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BOOK GROUP FAVORITES

A Gesture Life

Chang-rae Lee

Angle of Repose

Wallace Stegner

At Home

Bill Bryson

Being Mortal

Atul Gawande

Black Dog of Fate

Peter Balakian

Born a Crime

Trevor Noah

Born Round

Frank Bruni

Deep Down Dark

Héctor Tobar

Dogtown

Elyssa East

Fugitive Pieces

Anne Michaels

Girls of Tender Age

Mary-Ann Tirone Smith

Just Kids

Patti Smith

Kitchen Confidential

Anthony Bourdain

Labor Day

Joyce Maynard

Look Me in the Eye

John Elder Robison

News of the World

Paulette Jiles

Nothing to Envy

Barbara Demick

On the Move

Oliver Sacks

On Writing

Stephen King

Philadelphia Fire

John Edgar Wideman

River Town

Peter Hessler

Still Alice

Lisa Genova

The Art Forger

Barbara A. Shapiro

The Glass Castle

Jeannette Walls

The Kite Runner

Khaled Hosseini

The Pickup

Nadine Gordimer

The River of Doubt

Candice Millard

Townie

Andre Dubus

Transatlantic

Colum McCann

Truth & Beauty

Ann Patchett

CHILDREN'S BOOKS - VOTING RIGHTS

A Time for Courage

Kathryn Lasky

Equality's Call

Deborah Diesen

Finish the Fight!

Veronica Chambers

How Women Won the Vote

Susan Campbell Bartoletti

Rightfully Ours

Kerrie Logan Hollihan

The Woman's Hour

Elaine F. Weiss

Women Win the Vote!

