Books we've read in book club: Contemporary fiction

CONTEMPORARY FICTION

• Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  Pub. 2013 | Read January 2015
  

• Anxious People by Fredrik Backman
  Pub. 2019 | Read May 2021
  

• Beartown by Fredrik Backman
  Pub. 2016 | Read July 2018
  

• Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata
  Japanese lit. | Pub. 2016 | Read March 2021
  

• Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner
  Pub. 1987 | Read March 2015
  

• Dear Edward by Ann Napolitano
  Pub. 2020 | Read April 2025
  

• Fight Night by Miriam Toews
  Pub. 2021 | Read November 2022
  

• Groundskeeping by Lee Cole
  Pub. 2022 | Read November 2023
  

• The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
  Pub. 1984 | Read May 2018

• If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things by Jon McGregor
  Pub. 2002 | Read July 2020
  

• The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  Pub. 2011 | Read July 2021
  

• The Moviegoer by Walker Percy
  Pub. 1961 | Read November 2015
  

• Landline by Rainbow Rowell
  Pub. 2014 | Read December 2015
  

• Me Before You by Jojo Moyes
  Pub. 2012
  

• The Painter by Peter Heller
  Pub. 2014 | November 2014 (1st book, meeting at Sheree’s)
  

• Paris in the Present Tense by Mark Helprin
  Pub. 2017 | Read April 2021
  

• A Place for Us by Fatima Farheen Mirza
  Pub. 2018
  

• Portrait of a Thief by Grace D. Li
  Pub. 2022 | Read September 2022
  

• The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin
  Pub. 2014
  

• Talking at Night by Claire Daverley
  Pub. 2023 | Read June 2024
  

• This Is How It Always Is by Laurie Frankel
  Pub. 2017
  

• Wellness by Nathan Hill
  Pub. 2023 | Read May 2024
  

• Wise Blood by Flannery O’Connor
  Pub. 1952 | Read 2023
  

• A Woman Is No Man by Etaf Rum
  Pub. 2019 | Read August 2021
  

• Wonder by R.J. Palacio
  Middle grade | Pub. 2012 | Read 2017?
  

• Zorrie by Laird Hunt
  Pub. 2021 | Read September 2024