Mystery Book Club
The library's Mystery Book Club meets at 1 PM on the first Tuesday of each month. All are welcome. This club will be held in hybrid format. Come in person at the library, or attend online!
Fiction Book Club
The library's Fiction Book Club meets the second Monday each month, at 1 or 7 PM. This club will be held in hybrid format. Come in person at the library, or attend online!
Nonfiction Book Club
The library's Nonfiction Book Club meets the third Monday each month, at 1 PM. This club will be held in hybrid format. Come in person at the library, or attend online!
Speculative Fiction Book Club
The Portsmouth Public Library Speculative Fiction Book Club will meet on the final Tuesday of each month at 7 PM. Spec Fic is a genre that encompasses fantasy, science fiction, horror and everything in between. Speculative fiction asks, what if? This club will be held in hybrid format. Come in person at the library, or attend online!
Shakespeare Discussion Group
How now good friends? Dost thou seek a monthly pasttime to broaden the mind and entice the senses? Look no further than Shakespearean Discussion Group! Enjoy the selected play of the month in the way ‘twas presented: to the masses! Pick up a video recording of the play to view at your leisure, and then join us on the last Tuesday of the month at 4 PM to discuss your experience with The Bard’s work. Mayhaps thou shalt stumble upon some new friends there as well… Be not perturbed of your knowledge of Shakespeare’s works, for we encourage fellows of all ages, areas of interest and expertise to attend!
Shakespeare Discussion Group meets in person. Registration is optional - register to receive reminders. Visit our library calendar to register!
Print and DVD copies of this play will be available for checkout with a library card. Library cardholders also have streaming access to the BBC production on Kanopy – visit cityofportsmouth.com/library/kanopy to connect. Or, watch any of the freely available productions linked from the calendar.
Past Book Discussions
2025
- January Mystery: Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers by Jesse Q. Sutanto
- January Fiction: Graceland by Nancy Crochiere
- January Nonfiction: In the Garden Behind the Moon by Alexandra Chan
- January Specfic: The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden
- February Mystery: The Cat Who Could Read Backwards by Lilian Jackson Braun
- February Fiction: The Promise by Damon Galgut
- February Nonfiction: The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe
- February Specfic: A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine
- March Mystery: Mother-Daughter Murder Night by Nina Simon
- March Fiction: Dust Child by Nguyẽ̂n Phan Qué̂ Mai
- March Nonfiction: My Life in France by Julia Child
- March Specfic: Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
- April Mystery: The River We Remember by William Kent Krueger
- April Fiction: The Maid by Nita Prose
- April Nonfiction: The Devil's Element by Dan Egan
- April Specfic: House of Leaves by Mark Danielewski
- May Mystery: Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone by Benjamin Stevenson
- May Fiction: The Shipping News by Annie E. Proulx
- May Nonfiction: The Years by Annie Ernaux
- May Specfic: The Cruel Prince by Holly Black
- June Mystery: Killing Trail by Margaret Mizushima
- June Fiction: West with Giraffes by Lynda Rutledge
- June Nonfiction: Where You'll Find Me: Risk, Decisions, and The Last Climb of Kate Matrosova by Ty Gagne
- June Specfic: A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki
- July Mystery: Murder by Degrees by Ritu Mukerji
- July Fiction: Tom Lake by Ann Patchett
- July Nonfiction: Africa is Not a Country: Notes on a Bright Continent by Dipo Faloyin
- July Specfic: Light from Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki
- August Mystery: In the Bleak Midwinter by Julia Spencer-Fleming
- August Fiction: The Beekeeper of Aleppo by Christy Lefteri
- August Nonfiction: Femina: A New History of the Middle Ages, Through the Women Written Out of It by Janina Ramirez
- August Specfic: Shubeik Lubeik by Deena Mohamed
2024
- January Mystery: The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley
- January Classic: Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
- January Fiction: The Giver of Stars by JoJo Moyes
- January Nonfiction: What the Ermine Saw: The Extraordinary Journey of Leonardo Da Vinci’s Most Mysterious Portrait by Eden Collinsworth
- January Specfic: The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker
- February Mystery: Blueberry Muffin Murder by Joanne Fluke
- February Classic: Not Without Laughter by Langston Hughes
- February Fiction: Take My Hand by Dolen Perkins-Valdez
