Books We Were Reading
An archive of titles from book discussion groups in previous years
Just looking for something good to read? Here are some books our book discussion groups have enjoyed.
- After This
- All Over but the Shoutin'
- Always Running
- Angle of Repose
- The Archivist
- The Art of Racing in the Rain
- Atonement
- Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
- Bee Season
- Bel Canto
- The Birth of Venus
- Black Dog of Fate
- The Book of Air and Shadows
- The Book of Salt
- The Book Thief
- The Call of the Wild
- Case Histories
- The Cellist of Sarajevo
- City of Thieves
- Cold Mountain
- The Color of Water
- Corelli's Mandolin
- The Curious Incident of the
Dog in the Night-time - Daughter of Fortune
- Death Comes for the Archbishop
- The Death of Vishnu
- The Devil in the White City
- Digging to America
- Disgrace
- The Dive from Clausen's Pier
- Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight
- Dream of the Red Chamber
- Dreams from My Father
- Dubliners / Portrait
of the Artist as a Young Man - The Echo Maker
- Empire Falls
- Enrique’s Journey
- Fahrenheit 451
- Fast Food Nation
- The Finishing School
- Funny in Farsi
- The Geography of Bliss
- The Ghost Map
- Gilead
- Girl with a Pearl Earring
- The Glass Castle
- The God of Small Things
- A Gracious Plenty
- The Grapes of Wrath
- Growing Seasons
- The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
- The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
- A House for Mr. Biswas
- The House of Sand and Fog
- The House of the Spirits
- The Hummingbird's Daughter
- In a Sunburned Country
- Into the Forest
- Jayber Crow
- The Kite Runner
- The Known World
- The Ladies Auxiliary
- The Left Hand of Darkness
- Life of Pi
- The Lovely Bones
- Loving Pedro Infante
- Macbeth
- The Madonnas of Leningrad
- March
- Memoirs of a Geisha
- My Ántonia
- My Year of Meats
- Never Let Me Go
- Nickel and Dimed
- Nine Parts of Desire
- Out Stealing Horses
- Peace Like a River
- The Piano Tuner
- The Plague of Doves
- Plainsong
- The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio
- The Professor and the Madman
- The Reader
- Reading Lolita in Tehran
- The Red Tent
- Reservation Blues
- The Road
- The Samurai's Garden
- Seabiscuit: An American Legend
- The Secret Life of Bees
- The Secret River
- Shadow Divers
- The Shipping News
- Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway
- Small Wonder
- Snow
- Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
- Sometimes a Great Notion
- The Sparrow
- Stranger in the Forest
- Suite Française
- The Sweet Hereafter
- The Talented Mr. Ripley
- Tallgrass
- Tender at the Bone
- The Thirteenth Tale
- Three Cups of Tea
- Three Junes
- To Kill a Mockingbird
- Too Close to the Falls
- The Tortilla Curtain
- Truck: A Love Story
- Truth and Beauty
- Two Years Before the Mast
- The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox
- Water for Elephants
- What is the What
- When All the World Was Young
- The Woman Warrior
- The Worst Hard Time
- The Year of Fog
- Year of Wonders
- The Zookeeper's Wife
Mystery Book Discussion Group titles
The Canon titles (classic literature discussion group)
Book Group
titles available to local book clubs
The book discussion program is
underwritten by a generous grant from the Sonoma County Public Library Foundation.