2024-2025

Alice McDermott - Absolution 

UPCOMING

Safiya Sinclair – How to Say Babylon
Mona Susan Power – A Council of Dolls
Leah Redmond Chang – Young Queens: Three Renaissance Women and the Price of Power

Angie Kim – Happiness Falls 

2023-2024

Geraldine Brooks – Horse

Anthony Marra – Mercury Pictures Presents
TJ English – Dangerous Rhythms: Jazz and the Underworld
Hernan Diaz – Trust

Maggie O'Farrell – The Marriage Portrait

2022-2023

Maggie Shipstead – You Have a Friend in 10A & Great Circle

Ash Davidson – Damnation Spring

Diana Abu-Jaber – Fencing with the King

Katie Kitamura – Intimacies

Patrick Radden Keefe – Empire of Pain & Rogues

2021-2022

Brit Bennett – The Vanishing Half

Imbolo Mbue – How Beautiful We Were

Paulina Bren – The Barbizon

C. Pam Zhang – How Much of These Hills is Gold

Colum McCann – Apeirogon

2020-2021

Lily King – Writers & Lovers

Patrick Radden Keefe – Say Nothing

Esi Edugyan – Washington Black

Margaret Leslie Davis – The Lost Gutenberg

Lisa Wingate – The Book of Lost Friends

Richard Ford – Sorry for Your Trouble

2019-2020

Daniel Mason – The Winter Soldier

David Blight – Frederick Douglas: Prophet of Freedom

Delia Owens – Where the Crawdads Sing

Marie Benedict – Lady Clementine

Victoria Johnson – American Eden

2018-2019

Charmaine Craig – Miss Burma

Tayari Jones – An American Marriage

Susan Orlean – The Library Book

Madeline Miller – Circe

Willy Vlautin – Don’t Skip Out on Me

Evan Thomas – First: Sandra Day O’Connor: An Intimate Portrait of the First Woman Supreme Court Judge

2017-2018

Kate Moore – The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women

Tracy Kidder – A Truck Full of Money: One Man’s Quest to Recover from Great Success

Joshua Hammer – The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu: And Their Race to Save the World’s Most Precious Manuscripts

Ellen Umansky – The Fortunate Ones: A Novel

Ronald White – American Ulysses: A Life of Ulysses S. Grant

Victor Lodato - Edgar & Lucy

2016-2017

Anthony Marra – The Tsar of Love and Techno

Ann Goldstein translated for Elena Ferrante – Frantumaglia: A Writer’s Journey

Paula McClain – Circling the Sun

Douglas Waller – Disciples: The World War II Missions of the CIA Directors Who Fought for Wild Bill Donovan

Allison Pataki – Sisi: Empress on Her Own

Janice Nimura – Daughters of the Samurai: A Journey from East to West and Back

2015-2016

Karen Joy Fowler – We are All Completely Beside Ourselves

Eric Foner – Gateway to Freedom: Hidden History of the Underground Railroad

Greg O’Brien – On Pluto: Inside the Mind of Alzheimer’s

Aline Ohanesian – Orhan’s Inheritance

Dean Jobb - Empire of Deception: The Incredible Story of a Master Swindler

Elizabeth Berg – The Dream Lover

2014-2015

Meg Wolitzer – The Interestings

Peter Heller – The Painter

Melanie Benjamin – The Aviator’s Wife

Laila Lalami – The Moor’s Account

Scott Anderson – Lawrence in Arabia

2013-2014

Mark Helprin – In Sunlight and in Shadow

Colum McCann – The Transatlantic: A Novel

Sena Jeter Naslund – The Fountain of Saint James Court

Vaddey Ratner – In the Shadow of the Banyon

B.A. Shapiro – The Art Forger

2012-2013

Amor Towles – Rules of Civility

Tatjana Soli – The Forgetting Tree

Geraldine Brooks – Caleb’s Crossing

Robert Massie – Catherine the Great

Luis Alberto Urrea – Queen of America

2011-2012

Jennet Conant – A Covert Affair

Thrity Umrigar – The Space Between Us

Arthur Phillips – The Tragedy of Arthur

James Robertson – The Untold Civil War

Alexandra Fuller – Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness

2010-2011

Paul Harding – Tinkers

Paul Therous – A Dead Hand

Billy Collins – Ballistics

Alice Hoffman – The Red Garden

Daniel Okrent – Last Call

2009-2010

Nancy Horan – Loving Frank

Vince Flynn – Pursuit of Honor

Elizabeth Strout – Olive Kitteridge

Michael Gross – Rogues Gallery

Julia Glass – I See You Everywhere 

Pictured: Author Patrick Radden Keefe mingles with Literary Society members at a private event following his presentation on the book, Empire of Pain.