Omega Book Club Reading List
The Omega Book Club meets one afternoon each month in members' homes. Members schedule the date/time/place. If you wish to join us, please contact Jerry Fletcher, [email protected], so she can tell you where the Book Club is meeting that month. Everyone is invited ... Omega members and non-members, educators and non-educators ...
2023
The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave (January)
These Precious Days by Ann Pachett (February)
Honor by Thrity Umigar (March)
Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson (April)
Radium Girls by Kate Moore (May)
Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Axe (June)
Saving Savannah by Path Callahan (July)
2022
When All Is Said and Done by Anne Griffin (February)
Anxious People by Fredrik Backman (March)
The Good Daughters by Joyce Maynard (April)
Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer (May)
Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu (June)
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah (July)
Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd (August)
A Woman of No Importance by Sonia Purnell (September)
The Other Madisons by Bettye Kearse (October)
The Personal Librarian by Marie Bennett (November)
2021
The Overstory by Richard Powers (January)
Have You Seen Luis Velez? by Catherine Ryan Hyde (February)
The Whispering Season by Ivan Doig (March)
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett (May)
59 Memory Lane by Celia Anderson (June)
The Doctors Blackwell… by Janice P. Nimura (July)
Why Did I Come into This Room?... by Joan Lunden (September)
Ernie’s War: The Best of Ernie Pyle’s World War II Dispatches
by David Nichols & Studs Terkel (November)
2020
Motherish by Laura Gaughan (January)
Finding Dorothy: A Novel by Elizabeth Letts (February)
Chances Are by Richard Russo (May)
The Library Book by Susan Orlean (June)
The American Story by David Rubenstein (July)
The Secret of the Old Clock by Carolyn Keene (August)
The Truths We Hold: An American Journey by Kamala Harris (September)
I'll Be Seeing You by S. Hayes & L. Nyhan (November)
2019
Forty Autumns: A Family's Story of Courage and Survival on Both Sides
of the Berlin Wall by Nina Willner (January)
The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah (February)
And After the Fire by Lauren Belfer (March)
Becoming by Michelle Obama (April)
Leadership in Turbulent Times by Doris Kearns Goodwin (May)
The Gauguin Connection by Estelle Ryan (June)
Strong Poison by Dorothy Sayer (July)
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens (September)
White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People To Talk About
Racism by Robin Di Angelo (November)
2018
The Lives They Left Behind: Suitcases from a State Hospital Attic
by Darby Penney & Peter Stastay (January)
My Life in France by Julia Child (February)
Wonder by R.J. Palacio (March)
The Blue Zone: 9 Lessons for Living Longer by Dan Beuttner (April)
When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi (May)
Breaking Night by Liz Murray (July)
Killers of the Flower Moon by Liz Murray(August)
Exit West by Moshin Hamid (September)
The Destiny of the Republic by Candace Millard (October)
Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" by Zora Hurston Neale (November)
2017
The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabelle Wilkerson (January)
The Dove Keepers by Alice Hoffman (February)
The Tin Ticket by Deborah J. Swiss (March)
Wish You Well by David Baldacci (April)
The White by Deborah Larsen (May)
The Two Old Women by Velma Wallis (June)
2016
The Hare With the Amber Eyes by Edmund De Waal
All Together In One Place by Jane Kirkpatrick at
No Eye Can See by Jane Kirkpatrick
What Once We Loved by Jane Kirkpatrick
Go Tell Watchman by Harper Lee
Sisters in Law.... by Linda Hirshman (about Ruth Baden Ginsberg and Sandra Day O’Connor)
Eaters Book 1 Origin by Corrie Brundage
The Scarlet Pimpernel by Emma Orczy
A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Blackman
The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin
Annie Freeman’s Traveling Funeral by Kris Radish
2015
Mary Coin by Marissa Silver
Too Close to the Falls by Catherine Gildiner
Time for the Firefly by Shona Patel
Stoner by John Williams
My Antonia by Willa Cather
Guttenberg’s Apprentice by Alix Christie
The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid by Bill Bryson
2014
Light Between the Oceans by M.L. Stedmanat
Journey by Robert and Susan Massie
Language of Flowers by Vanessa Differbaugh
Still Life by Louise Penny
Mr. Owita's Guide to Gardening by Carol Wall
The Orphan Train by Christine Baker Klein
The Bully Pulpit by Doris Kearns Goodwin
Life in a Jar by Jack Mayer
2013
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy.