- February Nonfiction: Fen, Bog and Swamp: A Short History of Peatland Destruction and its Role in the Climate Crisis by Annie Proulx
- February Specfic: The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins
- March Mystery: Devil in a Blue Dress by Walter Mosley
- March Classic: Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen
- March Fiction: Britt-Marie Was Here by Fredrik Backman
- March Nonfiction: Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America by Marcia Chatelain
- March Specfic: Dhalgren by Samuel Delany
- April Mystery: Death in Brittany by Jean-Luc Bannalec
- April Fiction: Pocketful of Names by Joe Coomer
- April Nonfiction: The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat: And Other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks
- April Specfic: The Library of the Dead by T. L. Huchu
- May Mystery: No One Will Miss Her by Kat Rosenfield
- May Classic: Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust
- May Fiction: The Plot Against America by Philip Roth
- May Nonfiction: Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad by M. T. Anderson
- May Specfic: Magic for Liars by Sarah Gailey
- June Mystery: The Guest List by Lucy Foley
- June Classic: The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
- June Fiction: The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert
- June Nonfiction: The Barbizon: The Hotel that Set Women Free by Paulina Bren
- June Specfic: Sorcerer to the Crown by Zen Cho
- July Mystery: Holmes on the Range by Steve Hockensmith
- July Classic: Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
- July Fiction: Swimmers by Julie Otsuka
- July Nonfiction: The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee
- July Specfic: Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree
- August Mystery: Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line by Deepa Anappara
- August Classic: A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare
- August Fiction: The Exiles by Christina Baker Kline
- August Nonfiction: The Library Book by Susan Orlean
- August Specfic: The Watchmaker of Filigree Street by Natasha Pulley
- September Mystery: A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle
- September Classic: David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
- September Fiction: Pete and Alice in Maine by Caitlin Shetterly
- September Nonfiction: Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania by Erik Larson
- September Specfic: Moon of the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice
- October Mystery: The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman
- October Fiction: The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafek
- October Nonfiction: It Was Vulgar and It Was Beautiful: How AIDS Activists Used Art To Fight a Pandemic by Jack Lowery
- October Specfic: Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
- November Mystery: Mistress of the Art of Death by Ariana Franklin
- November Classic: Hawaii's story by Hawaii's Queen by Lili'uokalani
- November Fiction: Telex from Cuba by Rachel Kushner
- November Nonfiction: An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us by Ed Yong
- November Specfic: Akata Warrior by Nnedi Okorafor
- December Mystery: The Twelve Clues of Christmas by Rhys Bowen
- December Classic: Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
- December Nonfiction: The Chiffon Trenches by Andre Leon Talley
- December Fiction: The Girl from Guernica by Karen Robards
- December Specfic: Akata Woman by Nnedi Okorafor
2023
- January Classic: Persuasion by Jane Austen
- January Fiction: The Mistletoe Murder and Other Stories by P.D. James
- January Nonfiction: Owls of the Eastern Ice by Johnathan Slaght
- January Specfic: All Systems Red by Martha Wells
- February Classic: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
- February Fiction: The Music Shop by Rachel Joyce
- February Nonfiction: In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado
- February Specfic: Galatea 2.2 by Richard Powers
- March Classic: The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
- March Fiction: The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey
- March Nonfiction: Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe
- March Specfic: The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper
- April Classic: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- April Fiction: Our Darkest Night by Jennifer Robson
- April Nonfiction: The Collected Schizophrenias by Esmé Weijun Wang
- April Specfic: The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa
- May Fiction: The Story Hour by Thrity Umrigar
- May Nonfiction: The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green
- May Specfic: Foundation by Isaac Asimov
