Join us on Monday, January 10, 2022, at 11AM to discuss Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line, by Deepa Anaparra. The meeting will be held via Zoom. Contact Jean Demas, Literacy Librarian, at demasj@lislelibrary.org for details or to join our Booked for the Day Discussion Group.
Reading History
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)