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Book Club Archives

 Interested in what we have read in previous years? Here are the previous year's book club selections.

2022

  • The Shadow of the Sun by Ryszard Kapuściński
  • How Beautiful We Were by Imbolo Mbue
  • Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal by George Packer 
  • The Power of Women: A Doctor's Journey of Hope and Healing by Denis Mukwege
  • A Few Minor Adjustments: Two Years in Afghanistan: A Peace Corps Odyssey by Elana Hohl

2021

  • The Famished Road by Ben Okri
  • Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line by Deepa Anappara
  • King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa by Adam Hochschild
  • Crooked Hallelujah by Kelli Jo Ford
  • Pull of the Stars by Emma Donoghue

2020

  • What Truth Sounds Like - Robert F. Kennedy, James Baldwin, and Unfinished Conversation about Race in America by Michael Eric Dyson
  • In the Midst of Winter by Isabel Allende
  • The Prison Letters of Nelson Mandela by Nelson Mandela
  • On the Plain of Snakes by Paul Theroux
  • Small Country by Gael Faye

2019

  • A House Without Windows by Nadia Hashimi
  • The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After by Clemantine Wamariya and Elizabeth Weil
  • The Far Away Brothers: Two Young Migrants and the Making of an American Life by Lauren Markham
  • Then Again by Ben Berman
  • Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah

2018

  • Notes on a Foreign Country: An American in a Post-American World by Suzy Hansen
  • Migrant, Refugee, Smuggler, Savior by Peter Tinti & Tuesday Reitano
  • The Sympathizer  by Viet Thanh Nguyen
  • Thieves of State  by Sarah Chayes
  • Lola’s House: Filipino Women Living With War  by M Evelina Galang

2017 

  • The Badass Librarians of Timbuktu by Joshua Hammer by Ishmael Beah
  • Here Comes the Sun by Nicole Dennis-Bennett
  • Pumpkin Flowers by Matti Friedman
  • Lessons of Love in Afghanistan by Suzanne Griffin
  • Evicted: Poverty & Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond
  • Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

2016 

  • A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah
  • The Yacoubian Building by Ala Aswani
  • Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a Bicycle by Dervia Murphy
  • Ghana Must Go by Taiye Selasi
  • Iran Awakening by Shīrīn ʻIbādī
  • Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

2015 

  • In the Time of Butterflies by Julia Alvarez
  • The Sky Unwashed by Irene Zabytko
  • Oracle Bones: A Journey Through Time in China byPeter Hessler
  • A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
  • Landfall by Ellen Urbani
  • The Memory of Love by Aminatta Forna
  • An Unnecessary Woman by Rabih Alameddine

2014 

  • Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo
  • The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri
  • The Unheard by Josh Swiller
  • River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze by Peter Hessler
  • Americanah by Chimimanda Ngozi Adichie
  • I Heard the Owl Call My Name by Margaret Craven

2013

  • The Turn-Around Bird by Lucinda Wingard
  • The Springs of Namje by Rajeev Goyal
  • Fieldwork by Mischa Berlinski
  • The Village of Waiting by George Packer 
  • This is How You Lose Her by Junot Diaz

2012

  • The Tiger's Wife by Tea Obreht
  • The Year of Living Dangerously by C.J. Koch 
  • Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages by Guy Deutscher
  • Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh
  • The Pickup by Nadine Gordimer
  • Mighty Be Our Powers: How Sisterhood, Prayer, and Sex Changed A Nation at War : A Memoir by Leymah Gbowee
  • Even the Smallest Crab Has Teeth: 50 Years of Amazing Peace Corps Stories
  • Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared M. Diamond
  • The Submission by Amy Waldman
  • A Bend in the River by V.S. Naipaul
  • The Blue Sweater: Bridging the Gap between Rich and Poor in an Interconnected World by Jacqueline Novogratz
  • Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford

2011

  • Purge by Sofi Oksanen
  • Even Silence Has An End: My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle by Ingrid Betancourt
  • Baking Cakes in Kigali. A Novel by Gaile Parkin
  • Nomad by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
  • Saving the World by Julia Alvarez
  • Little Bee by Chris Cleave

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