We read an eclectic selection of books
suggested by members. Past themes have included: legal, Chicago, women
authors.
2025
North
Woods by Daniel Mason
Kantika by Elizabeth Graver
Foster
by Claire Keegan
Not Even
the Dead by Juan Gomez Barcena
Snow
Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
The Gods
of the Woods by Liz Moore
Everything
is Tuberculosis by John Green
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
Pachinko by Min Jin
Lee
The Swift and the
Harrier, Minette Walters
East of Eden, John Steinbeck
The Ultimate
Betrayal, Kimberla Lawson Roby
One of Us is Lying,
Karen McManus
Lessons in
Chemistry, Bonnie Garmus
The City of the
Century, Donald Miller
Lonesome Dove, Larry
McMurtry
My Sister the Serial
Killer, Oyinkan Braithwaite
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
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
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
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
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
