Malcolm Book Club

April

May

May 5
4:30pm

This month we'll be discussing Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers by Jesse Q. Sutanto.

June

June 2
4:30pm

This month we'll be discussing The View From Lake Como by Adriana Trigiani.

July

Not meeting this month

August

August 4
4:30pm

One Book One Henderson Read (TBD)

September 1
4:30pm

This month we'll be discussing The Stolen Queen by Fiona Davis.

October

October 6
4:30pm

This month we'll be discussing Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee.

November

Not meeting this month

December

December 1
4:30pm

This month we'll be discussing The Echo of Old Books by Barbara Davis.

Previous Selections

2026

• An American Beauty by Shana Abé (January 6, 2026)
• Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar (February 3, 2026)
• Nala's World by Dean Nicholson (March 3, 2026)

2025

• Killers of a Certain Age by Deanna Raybourn (January 7, 2025)
• The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid (February 4, 2025)
• The Overstory by Richard Powers (March 4, 2025)
• No meeting in April
• The Whispers by Ashley Audrain (May 6, 2025)
• A Place for Us by Fatima Mirza (June 3, 2025)
• Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus (July 1, 2025)
• Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate (August 5, 2025)
• The Fox Wife by Yangsze Choo (September 2, 2025)
• The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon (October 7, 2025)
• No meeting in November
• The Lion Women of Tehran by Marjan Kamali (December 2, 2025)

2024

• The Second Life of Mirielle West by Amanda Skenandore (January 2, 2024)
• The Lonely Hearts Book Club by Lucy Gilmore (February 6, 2024)
• The Diamond Eye by Kate Quinn (March 5, 2024)
• No meeting in April
• Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver (May 7, 2024)
• No meeting in June
• Homecoming by Kate Morton (July 2, 2024)
• August meeting was cancelled
• No meeting in September
• The Violin Conspiracy by Brendan Slocumb (October 1, 2024)
• The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman (November 5, 2024)
• Love in the Time of Cholera by García Márquez (December 3, 2024)

2023

• No meeting in January
• Wish You Were Here by Jodi Picoult (February 7, 2023)
• Love and Other Consolation Prizes by Jamie Ford (March 7, 2023)
• Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner (April 4, 2023)
• Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid (May 2, 2023)
• West with Giraffes by Lynda Rutledge (June 6, 2023)
• Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt (July 5, 2023)
• No meeting in August
• The Last Flight by Julie Clark (September 5, 2023)
• Harry Truman's Excellent Adventure by Matthew Algeo (October 3, 2023)
• The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin (November 7, 2023)
• The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray (December 5, 2023)

2022

• No meeting in January
• Under the Magnolias by T. I. Lowe (February 1, 2022)
• Already Gone by Blake Pierce (March 1, 2022)
• Oil and Marble by Stephanie Storey (April 5, 2022)
• The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner (May 3, 2022)
• No meeting in June
• Searching for Sylvie Lee by Jean Kwok (July 5, 2022)
• No meeting in August
• 1979 by Val McDermid (September 6, 2022)
• Canary in the Coal Mine by William Cooke (October 4, 2022)
• The Dutch House by Ann Patchett (November 1, 2022) *note: meeting was cancelled
• Fresh Water for Flowers by Valérie Perrin (December 6, 2022)

2021

• Before She was Helen by Caroline B. Cooney (January 5, 2021)
• Sold on a Monday by Kristina McMorris (February 2, 2021)
• Deception by Gaslight by Kate Belli (March 2, 2021)
• Carnegie's Maid by Marie Benedict (April 6, 2021)
• I Know You Know by Gilly MacMillan (May 4, 2021)
• The Arctic Fury by Greer Macallister (June 1, 2021)
• No meeting in July
• The Golden Son by Shilpi Somaya Gowda (August 3, 2021)
• The Stranger Diaries by Elly Griffiths (September 7, 2021)
• The Almost Sisters by Joshilyn Jackson (October 5, 2021)
• Leaving Coy's Hill by Katherine Sherbrooke (November 2, 2021)
• Nowhere Girl by Cheryl Diamond (December 7, 2021)

2020

• No meeting in January
• Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng (February 4, 2020)
• Next Year in Havana by Chanel Cleeton (March 3, 2020)
• In the Midnight Room by Laura McBride (Spring 2020)
• The Mountains Sing by Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai (June 2, 2020)
• The Keeper of Lost Things by Ruth Hogan (July 7, 2020)
• Such a Perfect Wife by Kate White (August 4, 2020)
• If I Were You by Lynn Austin (September 1, 2020)
• The Woman Who Smashed Codes by Jason Fagone (October 6, 2020)
• The Last Flight by Julie Clark (November 3, 2020)
• The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper by Hallie Rubenhold (December 1, 2020)

