past Authors
2024-2025UPCOMING Alice McDermott - Absolution Safiya Sinclair – How to Say Babylon Angie Kim – Happiness Falls 2023-2024 Geraldine Brooks – Horse Anthony Marra – Mercury Pictures Presents Maggie O'Farrell – The Marriage Portrait 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 2021-2022Brit 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 2020-2021Lily 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 2019-2020Daniel 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 2018-2019Charmaine 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 2017-2018Kate 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 2016-2017Anthony 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 2015-2016Karen 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 2014-2015Meg Wolitzer – The Interestings Peter Heller – The Painter Melanie Benjamin – The Aviator’s Wife Laila Lalami – The Moor’s Account Scott Anderson – Lawrence in Arabia 2013-2014Mark 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 2012-2013Amor 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 2011-2012Jennet 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 2010-2011Paul Harding – Tinkers Paul Therous – A Dead Hand Billy Collins – Ballistics Alice Hoffman – The Red Garden Daniel Okrent – Last Call 2009-2010Nancy 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. |
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