Past Book Selections (in chronological order)

  1. Moonwalking With Einstein – Joshua Foer
  2. Cutting For Stone – Abraham Verghese
  3. Everything Is Illuminated – Jonathan Foer
  4. Devil In The White City – Eric Larson
  5. Professor And The Madman- Simon Winchester
  6. Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe
  7. Unbroken – Erin Hillenbrand
  8. Social Animal – David Brooks
  9. Small Island – Andrea Levy
  10. Founding Brothers – Joseph J. Ellis
  11. Cellist Of Sarajevo – Steven Galloway
  12. The President’s Club – Nancy Gibbs
  13. The Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver
  14. Justice – Michael Sandel
  15. The Submission – Amy Waldman
  16. American Nation – Colin Woodard
  17. Curious Incident Of The Dog in The Nighttime – Mark Haddon
  18. Founding Mothers- Cokie Roberts
  19. Songs Of Three Islands- Millicent Monks
  20. The Alchemist – Paolo Coelho
  21. How To Be Good – Nick Hornby
  22. Portrait of a Killer – Patricia Cornwell
  23. Checklist Manifesto – Atul Gawande
  24. Team Of Rivals –Doris Kearns Goodwin
  25. Look At The Birdie – Kurt Vonnegut
  26. Walk In The Woods – Bill Bryson
  27. Social Animal – David Brooks
  28. Burgess Boys – Elizabeth Strout
  29. The Boys in the Boat – Daniel Brown
  30. Atonement – Ian McEwan
  31. To Serve Them All My Days – Ronald Frederick Delderfield
  32. The Stranger – Albert Camus
  33. Mockingbird – Charles Shields
  34. Conversations w/ Myself – Nelson Mandela
  35. Swerve: How The World Became Modern – Stephen Greenblatt
  36. Long Way Home – Louise Penny
  37. Transatlantic – Colum McCann
  38. Notorious Benedict Arnold – Steve Sheinkin
  39. Unpaved Surfaces – Joe Souza visit (SoPo)
  40. Autumn Imago – Bryan Wiggins
  41. d Lit Only By Fire – William Manchester
  42. Rosie Project – Graeme Simsion
  43. No Ordinary Time – Doris Kearns Goodwin
  44. The Martian – Andy Weir
  45. The Confederacy Of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
  46. Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson
  47. Will In The World – Stephen Greenblatt
  48. Shakespeare: The World As Stage – Bill Bryson
  49. All The Light We Cannot See – Anthony Doerr
  50. Best American Short Stories 2007 – Stephen King (editor)
  51. Truman – David McCullough
  52. Dead Wake – Erik Larson
  53. Train Dreams – Denis Johnson
  54. Over The Edge Of The World – Laurence Bergreen
  55. Remains Of The Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
  56. Sailing The Wine Dark Sea – Tom Cahill
  57. Lost City Of Z – David Grann
  58. Man Called Ove – Fredrik Backman
  59. The Oregon Trail: A New American Journey – Rinker Buck
  60. Underground Railroad – Colson Whitehead
  61. Undoing Project – Michael Lewis
  62. Alienist – Caleb Carr
  63. Brooklyn – Colm Toibin
  64. 1776 – David McCullough
  65. Hidden Figures – Margot Lee Shetterley
  66. Astrophysics For People In A Hurry – Neil deGrasse Tyson
  67. History of Cape Elizabeth – William B. Jordan Jr
  68. Women In The Castle – Jessica Shattuck
  69. Stars Are Fire – Anita Shreve
  70. Good Man With A Dog – Roger Guay
  71. Stranger In The Woods – Michael Finkel
  72. Immortalists – Chloe Benjamin
  73. Leonardo Da Vinci – Walter Isaacson
  74. March: book 1 – John Lewis
  75. Manhattan Beach – Jennifer Egan
  76. Benjamin Franklin -Walter Isaacson
  77. Great Railway Bazaar by Paul Theroux
  78. Soul of America – Jon Meacham
  79. Legacy of Spies – John LeCarre
  80. Go Tell It On The Mountain – James Baldwin
  81. Mother Tongue – Bill Bryson
  82. Dear America – Jose A. Vargas
  83. Essex Serpent – Sarah Perry
  84. Becoming Teddy Roosevelt – Andrew Veitz
  85. Among The Shadows – Bruce R. Coffin
  86. Killers Of The Flower Moon – David Grann
  87. Enjoying Maine – Bill Caldwell
  88. Where Crawdads Sing – Delia Owens
  89. Leadership Turbulent Times – Doris K. Goodwin 
  90. Woman of No Importance – Sonia Purnell
  91. Pride & Prejudice – Jane Austen
  92. Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
  93. Walden – Henry D. Thoreau
  94. Cutting for Stone – Abraham Verghese (a reprise)
  95. Beekeeper of Aleppo – Christi Lefteri
  96. Poacher’s Son – Paul Doiron
  97. Talking To Strangers – Malcolm Gladwell
  98. Into Africa – Martin Dugard
  99. Three Hours In Paris – Cara Black
  100. Welsh Girl – Peter Ho Davies
  101. City Of Falling Angels – John Berendt
  102. The Splendid and the Vile – Erik Larsen
  103. We Took to the Woods – Louise Dickinson Rich
  104. Eleanor – David Michaelis
  105. Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents – Isabel Wilkerson
  106. The Sense of an Ending – Julian Barnes
  107. The Things They Carried – Tim O’Brien
  108. Tinkers – Paul Harding
  109. It Happened in Maine – Gail Parker
  110. The Red House – Mark Haddon
  111. Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk – David Sedaris
  112. The Reason I Jump – Naoki Higashida
  113. Even The Stars Look Lonesome – Maya Angelou
  114. Chickens, Gin, and a Maine Friendship – E.B. White and Edmund Ware Smith
  115. To Katahdin: the 1876 Adventures of Four Young Men and a Boat – George T. Sewall
  116. Carry On: Reflections for a New Generation by John Lewis with Kabir Sehgal
  117. If You Ask Me (And Of Course You Won’t) by Betty White
  118. And Every Morning The Way Home Gets Longer And Longer by Frederick Backman
  119. Hamnet: A Novel Of The Plague by Maggie O’Farrell
  120. Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion by Gregory Boyle
  121. A Man Without A Country by Kurt Vonnegut
  122. The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa
  123. Breakfast with Buddha by Roland Merullo
  124. Learning to Talk by Hilary Mantel
  125. The Mother Tongue: English & How It Got That Way by Bill Bryson
  126. Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  127. Nomadland by Jessica Bruder
  128. Visual Thinking: The Hidden Gifts Of People Who Think In Pictures, Patterns, And Abstractions by Temple Grandin
  129. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
  130. Down the Road a Piece: A Storyteller’s Guide to Maine by John McDonald
  131. Foster by Claire Keegan
  132. Rough Magic: Riding The World’s Loneliest Horse Race by Lara Prior-Palmer
  133. The Measure of a Man by Sidney Poitier
  134. The Antelope Wife by Louise Erdrich