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.
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. | West with Giraffes by Lynda Rutledge |
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 |