“Talking about literature is not only about talking about literature. It is also examining one’s ideas, identities, thoughts, sense of self.” (Christy Craig, PhD, assistant professor of sociology, Fort Hays State University)
Strong Poison – Dorothy Sayers
Hello Beautiful – Ann Napolitano
This Tender Land – William Kent Krueger
As Bright as Heaven – Susan Meissner
Watching Walter Cronkite – Austin Ken Kutscher
A Christmas Memory – Truman Capote
The Lions of Fifth Avenue – Fiona Davis
The Huntress – Kate Quinn
My Dear Hamilton – Stephanie Dray and Laura Kamoie
Searching for Sylvie Lee – Jean Kwok
1000 White Women – Jim Fergus
The Nature of Fragile Things – Susan Meissner
The Best Christmas Pageant Ever – Barbara Robinson
Ordinary Grace – William Kent Krueger
Orphan Train – Christina Baker Kline
The Maid – Nita Prose
Lessons in Chemistry – Bonnie Garmus
The Invention of Wings – Sue Monk Kidd
All the Light We Cannot See – Anthony Doerr
The Girl You Left Behind – Jo Jo Moyes
Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
Isaac’s Storm – Eric Larsen
Boys in the Boat – Daniel James Brown
7th Heaven – Alice Hoffman
Secrets of a Charmed Life – Susan Meissner
The Nightingale – Kristen Hannah
The Little Paris BookShop – Nina George
Girl Waits with Gun – Amy Stewart
Dead Wake-the Lusitania – Eric Larsen
I Still Dream about You – Fannie Flagg
Once We Were Brothers – Ronald H Balson
Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
The Alice Network – Kate Quinn
Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
The Razor’s Edge – William Somerset Maugham
Time and Again – Jack Finney
The Rosie Project – Graeme Simision
Ask Again, Yes – Mary Beth Keane
The Other Einstein – Marie Benedict
The Nature of Fragile Things – Susan Meissner
The Storied Life of AJ Fikry – Gabrielle Zevin
A Reliable Wife – Robert Goolrick
Stars Over Sunset Boulevard – Susan Meissner
The Scent Keeper – Erica Bauermeister
The Paris Wife – Paula McLain
The Paris Library – Janet Skeslein Charles
The Guest List – Lucy Foley
The Midnight Library – Matt Haig
The Last Apothecary – Sarah Penner
Orphan Train – Christina Baker Kline
The Best Christmas Pageant Ever – Barbara Robinson
Searching for Sylvie Lee – Jean Kwok
The World We Knew – Alice Hoffman
The Accidental Tourist – Ann Tyler
The Rose Code – Kate Quinn
The Lincoln Highway – Armor Towles
The Rules of Civility – Armor Towles
The Address – Fiona Davis
The Masterpiece – Fiona Davis
The Bookwoman of Troublesome Creek – Kim Michele Richardson
Hillbilly Elegy – J.D.Vance
Heartland – Sarah Smarsh
The Train to Crystal City – Jan Jarbo Russell
Last Days of Night – Graham Moore
A Fall of Marigolds – Susan Meissner
The Mystery of Mrs. Christie – Marie Benedict
The Shoemaker’s Wife – Adriana Trigiani
The Lilac Girls – Martha Hall Kelly
Lost Roses – Martha Hall Kelly
The Wife Between Us – Greer Hendricks
The Book that Matters Most – Ann Hood
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone – J.K. Rowling
The Silent Patient – Alex Michaelides
The Woman in the Window – A.J. Finn
Ordinary Grace – William Kent Krueger
The Alice Network – Kate Quinn
Before We Were Yours – Lisa Wingate
A Piece of the World – Christina Baker Kline
Big Little Lies – Liane Moriarty
A Man Called Ove – Fredrik Backman
Defending Jacob – William Landay
Circling the Sun – Paula McClain
Everything is Illuminated – Jonathan Safron Foer
A Confederacy of Duces – John Kennedy Toole
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn – Betty Smith
The Art of Racing in the Rain – Garth Stein