midday book club archives
2023
America for Beginners by Leah Franqui
Just As I Am by Cicily Tyson
The Last Garden in England by Julia Kelly
The Violin Conspiracy by Brendan Slocumb
The Long Petal of the Sea by Isabel Allende
Iona Iverson’s Rules for Commuting by Clare Pooley
The Poet’s House by Jean Thompson
By Way of the Moonlight by Elizabeth Musser
The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray
The Last Chance Library by Freya Sampson
We Are Not Like Them by Christine Pride and Jo Piazza
Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata
2022
The Henna Artist by Alka Joshi
Caste by Isabel Wilkerson
The Reading List by Sara Nisha Adams
The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
The Beekeeper of Aleppo by Christy Lefteri
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
A Song Everlasting by Ha Jin
The Other Black Girl by Zakiya Dalila Harris
Circe by Madeline Miller
2021
Rules for Visiting by Jessica Kane
The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls by Anissa Gray
Natalie Tan's Book of Luck and Fortune by Roselle Lim
Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk by Kathleen Rooney
The Revisioners by Margaret Wilkerson Sexton
The Stationery Shop by Marjan Kamali
Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue
Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
Educated, a Memoir by Tara Westover
Wangs vs. the World by Jade Chang
The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper by Phaedra Patrick
2020
The Unlikely Adventures of the Shergill Sisters by Balli Kaur Baswal
Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
Inheriting Edith by Zoe Fishman
Mambo in Chinatown by Jean Kwok
Minding the Store by Julie Gaines, a “Midday at Milton Extra Read” during quarantine
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
The Mountains Sing by Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai
A Kind of Freedom by Margaret Wilkerson Sexton
Afterlife by Julia Alvarez
The Wisdom of Sally Red Shoes by Ruth Hogan
The Red Notebook by Antoine St. Laurain
Faces in the Crowd by Valeria Luiselli
The Street by Ann Petry
2019
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey by Walter Mosley
The Music Shop by Rachel Joyce
The Alice Network by Kate Quinn
The Art Forger by B. A. Shapiro
News of the World by Paulette Jiles
The Ninth Hour by Alice McDermott
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
The House of Broken Angels by Luis Alberto Urrea
Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
There, There by Tommy Orange
2018
Glory Over Everything by Kathleen Grissom
The Paris Wife by Paula McLain
Darktown by Thomas Mullen
The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
Behind Closed Doors by B. A. Paris
Boston Girl by Anita Diamant
Larose by Louise Erdrich
Another Brooklyn by Jacqueline Woodson
Lilac Girls by Martha Hall kelly
The Association of Small Bombs by Karan Mahajan
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles