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Books discussed in book group, back to 2001
2026
The Indigo Girl by Natasha Boyd (Andrea)
The Art Thief by Michael Finkel (Margaret)
2025
Liza's Secrets by Iris Glazner Leigh (Ceci)
Everything the Light Touches by Janice Pariat (Nancy)
Rough Sleepers by Tracy Kidder (Chryso)
Brave the Wild River by Melissa Sevigny (Ann Marie)
Faculty Lounge by Jennifer Mathieu (Roberta)
James by Percival Everett (Ceci)
Fire Weather by John Vaillant (Robyn)
The Girls in the Balcony by Nan Roberston (Shelley)
The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray (Pat B.)
The Correspondent by Virginia Evans (Katie)
2024
Heartland by Sarah Smarsh (Ann Marie)
One Book, One Holliston choice: The World According to Garp by John Irving
Deacon King Kong by James McBride (Shelley)
North Woods by Daniel Mason (Pat B.)
Bittersweet by Susan Cain (Hannah)
True Biz by Sara Novic (Roberta)
When Women Were Dragons by Kelly Barnhill (Andrea)
Absolution by Alice McDermott (Kathy)
What You Are Looking for Is in the Library by Michiko Aoyama (Margaret)
Kindred by Octavia Butler (Shelley)
November: We each read banned books of our choice! Titles folllow:
The Best at It by Mauliik Pancholy (Pat B.)
And Tango Makes Three by Peter Parnell and Justin Richardson (Margaret)
That Librarian by Amanda Jones (Ceci)
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret by Judy Blume (Ceci)
The Absolutely True Story of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie (Ann Marie)
James by Percival Everett (Nancy)
Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell (Nancy)
School Trip (3rd in New Kid series) by Jerry Craft (Roberta)
2023
The Rent Collector by Camron Wright (Margaret)
One Book, One Holliston choice: Travels with George by Nathaniel Philbrick
The Ride of Her Life by Elizabeth Letts (Nancy)
Mercy Street by Jennifer Haigh (Pat F.)
The Boston Italians by Stephen Puleo (Ceci) with corresponding tour of North End with Mr. Puleo
The Persuaders by Anand Giridharadas (Mary)
The Final Case by David Guterson (Chryso)
The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet by John Green (Beth)
Give and Take by Adam Grant (Andrea)
Disappearing Earth by Julia Phillips (Katie)
Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter by Ben Goldfarb (Robyn)
2022
Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer (Ann Marie)
One Book, One Holliston choice: Between Two Kingdoms by Suleika Jaouad
The Secret to Superhuman Strength by Alison Bechdel (Roberta)
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe (Shelley)
Leaving Coy's Hill by Katherine A. Sherbrooke (Katie)
Land by Simon Winchester (Pat B.)
Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko (Robyn)
Should We Stay or Should We Go by Lionel Shriver (Pam)
Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead (Hannah)
The Reading List by Sara Nisha Adams (Kathy)
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2021
Caste by Isabel Wilkerson (Pat B.)
One Book, One Holliston choice: Say I'm Dead by E. Dolores Johnson
The Midnight Library by Matt Haig (Katie)
What Unites Us by Dan Rather (Andrea)
The Gown by Jennifer Robson (Kathy)
Afterlife by Julia Alvarez (Margaret)
The Art of Rivalry by Sebastian Smee (Pat F.)
Cocaine Blues by Kerry Greenwood (Mary and Beth)
The Mountains Sing by Nguyen Phan Que Mai (Nancy)
Voyage of Mercy by Stephen Puleo (Ceci)
The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles (Chryso)
2020
The Overstory by Richard Powers (Nancy)
The Island of Worthy Boys by Connie Hertzberg Mayo (also One Book, One Holliston)
--no March meeting--
Circe by Madeline Miller (Chryso)
Caleb's Crossing by Geraldine Brooks (Ceci)
You Can Stop Humming Now by Daniela Lamas (Andrea)
Nature's Best Hope by Douglas Tallamy (Ann Marie)
The Murmur of Bees by Sofia Segovia (Robyn)
Dear Rachel Maddow by Adrienne Kisner (Roberta)
Forged in Crisis: The Power of Courageous Leadership in Turbulent Times by Nancy Koehn (Shelley)
2019
There Will Be No Miracles Here by Casey Gerald (Nasrin)
One Book, One Holliston choice: Call Me American by Abdi Nor Iftin
The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway (Margaret)
The Three Body Problem by Cixin Liu (Robyn)
The Essex Serpent by Sara Perry (Hannah)
Refugee by Alan Gratz (Roberta)
Bad Blood by John Carreyrou (Pat B.)