- May & June Classic: Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
- June Fiction: Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate
- June Nonfiction: Before and After by Judy Christie & Lisa Wingate
- June Specfic: The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix Harrow
- July Classic: Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
- July Fiction: The Life She Was Given by Ellen Marie Wiseman
- July Nonfiction: The Secret to Superhuman Strength by Alison Bechdel
- July Specfic: Hyperion by Dan Simmons
- August Classic: I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
- AuSweet Salt Air by Barbara Delinsky gust Fiction:
- August Nonfiction: Somebody's Daughter by Ashley C. Ford
- August Specfic: The Fall of Hyperion by Dan Simmons
- September Classic: The Art of War by Sun Tzu
September Mystery: The Beekeeper’s Apprentice by Laurie R. King - September Fiction: The Reading List by Sara Nisha Adams
- September Nonfiction: Meet Me By the Fountain by Alexandra Lange
- September Specfic: Redwall by Brian Jacques
- October Classic: Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
- October Mystery: The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett
- October Fiction: Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman
- October Nonfiction: Crying in H-Mart by Michelle Zauner
- October Specfic: The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter
- November Mystery: The Blessing Way by Tony Hillerman
- November Classic: Macbeth by William Shakespeare
- November Fiction: Night of the Living Rez by Morgan Talty
- November Nonfiction: Consumed by Aja Barber
- November Specfic: Elatsoe by Darcie Little Badger
- December Mystery: The Talented Miss Farwell by Emily Tedrowe
- December Classic: A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
- December Fiction: The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin
- December Nonfiction: Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
- December Specfic: To Be Taught, If Fortunate by Becky Chambers
2022
- January Classic: Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
- January Fiction: The Color of Air by Gail Tsukiyama
- January Specfic: The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune
- February Classic: Annie John by Jamaica Kincaid
- February Fiction (Nonfiction for Fiction): The Man Who Loved Books Too Much by Allison Hoover Bartlett
- February Specfic: Dune by Frank Herbert
- March Classic: The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
- March Fiction: Indian Horse by Richard Wagamese
- March Specfic: Circe by Madeline Miller
- April Classic: Walden by Henry David Thoreau
- April Fiction: A Long Petal of the Sea by Isabel Allende
- April Specfic: How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe by Charles Yu
- May Classic: Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
- May Fiction: A Window Opens by Elisabeth Egan
- May Specfic: In Other Lands by Sarah Rees Brennan
- June Classic: One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- June Fiction: On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
- June Specfic: The Luminous Dead by Caitlin Starling
- July Classic: The Country of the Pointed Firs by Sarah Orne Jewett
- July Fiction: Citizens Creek by Lalita Tademy
- July Specfic: Ammonite by Nicola Griffith
- August Classic: The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
- August Fiction: A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki
- August Specfic: The Devourers by Indra Das
- September Classic: The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
- September Fiction: Ask Again, Yes by Mary Beth Keane
- September Nonfiction: The Boys of Summer by Roger Kahn
- September Specfic: Everfair by Nisi Shawl
- October Classic: My Antonia by Willa Cather
- October Fiction: The Henna Artist by Alka Joshi
- October Nonfic: Mill Town: Reckoning with What Remains by Kerri Arsenault
- October Specfic: Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
- November Classic: Hamlet by William Shakespeare
- November Fiction: Run by Ann Patchett
- November Nonfic: Wow, No Thank You by Samantha Irby
- November Specfic: Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
- December Classic: The Pillow Book by Sei Shonagon
- December Fiction: The Story of Arthur Truluv by Elizabeth Berg
- December Nonfic: The Hare with Amber Eyes by Edmund de Waal
- December Specfic: Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse
2021
- January Classic: Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
- January Fiction: Pieces of Happiness: A Novel of Friendship, Hope and Chocolate by Anne Ostby
- January LGBTQ: Bingo Love by Tee Franklin
- January Specfic: Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James
