HAWLEY BOOK CLUB

THE HAWLEY BOOK CLUB

The Hawley Book Club reads a diverse selection of fiction and nonfiction; all books are recommended by members and voted on by the group. Below you'll find the selections that were read in 2022and also the lists from recent years for your information. If you're interested in joining the club, please complete the form at the bottom of this page. A Hawley Book Club member will be in touch and provide you with additional information as soon as possible.

2022

January - When All is Said by Anne Griffin
February - Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
March - The Transit of Venus by Shirley Hazzard
April - Talking to Strangers by Malcolm Gladwell
May - The Dutch House by Anne Patchett
June - An Elegant Woman by Martha McPhee
July - The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Richardson
August - Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
September - One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
October - A Painted Bird by Jerzy Kosinski
November - The Girl Who Wrote in Silk by Kelli Estes
December - A Bird Will Soar by Alison Green Myers

2021

January - Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng
February - Go Tell it on the Mountain by James Baldwin
March - The Only Woman in the Room by Marie Benedict
April - The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
May - The Vanishing Half by Britney Bennett
June - The Mountains Sing by Nguyen Phan Que Mai
July - The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies and the Unlikely Heroine Who Outwitted America's Enemies by Jason Fagone
August - Rebel Cinderella: From Rags to Riches to Radical, the Epic Journey of Rose Pastor Stokes by Adam Hochschild
September - The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen
October - The Huntress by Kate Quinn
November - Trust Exercise by Susan Choi
December - How to be an American Housewife by Margaret Dilloway

2020

January - All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror - Steven Kinser
February - Song of Solomon - Toni Morrison
March - The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary - Simon Winchester
April - The Nickel Boys - Colson Whitehead
May - The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey - Candace Millard
June - Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong - James W. Loewen
July - She Made Me Laugh: My Friend Nora Ephron by Richard Cohen
August - Apeirogon Colum McCann
September - Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger
October - The Weight of Ink by Rachel Kadish
November - A Long Petal of the Sea by Isabel Allende
December - Something From the Oven: Reinventing Dinner in 1950s America by Laura Shapiro

2019

January - A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
February - Educated, A Memoir by Tara Westover
March - The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
April - Skeletons on the Zahara: A True Story of Survival by Dean King
May - Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression - and the Unexpected Solutions by Johann Hari
June - Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
July - Caught in the Crossfire by Jan Goodwin (The author will participate in the discussion)
August - Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
September - Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg by Irin Carmon and Shana Knizhnik
October - Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue
November - Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J. D. Vance
December - The Library Book by Susan Orlean