Books Read to Date
2023
Girl Wash Your Face by Rachel Hollis
2022
One Mighty and Irresistible Tide by Jia Lynn Yang
The Shape of Water by Andrea Camilleri
Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
The Most Beautiful Woman in Florence by Alyssa Palombo
Empire of the Summer Moon by S. C. Gwynne
The Undomestic Goddess by Sophie Kinsella
Wish You Were Here by Jodi Picoult
Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman
The Persian Pickle Club by Sandra Dallas
The Wish by Nicholas Sparks
The Rose Code by Kate Quinn
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
2021
Midnight at the Blackbird Cafe by Heather Webber
Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker by Jennifer Chiaverini
The Endless Beach by Jenny Colgan
The Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter by Hazel Gaynor
The Promise of Dawn by Lauraine Snelling
The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson
Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng
Ayesha at Last by Uzma Jalaluddin
Whiskey When We're Dry by John Larison
The Other Einstein by Marie Benedict
The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes
The Alice Network by Kate Quinn
2020
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri
What the Wind Knows by Amy Harmon
Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate
The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware
I Am the Messenger by Markus Zusak
The Librarian of Auschwitz by Antonio Iturbe
Lilac Girls by Martha Hall Kelly
2019
In the Time of Butterflies by Julia Alvarez
The Girls of Atomic City by Denise Kieran
Wicked Omaha by Ryan Roenfeld
The Girl with Braided Hair by Margaret Coel
The Clairvoyant of Calle Ocho by Anjanette Delgado
The Little Paris Bookshop by Nina George
Uppity Women Speak Their Minds by Vicky Leon
Looking for Mr. Darcy by Sue Pickard
The German Girl by Armando Lucas Correa
The Bookshop on the Corner by Jenny Calgon
Evil Obsession: The Annie Cook Story by Nellie Snyder Yoot
The Children of Willesdan Lane: Beyond the Kingertranstport: A Memoir of Music, Love, and Survival by Mona Golacbk and Lee Cohen
2018
Lost in Shangri-la by Michael Zuckoff
Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee
Dispatches from Pluto: Lost and Found in the Mississippi Delta by Richard Grant
Behold the DREAMERS by Imbolo Mbue
Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson
In a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson
The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye by David Logercrantz
P.S. from Paris by Marc Levy
The Spirit Woman by Margaret Coel
The Swan Gondola by Timothy Schaffert
Hadji Murat by Leo Tolstoy
Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover
2017
The Golden Son by Shilipi Somaya Gowda
My Man Jeeves by P.G. Woodhouse
Trinity by Leon Uris
Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell
The Book of Speculation by Erika Swyler
The Bartender's Tale by Ivan Doig
Daughters of the Samurai: A Journey From East to West and Back by Janice P. Nimura
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver
March by Geraldine Brooks
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
2016
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Finding Rebecca by Eion Dempsey
Black Spring by Henry Miller
Bonjour tristesse by Franciose Sagan
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
The Midwife of Hope River by Patricia Harman
A Monstrous Regiment of Women by Laurie E. King
To Kill A Mocking Bird by Harper Lee
Call Me Zelda by Erica Robuck
Goodnight, Nebraska by Tom McNeal
2015
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Rosie Project by Graeme Simision
The House on Salt Hay Road by Carin Clevidence
Beach Week by Susan Coll
The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson
The Paperbark Shoe by Goldie Goldbloom
The Summer Without Men by Siri Hustvedt
Babette' Feast by Isak Danisen
The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin
Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
The Nazi Officer's Wife by Edith H. Beer
The Wednesday Group by Sylvia True
2014
The Book of Tomorrow by Cecelia Ahern
Ain't She Sweet by Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Stones from the River by Ursula Hegi
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford
The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane by Katherine Howe
These Is My Words by Nancy Turner
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
Five Quarters of the Orange by Joanne Harris
Love and Terror on the Howling Plains of Nowhere: A Memoir by Poe Ballentine and Cheryl Strayed
Babette's Feast and Other Stories by Isak Dinesen/Karen Blixen
Skins by Adrian C. Louis
2013
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
A Love Song for India: Tales from the East and West by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Riding the Bus with My Sister by Rachel Simon
The Tiger's Wife by Tea Obreht
The Weird Sisters by Eleanor Brown
My Nebraska: The Good, the Bad, and the Husker by Roger Welsch
O! Pioneersby Willa Cather (the 2013 "One Nebraska" book selection)
Dalva by Jim Harrison
The Forgotten Gardenby Kate Morton
Wishin' and Hopin' by Wally Lamb
The Road Less Traveled by M. Scott Peck
2012
The Devil in the White City, by Erik Larson
Snow Flower and The Secret Fan by Lisa See
Thinking in Pictures and Other Reports from My Life with Autism by Temple Grandin
The Sugar Queen, by Sarah Addison Allen
Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
My Stroke of Insight by Jill Bolte Taylor
I Am A Man by Joe Starita
The Paris Wife, by Paula McLain
Warhorse, by Michael Morpurgo
In the Garden of the Beasts by Eric Larson
Bossypants by Tina Fey
Heart Earth by Ivan Doig
2011
Half Broke Horses by Jeanette Walls
Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
The Home Place by Wright Morris (2010 One Book One Nebraska)
Local Wonders: Seasons in the Bohemian Alps, by Ted Kooser (2011 One Book One Nebraska)
The Heart of Horses by Molly Gloss
The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
Once Upon A Town: The Miracle of the North Platte Canteen by Bob Greene
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards
A Redbird Christmas, by Fannie Flagg
2010
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
Atonement by Ian McEwan
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski
Silk by Alessandro Baricco
A Lantern in Her Hand by Bess Streeter Aldrich
Frenchman's Creek by Daphne DuMaurier
The Beekeeper's Apprentice by Laurie King
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
Island Beneath The Sea by Isabel Allende
God Clobbers Us All by Poe Ballantine
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
The Life of Pi by Yann Martel
2009
Scarlet Feather by Maeve Binchy
Plains Song: For Female Voices by Wright Morris
One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd by Jim Fergus
The Painted Drum by Louise Erdrich
The Shipping News by Annie Proulx
Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
Cry, The Beloved Country by Alan Paxton
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, by Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows
Reading Lolita in Tehran, by Azar Nafisi
Chocolat, by Joanne Harris
The Shack, by William P. Young
The Friday Night Knitting Club, by Kate Jacobs
2008
Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons by Lorna Ladvick
My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult
The Alchemist's Daughter by Katharine McMahon
The Weight of Water by Anita Shreve
The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls
Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt
Old Jules by Mari Sandoz
No, I Don't Want to Join a Book Club: Diary of a Sixieth Year by Virginia Ironside
The Master Butchers Singing Club by Louise Erdrich
Empire Falls by Richard Russo
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadman
2007
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
The Mermaid Chair by Sue Monk Kidd
The Falls by Joyce Carol Oates
The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver
Crazy Horse: The Strange Man of the Oglalas by Mari Sandoz
The Pilot's Wife by Anita Shreve
Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah by Richard Bach
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Garbiel Garcia Marquez
The Full Cupboard of Life by Alexander McCall Smith
The Bleachers by John Grisham
For One More Day by Mitch Albom |