The Book Chicks book club lists by year. We try for a classic (C), young adult (YA), non-fiction (NF), memoir (M), fun female fiction (FFF), biography or autobiography (B) (AB), and award winners each year, with the occasional true crime (TC), historical fiction (HF), psychological thriller (PT), and short stories (SS).

2023

  • The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper by H. Rubenhold (NF)
  • Americanah by Chimamanda Ngoni Adichie
  • The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by VF Schwab
  • Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby VanPelt
  • The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
  • Watership Down by Richard Adams (C)
  • Unlikely Animals by Annie Hartnett
  • Empty Mansions by Bill Deadman (NF)
  • French Braid by Anne Tyler
  • The Rabbit Hutch by Tess Gunty
  • Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
  • Firekeepers Daughter by Angeline Boulley(YA)

2022

  • The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See (HF)
  • How Beautiful We Were by Imbolo Mbue
  • Freckled by TW Neal (M)
  • Crossroads by Jonathan Franzen
  • Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno Garcia
  • 1984 by George Orwell (C)
  • The Book of Essie by Meghan MacLean
  • The Three Mothers by Anna Malakia Tubbs (B)
  • Apples Never Fall by Lianne Moriarity
  • My Name is Mary Sutter by Robin Olivera
  • Klara and the Sun by Kazou Ishiguro
  • Everything Sad is Untrue by Daniel Nayeri (YA)

2021

  • There, There by Tommy Orange
  • The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
  • All Adults Here by Emma Straub
  • I’m Telling the Truth, But I’m Lying by Bassey Ikpa (M)
  • Miracle Creek by Angie Kim
  • Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe (NF)
  • The Heart’s Invisible Furies by John Boyne
  • The Road Back to You by Suzanne Stabile (NF)
  • The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Sittenfield
  • The Death Of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi
  • The Rent Collector by Camron Wright
  • The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune

2020

  • The Friend by Sigrid Nunez
  • The Furious Hours by Casey Cep (NF)
  • You Think It, I’ll Say It by Curtis Sitenfeld (SS)
  • Disappearing Earth by Julia Phillips
  • Save Me the Plums by Ruth Reichl (M)
  • The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes (HF)
  • Catch 22 by Joseph Heller (C)
  • The Life and Death of the Great Lakes by Dan Egan (NF)
  • Daisy Jones and the Six by TJ Reid
  • The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Little by Edward Carey
  • The Fountains of Silence by Ruta Sepetys (YA)

2019

  • Goodbye, Vitamin by Rachel Khong
  • Educated by Tara Westover (M)
  • Sourdough by Ruth Sloan
  • A Place for Us by Fatima Farheen Mirza
  • I’ll Be Gone in the Dark by Michell McNamara (TC)
  • The Color Purple by Alice Walker (C)
  • The Trouble with Goats and Sheep by Joanna Cannon
  • The Good Neighbor: The Life and Work of Fred Rogers by Maxwell King (B)
  • Class Mom by Laurie Gelman (FFF)
  • The Second Mrs. Hockady by Susan Rivers
  • The Line Becomes a River by Francisco Cantu (NF)
  • Puddin’ by Julie Murphy (YA)

2018

  • Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie (C)
  • Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey
  • Evicted by Matthew Desmond (NF)
  • Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
  • The Nix by Nathan Hill
  • Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
  • Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
  • Prairie Fires: Laura Ingalls Wilder by Caroline Fraser (B)
  • Auntie Poldi and the Sicilian Lions by Mario Giordano (FFF)
  • Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann (TC)
  • Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jasmine Ward
  • The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas (YA)

2017

  • The Association of Small Bombs by Karan Mahajan
  • A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith (C)
  • I’m Judging You: The Do Better Manual by Lovee Ajayi (M)
  • The Nest by Cynthia Sweeney
  • Shoveling Smoke by Austin Davis
  • Heft by Liz Moore
  • The Wangs vs. the World by Jade Chang
  • Mahatma Gandhi: His Life and Ideas by Charles F. Andrew (B)
  • The Return by Hisham Matar
  • Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
  • The Girls by Emma Cline (TC)
  • The Thing About Jellyfish by Ali Benjamin (YA)

