Trinity Book Group
Reading Lists
1993-Present
2020-2021
The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History by John M Barry
Between the world and me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
The Seven or Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna
The Splendid and the Vile by Eric Larson
The Beekeeper of Aleppo by Chrisy Lefteri
The Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson
2019-2020
Pastrix by Nadia Bolz-Webber
Half Earth by Edward O. Wilson
Half Broke Horses by Jeannette Walls
My Beloved World by Sonia Sotomayor
Circling the Sun by Paula McLain
The Judge Hunter by Christopher Buckley
Educated by Tara Westover
2018-2019
The Gustav Sonata by Rose Tremain
White Teeth by Zadie Smith
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain
The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
The Light Between Oceans by M. L. Stedman
2017-2018
Hillbilly Elegy by J D Vance
The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey
A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
Between You and Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen by Mary Norris
Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult
The Relic Master by Christopher Buckley
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
2016-2017
Mr Mac and Me by Esther Freud
A Violet Season by Kathy Czepiel
Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
The Light of the World by Elizabeth Alexander
Tourmaline by Derek Stroup
Our Souls at Night by Kent Haruf
The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace by Jeff Hobbs
200 Years on the Green by Neil Olsen
2015-2016
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
Journey from the Land of No by Roya Hakakian
The Daring Ladies of Lowell by Kate Alcott
10% Happier by Dan Harris
Dead Wake by Erik Larson
The Unknown Terrorist by Richard Flanagan
The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert
2014-2015
Mr. Churchill’s Secretary by Susan Elia Macneal
The Dove Keepers by Alice Hoffman
Gaudy Night by Dorothy L. Sayers
The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk-Kidd
Citizens of London by Lynne Olson
The Testament of Mary by Colm Toibin
Miss Buncle’s Book by D. D. Stevenson
2013-2014
The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
East is East by T.C. Boyle
The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh
Down the Santa Fé Trail and into Mexico by Susan Shelby Magoffin
Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver
The Beautiful Mystery by Louise Penny
2012-2013
Cleopatra by Stacey Schiff
The Gift of Asher Lev by Chaim Potok
Caleb’s Crossing by Geraldine Brooks
State of Wonder by Ann Patchett
The Twentieth Wife by Indu Sundaresan
Their Eyes were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
The Paris Wife by Paula McLain
2011-2012
The Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford
The Sea, The Sea by Iris Murdoch
When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1860 to the Present by Gail Collins
The Madonnas of Leningrad by Deborah Dean
The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway
Enough: Why the World’s Poorest Starve in an Age of Plenty by Roger Thurow and Scott Kilman
The Sunday Philosophy Club, by Alexander McCall Smith
2010-2011
A Game of Character by Craig Robinson
The Last Station by Jay Parini
The Piano Teacher by Janice Y K Lee
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
Thoreau Night, read one of his 3 books by Henry David Thoreau
2009-2010
Loving Frank by Nancy Horan
Christ the Lord, Out of Egypt by Anne Rice
Suite Francaise by Irene Némirovsky
Dreams from my Father by Barack Obama
Body and Soul by Frank Conroy
The Clothes on Their Backs by Linda Grant
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Schaffer and Annie Barrows
2008-2009
The Big Oyster by Mark Kurlansky
A Letter to America by David Boren
The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
Founding Brothers by Joseph J. Ellis
The Cossacks by Leo Tolstoy
Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
2007-2008
The Naturalist by Edward O. Wilson
The Memory Keeper’s Daughter by Kim Edwards
Miss Garnet’s Angel by Salley Vickers
A Year In the Life of William Shakespeare by James Shapiro
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
Speaking of Faith by Krista Tippett
A Judgement in Stone by Ruth Rendell
2006-2007
The Devil’s Highway by Luis Alberto Urrea
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Living Buddha, Living Christ by Thich Nhat Hanh
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin
Saturday by Ian McEwan
The Human Stain by Philip Roth
2005-2006
It Takes a Village by Hillary Clinton
The Reader by Bernhard Schlink,
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Leguin
The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis
The Spiral Staircase: My Climb Out of Darkness by Karen Armstrong
The Kite-Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy by Carlos Eire
A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute
2004-2005
Reading Lolita in Tehran, Azar Nafisi
The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver
The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency and Tears of the Giraffe, Alexander McCall Smith
Beyond Belief, Elaine Pagels
Out of Africa, Isak Dinesen
As I Sat on the Green, ed. Alice Mattison et al
The Secret Life of Bees, Sue Monk Kidd
2003-2004
The Piano on the Left Bank, Thad Carhart
The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror, Bernard Lewis
Life of Pi, Yann Martel
Bel Canto, Ann Patchett
Prague, Arthur Philip
The Golden Compass, Philip Pullman
Mutant Message Down Under, Marlo Morgan
2002-2003
Firehouse, David Halberstam
Jim the Boy, Tony Earley
Lying Awake, Mark Salzman
The Blind Assassin, Margaret Atwood
Death in Holy Orders, P. D. James
Seabiscuit, Laura Hillenbrand
Quartet in Autumn, Barbara Pym
2001-2002
Girl with a Pearl Earring, Tracy Chevalier
The Gifts of the Jews, Thomas Cahill
A Month in the Country, J. L. Carr
My Garden Book, Jamaica Kincaid
Disgrace, J. M. Coetzee
Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe
Plainsong, Kent Haruf
1999-2000
Dust Tracks on a Road, Zorqa Neale Hurston
Mendel’s Dwarf, Simon Mawer
Lambs of God, Marele Day
Spending, Mary Gordon
For the Time Being, Annie Dillard
Postcards, Annie Proux
Summer Reading 1993
The Optimist’s Daughter, Eudora Welty
Amongst Women, John McGahern
Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys
1982-1993
The Handmaids Tale, Margaret Attwood
The Remains of the Day, Kasuo Ishiguro
Fried Green Tomatoes, Fanny Flagg
Beloved, Toni Morrison
Father Melancholy’s Daughter, Gail Godwin
Other Women’s Children, Perri Klass
Beet Queen, Louise Erdrich
A Prayer for Owen Meaney, John Irving
Black Ice, Laureen Carey
Wartime Lies, Louise Begley
Housekeeping, Margaret Robinson
How the Garcia Girls Lost their accent, Julia Arvarez
The Road from Coorain, Jill Ker Conway
Their Eyes were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston
Two Lives, William Trevor
A Thousand Acres, Jane Smiley