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)

• 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)