Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner
  • February – The Queen's Secret by Karen Harper
  • March – The Exiles by Christina Baker Kline
  • April – The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion by Fannie Flagg
  • May – The Bookish Life of Nina Hill by Abbi Waxman
  • June – London's Number One Dog-Walking Agency by Kate MacDougall
  • July – Where the Forest Meets the Stars by Glendy Vanderah
  • August – The President and the Freedom Fighter by Brian Kilmeade
  • September – The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray
  • October – The Girl They Left Behind by Roxanne Veletzos
  • November – Groundskeeping by Lee Cole
  • December – The Reading List by Sara Nisha Adams

2021

  • January – The Story of Arthur Truluv by Elizabeth Berg
  • February – Quiet: the power of introverts in a world that can't stop talking by Susan Cain
  • March – Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
  • April – A Woman of No Importance by Sonia Purnell
  • May – The Jane Austen Society by Natalie Jenner
  • June – All Things Bright and Beautiful by James Herriot
  • July – The Lager Queen of Minnesota by J. Ryan Stradal
  • August – Founding Mothers: the women who raised our nation by Cokie Roberts
  • September – The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
  • October – The Engineer's Wife by Tracey Enerson Wood
  • November – The Beekeeper of Aleppo by Christy Lefteri
  • December – Tears of Salt by Pietro Bartolo

2020

  • January – Educated by Tara Westover
  • February – The Last Mrs. Parrish by Liv Constantine
  • March – Midnight in Siberia by David Greene
  • April – The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
  • May – Virtual Discussion
  • June – Little Women by Louisa May Alcott 
  • July – BREAK FOR SUMMER
  • August – BREAK FOR SUMMER
  • September – Virtual Discussion
  • October – Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  • November – Shakespeare: The World as Stage by Bill Bryson 
  • December – Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson 

2019

  • January – Saints for All Occasions by J. Courtney Sullivan
  • February – The Bettencourt Affair by Thomas Sancton
  • March – The Alice Network by Kate Quinn
  • April – Evicted by Matthew Desmond
  • May – The Dry by Jane Harper
  • June – The Good Neighbor by Maxwell King
  • July – Circe by Madeline Miller
  • August – Fly Girls by Keith O'Brien
  • September – The Hate You Give by Angie Thomas
  • October – Beneath a Scarlet Sky by Mark Sullivan
  • November – I am Malala by Malala Yousafzai
  • December – To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee and To Kill a Mockingbird: A Graphic Novel by Fred Fordham

2018

  • January 2018 – Radium Girls by Kate Moore
  • February 2018 – Gingerbread Man by Maggie Shayne
  • March 2018 – Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate
  • April 2018 – The Rosie Project by Graeme C. Simsion
  • May 2018 – The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons by Sam Kean
  • June 2018 – The Women in the Castle by Jessica Shattuck
  • July 2018 – They Call Heroes Mister by Rick Davis
  • August 2018 – Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
  • September 2018 – Personal History by Katharine Graham
  • October 2018 – The Canterbury Sisters by Kim Wright
  • November 2018 – Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann
  • December 2018 – Daring to Drive by Manal Sharif

2017

  • January 2017 – All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
  • February 2017 – Imperial Woman by Pearl S. Buck
  • March 2017 – The Forgotten Room by Karen White, Beatriz Williams, and Lauren Willig
  • April 2017 – The Boston Girl by Anita Diamant
  • May 2017 – A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
  • June 2017 – A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
  • July 2017 – Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
  • August 2017 – The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce
  • September 2017 – Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly
  • October 2017 – Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
  • November 2017 – Loving Frank by Nancy Horan
  • December 2017 – The Trouble with Goats and Sheep by Joanna Cannon

2016

  • January 2016 – The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd
  • February 2016 – Thinking in Pictures by Temple Grandin
  • March 2016 – The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman
  • April 2016 – The Camel Knows the Way by Lorna Kelly
  • May 2016 – Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter
  • June 2016 – The Girls of Atomic City by Denise Kiernan
  • July 2016 – The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson
  • August 2016 – The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu by Joshua Hammer
  • September 2016 – A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
  • October 2016 – Call the Nurse by Mary J. MacLeod
  • November 2016 – Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin
  • December 2016 – Lab Girl by Hope Jahren

2015

  • January 2015 – The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
  • February 2015 – The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
  • March 2015 – George Washington’s Secret Six by Brian Kilmeade and Don Yaeger
  • April 2015 – Mr. Churchill’s Secretary by Susan Elia MacNeal
  • May 2015 – The Secret Rescue by Cate Lineberry
  • June 2015 – The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin
  • July 2015 – The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown
  • August 2015 – The Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline
  • September 2015 – The Mapmaker’s Children by Sarah McCoy
  • October 2015 – Fooling Houdini by Alex Stone
  • November 2015 – Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
  • December 2015 – The Martian by Andy Weir

2014

  • August 2014 – Organizational Meeting
  • September 2014 – Gulp by Mary Roach
  • October 2014 – The Butterfly’s Daughter by Mary Alice Monroe
  • November 2014 – The Ghost Map by Steven Johnson
  • December 2014 – Defending Jacob by William Landay