2024

Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

Tom Lake by Ann Patchett

 Symphony of Secrets by Brendan Slocum

Wild by Cheryl Strayed

Midnight Library by Matt Haig 

Hell of a Book by Jason Mott

The Vaster Wilds by Lauren Groff

Trust by Herman Diaz 

The Wren, the Wren by Anne Enright

What Storm, What Thunder by Myriam J.A. Chancy

(Maryland One Book selection for 2024)

The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman

2023

Honey Girl by Morgan Rogers
The Library Book by Susan Orlean
Of Women and Salt: a novel  by Gabriela Garcia
Libertie: a novel by Imbolo Mbue
Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng

Book Lovers by Emily Henry

This Time Tomorrow by Emma Straub

I am these Truths by Sunny Hostin

The Things We Cannot Say by Kelly Rimmer

Lifelines : a doctor's journey in the fight for public health  by Leana Wen

2022

Circe by Madeline Miller

Ladies of the House by Lauren Edmondson

On Earth We're Briefly Georgeous by Ocean Vuong

Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson

Here for It: Or, How to Save Your Soul in America by R. Eric Thomas

Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid

The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo

The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead

The Sweetness of Water by Nathan Harris

Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi

The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates

What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker by Damon Young

The Failed Promise Reconstruction: Frederick Douglass and the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson  by: Robert S. Levine   

The Feather Thief : beauty, obsession, and the natural history heist of the century  by Kirk W. Johnson

2021

How to be an antiracist by Kendi, Ibram X

 The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel

The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah

 American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins

 White Bird (Graphic Novel) by R.J. Palacio

The Book of Delights: Essays by Ross Gay 

(Maryland One Book selection for 2021)

The Yellow House by Sara M. Broom

Caste by Isabel Wilkerson

2020

There there by Orange, Tommy

Dopesick : dealers, doctors, and the drug company that addicted America by Macy, Beth

Fruit of the drunken tree : a novel by Rojas Contreras, Ingrid

Parable of the Sower by Butler, Octavia E.

Less: a novel  by Greer, Andrew Sean

Another Brooklyn: a novel  by Woodson, Jacqueline

The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See

(Maryland One Book selection for 2020) 

An American marriage : a novel by Jones, Tayari

2019

The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware

Things that Matter by Charles Krauthammer

Sunburn by Laura Lippman

The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah

The First Congress by Fergus Bordeviche

The Secret History of Science Fiction by James Patrick Kelly

Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly

Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow

What the Eyes Don't See: A Story of Crisis, Resistance, and Hope in an American City by Mona Hanna-Attisha 

(Maryland One Book selection for 2019)

In the Darkroom by Susan Falu

2018

Where'd You Go Bernadette by Maria Semple

The Diplomat's Daughter by Karin Tanabe

My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

The Alice Network by Kane Quinn

The Night Circus by Erin Morganstern

Unraveling Oliver by Liz Nugent

Barkskins by Annie Priolx

Bloodsworth: The True Story of the First Death Row Inmate Exonerated by DNA by Tim Junkin

(Maryland One Book selection for 2018)

The Glass Castle: a memoir by Jeannette Walls

Lady Cop Makes Trouble by Amy Stewart