2016

  • The Book of Jonah by Joshua Max Feldman
  • The Fishermen by Chigozie Obioma
  • The Cleaner of Chartres by Sally Vickers
  • Tinkers by Paul Harding
  • A Single, Numberless Death by Nora Strejiledich
  • A Man Called Ove by Fredrick Backman
  • On the Road by Jack Kerouac (C)
  • Sisters in Law by Linda Hirshman (NF)
  • Funny Girl by Nick Hornby (FFF)
  • Doc by Mary Doria Russell (HF)
  • The Green Road by Anne Enright
  • Another Day by David Levithan (YA)

2015

  • A Land More Kind Than Home by Wiley Cash
  • The Light Between Oceans by MC Steadman
  • Quiet by Susan Cain (NF)
  • Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown (NF)
  • Tell the Wolves I’m Home by Carol Rifka Brunt
  • Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flannigan
  • The Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy (C)
  • The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Pierce by Jeff Hobbs (NF)
  • The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden by Jonas Jonasson (FFF)
  • Panic in a Suitcase by Yelena Akhtiorskaya
  • The Farm by Tom Rob Smith
  • We are Liars by e. lockhart (YA)

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2010

  • The Translator by Leila Aboulela
  • The Hour I First Believed by Wally Lamb
  • Population: 485 by Michael Perry
  • Gods in Alabama by Joshilyn Jackson
  • Still Alice by Lisa Genova
  • Rabbit, Run by John Updike (C)
  • The Last Lion : Winston Spencer Churchill by William Manchester (B)
  • Lipshitz 6 by T. Cooper
  • Blink by Malcom Gladwell (NF)
  • The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Steig Larsson (PT)
  • Enrique’s Journey by Sonia Nazario (NF)
  • The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins (YA)

2009

  • The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
  • Something Rising by Haven Kimmel
  • The Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan (NF)
  • Intuition by Allegra Goodman
  • The Twelve Little Cakes by Dominika Dery
  • Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin (B)
  • Shirley by Charlotte Bronte (C)
  • In the Memory of the Forest by Charles Powers
  • The Sex Lives of Cannibals by J. Maarten Troost (M)
  • The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Daz
  • The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski
  • Sold by Patricia McCormick (YA)

2008

  • The Dream Life of Sukhanov by Olga Grushin
  • Waiting for Snow in Havana by Carlos Eire (M)
  • The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon (HF)
  • The Next Thing on my List by Jill Smolinski (FFF)
  • Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
  • The Road by Cormac McCarthy
  • Atonement by Ian McEwan
  • No Greater Love by Mother Teresa (M)
  • The Scarlet Letter by Nathanial Hawthorne (C)
  • Free Food for Millionaires by Min Jin Lee
  • Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson
  • The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie (YA)

2007

  • The Family Tree by Carole Cadwalladr
  • The Dress Lodger by Sheri Hollman (HF)
  • The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls (M)
  • The Position by Meg Wolitzer
  • The Beekeeper’s Apprentice by Laurie King
  • Under the Banner of Heaven by John Krakauer (NF)
  • The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger (C)
  • Forever by Pete Hamill
  • The Memory Keeper’s Daughter by Kim Edwards
  • The Memory of Running by Ron McLarty
  • No Direction Home by Marisa Silver
  • Criss Cross by Lynne Rae Perkins (YA)

2006

  • Gilead by Marilynn Robinson
  • Blue Like Jazz by Donald Miller (M)
  • Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
  • The Singing Fire by Lillian Nattel
  • On Beauty by Zadie Smith
  • The Liar’s Club: A Memoir by Mary Karr (M)
  • The Feast of Love by Charles Baxter
  • The Bookseller of Kabul by Asne Selerstad
  • Robert Frost: a Life by Jay Parini (B)
  • The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (C)
  • The Last Girls by Lee Smith
  • Kira Kira by Cynthia Kadohata (YA)

2005

  • Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons by Lorna Landvik (FFF)
  • An Obedient Father by Akhil Sharma
  • Caramelo by Sandra Cisneros
  • The Kite Runners by Khaled Hosseini
  • Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (C)
  • Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi (M)
  • The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
  • The Center of Everything by Laura Moriarty
  • The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler
  • Obsessive Genius: the Inner World of Marie Curie by Barbara Goldsmith (B)
  • Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee
  • The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo (YA)

2004

  • The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
  • Godric by Frederick Beuchner
  • Flannery O’Connor: A Proper Scaring by Jill Pelaez Baumgeartner (B)
  • Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
  • The Dive from Clausen’s Pier by Ann Packer
  • Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively
  • Jayber Crow by Wendell Berry
  • The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck (C)
  • Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There by David Brooks (NF)
  • Life of Pi by Yann Martel
  • The DaVinci Code by Dan Brown
  • Crispin: The Cross of Lead by Avi