2019

• No meeting in January
• Pachinko by Min Jin Lee (February 5, 2019)
• The Girls in the Picture by Melanie Benjamin (March 5, 2019)
• An American Marriage by Tayari Jones (April 2, 2019)
• The Address by Fiona Davis (May 7, 2019)
• Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann (June 4, 2019)
• No meeting in July
• Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter (August 7, 2019)
• The Alice Network by Kate Quinn (September 3, 2019)
• A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles (October 1, 2019)
• Born a Crime by Trevor Noah (November 5, 2019)
• The Orphan Keeper by Camron Wright (December 3, 2019)

2018

• The Lady and the Unicorn by Tracy Chevalier (February 6, 2018)
• The Same Sky by Amanda Eyre Ward (March 6, 2018)
• The Silent Wife by Kerry Fisher (April 3, 2018)
• News of the World by Paulette Jiles (May 1, 2018)
• The Hideaway by Lauren Denton (June 5, 2018)
• No meeting in July
• Odd Child Out by Gilly Macmillan (August 1, 2018)
• No meeting in September
• The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend by Katarina Bivald (October 2, 2018)
• The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane by Lisa See (November 6, 2018)
• The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East by Sandy Tolan (December 4, 2018)

2017

• The Shell Seekers by Rosamunde Pilcher (February 7, 2017)
• The Marriage of Opposites by Alice Hoffman (March 7, 2017)
• Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Burns (April 4, 2017)
• The Accidental Empress by Allison Pataki (May 2, 2017)
• The Lake House by Kate Morton (June 6, 2017)
• No meeting in July
• Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger (August 1, 2017)
• The Swans of Fifth Avenue by Melanie Benjamin (September 12, 2017)
• Cooking for Picasso by Camille Aubray (October 3, 2017)
• Before the Fall by Noah Hawley (November 7, 2017)
• A Fall of Marigolds by Susan Meissner (December 5, 2017)

2016

• Under the Wide and Starry Sky by Nancy Horan (January 5, 2016)
• We are Water by Wally Lamb (February 2, 2016)
• Memory Man by David Baldacci (March 1, 2016)
• The Perfume Collector by Kathleen Tessaro (April 5, 2016)
• Girl in Translation by Jean Kwok (May 3, 2016)
• Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania by Erik Larson (June 7, 2016)
• The Paris Architect by Charles Belfoure (July 5, 2016)
• A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara (August 2, 2016)
• Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man's Fight for Justice by Bill Browder (September 6, 2016)
• The Edge of Lost by Kristina McMorris (October 4, 2016)
• Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (November 1, 2016)
• Best Boy by Eli Gottlieb (December 6, 2016)

2015

• Twenty Miles from a Match by Sarah Olds (January 6, 2015)
• The Art Forger by Barbara Shapiro (February 3, 2015)
• Me Before You by Jojo Moyes (March 3, 2015)
• Maya's Notebook by Isabel Allende (April 7, 2015)
• The 100 Year Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window & Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson (May 5, 2015)
• The Traitor's Wife by Allison Pataki (June 2, 2015)
• Rules of Civility by Amor Towles (July 7, 2015)
• The History of Us by Leah Stewart (August 4, 2015)
• Fever by Mary Beth Keane (September 1, 2015)
• The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd (October 6, 2015)
• We are Called to Rise by Laura McBride (November 3, 2015)
• The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion (December 1, 2015)

2014

• The Chaperone by Laura Moriarty (January 7, 2014)
• Girlchild by Tupelo Hassman (February 4, 2014)
• The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce (March 4, 2014)
• The Aviator's Wife by Melanie Benjamin (April 1, 2014)
• Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twan Eng (May 6, 2014)
• Tell the Wolves I'm Home by Carol Rifka Brunt (June 3, 2014)
• Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline (July 5, 2014)
• Bruno, Chief of Police by Martin Walker (August 5, 2014)
• The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics by Daniel James Brown (September 2, 2014)
• The Round House by Louise Erdrich (October 7, 2014)
• A Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Marra (November 4, 2014)
• The Rent Collector by Camron Wright (December 2, 2014)

2013

• The Servant's Tale by Margaret Frazer (January 15, 2013)
• The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton (Febraury 12, 2013)
• Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague by Geraldine Brooks (March 5, 2013)
• Manhunt: the 12-day Chase for Lincoln's Killer by James L. Swanson (April 2, 2013)
• The Peach Keeper by Sarah Addison Allen (May 7, 2013)
• The Sandalwood Tree by Elle Newmark (June 5, 2013)
• The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes (July 2, 2013)
• The Sandcastle Girls by Chris Bohjalian (August 6, 2013)
• Turn of Mind by Alice LaPlante (September 3, 2013)
• The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman (October 1, 2013)
• Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald (November 5, 2013)
• Wild: from Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed (December 3, 2013)

2012

• Tortilla Curtain by T.C. Boyle (January 9, 2012)
• Room by Emma Donoghue (February 13, 2012)
• Somewhere Inside: One Sister's Captivity in North Korea and the Other's Fight to Bring Her Home by Lisa Ling and Laura Ling (March 12, 2012)
• The Story of Beautiful Girl by Rachel Simon (April 9, 2012)
• Winter's Bone by Daniel Woodrell (May 14, 2012)
• The Paris Wife by Paula McLain (June 11, 2012)
• State of Wonder by Ann Patchett (July 9, 2012)
• Moloka'i by Alan Brennert (August 13, 2012)
• The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot (September 11, 2012)
• The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (October 16, 2012)
• The Mistress of Nothing by Kate Pullinger (November 13, 2012)
• Lost in Shangri-la by Mitchell Zuckoff (December 18, 2012)

