We read an eclectic selection of books suggested by members. Past themes have included: legal, Chicago, women authors.
2024
My Sister the Serial Killer, Oyinkan Braithwaite
Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
The Woman in the Window by A.J. Finn
The River We Remember by William Kent Krueger
From Dust to Stardust by Kathleen Rooney
Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano
2023
This is the Story of a Happy Marriage by Ann Patchett Zoom
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee Zoom
The Swift and the Harrier, Minette Walters Astor Food Court, Lounge on 6 Floor
East of Eden, John Steinbeck, Astor Food Court, Lounge on 6 Floor
The Ultimate Betrayal, Kimberla Lawson Roby, Astor Food Court, Lounge on 6 Floor
One of Us is Lying, Karen McManus, Astor Food Court, Lounge on 6 Floor
Lessons in Chemistry, Bonnie Garmus, Marie's yard
The City of the Century, Donald Miller, Astor Food Court Lounge 6th Floor
Lonesome Dove, Larry McMurtry, Astor Food Court Lounge on 6th Floor
My Sister the Serial Killer, Oyinkan Braithwaite, Brehon Pub,731 N Wells
2022
Crooked House by Agatha Christie
Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende
Clark and Division by Naomi Hirahara
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
As the Wicked Watch by Tamron Hall
A Life in Code: pioneer cryptanalyst Elizebeth Smith Friedman
The Loop by Patrick Reardon
The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles
In a Dry Season, Peter Robinson
The Sentence by Louise Erdrich
2021
Next Year in Havana by Chanel Cleeton
The Coast of Chicago by Stuart Dybeck
The Call, Peadar Ó Guilín
This is Happiness, Niall Williams
The Last Ragged Breath, Julia Keller
The Giver of Stars, JoJo Moyes
Chosen Ones, Veronica Roth
The Wife, Meg Wolitzer
All the King’s Men, Robert Penn Warren
Head Hunters, Jo Nesbo
2020
The Man Who
Invented Christmas by Les Standiford
Where the Crawdad's Sing by Delia Owens
Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk by Kathleen Rooney
The Great Believers by Rebecca McRay
Where the Crawdad's Sing by Delia Owens
Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk by Kathleen Rooney
The Great Believers by Rebecca McRay
You by
Caroline Kepnes
An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
All the President's Men by Carl Bernstein, Bob Woodward
The Night Tiger by Yangsze Choo
An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
All the President's Men by Carl Bernstein, Bob Woodward
The Night Tiger by Yangsze Choo
2019
Faithful Place by Tana
French
Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
The Ministry of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy
Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
The Alice Network by Kate Quinn
The Lake on Fire by Rosellen Brown
2018
The Color of Water by James McBride
Hot Milk by Deborah Levy
Autumn by Ali Smith
Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
Brooklyn by Colm Toibin
Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward
Lincoln at the Bardo by George Saunders
The Rooster Bar by John Grisham
The Quiet American by Graham Greene
The Ludwig Conspiracy by Oliver Plotzsch
2016
Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
The Ministry of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy
Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
The Alice Network by Kate Quinn
The Lake on Fire by Rosellen Brown
The Gentleman in Moscow
by Amor Towles
· So You've Been Publicly Shamed
by Jon Ronson
· The Reign of the Kingfisher by
T.J. Martinson
· Educated by Tara Westover
· Beneath a Scarlet Sky by Mark
T. Sullivan
2018
The Color of Water by James McBride
Hot Milk by Deborah Levy
Autumn by Ali Smith
Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
Brooklyn by Colm Toibin
Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward
Lincoln at the Bardo by George Saunders
The Rooster Bar by John Grisham
The Quiet American by Graham Greene
The Ludwig Conspiracy by Oliver Plotzsch
In the Woods by Tana French
2017
Among the Hidden by Margaret Peterson Haddix
The Road by Cormac McCarthy,
The Painted Veil by Somerset Maugham
Brighton by Michael Harvey
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
A Mixture of Frailties by Robertson Davies
Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty
The Lincoln Lawyer by Michael Connelly
The Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan, by James Farrell
2017
Among the Hidden by Margaret Peterson Haddix
The Road by Cormac McCarthy,
The Painted Veil by Somerset Maugham
Brighton by Michael Harvey
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
A Mixture of Frailties by Robertson Davies
Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty
The Lincoln Lawyer by Michael Connelly
The Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan, by James Farrell
The Grass Dancer, by Susan Power
Young Lonigan, by James T. Farrell
2016
The Death of the Detective, by Mark Smith
Presumed Innocent, by Scott Turow
The House on Mango Street, by Sandra Cisneros
Chicago: A Novel, by Brian Doyle
Life Itself, by Roger Ebert
So Big, by Edna Ferber
Paddy Whacked: The Untold Story of the Irish American Gangster by T. J. English
The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
The Lazarus Project by Aleksandar Hemon
The Pit by Frank Norris
2015
The Girl with a Dragon Tattoo
The Circle
Middlesex
And the Mountains Echoed
The Girl on the Train
Secrets Under the Olive Tree
Wild
The Boston Girl
The Innocence Game
What the Lady Wants
2014
Unbroken
Our Final Invention
Atonement
Where'd you go, Bernadette?
Beautiful Ruins
The Namesake
Divergent
House on the Corner of Bitter & Sweet
The Third Coast
The Traitor's Wife
The Cuckoo's Calling
2013
My Germany
1916: A Novel of the Irish Revolution
Gone Girl
The Life of Pi
The Inventor & the Tycoon
The Great Gatsby
2012
Songs Without Words
The 19th Wife
House of Leaves
King Peggy
Shadow of the Wind
2011
The Mirage
The Great Chicago Fire and the Myth of Mrs. O'Leary's Cow
They All Fall Down: Richard Nickel's Struggle to Save America's Architecture