- February Classic: The Odyssey translated by Emily Wilson
- February Fiction: Only Child by Rhiannon Navin
- February LGBTQ: Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe
- February Specfic: Seraphina by Rachel Hartman
- March Fiction: The Daring Ladies of Lowell by Kate Alcott
- March LGBTQ: On A Sunbeam by Tillie Walden
- March Specfic: Mr. Fox by Helen Oyeyemi
- April Classic: Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
- April Fiction: Tears of the Giraffe by Alexander McCall-Smith
- April LGBTQ: Passing Strange by Ellen Klages
- April Specfic: This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
- May Classic: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
- May Fiction: The Book of Unknown Americans by Christina Henriquez
- May LGBTQ: Maurice by E.M. Forster
- May Specfic: Foundryside by Robert Jackson Bennett
- June (every group): The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
- July Classic: All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot
- July Fiction (Nonfiction for Fiction):When Books Went to War by Molly Guptill Manning
- July LGBTQ: The Deep by Rivers Solomon
- July Specfic: Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
- August Classic: The Color Purple by Alice Walker
- August Fiction: The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by Aimee Bender
- August LGBTQ: Juliet Takes a Breath by Gabby Rivera
- August Specfic: The Psychology of Time Travel by Kate Mascarenhas
- September Classic: Beowulf translated by Maria Dahvana Headley
- September Fiction: Winter Sisters by Robin Oliveira
- September LGBTQ: George (Melissa’s Story) by Alex Gino
- September Specfic: Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie
- October Classic: Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
- October Fiction: Allie and Bea by Catherine Ryan Hyde
- October LGBTQ: In Other Lands by Sarah Rees Brennan
- October Specfic: The Silent Companions by Laura Purcell
- November Classic: The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
- November Fiction: White Chrysanthemum by Mary Lynn Bracht
- November LGBTQ: Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz
- November Specfic: Lanny by Max Porter
- December Classic: A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
- December Fiction: The School of Essential Ingredients by Erica Baumeister
- December Specfic: The Nutcracker and Mouse King and The Tale of the Nutcracker by E. T. A. Hoffmann & Alexandre Dumas
2020
- January Fiction: Seven Days of Us by Francesca Hornak
- January Nonfiction: Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years by Sarah and A. Elizabeth Delany with Amy Hill Hearth
- January Specfic: The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers
- February Fiction: The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving by Jonathan Evison
- February Nonfiction: 1920: The Year That Made the Decade Roar by Eric Burns
- February Specfic: The Quick by Lauren Owen
- March Fiction: Idaho by Emily Ruskovich
- March Specfic: Titus Groan by Mervyn Peake
- April Fiction: The Women in the Castle by Jessica Shattuck
- April Specfic: The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison
- May Fiction: Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata
- May Specfic: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
- June Classic: Emma by Jane Austen
- June Fiction: Good Riddance by Elinor Lipman
- June Specfic: The Princess Bride by William Goldman
- July Classic: Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
- July Fiction: Another Brooklyn by Jacqueline Woodson
- July Specfic: Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation by Octavia Butler
- August Classic: A Study in Scarlet by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- August Fiction: The Boston Girl by Anita Diamant
- August Specfic: An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon
- September Classic: Howards End by E.M. Forster
- September Fiction: The One in A Million Boy by Monica Wood
- September LGBTQ: The Clancys of Queens by Tara Clancy
- September Specfic: The Salt Roads by Nalo Hopkinson
- October Fiction: There, There by Tommy Orange
- October Classic: Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
- October LGBTQ: Not My Father's Son by Alan Cumming
- November Fiction: Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
- November LGBTQ: Sissy by Jacob Tobia
- November Specfic: Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand by Samuel Delany
- December Classic: Middlemarch by George Eliot
- December Fiction: The Life We Bury by Allen Eskens
- December LGBTQ: The Clancys of Queens by Tara Clancy
- December Specfic: Unnatural Magic by C.M. Waggoner
2019
- January Fiction: The New Year's Quilt by Jennifer Chiaverini
