Here is a list of past years’ Southern Cayuga Book Club selections:
2023
The Book of Hope by Jane Goodall
His Truth is Marching On: John Lewis and the Power of Hope by Jon Meacham
The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
What the Fireflies Knew by Kai Harris
How the Word is Passed by Clint Smith
Defending Jacob by William Landay
The Doctors Blackwell by Janice Nimura
The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah
The Elephant Whisperer by Lawrence Anthony
Vanishing Point- The Search for a B-24 Bomber Crew Lost on the World War II Home Front by Tom Wilber
This is How it Always Is by Laurie Frankel
2022
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
The Girl with the Louding Voice by Abi Dare’
Bear Town by Fredrik Backman
The Story of More by Hope Jahren
The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution by Eric Foner
The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman
The Guest List by Lucy Foley
The Indomitable Florence Finch by Robert J. Mrazek
The Sentence by Louise Erdrich
2021
The Blood of Flowers by Anita Amirrezvani
Fer-de-Lance by Rex Stout
An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins
A Long Petal of the Sea by Isabel Allende
News of the World by Paulette Jiles
The Dutch House by Ann Patchett
The Shape Shifter by Tony Hillerman
All the Real Indians Died Off — and 20 Other Myths About Native Americans by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz & Dina Gilio-Whitaker
Caste: The origins of our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
2020
Clock Dance by Anne Tyler
A Star for Mrs. Blake by April Smith
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? by F.E.B. deWaal
Funny, You Don’t Look Autistic by Michael McCreary
My Antonia by Willa Cather
Ickabog by J.K. Rowling
The Shipping News by Anne Proulx
Shattered by Dick Francis
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
Educated by Tara Westover
2019
The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion
The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
Hidden in France by Simon Jerchim
Vinegar Girl by Anne Tyler
Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
Under the Wide and Starry Sky by Nancy Horan
The Aviator’s Wife by Melanie Benjamin
It Was and Was Not So by Bill Castle
Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
Becoming by Michelle Obama
2018
The Alice Network by Kate Quinn
The Other Einstein by Marie Benedict
The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf by Mohja Kahf
The Radium Girls by Kate Moore
Return to Sender by Julia Alvarez (Southern Cayuga Community Read)
The Lilac Girls by Martha Hall Kelly
The Japanese Lover by Isabel Allende
My Name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Stout
Funny in Farsi by Firoozeh Dumas
South Pole Station by Ashley Shelby
2017
The Beautiful Mystery by Louise Penny
Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
The Little Red Chairs by Edna O’Brien
Commonwealth by Ann Patchett
Life in a Jar by Jack Mayer (Southern Cayuga Community Read)
Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance
A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Bockman
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
The Double Blind by Chris Bohjalian
Bound for the Promised Land by Kate Clifford Larson (Cayuga County Read)
I am Malala by Malala Yousafzai
2016
The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman
Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick
Help, Thanks, Wow by Anne Lamott
A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
The Astronaut Wives Club by Lily Koppel
The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown
Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward
Zeitoun by Dave Eggers
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
Plainsong by Kent Haruf
2015
Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline
A Mighty Long Way by Carlotta Walls Lanier
What She Left Behind by Ellen Marie Wiseman
The First of July by Elizabeth Speller
Making Toast by Roger Rosenblatt
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley
The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd
2014
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
The Painted Girls by Cathy Marie Buchanan
The Dove Keepers by Alice Hoffman
Native Son by Richard Wright
In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer by Irene Opdyke
The Social Animal by David Brooks
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
Ahab’s Wife by Sena Jeter Naslund
The Girls of Atomic City by Denise Kiernan
Necessary Lies by Diane Chamberlain
The Reason I Jump: The Inner Voice of a Thirteen Year Old Boy With Autism by Naoki Higashida
2013
My Name is Mary Sutter by Robin Oliveira
Painted Drum by Louise Erdrich
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
A Very Dangerous Woman: Martha Wright and Women’s Rights by Sherry H. Penney and James D. Livingston
Four Perfect Pebbles: A Holocaust Story By Marion Blumenthal Lazan
Homefront by Kristin Hannah
The Dirty Life: A Memoir of Farming, Food and Love By Kristin Kimball
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford
The Shoemaker’s Wife: A Novel by Adriana Trigiani
2012
Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott
Sarah’s Key by Tatiana de Rosnay
Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann
Still Alice by Lisa Genova
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Please Look After Mom by Kyung-Sook Shin
In the Company of Cheerful Ladies by Alexander McCall
Nothing Daunted: The Unexpected Education of Two Society Girls in the West by Dorothy Wickenden
Christmas Cookie Club by Ann Pearlman