NVN Book Discussion Group - Titles List

A list of the books we've read and discussed together over the years

 

2023 

• January: The Love Songs of W.E.B. DuBois by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers

• February: The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki

 

2022

• January: Disappearing Earth by Julia Philips

• February: Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner

• March: The Overstory by Richard Powers

• May: Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell

• June: Lying Life of Adults by Elena FerranteJuly: The Vanishing Half by Brit BennettAugust: My Broken Language by Quiara Alegria Hudes

• September: The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray

• November: Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles

 

2021

• January: Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy, Part I

• February: Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy, Part II

• March: Year of Wonders by Ann Patchett

• May: Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo

• October: The Dutch House by Ann Patchett

• November: The Girl with the Louding Voice by Abi Dare

• December: Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

 

2020

• January: There There by Tony Orange

• February: Country Driving: A Chinese Road Trip by Peter Hessler (also known as Country Driving: A Journey Through China from Farm to Factory)

• March: Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver

• April: Visitors by Anita Brookner

• May: Sapiens by Yuval Harari

• June: The Johnstown Flood by David McCullough

• July: How To Be An Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi

• August: Deacon King Kong by James McBride

• September: Shakespeare Saved My Life by Laura Bates

• October: On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong

 

2019

• January: The End of Your Life Book Club by Will Schwalbe

• Febraury: Born a Crime by Trevor Noah

• March: The Custom of the Country by Edith Wharton

• April: How to Change Your Mind by Michael Pollan

• May: A Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Marra

• June: An American Marriage by Tayari Jones

• July: The Cut Out Girl by Bart Van Es

• August: The Friend by Sigrid Nunez

• September: A Shopkeeper’s Millennium: Society and Revivals in Rochester, New York, 1815-1837 by Paul E. Johnson

• October: Ladder of Years by Anne Tyler

• November: How the Irish Became White by Noel Ignatiev

• December: Sula by Toni Morrison

 

2018

• Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate

• This is How It Always Is by Laurie Frankel 

• Eight Years in Power by Ta-Nehisi Coates

• Equilateral by Ken Kalfus

• In the Shadow of Statues by Mitch Landrieu

• Founding Mothers by Cokie Roberts

• Pachinko by Min Jin Lee

• Walden by H. D.Thoreau

• Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward

• The Round House by Louise Erdrich

• The Invisible Gorilla by Christopher Chabris

• My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante

 

Before 2018

• Another Brooklyn by Jacqueline Woodson

• The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro

• Daring to Drive by Manal Al-Sharif

• Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali

• The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce

• A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman

• Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult

• The Swerve by Stephen Greenblatt

• Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline

• Rules of Civility by Amor Towles