- January Nonfiction: The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan
- January Specfic: Smoke by Dan Vyleta
- February Fiction: February 11 - Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
- February Nonfiction: Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
- February Specfic: Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
- March Fiction: The Stars are Fire by Anita Shreve
- March Nonfiction: The Death and Life of the Great Lakes by Dan Egan
- March Specfic: Long Division by Kiese Laymon
- April Fiction: The Rent Collector by Camron Wright
- April Nonfiction: Tell Me More by Kelly Corrigan
- April Specfic: Weave a Circle Round by Kari Maaren
- May Fiction: Midwives by Chris Bohjalian
- May Nonfiction: The Lemon Tree: An Arab, A Jew and The Heart of the Middle East by Sandy Tolan
- May Specfic: The Power by Naomi Alderman
- June Fiction: The Stargazer’s Sister by Carrie Brown
- June Nonfiction: 13.8 The Quest to Find the True Age of the Universe and Theory of Everything by John Gribbin
- June Specfic: Mirror Dance by Lois McMaster Bujold
- July Fiction: Something in the Water by Catherine Steadman
- July Nonfiction: How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming by Mike Brown
- July Specfic: The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
- August Fiction: The Movement of Stars by Amy Brill
- August Nonfiction: The Interstellar Age: The Story of the NASA Men and Women Who Flew the Forty-Year Voyager Mission by Jim Bell
- August Specfic: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
- September Fiction: Five Carat Soul by James McBride
- September Specfic: The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell
- October Fiction: Saints for All Occasions by J. Courtney Sullivan
- October Nonfiction: Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out? By Bill McKibben
- October Specfic: Beloved by Toni Morrison
- November Fiction: In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez
- November Nonfiction: Ecology, Ethics, and Interdependence: The Dalai Lama in Conversation with Leading Thinkers on Climate Change
- November Specfic: An Accident of Stars by Foz Meadows
- December Fiction: Strong Poison by Dorothy Sayers
- December Nonfiction: Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming by Paul Hawken
- December Specfic: The Book of Joan by Lidia Yuknavitch
2018
- January Fiction: Andy Catlett: Early Travels by Wendell Berry
- January Nonfiction: The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
- January Specfic: The Subtle Knife & The Amber Spyglass by Phillip Pullman
- January Cookbooks: Return to Healthy Eating
- February Fiction: Reflex by Dick Francis
- February Nonfiction: The Blue Zones by Dan Buettner
- February Specfic: Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
- March Fiction: My Wish List by Greg Delacourt
- March Nonfiction: Tribe by Sebastian Junger
- March Specfic: Contact by Carl Sagan
- March Cookbooks: Cooking for Special Diets
- April Fiction: La's Orchestra Saves the World by A. McCall-Smith
- April Nonfiction: Better Together by Robert Putnam
- April Specfic: Geek Love by Katherine Dunn
- May Fiction: The Red Thread by Ann Hood
- May Nonfiction: Being Mortal by Atul Gawande
- May Specfic: The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin
- June Fiction: The Heart by Maylis De Kerangal
- June Nonfiction: America Walks Into a Bar by Christine Sismondo
- June Specfic: Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor
- July Fiction: News of the World by Paulette Jiles
- July Nonfiction: Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance
- July Specfic: The Once and Future King by T.H. White
- August Fiction: Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri
- August Nonfiction: Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
- August Specfic: Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
- September Fiction: The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh
- September Nonfiction: Forward From Here: Leaving Middle Age by Reeve Lindbergh
- September Specfic: A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
- October Fiction: The Daugher of Time by Josephine Tey
- October Nonfiction: The B Side by Ben Yagoda
- October Specfic: NOS4A2 by Joe Hill
- November Fiction: A Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Marra
- November Nonfiction: The Flamingo's Smile by Stephen Jay Gould
- November Specfic: This Census-Taker by China Mieville
- December Fiction: Less by Andrew Sean Greer
- December Nonfiction: The Book That Changed America by Randall Fuller
- December Specfic: The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkein
2017
- January Fiction: Department of Speculation by Jenny Offill