2003

  • Chilly Scenes of Winter by Ann Beattie
  • Peace Like a River by Leif enger
  • Empire Falls by Richard Russo
  • The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
  • Cod by Mark Kurlansky (NF)
  • Blindness by Jose Saramago
  • A Savage Beauty by Nancy Milford (B)
  • The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (C)
  • The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith (FFF)
  • The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
  • The Lovely Bones by Alice Siebolt
  • A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park (YA)

2002

  • Atticus by Ron Hanson
  • We Were the Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol Oates
  • The River Midnight by Lillian Nattel
  • The Industry of Souls by Martin Booth
  • Being Dead by Jim Crace
  • Before Women had Wings by C.M. Fowler
  • A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce (C)
  • A Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela (AB)
  • Last Days of Summer by Steve Kluger (FF)
  • Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevailer
  • Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey
  • A Year Down Yonder by Richard Peck (YA)

2001

  • Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat
  • Herzog by Saul Bellow
  • Plainsong by Kent Haruf
  • My Son’s Story by Nadine Gordimer
  • A Gesture Life by Chang Rae Lee
  • Four Letters of Love by Niall Williams
  • West With the Night by Beryl Markham (AB)
  • Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence (C)
  • God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater by Kurt Vonnegut
  • Comfort Woman by Nora Okja Keller
  • Corelli’s Mandolin by Louis DeBerniers
  • Holes by Louis Sachar (YA)

2000

  • Felicia’s Journey by William Trevor
  • To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf (C)
  • For the Time Being by Annie Dillard (M)
  • I Capture the Castle by Dottie Smith
  • River, Cross My Heart by Breena Clarke
  • The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
  • The Testament by John Grisham
  • Dust Tracks on a Road by Zora Neale Hurston (AB)
  • The Inn at Lake Devine by Elinor Lipman
  • Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger (C)
  • Emma by Jane Austin (C)
  • Missing May by Cynthia Rylant (YA)

1999

  • Beachcombing for a Shipwrecked God by Joe Coomer
  • The Woman Who Ran for President by Lois Underhill (B)
  • Silence by Shusaku Endo
  • The Brothers K by David James Duncan
  • Behind the Scenes at the Museum by Kate Atkinson
  • Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys (C)
  • The Gates of the Forest by Elie Wiesel
  • Eleanor Roosevelt by Blanche Wiesen Cook (B)
  • Welcome to the World, Baby Girl by Fannie Flagg (FFF)
  • The Unredeemed Captive by John Demos (HF)
  • The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kinsolver
  • To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (C)

1998

  • Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston (C)
  • The Group by Mary McCarthy
  • The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields
  • The Sweeter the Juice: A Family Memoir in Black and White by Shirlee Taylor Hazlip (M)
  • Angela’s Ashes: A Memoir by Frank McCourt (M)
  • The Bone People by Keri Hulme
  • Evelina by Fanny Burney (C)
  • Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life by Joan Hedrick
  • The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
  • One True Thing by Anna Quindlen
  • Moo by Jane Smiley
  • The View from Saturday by E.L. Konigsburg (YA)

1997

  • Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle
  • Heat and Dust by Ruth Prayer Jhabvala (HF)
  • The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
  • The Book of Ruth by Jane Hamilton
  • The Giver by Lois Lowry (YA)
  • This Present Darkness by Frank Peretti
  • Portrait of a Lady by Henry James (C)
  • The Soloist by Mark Salzman
  • Til We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis
  • Stones from the River by Ursula Hegl
  • The Rapture of Canaan by Sheri Reynolds
  • Mr. Ive’s Christmas by Oscar Hijuelos

1996

  • In the Lake of the Woods by Tim O’Brien
  • A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest Gaines
  • The Hundred Secret Senses by Amy Tan
  • Half Asleep in Frog’s Pajamas by Tom Robbins
  • Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner
  • I Been in Sorrow’s Kitchen & Licked Out All the Pots by Susan Straight
  • Death Comes to the Archbishop by Willa Cather (C)
  • Reviving Ophelia by Mary Pipher (NF)
  • How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accent by Julia Alverez
  • Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson
  • The Awakening by Kate Chopin (C)