Past BookLovers Selections

2018-2019
2017-2018
2016-2017
2015-2016
2014 - 2015
2013 - 2014
2012 - 2013

September 20, 2018
As is our custom, join us to share 2-3 of your favorite summer reads!

November 15, 2018
Hero of the Empire: The Boer War, a Daring Escape and the Making of Winston Churchill
by Candace Millard

October 18, 2018
Pacific: Silicon Chips and Surfboards, Coral Reefs and Atom Bombs, Brutal Dictators, Fading Empires, and the Coming Collision of the World’s Superpowers
by Simon Winchester

December 13, 2018
Wild Things: The Joy of Reading Children’s Literature As An Adult
Bruce Handy

January 17, 2019
The Four: the Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google
by Scott Galloway

February 21, 2019
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
by Matthew Desmond

March 21, 2019
Just Mercy: a Story of Justice and Redemption
by Bryan Stevenson

April 18, 2019
The Lost City of the Monkey God: a True Story
by Douglas Preston

May 16, 2019
The Art of Rivalry: Four Friendships, Betrayals, and Breakthroughs in Modern Art
by Sebastian Smee
September 20, 2018
As is our custom, join us to share 2-3 of your favorite summer reads!

October 19, 2017
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
J.D. Vance

November 16, 2017
The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival
John Vaillant

December 14, 2017
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
David Grann

January 18, 2018
The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World
His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu, with Douglas Carlton Abrams

February 15, 2018
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
Erik Larson

March 15, 2018
The Gene: An Intimate History
Siddhartha Mukherjee

April 19, 2018
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
Neil deGrasse Tyson

May 17, 2018
The Zookeeper’s Wife: A War Story
Diane Ackerman
September
Sharing of Summer Reads!

October 20
Death of an Empire: The Rise and Murderous Fall of Salem, America’s Richest City
Robert Booth

November 17
Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America
Ari Berman

December 15
George Washington’s Secret Six: The Spy Ring that Saved the American Revolution
Brian Kilmeade

January 19, 2017
History of the World in Six Glasses
Tom Standage

February 16
Eruption: The Untold Story of Mount St. Helens
Steve Olson

March 16
The Wright Brothers
David McCullough

April 20
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters at the End
Atul Gawande

May 18
So Close to Home: A True Story of an American Family’s Fight for Survival During World War II
Michael Tougias
September
Sharing of Summer Reads!

October 15
A Short History of Nearly Everything (2004)
Bill Bryson

November 12
A Clearing in the Distance: Frederick Law Olmsted adn America in the 19th Century (2000)
Witold Rybczynski

December 10
Undeniable: Evolution and the Science of Creation (2014)
Bill Nye

January 21, 2016
The Good City: Writers Explore 21st Century Boston (2004)
Emily Hiestand, editor

March 17
Trapped Under the Sea: One Engineering Marvel, Five Men and a Disaster Ten Miles into Darkness (2014)
Neil Swidey

February 18
Mayflower: A story of Courage, Community and War (2007)
Nathaniel Philbrick

April 21
E.B. White, a Biography (1984)
Scott Elledge

May 19
Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation (2013)
Michael Pollan
September 11, 2014
In September, participants share their own favorites with the group.

October 16, 2014
God’s Crucible: Islam and the Making of Europe, 570 to 1215 (2008)
by David Levering Lewis

November 13, 2014
One Summer, America, 1927 (2013)
by Bill Bryson

December 11, 2014
An Appetite for Wonder: the Making of a Scientist: A Memoir (2013)
by Richard Dawkins

January 8, 2015
Extra Virginity: the Sublime and Scandalous World of Olive Oil (2013)
by Tom Mueller

February 12, 2015
C.S. Lewis: a Life: Eccentric Genius, Reluctant Prophet (2013)
by Alister McGrath

March 19, 2015
The Sixth Extinction: an Unnatural History (2014)
by Elizabeth Kolbert

April 16, 2015
The Island at the Center of the World: the Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony that Shaped America (2004)
by Russell Shorto

May 14, 2015
The Paradise of All These Parts: A Natural History of Boston (2008)
by John Hanson Mitchell
September 12, 2013
In September, participants share their own favorites with the group.

October 17, 2013
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern (2011)
by Stephen Greenblatt

November 14, 2013
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption (2012)
by Laura Hillenbrand

December 12, 2013
Walt Whitman, A Life (2003)
by Justin Kaplan

January 9, 2014
The Big House: A Century in the Life of an American Summer Home (2003)
by George Howe Colt

February 6, 2014
My Beloved World (2013)
by Sonya Sotomayor

March 6, 2014
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscover America on the Appalachian Trail (1998)
by Bill Bryson

April 3, 2014
When America First Met China: An Exotic History of Tea,
Drugs, and Money in the Age of Sail(2012)
by Eric Jay Dolin

May 1, 2014
Margaret Fuller: A New American Life (2013)
by Megan Marshall
September 13, 2012

In September, participants share their own favorites with the group.

October 11, 2012
Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman
by Robert K. Massie

November 8, 2012
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
by Katherine Boo

December 13, 2012
The Billionaire’s Vinegar: The Mystery of the World’s Most Expensive Bottle of Wine
by Ben Wallace

January 10, 2013
The Mapmaker’s Wife: A Tale of True Love, Murder, and Survival in the Amazon
by Robert Whitaker

February 14, 2013

The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration
by Isabel Wilkerson

March 14, 2013
The Buried Book: The Loss and Rediscovery of the Great Epic of Gilgamesh
by David Damrosch

April 11, 2013
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
by Siddhartha Mukherjee

May 9, 2013
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror and an American Family in Hitler’s Berlin
by Erik Larson

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