FOF Book Group

Books We’ve Read

  • ​A Constellation of Vital Phenomenon (5/2019)
  • A Separation (4/20)
  • Ahab’s Wife
  • The Alienist
  • The Alice Network
  • All the Light We Cannot See
  • All Over But the Shoutin’
  • All Too Human
  • The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
  • An American Marriage
  • Americanah
  • Amsterdam
  • And the Mountains Echoed
  • Angle of Repose
  • Anything is Possible
  • Arcadia
  • Astrid and Veronika
  • The Astronaut Wives Club
  • Asylum
  • Atticus
  • A Wild Idea (5/22)
  • The Awakening
  • Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup (1/20)
  • Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
  • Before and After
  • Behind the Beautiful Forevers
  • ​Being Mortal
  • Bel Canto
  • Beloved
  • Bettyville
  • The Bird Artist
  • The Birth of Venus
  • Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures
  • The Bonesetter’s Daughter
  • The Book of Ruth
  • The Book Thief
  • The Bookseller of Kabul
  • Born a Crime
  • Born Standing Up
  • The Boys in the Boat
  • Breakfast with Buddha 
  • The Brief and Wondrous Live of Oscar Wao
  • Brooklyn
  • The Burgess Boys
  • Caramelo
  • The Catcher in the Rye
  • The Cat’s Table
  • Cereus Blooms at Night
  • Charming Billy
  • Chocolat
  • ​Circling the Sun
  • ​City of Girls (10/19)
  • Comfort Me With Apples
  • Corelli’s Mandolin
  • Crime and Punishment
  • Crossing to Safety
  • The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time
  • Cutting for Stone
  • Daughter of Fortune
  • The DaVinci Code
  • The Dutch House (2/2020)
  • Days Without End
  • Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
  • Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight
  • Eddie’s Bastard
  • Educated
  • Eggs for Young America
  • The Elegance of the Hedgehog
  • Empire Falls
  • Empress Orchid
  • The Enchanted April 
  • The End of Your Life Book Club
  • The English Patient
  • Euphoria
  • Expecting Adam
  • Extra Virgin
  • Faith
  • Far From the Madding Crowd
  • ​Fates and Furies
  • The Fig Eater 
  • Finding Me – Viola Davis Memoir (9/22)
  • For the Relief of Unbearable Urges
  • FOXFIRE: Confessions of a Girl Gang
  • Frida: The Biography of Frida Kahlo
  • GI Brides
  • A Gentleman in Moscow
  • The Gift of Rain
  • Gilead
  • A Girl Called Vincent
  • The Girls in the Stilt House (5/22)
  • The God of Small Things
  • The Goldfinch
  • The Good Earth
  • The Giver of Stars (9/21)
  • The Grapes of Wrath
  • The Grass is Singing
  • The Great Gatsby
  • The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
  • The Handmaid’s Tale
  • Happenstance
  • Have No Shame
  • The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
  • The Heart’s Invisible Furies (5/20)
  • A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius 
  • ​Hillbilly Elegy
  • The History of Love
  • The Housekeeper and the Professor
  • How to Make an American Quilt
  • I Feel Bad About My Neck
  • I Was Amelia Earhart
  • The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
  • In the Darkroom
  • In the Garden of Beasts
  • In My Hands
  • In a Sunburned Country
  • The Inn at Lake Devine
  • Interpreter of Maladies
  • Invisible Man
  • Iron & Silk
  • Jazz
  • Keeping Faith
  • Killing Mr. Watson
  • The Kingmaker’s Daughter
  • The Kitchen Gods Wife
  • The Kitchen House
  • The Kite Runner
  • The Known World
  • Lacuna
  • Ladder of Years
  • ​Less
  • ​The Liar’s Wife
  • The Library Book
  • Life of Pi
  • The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid 
  • Light on Snow
  • Like Water for Chocolate
  • ​Little Fires Everywhere
  • Lolita
  • Looking for the Gulf Motel
  • Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake
  • Love
  • Loving Frank
  • Madam Bovary
