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