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Popular Fiction Book Club Retrospective
A list of titles discussed by the Popular Fiction Book Club.
The Popular Fiction Book Club was founded in 2016. Here are the books we've discussed in the past. If there's a missing month, that means that there was no book discussion. The links lead to the OCLN catalog.
2025
| Jan. | Reckless Girls by Rachel Hawkins |
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2024
| Jan. | Horse by Geraldine Brooks |
| Feb. | The Christie Affair by Nina de Gramont |
| Mar. | The Book Thief by Markus Zusak |
| Apr. | Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus |
| May | The Block Party by Jamie Day |
| Jun. | Beyond That, The Sea by Laura Spence-Ash |
| Jul. | Swamp Story by Dave Barry |
| Aug. | Bad Summer People by Emma Rosenblum |
| Sep. | Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano |
| Oct. | Daisy Jones & the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid |
| Nov. | The River We Remember by William Kent Krueger |
| Dec. | Murder Most Royal by SJ Bennett |
2023
| Jan. | Sparks Like Stars by Nadia Hashimi |
| Feb. | The Maid by Nita Prose |
| Mar. | The Giver of Stars by JoJo Moyes |
| Apr. | The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave |
| May | The Vanishing Half by Britt Bennett |
| Jun. | The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune |
| Jul. | The Kitchen Front by Jennifer Ryan |
| Aug. | Vacationland by Meg Mitchell Moore |
| Sep. | Bloomsbury Girls by Natalie Jenner |
| Nov. | Wrong Place, Wrong Time by Gillian McAllister |
| Dec. | Finding Dorothy by Elizabeth Letts |
2022
| Jan. | Rules of Civility by Amor Towles |
| Feb. | Miss Benson's Beetle by Rachel Joyce |
| Mar. | The Paris Library by Janice Skeslian Charles |
| Apr. | Where Are the Children? by Mary Higgins Clark |
| May | The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman |
| Jun. | American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins |
| Jul. | The Guncle by Steven Rowley |
| Sep. | We Are the Brennans by Tracey Lange |
| Oct. | The Last Dance of the Debutante by Julia Kelly |
| Nov. | The Heights by Louise Candlish |
| Dec. | Wishin' and Hopin' by Wally Lamb |
2021
| Jan. | Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid |
| Feb. | Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery |
| Mar. | Big Lies in a Small Town by Diane Chamberlain |
| Apr. | The Chaperone by Laura Moriarty |
| May | The Mother-in-Law by Sally Hepworth |
| Jun. | Light a Penny Candle by Maeve Bincy |
| Jul. | Big Summer by Jennifer Weiner |
| Aug. | Fast Girls: A Novel of the 1936 Women's Olympic Team by Elise Hooper |
| Sep. | Last Summer at the Golden Hotel by Elyssa Friedland |
| Oct. | The Night Swim by Megan Goldin |
| Nov. | The Nest by Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney |
| Dec. | Skipping Christmas by John Grisham |
2020
| Jan. | Elinor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman |
| Feb. | Little Women by Louisa May Alcott |
| Mar. | Never Have I Ever by Joshilyn Jackson |
| May | Saints for All Occasions by J. Courtney Sullivan |
| Jun. | Murder with Puffins by Donna Andrews |
| Jul. | Summer of '69 by Elin Hilderbrand |
| Aug. | The Huntress by Kate Quinn |
| Sep. | Ask Again, Yes by Mary Beth Keane |
| Oct. | Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens |
| Nov. | The Brutal Telling by Louise Penny |
| Dec. | The Gown by Jennifer Robson |
2019
| Jan. | Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan |
| Feb. | Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng |
| Mar. | A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles |
| Apr. | The Kennedy Debutante by Kerri Maher |
| May | What the Dead Know by Laura Lippman |
| Jun. | The High Season by Judy Blundell |
| Jul. | The High Tide Club by Mary Kay Andrews |
| Sep. | Next Year in Havana by Chanel Cleeton |
| Oct. | When the Men Were Gone by Marjorie Herrera Lewis |
| Nov. | This is Home by Lisa Duffy |
2018
| Jan. | Cocoa Beach by Beatriz Williams |
| Feb. | Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult |
| Apr. | Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie |
| May | The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows |
| Jun. | All the Missing Girls by Megan Miranda |
| Jul. | The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid |
| Sep. | The Orphans of Race Point by Patry Francis |
| Oct. | The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan |
| Nov. | Paris by the Book by Liam Callahan |
2017
| Jan. | Morning Glory by Sarah Jio |
| Feb. | Where'd You Go, Bernadette? by Maria Semple |
| Mar. | China Dolls by Lisa See |
| Apr. | The Boston Girl by Anita Diamant |
| May | Flight Patterns by Karen White |
| Jun. | My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante |
| Aug. | The Whistler by John Grisham |
| Sep. | The Perfect Neighbors by Sarah Pekkanen |
| Oct. | Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier |
| Nov. | Girl Waits with Gun by Amy Stewart |
2016
| Jul. | Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty |
| Aug. | A Fall of Marigolds by Susan Meissner |
| Oct. | Moonlight Mile by Dennis Lehane |
| Nov. | Flight of Dreams by Ariel Lawhon |
Prior to the formation of the Popular Fiction Book Club, the Library hosted 5 discussions of popular titles, both fiction and non-fiction. This group was the predecessor to the Popular Fiction Book Club and the titles discussed are listed below.
2014 - 2015
| Oct. | Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn |
| Nov. | Where'd You Go, Bernadette? by Maria Semple |
| Jan. | The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman |
| Feb. | A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith |
| Mar. | I am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World by Malala Yousafzai |