- January Nonfiction: Just Mercy by Brian Stevenson
- January Specfic: The Passage by Justin Cronin
- February Fiction: The Art Forger by B.A. Shapiro
- February Nonfiction: Prisoners of Geography by Tim Marshall
- February Specfic: Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
- March Fiction: Family Life by Akhil Sharma
- March Nonfiction: Tattoos on the Heart by Greg Boyle
- March Specfic: Alif the Unseen by G. Willow Wilson
- April Fiction: The Blessingsby Elise Juska
- April Nonfiction: We should all be feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- April Specfic: We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
- May Fiction: The Book of Aron by Jim Shepard
- May Nonfiction: Girl in the Dark by Anna Lyndsey
- May Specfic: Grass by Sherri Tepper
- June Fiction: The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio by Terry Ryan
- June Nonfiction: The Lace Reader by Brunonia Barry
- June Specfic: Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
- July Fiction: At The Edge of the Orchard by Tracy Chevalier
- July Nonfiction: My Life in France by Julia Child
- July Specfic: Signal to Noise by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
- August Fiction: The Hunchback of Neiman Marcus by Sonya Sones
- August Nonfiction: Ecomind: changing the way we think to create the world we want by Frances Moore Lappé
- August Specfic: The Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett
- September Fiction: The Same Sky by Amanda Eyre Ward
- September Nonfiction: The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester
- September Specfic: Hard-Boiled Wonderland & the End of the World by Haruki Murakami
- October Fiction: Beasts of No Nation by Uzodinma Iweala
- October Nonfiction: Salt: a World History by Mark Kurlansky
- October Specfic: The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle
- November Fiction: Turn of Mind by Alice LaPlante
- November Nonfiction: Outliers: the Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell
- November Specfic: A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L'Engle
- December Fiction: Euphoria by Lily King
- December Nonfiction:To the End of June by Chris Beam
- December Specfic:Tenth of December by George Saunders
2016
- January Fiction: Pomegranate Soup by Marsha Mehran
- January Nonfiction: A Year in Provence by Peter Mayle
- February Fiction: Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand by Helen Simonson
- February Nonfiction: Astronaut Wives Club by Lily Koppel
- February Specfic: The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
- March Fiction: Swallows of Kabul by Yasmina Khadra
- March Nonfiction: Rez Life by David Treuer
- March Specfic: The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
- April Fiction: Sisterland by Curtis Sittenfeld
- April Nonfiction: Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner
- April Specfic: Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
- May Fiction: Fever by Mary Beth Keane
- May Nonfiction: Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
- May Specfic: Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
- June Fiction: The First of July by Elizabeth Speller
- June Nonfiction: I'm a Stranger Here Myself by Bill Bryson
- June Specfic: Good Omens by Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman
- July Specfic: Annihilation by Jeff Vandermeer
- August Nonfiction: Half the sky : turning oppression into opportunity for women worldwide by Nicholas Kristof
- August Specfic: Sabriel by Garth Nix
- September Fiction: While I’m Falling by Laura Moriarty
- September Nonfiction: Smoke gets in your eyes and other lessons from the crematory by Caitlin Doughty
- September Specfic: The Intuitionist by Colson Whitehead
- October Fiction: The Crane Wife by Patrick Ness
- October Nonfiction: Lest innocent blood be shed: the story of the village of Le Chambon, and how goodness happened there by Philip Paul Hallie
- October Specfic: Among Others by Jo Walton
- November Fiction: We are called to Rise by Laura McBride
- November Nonfiction: The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
- November Specfic: The Girl with the Ghost Eyes by M. H. Boroson
- December Fiction: Our Souls at Night by Kent Haruf
2015
- January 12: The Long Walk Home by Will North
- February 9: The Girl Who Fell From The Sky by Heidi Durrow
- February 17: The Age of Wonder by Richard Holmes
- March 9: The Year We Left Home by Jean Thompson
- March 17: Out of Order by Sandra Day O'Connor
- April 13: Necessary Lies by Diane Chamberlain
- April 21: The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
- May 11: Manuscript found in Accra by Paulo Coelho
- May 19: Choose Your Own Nonfiction Book! Topic: China
- June 8: The Wives of Los Alamos by Tarashea Nesbit