  • The Madonnas of Leningrad
  • Maine
  • The Maltese Falcon
  • Manhattan Beach
  • Me, My Hair, and I: Twenty-seven Women Untangle an Obsession
  • Memoirs of a Geisha
  • The Memory Keeper’s Daughter
  • Middlesex
  • Midnight’s Children
  • Midwives
  • A Million Little Pieces     
  • The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint
  • Mister Pip
  • Montana 1948
  • Moo
  • Mothers of Invention
  • Mrs. Dalloway
  • Mud Season
  • My Antonia
  • My Beloved World
  • My Sister’s Keeper
  • The New Yorker, August 25, 2014
  • News of the World
  • Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
  • The Ninth Hour
  • The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency
  • No Easy Day
  • Old Filth
  • Olive Kitteridge
  • One Drop: My Father’s Hidden Life
  • One Hundred Years of Solitude
  • One Thousand White Women
  • Open Secrets
  • The Optimist’s Daughter 
  • Orange is the New Black
  • The Orphan Master’s Son
  • The Orphan Train
  • The Other Boleyn Girl
  • Out Stealing Horses
  • Pachinko
  • ​The Paris Wife 
  • Paula
  • Peel My Love Like an Onion
  • The Piano Teacher
  • A Piece of the World
  • Pigs in Heaven
  • The Pillars of the Earth
  • The Pilots Wife
  • Pope Joan
  • The Power and the Glory
  • The Power of One
  • Pride and Prejudice 
  • The Prince of Frogtown
  • The Professor and the Madman
  • Profiles in Courage
  • Provenance: how a con man and a forger rewrote the history of modern art
  • Quiet
  • Ragtime
  • Reading Lolita in Tehran
  • Rebecca
  • The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared
  • The Red Tent
  • The Refugees
  • The Rent Collector
  • River Town: Two Years on the Yangzte Runaway
  • The Road
  • The Road From Coorain
  • The Robber Bride
  • The Russian Concubine
  • Say Nothing (3/20)
  • The Sea Wolf
  • Selected Poetry
  • The Secret Life of Bees
  • The Shipping News
  • The Shoemaker’s Wife
  • The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace
  • A Simple Plan
  • Sister Carrie
  • The Sixteen Pleasures
  • Slaughterhouse-Five
  • Smillas Sense of Snow
  • Snow in August
  • Snow Falling on Cedars
  • Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
  • The Soloist
  • Someone
  • ​South and West
  • The Space Between Us
  • Special Topics in Calamity Physics (11/19)
  • The Spectacle Bird
  • A Spool of Blue Thread
  • State of Wonder
  • Still Alice
  • The Stone Diaries
  • Stones for Ibarra
  • Stones from the River
  • The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
  • Strapless
  • Suite Francaise
  • The Sun Also Rises
  • The Sunken Cathedral
  • The Sympathizer
  • Team of Rivals
  • The Personal Librarian (3/22)
  • The Tender Bar: A Memoir
  • The Masterpiece – Fiona Davis (1/22)
  • Tender at the Bone
  • Tess of the Durbervilles
  • Their Eyes Were Watching God
  • These Precious Days (4/22)
  • Those Who Save Us
  • A Thousand Splendid Suns
  • Three Junes
  • To Kill a Mockingbird
  • Too Much Happiness
  • The Tortilla Curtain  
  • The Translator
  • The Women of Sea Island (11/21)
  • A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
  • Twelve Bar Blues
  • Under the Banner of Heaven
  • ​The Underground Railroad
  • Upstream
  • Vampires in the Lemon Grove
  • Vanderbilt (October 2021)
  • The Velocity of Money
  • Very Old Bones
  • The Villa in Italy
  • A Visit from The Goon Squad
  • Waiting to Exhale
  • ​Warlight
  • Water for Elephants
  • The Weight of Heaven
  • West With the Night
  • What the Body Remembers
  • What We Keep
  • When the Emperor Was Divine
  • When I Was Puerto Rican
  • The White Tiger
  • Widow for One Year
  • Wild
  • Wild Swans
  • Women in Love
  • A Year by the Sea: Thoughts of an Unfinished Woman
  • ​You Know When the Men are Gone
  • Zeitoun