2011

• Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout (January 10, 2011)
• Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, And One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference by Warren St. John (February 14, 2011)
• Oxygen by Carol Cassella (March 14, 2011)
• Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson (April 11, 2011)
• The Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford (May 9, 2011)
• Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese (June 13, 2011)
• The Last Resort: a Memoir of Zimbabwe by Douglas Rogers (July 11, 2011)
• Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafron (August 8, 2011)
• The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins (September 12, 2011)
• Winter Garden by Kristin Hannah (October 10, 2011)
• The Invisible Bridge by Julie Orringer (November 14, 2011)
• Mao's Last Dancer by Cunxin Li (December 12, 2011)

2010

• Evening Class by Maeve Binchy (January 11, 2010)
• Julie and Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously by Julie Powel (February 8, 2010)
• The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson (March 8, 2010)
• Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay (April 12, 2010)
• Wisdom of Our Fathers by Tim Russert (May 10, 2010)
• Still Alice by Lisa Genova (June 14, 2010)
• Mistress of the Art of Death by Ariana Franklin (July 12, 2010)
• People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks (August 9, 2010)
• The Virgin of Small Plains by Nancy Pickard (September 20, 2010)
• The Heretic's Daughter by Kathleen Kent (October 11, 2010)
• Provenance: How a Con Man and a Forger Rewrote the History of Modern Art by Laney Salisbury and Aly Sujo (November 10, 2010)
• The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley (December 8, 2010)

2009

• Loving Frank by Nancy Horan (January 12, 2009)
• The Invisible Wall by Harry Bernstein (February 9, 2009)
• Family Tree by Barbara Delinksy (March 9, 2009)
• The Lace Reader by Brunomia Barry (April 13, 2009)
• The Zookeeper's Wife by Diane Ackerman (May 11, 2009)
• So Brave, Young, and Handsome by Leif Enger (June 8, 2009)
• Beneath a Marble Sky by John Shors (July 13, 2009)
• The Middle Place by Kelly Corrigan (August 10, 2009)
• Five Quarters of the Orange by Joanne Harris (September 14, 2009)
• Ultramarathon Man by Dean Karnazes (October 12, 2009)
• The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows (November 9, 2009)
• Miracle at St. Anna by James McBride (December 14, 2009)

2008

• The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards (January 14, 2008)
• Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert (February 11, 2008)
• Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult (March 10, 2008)
• Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett (April 14, 2008)
• The Year of Living Biblically by A.J. Jacobs (May 12, 2008)
• Peace Like a River by Leif Enger (June 9, 2008)
• Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (July 14, 2008)
• Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson (August 11, 2008)
• In the Woods by Tana French (September 8, 2008)
• Marley & Me by John Grogan (October 13, 2008)
• Straight Man by Richard Russo (November 10, 2008)
• The Nine Tailors by Dorothy Sayers (December 8, 2008)

2007

• The Lobster Chronicles: Life on a Very Small Island by Linda Greenlaw (January 8, 2007)
• The Road by Cormac McCarthy (February 12, 2007)
• Saving Fish from Drowning by Amy Tan (March 12, 2007)
• The World is Flat by Thomas Friedman (April 9, 2007)
• Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See (May 14, 2007)
• One Thousand White Women: the Journals of May Dodd by Jim Fergus (June 11, 2007)
• The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe vs. Wade by Ann Fessler (July 9, 2007)
• Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen (August 13, 2007)
• The Secret River by Kate Grenville (September 10, 2007)
• The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom (October 8, 2007)
• The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East by Sandy Tolan (November 5, 2007)
• The Birth House by Ami McKay (December 10, 2007)

2006

• Under the Banner of Heaven by John Krakauer (January 9, 2006)
• The Romanov Prophecy by Steve Berry (February 13, 2006)
• Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi (March 13, 2006)
• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon (April 10, 2006)
• The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls (May 8, 2006)
• The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffeneger (June 12, 2006)
• These is My Words by Nancy E. Turner (July 10, 2006)
• Shadow Divers by Robert Kurson (August 14, 2006)
• Women of the Silk by Gail Tsukiyama (September 11, 2006)
• Digging to America by Anne Tyler (October 9, 2006)
• Funny in Farsi: a Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America by Firoozeh Dumas (November 13, 2006)
• Pope Joan by Donna Woolfolk Cross (December 11, 2006)

2005

• War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells (April 11, 2005)
• The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver (May 9, 2005)
• Bel Canto by Ann Patchett (June 13, 2005)
• The Archer's Tale by Bernard Cornwell (July 11, 2005)
• The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (September 12, 2005)
• The Lady and the Unicorn by Tracy Chevalier (October 10, 2005)
• Holidays on Ice by David Sedaris (November 14, 2005)