NVN Book Discussion Group - Titles List
A list of the books we've read and discussed together over the years
2023
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January: The Love Songs of W.E.B. DuBois by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
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February: The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki
2022
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January: Disappearing Earth by Julia Philips
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February: Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner
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March: The Overstory by Richard Powers
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May: Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell
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June: Lying Life of Adults by Elena FerranteJuly: The Vanishing Half by Brit BennettAugust: My Broken Language by Quiara Alegria Hudes
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September: The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray
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November: Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles
2021
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January: Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy, Part I
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February: Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy, Part II
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March: Year of Wonders by Ann Patchett
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May: Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo
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October: The Dutch House by Ann Patchett
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November: The Girl with the Louding Voice by Abi Dare
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December: Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
2020
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January: There There by Tony Orange
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February: Country Driving: A Chinese Road Trip by Peter Hessler (also known as Country Driving: A Journey Through China from Farm to Factory)
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March: Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver
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April: Visitors by Anita Brookner
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May: Sapiens by Yuval Harari
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June: The Johnstown Flood by David McCullough
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July: How To Be An Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
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August: Deacon King Kong by James McBride
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September: Shakespeare Saved My Life by Laura Bates
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October: On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
2019
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January: The End of Your Life Book Club by Will Schwalbe
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Febraury: Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
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March: The Custom of the Country by Edith Wharton
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April: How to Change Your Mind by Michael Pollan
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May: A Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Marra
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June: An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
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July: The Cut Out Girl by Bart Van Es
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August: The Friend by Sigrid Nunez
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September: A Shopkeeper’s Millennium: Society and Revivals in Rochester, New York, 1815-1837 by Paul E. Johnson
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October: Ladder of Years by Anne Tyler
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November: How the Irish Became White by Noel Ignatiev
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December: Sula by Toni Morrison
2018
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Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate
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This is How It Always Is by Laurie Frankel
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Eight Years in Power by Ta-Nehisi Coates
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Equilateral by Ken Kalfus
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In the Shadow of Statues by Mitch Landrieu
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Founding Mothers by Cokie Roberts
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Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
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Walden by H. D.Thoreau
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Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
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The Round House by Louise Erdrich
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The Invisible Gorilla by Christopher Chabris
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My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
Before 2018
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Another Brooklyn by Jacqueline Woodson
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The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro
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Daring to Drive by Manal Al-Sharif
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Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce
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A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
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Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult
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The Swerve by Stephen Greenblatt
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Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline
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Rules of Civility by Amor Towles