Nancy B. Kennedy

FROM PAGE TO SCREEN

A Beautiful Mind

Sylvia Nasar

A Farewell to Arms

Ernest Hemingway

Anna Karenina

Leo Tolstoy

Close Range

Annie Proulx

Different Seasons

Stephen King

Emma

Jane Austen

Emma

Jane Austen

Gone with the Wind

Margaret Mitchell

Great Expectations

Charles Dickens

Heidi

Johanna Spyri

Hidden Figures

Margot Lee Shetterly

In Cold Blood

Truman Capote

Into the Wild

Jon Krakauer

Into the Wild

Jon Krakauer

Labor Day

Joyce Maynard

Little Women

Little Women

Louisa May Alcott

Little Women

Louisa May Alcott

MASH

Richard Hooker

No Country for Old Men

Cormac McCarthy

Persepolis

Marjane Satrapi

Persepolis 2

Marjane Satrapi

Prince Caspian

C. S. Lewis

Room

Emma Donoghue

The Devil Wears Prada

Lauren Weisberger

The Color Purple

Alice Walker

The Godfather

Mario Puzo

The Martian

Andy Weir

The Princess Bride

William Goldman

The Return of the King

J. R. R. Tolkien

Wuthering Heights

Emily Brontë

KNITTING & CROCHETING FAVORITES

Beyond Wool

Candace Eisner Strick

Circular Knitting Workshop

Margaret Radcliffe

Crochet in No Time

Melody Griffiths

Easy Crochet Dishcloths

Camilla Schmidt Rasmussen

Fearless Knitting Workbook

Jennifer E. Seiffert

Felted Knits

Beverly Galeskas

How to Crochet

Pauline Turner

Kids Can Knit

Carolyn Clewer

Knit Kimono

Vicki Square

Knits for Kitties

Sara Elizabeth Kellner

Knitting with Balls

Michael Del Vecchio

Lace Yarn Studio

Carol Sulcoski

Saltwater Classics

Christine LeGrow

Saltwater Mittens

Christine LeGrow

Scarf Style

Pam Allen

Shadow Knitting

Vivian Høxbro

Shear Spirit

Joan Tapper

Socks from the Toe Up

Wendy D. Johnson

The Yarn Stash Workbook

Laura Militzer Bryant

Weekend Knitting

Melanie Falick

Wrap Style

Pam Allen

NONFICTION AUDIOBOOKS

American Sniper

Chris Kyle

At Home

At Home

Bill Bryson

Atlantic

Simon Winchester

Barracoon

Zora Neale Hurston

Becoming

Michelle Obama

Being Mortal

Atul Gawande

Between the World and Me

Ta-Nehisi Coates

Born a Crime

Trevor Noah

Bossypants

Tina Fey

Dopesick

Beth Macy

Endurance

Alfred Lansing

Here if You Need Me

Kate Braestrup

Hero of the Empire

Candice Millard

Hidden Figures

Margot Lee Shetterly

Holidays on Ice

David Sedaris

In Cold Blood

Truman Capote

Into the Wild

Jon Krakauer

Just Kids

Patti Smith

Maid

Stephanie Land

Mayflower

Mayflower

Nathaniel Philbrick

My Beloved World

Sonia Sotomayor

My Stroke of Insight

Jill Bolte Taylor

Outliers

Malcolm Gladwell

Quiet

Susan Cain

Roots

Alex Haley

Salt Sugar Fat

Michael Moss

The Wright Brothers

David G. McCullough

The Butler

Wil Haygood

The Face on Your Plate

J. Moussaieff Masson

The Monster of Florence

Douglas J. Preston

The Sun is a Compass

Caroline Van Hemert

The Translator

Daoud Hari

Truck

Michael Perry

Unbroken

Laura Hillenbrand

Wild Bill

Tom Clavin

Yes Please

Amy Poehler

PRESIDENTS & FIRST LADIES

A Higher Loyalty

James B. Comey

A Perfect Union

Catherine Allgor

A Promised Land

Barack Obama

A Promised Land

Barack Obama

Abe

David S. Reynolds

Abigail & John

Edith Belle Gelles

Abigail Adams

Woody Holton

Author in Chief

Craig Fehrman

Becoming

Michelle Obama

Betty Ford

Lisa McCubbin

Coolidge

Amity Shlaes

Dear Abigail

Diane Jacobs

Did Lincoln Own Slaves?

Gerald J. Prokopowicz

Disloyal

Michael Cohen

Driven West

A. J. Langguth

Eleanor

David Michaelis

Eleanor

David Michaelis

Fear

Bob Woodward

Fire and Fury

Michael Wolff

First Family

Joseph J. Ellis

First in Line

Kate Andersen Brower

First Principles

Thomas E. Ricks

Forever Young

Forever Young

William Sylvester Noonan

Grant

Ron Chernow

Grant

Ron Chernow

His Very Best

Jonathan Alter

James Madison

Lynne V. Cheney

John Adams

David G. McCullough

Lady First

Amy S. Greenberg

Melania and Me

Stephanie Winston Wolkoff

Michelle Obama

Peter Slevin

Pearls of Wisdom

Barbara Bush

Plaintiff in Chief

James D. Zirin

Rage

Bob Woodward

Sex with Presidents

Eleanor Herman

Spoken from the Heart

Laura Welch Bush

Team of Five

Kate Andersen Brower

Thanks, Obama

David Litt

The Virginia Dynasty

Lynne V. Cheney

The Bomb

Fred M. Kaplan

The Butler

Wil Haygood

The Other Madisons

Bettye Kearse

Washington

Ron Chernow

Washington

Ron Chernow

Wilson

A. Scott Berg

Yes She Can

Jenna Brayton

WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE

A Lab of One's Own

Patricia Fara

Alice Paul

Jill Diane Zahniser

All the Single Ladies

Rebecca Traister

City of Lies

Victoria Thompson

Crystal Eastman

Amy Aronson

Free Thinker

Kimberly A. Hamlin

Ida

Paula Giddings

Jane Addams

Louise W. Knight

Not for Ourselves Alone

Geoffrey C. Ward

Other Powers

Barbara Goldsmith

Sex Wars

Marge Piercy

She Votes

Bridget Quinn

Sojourner Truth

Nell Irvin Painter

Sophia

Anita Anand

Suffrage

Ellen Carol DuBois

The Hourglass Factory

Lucy Ribchester

The Woman's Hour

Elaine F. Weiss

Women's Suffrage in America

Elizabeth Frost-Knappman

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