The Inn at Rose Harbor by Debbie Macomber
The Day the World Came to Town by Jim Defede
The Orphan Master by Jean Zimmerman
Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin
These Is My Words by Nancy Turner
Nothing Daunted by Dorothy Wickenden
The Art Forger by B.A.Shapiro
The Uncommon Reader by Allen Bennett
2012
Caleb's Crossing by Geraldine Brooks
Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
State of Wonder by Ann Patchett
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloots
Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
Payment in Blood by Elizabeth George
Madonnas of Leningrad by Debra Dean
A Christmas in Wales by Dylan Thomas
The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave (January)
These Precious Days by Ann Pachett (February)
Honor by Thrity Umigar (March)
Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson (April)
Radium Girls by Kate Moore (May)
Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Axe (June)
Saving Savannah by Path Callahan (July)
2022
When All Is Said and Done by Anne Griffin (February)
Anxious People by Fredrik Backman (March)
The Good Daughters by Joyce Maynard (April)
Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer (May)
Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu (June)
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah (July)
Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd (August)
A Woman of No Importance by Sonia Purnell (September)
The Other Madisons by Bettye Kearse (October)
The Personal Librarian by Marie Bennett (November)
2021
The Overstory by Richard Powers (January)
Have You Seen Luis Velez? by Catherine Ryan Hyde (February)
The Whispering Season by Ivan Doig (March)
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett (May)
59 Memory Lane by Celia Anderson (June)
The Doctors Blackwell… by Janice P. Nimura (July)
Why Did I Come into This Room?... by Joan Lunden (September)
Ernie’s War: The Best of Ernie Pyle’s World War II Dispatches
by David Nichols & Studs Terkel (November)
2020
Motherish by Laura Gaughan (January)
Finding Dorothy: A Novel by Elizabeth Letts (February)
Chances Are by Richard Russo (May)
The Library Book by Susan Orlean (June)
The American Story by David Rubenstein (July)
The Secret of the Old Clock by Carolyn Keene (August)
The Truths We Hold: An American Journey by Kamala Harris (September)
I'll Be Seeing You by S. Hayes & L. Nyhan (November)
2019
Forty Autumns: A Family's Story of Courage and Survival on Both Sides
of the Berlin Wall by Nina Willner (January)
The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah (February)
And After the Fire by Lauren Belfer (March)
Becoming by Michelle Obama (April)
Leadership in Turbulent Times by Doris Kearns Goodwin (May)
The Gauguin Connection by Estelle Ryan (June)
Strong Poison by Dorothy Sayer (July)
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens (September)
White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People To Talk About
Racism by Robin Di Angelo (November)
2018
The Lives They Left Behind: Suitcases from a State Hospital Attic
by Darby Penney & Peter Stastay (January)
My Life in France by Julia Child (February)
Wonder by R.J. Palacio (March)
The Blue Zone: 9 Lessons for Living Longer by Dan Beuttner (April)
When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi (May)
Breaking Night by Liz Murray (July)
Killers of the Flower Moon by Liz Murray(August)
Exit West by Moshin Hamid (September)
The Destiny of the Republic by Candace Millard (October)
Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" by Zora Hurston Neale (November)
2017
The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabelle Wilkerson (January)
The Dove Keepers by Alice Hoffman (February)
The Tin Ticket by Deborah J. Swiss (March)
Wish You Well by David Baldacci (April)
The White by Deborah Larsen (May)
The Two Old Women by Velma Wallis (June)
2016
The Hare With the Amber Eyes by Edmund De Waal
All Together In One Place by Jane Kirkpatrick at
No Eye Can See by Jane Kirkpatrick
What Once We Loved by Jane Kirkpatrick
Go Tell Watchman by Harper Lee
Sisters in Law.... by Linda Hirshman (about Ruth Baden Ginsberg and Sandra Day O’Connor)
Eaters Book 1 Origin by Corrie Brundage
The Scarlet Pimpernel by Emma Orczy
A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Blackman
The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin
Annie Freeman’s Traveling Funeral by Kris Radish
2015
Mary Coin by Marissa Silver
Too Close to the Falls by Catherine Gildiner
Time for the Firefly by Shona Patel
Stoner by John Williams
My Antonia by Willa Cather
Guttenberg’s Apprentice by Alix Christie
The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid by Bill Bryson
2014
Light Between the Oceans by M.L. Stedmanat
Journey by Robert and Susan Massie
Language of Flowers by Vanessa Differbaugh
Still Life by Louise Penny
Mr. Owita's Guide to Gardening by Carol Wall
The Orphan Train by Christine Baker Klein
The Bully Pulpit by Doris Kearns Goodwin
Life in a Jar by Jack Mayer
2013
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy.
The Inn at Rose Harbor by Debbie Macomber
The Day the World Came to Town by Jim Defede
The Orphan Master by Jean Zimmerman
Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin
These Is My Words by Nancy Turner
Nothing Daunted by Dorothy Wickenden
The Art Forger by B.A.Shapiro
The Uncommon Reader by Allen Bennett
2012
Caleb's Crossing by Geraldine Brooks
Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
State of Wonder by Ann Patchett
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloots
Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
Payment in Blood by Elizabeth George
Madonnas of Leningrad by Debra Dean
A Christmas in Wales by Dylan Thomas
