Booked for the Day Reading History
Booked for the Day 2023 Selections
- The Dictionary of Lost Words, by Pip Williams (January 2023 - Fiction)
- The Thursday Murder Club, by Richard Osman (February 2023 - Mystery)
- The Parable of the Sower, by Octavia Butler (March 2023 - Science Fiction)
- The Guncle, by Steven Rowley (April 2023 - Fiction)
- The Ride of Her Life, by Elizabeth Letts (May 2023 - Nonfiction)
- Gods of Jade and Shadow, by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (June 2023 - Fiction)
- Her Honor: My Life on the Bench...What Works, What's Broken and How to Change It, by LaDoris Hazzard Cordell (July 2023 - NonFiction)
- The Lincoln Highway, by Amor Towles (August 2023 - Fiction)
- Clark and Division, by Naomi Hirahara (September 2023 - Mystery)
- An Immense World, by Ed Yong (October 2023 - Nonfiction)
- Firekeeper's Daughter, by Angeline Boulley (November 2023 - Fiction)
- The Maid, by Nita Prose (December 2023 - Mystery)
Booked for the Day 2022 Selections
- Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line by Deepa Anappara (January 2022 – Fiction)
- The Mountains Sing by Nguyen Phan Que Mai (February 2022 - Fiction)
- Girl from the Metropol Hotel by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya (March 2022 - Nonfiction)
- Men at Arms by Terry Pratchett (April 2022 - Science Fiction)
- The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich (May 2022 - Fiction)
- Pachinko by Min Jin Lee (June 2022 - Fiction)
- The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller (July 2022 - Fiction)
- Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi (August 2022 - Fiction)
- Finding the Mother Tree by Suzanne Simard (September - Nonfiction)
- Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro (October 2022 - Science Fiction)
- Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner (November 2022 - Nonfiction)
- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith (December 2022 - Nonfiction)
Booked for the Day 2020-2021 Selections
- Color of Water: a Black Man's Tribute to his White Mother by James McBride (November 2020 - Nonfiction)
- Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson (December 2020 - Fiction)
- The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland by Jim Defede (January 2021 - Nonfiction)
- The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah (February 2021 - Fiction)
- The girl with seven names: escape from North Korea by Hyeonseo Lee (May 2021 - Nonfiction)
- American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins (June 2021 - Nonfiction)
- Elderhood: Redefining Aging, Transforming Medicine, Reimagining Life by Louise Aronson (July 5, 2021 - Nonfiction)
- The Dutch House, by Ann Patchett (August 2, 2021 - Fiction)
- Sigh, Gone: a Misfit's Memoir of Great Books, Punk Rock, and the Fight to Fit In, by Phuc Tran (September 13, 2021 - Nonfiction/Memoir)
- Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck (October 4, 2021 - Fiction)
- Deacon King Kong, by James McBride (November 1, 2021 - Fiction)
- All Systems Red, by Martha Wells (December 6, 2021 - Science Fiction)
Booked for the Day 2019-2020 Selections
- The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai, (October - Fiction)
- Circe by Madeline Miller, (September -Fiction)
- The Trial of Lizzie Borden by Cara Robertson, (August - Nonfiction)
- Make Me a City by Jonathan Carr, (July - Fiction)
- The Library Book by Susan Orlean, (June - Nonfiction)
- Amity and Prosperity: one family and the fracturing of America by Eliza Griswold, (April - Nonfiction)
- Robert B. Parker's Colorblind: a Jessie Stone novel by Reed Farrel Coleman, (March - Fiction)
- A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II by Sonia Purnell, (February - Nonfiction)
- Face of a Stranger by Anne Perry, (January - Fiction)
- Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman, (December - Fiction)
- Good Neighbor: the life and work of Fred Rogers by Maxwell King, (November - Nonfiction)
- Next Year in Havana by Chanel Cleeton, (October - Ficton)
- Educated by Tara Westover, (September - Non-fiction)
Booked for the Day 2018-2019 Selections
- Mrs. Poe by Lynn Cullen, (August - fiction)
- Girls in the Picture by Melanie Benjamin, (July - fiction)
- The Woman Who Smashed Codes by Jason Fagone, (June - nonfiction)
- Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein, (May - fiction)
- Lilac Girls by Martha Hall Kelly, (April - fiction)
- Nomadland by Jessica Bruder, (March - nonfiction)
- Bluebird, Bluebird by Attica Locke, (Febuary - fiction)
- When Books Went to War by Molly Guptill Manning, (January - nonfiction)
- Still Me by Jojo Moyes, (December - fiction)
- Prairie Fires by Caroline Fraser, (November - nonfiction)
- Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann, (October - nonfiction)
- Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders, (September - fiction)
Booked for the Day 2017-2018 Selections