Shakespeare Saved My Life by Laura Bates (Katie)
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee (Kathy)
How Doctors Think by Dr. Jerome Groopman (Shelley)
Somewhere towards the End by Diana Athill (Pat F.)
2018
The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson (Pat B.)
One Book, One Holliston choice: Glad Farm by Catherine Marenghi
Being Mortal by Atul Gawande (Katie)
Eight Flavors by Sarah Lohman (Kathy)
A House Among the Trees (Margaret)
Sea Glass by Anita Shreve (Pat F.)
The Art of Hearing Heartbeats by Jan-Philipp Sendker (Nancy)
News of the World by Paulette Jiles (Chryso)
Personal History by Katharine Graham (Ceci)
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho (Megan)
The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben (Ann Marie)
2017
Girls Like Us by Sheila Weller (Ceci)
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel (Chryso)
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglass (Nasrin)
Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh (Meghan)
The Invention of Nature by Andrea Wulf (Ann Marie)
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Beth)
Lab Girl by Hope Jahren (Pat F.)
When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka (Robyn)
Oracle Night by Paul Auster (Hannah)
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood (Shelley)
2016
We Should Hang Out Sometime by Josh Sundquist (Robyn)
Terror in the Name of God--Why Religious Militants Kill by Jessica Stern (Shelley)
The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert (Pat B.)
My Life in France by Julia Child (Hannah)
Euphoria by Lily King (Katie)
In the Kingdom of the Sick by Laurie Edwards (arranged by Roberta)
My Name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout (Kathy)
Poetry including two by our own: Going Home by Susan and Farmers' Market by Chryso
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates (Margaret)
After Alice by Gregory Maguire (Nancy)
Kitchens of the Great Midwest by J. Ryan Stradal (Roberta)
2015
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr (Margaret)
The Beautiful Things that Heaven Bears by Dinaw Megestu (Pat F.)
Above the East China Sea by Sarah Bird (Nancy)
The Boston Girl by Anita Diamant (Pat B.)
Lila by Marilynne Robinson (Chryso)
The Youngest Science: Notes from a Medicine-Watcher by Lewis Thomas (Pam)
Things I've Been Silent About by Azar Nafisi (Nasrin)
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout (Megan)
What a Plant Knows by Daniel Chamovitz (Ann Marie)
How to be a Heroine, or What I've Learned from Reading Too Much by Samantha Ellis (Roberta)
2014
The Great Work of our Life by Stephen Cope (Roberta)
The Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twan Eng (Ann Marie)
Zeitoun by Dave Eggers (Pam)
Orphan Train by Christine Baker Kline (Robyn)
The Language of Trees by Ilie Ruby (Megan)
Kapitoil by Teddy Wayne (Hannah)
Far from the Tree by Andrew Solomon (Shelley)
Coin Street Chronicles by Gwen Southgate (Ceci)
Enrique's Journey by Sonia Nazario (Kathy)
Dear Elizabeth by Sarah Ruhl (Katie) (also saw the play in Boston)
2013
The Tiger's Wife by Tea Obreht (Katie)
Grayson by Lynne Cox (Kathy)
The Report by Jessica Francis Kane (Margaret)
Forgotten Country by Catherine Chung (chosen by Chryso, led by Mary)
Short Stories: "Xingu" by Edith Wharton; "Pauline's Passion and Punishment" by Louisa May Alcott; and "Garden Lodge" by Willa Cather (Nancy and others)
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury and Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut (Chryso)
The Source by James Michener (Ceci)
My Beloved World by Sonia Sotomayor (Nancy)
Domesticated Wild Things by Xhenet Aliu (Susan)
The Fear Index by Robert Harris (Nasrin)
2012
Love and Capital by Mary Gabriel (Nasrin)
The Path by Chet Raymo (Ann Marie)
Waiting by Ha Jin (Susan)
Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand (Ceci)
Traveling with Pomegranates by Sue Monk Kidd and Ann Kidd Taylor (Roberta)
Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward (Robyn)
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (Megan)
Howard's End by E. M. Forster (Shelly)
A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry (Pat B.)
2011
The Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford (Kathy)
Still Alice by Lisa Genova (Margaret)
Tinkers by Paul Harding (Catherine)
Death of Vishnu by Manil Suri (Pat F.)
On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan (Pam)
Little Princes by Connor Grennan (Nancy)
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck (Katie)
The Imperfectionists by Tom Rachman (Chryso)
All Souls and Easter Rising by Michael Patrick MacDonald (Mary)
2010
Abide With Me by Elizabeth Strout (Susan)
Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens, play performed by Prana Center (Roberta W.)
