Books Previously Read

2025

• "All the Beauty in the World" by Patrick Bringley

• "Infidel" by Ayaan Hirsi Ali 

• "Kindred" by Octavia Butler

• "Deep South: Four Seasons on Back Roads" by Paul Theroux 

• "The River of Consciousness" by Oliver Sacks

• "The Wager" by David Grann

• "Yellowface" by R. F. Kuang

• "Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth" by Reza Aslan

• "Demon Copperhead" by Barbara Kingsolver

• "Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder" by Salman Rushdie

• "The Guest List" by Lucy Foley 

• "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" by Mark Twain 

2024

• "The Worst Hard Times" by Timothy Egan

• "Defending Jacob" by William Landay

• "Clementine: The Life Of Mrs. Winston Churchill" by Sonia Purnell

• "Horse" by Geraldine Brooks

• "Missoula: Rape And The Justice System In A College Town" by Jon Krakauer

• "Behold The Dreamers" by Imbolo Mbue

• "Finding Freedom" by Erin French

• "Circe" by Madeline Miller

• "Nomadland: Surviving America In The Twenty-First Century" by Jessica Bruder

• "The Other Americans" by Laila Lalami

• "Caste: The Origins Of Our Discontents" by Isabel Wilkerson

• "The Alice Network" by Kate Quinn

2023 

• The Things We Cannot Say; Kelly Rimmer

• A Tale for the Time Being; Ruth Ozeki

• Evicted: poverty and profit in the American city; Matthew Desmond

• Hamnet; Maggie O’Farrell

• River of Doubt; Candice Millard

• Harlem Shuffle; Colson Whitehead

• Little Fires Everywhere; Celeste Ng 

• They Called Us Enemy; George Takei

• The Gift of Rain; Tan Twan Eng 

• Age of Innocence; Edith Wharton

• Bad Blood: secrets and lies in a Silicon Valley startup; John Carreyrou

• On Beauty; Zadie Smith

2022

• Asymmetry by Lisa Halliday

•  I Am Malala; Malala Yousefzai

• The Count of Monte Cristo (first volume ch 1 - 27); Alexandre Dumas

• Please Look After Mom; Kyung Seok Shin

• On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft; Stephen King

• The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry; Gabrielle Zevin

• Deep Down Dark; Hector Tobar

• God of Small Things; Arundhati Roy

• A Kind of Freedom; Margaret Sexton  

• The Tiger's Wife; Tea Obreht

• This Tender Land; William Kent Krueger

• Klara and the Sun; Kazuo Ishiguru

View list of books previously read by this group (1994-2026): 

Books previously read - sorted by year read [PDF]

Books previously read - sorted by title [PDF]

(Thanks to SF for compiling these lists!)