- The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane by Lisa See, (August - fiction)
- Rogue Heroes by Ben MacIntyre, (July - nonfiction)
- A Man called Ove by Fredrick Backman, (June - fiction)
- Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance, (May - nonfiction)
- A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles, (April - fiction)
- American Philosophy by John Kaag, (March - nonfiction)
- The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead, (February - fiction)
- Hero of the Empire by Candice Millard, (January - nonfiction)
- The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte, (December - fiction)
- Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury, (November - fiction)
- Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman, (October - fiction)
- Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger, (September - fiction)
Booked for the Day 2016-2017 Selections
- Breakfast with Buddha by Roland Merullo, (August - fiction)
- Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow, (July - nonfiction)
- Circling the Sun by Paula McLain, (June – fiction)
- Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande, (May – nonfiction)
- The Sellout by Paul Beatty, (April – fiction)
- When Breath becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi and Abraham Verghese, (March – nonfiction)
- The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen, (February – fiction)
- Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates: the forgotten war that changed American history by Brian Kilmeade and Don Yaeger, (January - nonfiction)
- The Book of Aron by Jim Shepard, (December - fiction)
- Stalin’s Daughter: The extraordinary and tumultuous life of Svetlana Alliluyeva by Rosemary Sullivan, (November - nonfiction)
- Nagasaki: Life after Nuclear War by Susan Southard, (October - nonfiction)
- Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline, (September - fiction)
- The Turner House by Angela Flournoy, (August - fiction)
Booked for the Day 2015-2016 Selections
- The Expats by Chris Pavone (July fiction)
- Outliers: the story of success by Malcolm Gladwell (June – nonfiction)
- The Hilltop: A Novel by Assaf Gavron (May - fiction)
- Even this I get to experience by Norman Leer (April - nonfiction)
- Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee (March - fiction)
- Deep Down Dark: The Untold Stories of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine and the Miracle That Set Them Free by Héctor Tobar (Feb. - nonfiction)
- Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons (January - fiction)
- Yes Please by Amy Poehler (December - nonfiction)
- Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng (November - fiction)
- The Work: my search for a life that matters by Wes Moore (October - nonfiction)
- Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd (August/September - fiction)
- Dead wake by Erik Larson (August 2015 - nonfiction)
Booked for the Day 2014-2015 Selections
- Dear Life: Stories by Alice Munro, (August 2014-fiction)
- Me Before You by Jojo Moyes, (September 2014-fiction)
- The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri, (October 2014-fiction)
- The Sibling Effect: What the Bonds Among Brothers and Sisters Reveal About Us by Jeffrey Kluger, (November 2014-nonfiction)
- The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion, (December 2014-fiction)
- The Daughter of Time (Inspector Alan Grant #5) by Josephine Tey, (January 2015-fiction)
- Cleopatra: A Life by Stacy Schiff, (February 2015-nonfiction)
- The Postmistress by Sarah Blake, (March 2015-fiction)
- David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants by Malcolm Gladwell, (April 2015-nonfiction)
- Twisted Sisters by Jen Lancaster, (May 2015-fiction)
- The Forger's Spell: A True Story of Vermeer, Nazis, and the Greatest Art Hoax of the Twentieth Century by Edward Dolnick, (June 2015-nonfiction)
- And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini, (July 2015-fiction)
Booked for the Day 2013-2014 Selections
- The 100-Year Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson, (August 2013)
- Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson, (September 2013)
- Pudd’nhead Wilson by Mark Twain, (October 2013)
- Sweet Tooth by Ian McEwan, (November 2013)
- The Great Pearl Heist: London’s Greatest Thief and Scotland Yard’s Hunt for the World’s most valuable necklace by Molly Caldwell Crosby, (December 2013)
- Razor’s Edge by Somerset W. Maugham, (January 2014)
- Joy for Beginners by Erica Bauermeister, (February 2014)
- The Beautiful Cigar Girl: Mary Rogers and Edgar Allan Poe, and the invention of murder by Daniel Stashower, (March 2014)
- The Big Read, (April 2014)
- Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, (May 2014)
- Yellow Bird by Kevin Power, (June 2014)
- Quiet: the power of introverts in a world that can't stop talking by Susan Cain, (July 2014)