The Help by Kathryn Stockett, with Mudbound by Hillary Jordan (Robyn)
The Case for God by Karen Armstrong (Nasrin)
Last Days of Dogtown by Anita Diamant (Nancy)
Snow by Orhan Pamuk (Shelley)
Zorba the Greek by Nicos Kazantzakis (Hannah)
The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy by Pietra Rivoli (Pat B.)
Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson (Ceci)
2009
Water for Elephants by Sarah Gruen (Kathy)
Loving Frank by Nancy Horan (Margaret)
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood by Alexandra Fuller
The Known World by Edward P. Jones (Catherine?)
Bad Money by Kevin Phillips (Mary)
Dreams from My Father by Barack Obama (Ceci)
Poetry
The Ice Queen by Alice Hoffman (Chryso?)
Musicophilia by Oliver Sacks (Pam)
something (Ann Marie)
2008
The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards
Last Child in the Woods by Richard Louv
Cool It by Bjorn Lomborg (Mary)
Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee, performed by Prana Center (Roberta W.)
Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson (Robyn?)
The Whistling Season by Ivan Doig (Susan)
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls (Hannah?)
Poetry chosen by attendees plus two by Chryso
The People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks (Pat B.)
The Crucible by Arthur Miller (Prana?)
The Snow Leopard by Peter Matthiessen (Katie?)
2007
Saving Fish from Drowning by Amy Tan
Divided Minds: Twin Sisters and Their Journey Through Schizophrenia by
Pamela Spiro Wagner and Carolyn Spiro (Ceci)
The History of Love by Nicole Krauss
The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
Villette by Charlotte Bronte
Poetry chosen by attendees
Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngoze-Adichie
Alice Munro's short stories: Hateship, friendship, courtship, loveship, marriage & "The bear came over the mountain"
Grace Paley: Grace Paley, The Collected Stories or, the original book, The Little Disturbances of Man 3 stories: Goodbye and Good Luck, The Used Boy Raisers and A Subject of Childhood. (Pat F.)
Einstein's Dreams by Alan Lightman
2006
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
The Kite Runner made a comeback through the "One Book, One Holliston" program
Truth and Beauty by Ann Patchett
Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy
March by Geraldine Brooks
Gift from the Sea by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
The Shell Collector by Anthony Doer
Hope's Edge by Francis and Anna Lappe
Poetry chosen by attendees
Self-Made Man by Norah Vincent
Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
Back Then: Two Literary Lives in 1950s New York by Anne Bernays and Justin Kaplan (Pat B.)
2005
Three Junes by Julia Glass
Five Thousand Days Like This One by Jane Brox
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime by Mark Haddon
Mountains beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder
A Very Long Engagement by Sebastien Japrisot
All Souls by Michael Patrick MacDonald
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
Delights and Shadows by Ted Kooser; other poems as well
Founding Mothers by Cokie Roberts
The Piano Tuner by Daniel Mason
In November 2005 we decided to read one, some, or all of books about women on the coast of Maine:
The Lobster Chronicles by Linda Greenlaw
The Lighthouse Keeper's Wife by Connie Scovill Small
Country of the Pointed Firs by Sarah Orne Jewett
We Took to the Woods by Louise Dickinson Rich
2004
Lying Awake by Mark Salzman
Botany of Desire by Michael Pollan
Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
Celebration, U.S.A. by Doug Frantz and Catherine Collins
When I Lived in Modern Times by Linda Grant
The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
Ahab's Wife: Or, The Star-Gazer: A Novel by Sena Jeter Naslund
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman
Prior to 2004
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5/01
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Couples John Updike
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6/01
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In the Lake of the Woods Tom O'Brien
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7/01
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Confederates in the Attic Tony Horwitz
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9/01
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Girl with a Pearl Earring Tracy Chevalier
Girl in Hyacinth Blue by Susan Vreeland
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Hunters and Gatherers Francine Prose
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2/02
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More Than You Know Beth Gutcheon
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3/02
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Servants of the Map Andrea Barrett
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4/02
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Flags of our Fathers James Bradley
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5/02
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Ender's Game Orson Scott Card
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6/02
7/02
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West Wind (poetry)
Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver
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8/02
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Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe
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9/02
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Tipping Point Malcolm Gladwell
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10/02
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Bel Canto Ann Patchett
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11/02
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Fast Food Nation
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2/03
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Nickel and Dimed Barbara Ehrenreich
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3/03
5/03
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Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks
Man's Search for Meaning by Victor Frankl
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8/03
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Nine Parts of Desire Geraldine Brooks
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9/03
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White Teeth by Zadie Smith
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11/03
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Small Wonder Barbara Kingsolver
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Additionally:
I Know Just What You Mean by Ellen Goodman and Patricia O'Brien
Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Empire Falls by Richard Russo
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