The Southeast Steuben County Library Adult Book Club, the book club for adults at the library, launched in September 2019.

This page will be updated periodically to show the titles the book club has already read – just in case someone wishes to refer to this list or someone is looking for a good book to read!

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Past Book Club Reads:

Southeast Steuben County Library

Book Club for Adults Reading List History 

2019 – present

2019 

September 2019 (9.13.2019): Olive Kittridge by Elizabeth Strout

October 2019 (10.11.2019): Becoming by Michelle Obama

November 2019 (11.8.2019): The Beekeeper of Aleppo by Christy Lefteri

December 2019 (12.13.2019): The Overstory by Richard Powers

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2020 

January 2020 (1.10.2020): Fleishman Is in Trouble by Taffy Brodesser-Akner

February 2020 (2.14.2020): The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates

March 2020: No book club due to pandemic; the originally scheduled book club read for March 2020 (3.13.2020) was: Talking To Strangers by Malcolm Gladwell.

April 2020 (4.10.2020; Zoom): Another Brooklyn by Jacqueline Woodson

May 2020 (5.8.2021; Zoom): Inland by Teá Obreht

June 2020 (6.10.2020; Zoom): We Live in Water: Stories by Jess Walter

July 2020 (7.10.2020; Zoom): Where The Crawdad’s Sing by Delia Owens

August 2020 (8.13.2020; Zoom): The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes

September 2020 (9.11.2020; Zoom): Tenth Muse: A Novel by Catherine Chung

October 2020 (10.9.2020; Zoom): Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson

November 2020 (11.13.2020; Zoom): The Splendid and the Vile by Erik Larson

December 2020 (12.11.2020; Zoom): A Time for Mercy by John Grisham

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2021 

January 2021 (1.8.2021; Zoom): The Cold Millions by Jess Walter

February 2021 (2.12.2021; Zoom): One by One by Ruth Ware

March 2021(3.23.2021; Zoom): Homeland Elegies: A Novel by Ayad Akhtar

April 2021 (4.16.2021; Zoom): The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett

May 2021 (5.14.2021; Zoom): The Boy in the Field by Margot Livesey

June 2021 (6.11.2021; Zoom): Before The Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi

July 2021 (7.9.2021; Zoom): Searching For Sylvie Lee by Jean Kwok

August 2021 (8.13.2021; in person from this date on): The Keeper of Lost Things by Ruth Hogan

September 2021 (9.10.2021): Learning To Speak Southern by Lindsey Rogers Cook

October 2021 (10.08.2021): The Unkindness of Ravens: A Greer Hogan Mystery by M. E. Hilliard

November 2021 (11.12.2021): The Brilliant Abyss by Helen Scales

December 2021 (12.10.2021): Susan, Linda, Nina & Cokie: The Extraordinary Story of the Founding Mothers of NPR by Lisa Napoli

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2022 

January 2022 (1.14.2022): Klara And The Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro

February 2022 (2.11.2022): Let Me Tell You What I Mean by Joan Didion & Tuesday by David Weisner

March 2022 (3.11.2022): Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman

April 2022 (4.8.2022): Born A Crime by Trevor Noah

May 2022 (5.13.2022): The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner

June 2022 (6.10.2022): Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz

July 2022 & (7.8.2022): The Ballad of Laurel Springs by Janet Beard

August 2022 (8.12.2022):  A Slow Fire Burning by Paula Hawkins

September 2022 (9.9.2022):  Hell of a Book: A Novel by Jason Mott

October 2022 (10.14.2022):  Bewilderment by Richard Powers

November 2022 (11.11.2022): The Last Chance Library by Freya Sampson

December 2022 (12.9.2022):  Oh William!: A Novel by Elizabeth Stout

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2023 

January 2023 (1.13.2023): The Music of Bees by Eileen Garvin

February 2023 (2.10.2023): The Matrix by Lauren Groff

March 2023 (3.10.2023): The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict & Victoria Christopher Murray

April 2023 (4.14.2023): The Reading List by Sara Nisha Adams

May 2023 (5.12.2023): Fox Creek by William Kent Krueger

June 2023 (6.16. 2023): The Light We Carry by Michelle Obama

July 2023 (7.14.2023): Lessons In Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus

August 2023 (8.11.2023): Killers Of A Certain Age by Deanna Raybourn

September 2023 (9.8.2023) Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid

October 2023 (10.13.2023): The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams

November 2023 (11.10.2023): Mamme by Jessica George

December 2023 (12.8.2023): Recitatif: A Story by Toni Morrison

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2024 

January 2024 (1.12.2024): Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton

February 2024 (2.9.2024): Crook Manifesto by Colson Whitehead

March 2024 (3.8.2024): The Half Moon by Mary Beth Keane

April 2024 (4.12.2024): The Boston Girl by Anita Diamant

May 2024 (5.10.2024): The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride

June 2024 (6.7.2024): Let Us Descend by Jesmyn Ward

July 2024 (7.12.2024): The Amazing Gracie Adams by Fran Littlewood

August 2024 (8.9.2024): Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt

September 2024 (9.13.2024): Sandcastle Girls by Chris Bohjalian

October 2024 (10.11.2024): Mrs. Nash’s Ashes by Sarah Adler

November 2024 (11.8.2024): The Great Divide by Christina Henriquez

December 2024 (12.13.2024): Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice For Murderers

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2025  

 January 2025 (1.10.2025): Help Wanted by Adelle Waldman

February 2025 (2.14.25): The Women by Kristin Hannah

March (3.14.2025) Life After Power: Seven Presidents and Search for Purpose Beyond The White House by Jared Cohen (332 pages of text, plus notes/references)

April (4.11.2025) The Mighty Red: A Novel by Louise Erdrich (384 pages)

May (5.2.2025) Colored Television by Danzy Senna (288 pages)

June (6.13.2025) The Cemetery of Untold Stories by Julie Alverz

 July (7.11.2025) Tell Me Everything by Elizabeth Strout

August (8.8.2025) A First Time For Everything by Dan Santat

September (9.12.2025) The Midnight Library by Matthew Haig

October (9.10.2025) Tom Lake by Ann Patchett

November (11.14.2025) When Books Went to War: The Stories That Helped Us Win World War II by Molly Guptill Manning

December (12.12.2025): Small Things Like These by Clarie Keegan

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