- June 16: The World's Strongest Librarian by Joshua Hanagarne
- July 21: An Invisible Thread by Laura Schroff and Alex Tresniowski AND/OR In a Heartbeat by Leigh Anne Tuohy and Sean Tuohy with Sally Jenkins
- August 18: How We Got to Now by Steven Johnson
- September 14: The Edge of the Earth by Christina Schwarz
- September 15: Portsmouth Women edited by Laura Pope
- October 9: The Girls by Lori Lansens
- October 20: The End of Your Life Book Club by Will Schwalbe
- October 26: Vicious by V.E. Schwab
- November 9: Letters from Skye by Jessica Brockmole
- November 17: The Family by David Laskin
- November 30: Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
- December 15: Stuff Matters by Mark Miodownik
- December 28: The Magicians by Lev Grossman
2014
- January 8: Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer
- January 13: The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce
- February 5: In the Sanctuary of Outcasts by Neil White
- February 10: Last Runaway by Tracy Chevalier
- March 5: Passing Strange by Martha Sandweiss
- March 10: Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O’Farrell
- April 14: We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler
- April 16: Animal, Vegetable Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver
- May 12 - Daniel Isn't Talking by Marti Leimbach
- May 21: Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother by Amy Chua
- June 9: Dream When You're Feeling Blue by Elizabeth Berg
- June 18: Five Days at Memorial Hospital by Sheri Fink
- August 5: Nothing to Envy by Barbara Demick
- September 8: The Silver Star by Jeannette Walls
- September 17: The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman
- October 15: Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
- October 20: Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin
- November 10: A Long Long Wayby Sebastian Barry
- November 19: Black, White, Jewish by Rebecca Walker
- December 17: The Railway Man by Eric Lomax
2013
- January 28: The Good Braider by Terry Farish
- February 25: Home by Toni Morrison
- March 25: Left Neglected by Lisa Genova
- April 3: Quiet by Susan Cain
- April 15: Memory Won't Save Me by Mimi White
- May 1: Why be Happy When You Could Be Normal by Jeanette Winterson
- May 20: Say Nice Things About Detroit by Scott Lasser
- June 5: A Wedding in Haiti by Julia Alvarez
- June 17: The Train of Small Mercies by David Rowell
- September 4: A Queer and Pleasant Danger by Kate Bornstein
- September 16: Silver Sparrow by Tayari Jones
- October 2: Wild by Cheryl Strayed
- October 21: Expats by Chris Pavone
- November 6: Happy by Alex Lemon
- November 18: Italian Shoes by Henning Mankell
- December 4: The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown
2012
- January 23: Coffins of Little Hope by Timothy Schaffert
- February 13: The Well and the Mine by Gin Phillips
- March 12: Talk Funny Girl by Roland Merullo
- April 16: So Much Pretty by Cara Hoffman
- May 4: Oxygen written by Carol Cassella
- September 17: Girl in Translation by Jean Kwok
- October 15: Lifeboat by Charlotte Rogan
- November 19: You Know When the Men Are Gone by Siobhan Fallon
2010-2011
- Oct. 18: Broken Teaglass written by Emily Arsenault
- Nov. 15: Crow Lake written by Mary Lawson
- February 14: Two Rivers by T. Greenwood
- March 14: The Stone Gods by Jeanette Winterson
- April 11: Into the Beautiful North by Luis Alberto Urrea
- May 9: Haroun and the Sea Stories by Salman Rushdie
2009-2010
- September 14: All the Living by C.E. Morgan
- October 19: Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
- November 9: Telex from Cuba by Rachvel Kushner
- February 8: House on Sugar Beach by Helene Cooper
- March 15: Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
- April 12: Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa
- May 10: Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway
- June 7: The Good Thief : A Novel by Hannah Tinti
2008-2009
- Tortilla Curtain by T.C. Boyle
- End of the Alphabet by C.S. Richardson
- The Beautiful Things that Heaven Bears by Dinaw Mengestu
- Lost City Radio by Daniel Alarcon
- Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones
- The Cave by Jose Saramago
- Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
- Split Estate by Charlotte Bacon
2007-2008
- Brooklyn Follies by Paul Auster
- Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
- Talk, talk by T.C. Boyle
- March by Geraldine Brooks
- Girls by Lori Lansens
- Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson
- Secondhand World by Katherine Min
- Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
- Zoli by Colum McCann
- Lost and Found by Carolyn Parkhurst
- Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid