BHPL offers several book groups for adults: “Books Speak Volumes”, the Morning Book Group, the Evening Book Group, Spicy Book Club (+18), and the Mayor’s Wellness Book Group. Scroll down for more information about each book group. There is also the Joy of Cookbooking Club, which usually meets the third Monday of the month at 6:30 pm – see the monthly event calendar for the current cooking topic.
Check the event calendar for the exact date, time and meeting location.
“Books Speak Volumes” Book Group
The Books Speak Volumes group usually meets the third Thursday of each month at 7:00 pm. Check the list of previous Books Speak Volumes reading selections below.
The next meeting is on Thursday, October 22 at 7:00 pm to discuss Churchill and Orwell: the fight for freedom by Thomas E. Ricks.
Some print copies are available for checkout at the library. The eBook and audiobook may be available on Libby.
If you have any questions about the Books Speak Volumes book group, please email referencedept@bhplnj.org.
2026
- Stolen Pride: loss, shame, and the rise of the Right by Arlie Russell Hochschild
- The Wide, Wide Sea by Hampton Sides
- Vanderbilt: the rise and fall of an American dynasty by Anderson Cooper
- When McKinsey Comes to Town: the hidden influence of the world’s most powerful consulting firm by Walt Bogdanich
- History Matters by David McCullough
- Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams
- Team of Rivals: the political genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin
- Out of Order: stories from the history of the Supreme Court by Sandra Day O’Connor
- Churchill and Orwell: the fight for freedom by Thomas E. Ricks
2025
- The Demon of Unrest: a saga of hubris, heartbreak, and heroism at the dawn of the Civil War by Erik Larson
- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: an inquiry into values by Robert Pirsig
- The Vapors: a Southern family, the New York mob, and the rise and fall of Hot Springs, America’s forgotten capital of vice by David Hill
- And Justice for All: an oral history of the Japanese American detention camps by John Tateishi
- A Pilgrimage to Eternity: from Canterbury to Rome in search of a faith by Timothy Egan
- The Sisterhood: the secret history of women at the CIA by Liza Mundy
- Italian Neighbors, or, A Lapsed Anglo-Saxon in Verona by Tim Parks
- Mornings on Horseback: the story of an extraordinary family, a vanished way of life and the unique child who became Theodore Roosevelt by David McCullough
- Age of Revolutions: progress and backlash from 1600 to the present by Fareed Zakaria
- Love & Whiskey: the remarkable true story of Jack Daniel, his master distiller Nearest Green and the improbable rise of Unclle Nearest by Fawn Weaver
- Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the rise and fall of the Comanches, the most powerful Indian tribe in American history by Samuel C. Gwynne
2024
- The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit: a Jewish family’s exodus from Old Cairo to the New World by Lucette Lagnado
- Say Nothing: a true story of murder and memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe
- The Wager: a tale of shipwreck, mutiny and murder by David Grann
- Midnight in Chernobyl: the untold story of the world’s greatest nuclear disaster by Adam Higginbotham
- Road to Surrender: three men and the countdown to the end of World War II by Evan Thomas
- Killers of the Flower Moon: the Osage murders and the birth of the FBI by David Grann
- The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown
- Muppets in Moscow: the unexpected crazy true story of making Sesame Street in Russia by Natasha Rogoff
- Isaac’s Storm: a man, a time, and the deadliest hurricane in history by Erik Larson
- A Fever in the Heartland: the Ku Klux Klan’s plot to take over America, and the woman who stopped them by Timothy Egan
- Hero of the Empire: the Boer War, a daring escape, and the making of Winston Churchill by Candice Millard
- The Chancellor: the remarkable odyssey of Angela Merkel by Kati Marton
2023
- The Nickel Boys: a novel by Colson Whitehead
- Harry Truman’s Excellent Adventure by Matthew Algeo
Friday Morning Book Group
The Morning book group usually meets the first Friday of each month at 10:30 am. Check the list of previous Morning book group reading selections below.
The next meeting is on Friday, October 2 at 10:30 am to discuss How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia Alvarez. Some print copies are available for checkout at the library. The eBook and audiobook are available on hoopla and the eBook may be available on Libby.
If you have any questions about the Morning book group, please contact the Reference Department in person, by phone (908) 608-8603 x3, or email referencedept@bhplnj.org.
2026
- The Book Club for Troublesome Women by Marie Bostwick
- By Her Own Design by Piper Huguley
- TransAtlantic: a novel by Colum McCann
- The Moonshiner’s Daughter by Donna Everhart
- Blink: the power of thinking without thinking by Malcolm Gladwell
- I, Eliza Hamilton by Susan Holloway Scott
- Three Days in June by Anne Tyler
- Labor Day: a novel by Joyce Maynard
- How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia Alvarez
2025
- The Library of Lost and Found by Phaedra Patrick
- If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin
- Lady Tan’s Circle of Women by Lisa See
- Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell
- Tom Lake by Ann Patchett
- The Art Thief: a true story of love, crime, and a dangerous obsession by Michael Finkel
- The Vibrant Years by Sonali Dev
- The Paris Bookseller by Kerri Maher
- The Wind Knows My Name by Isabel Allende
- The Firekeeper’s Daughter by Angeline Boulley
- The Jane Austen Society by Natalie Jenner
2024
- The Lions of Fifth Avenue by Fiona Davis
- The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray
- Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
- Honor: a novel by Thrity Umrigar
- Changing Planes by Ursula Le Guin
- Nothing Ventured by Jeffrey Archer
- Life on the Mississippi: an epic American adventure by Rinker Buck
- The Paris Daughter by Kristin Harmel
- Have You Seen Luis Velez by Catherine Ryan Hyde
- The Painted Drum by Louise Erdrich
- Small World by Laura Zigman
2023
- The Reading List: a novel by Sara Nisha Adams
- The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah
- Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
- The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
- Circe by Madeline Miller
- The Stationery Shop by Marjan Kamali
- Hello, Sunshine by Laura Dave
- The Only Woman in the Room by Marie Benedict
- The Doctors Blackwell by Janice P. Nimura
- This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger
- Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
2022
- The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin
- Perestroika in Paris by Jane Smiley
- The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
- Catch and Kill: lies, spies, and a conspiracy to protect predators by Ronan Farrow
- A Woman Is No Man by Etaf Rum
- A Long Petal of the Sea by Isabel Allende
- Grayson by Lynne Cox
- The Flight Attendant by Chris Bohjalian
- The Wife: a novel by Meg Wolitzer
- The Tale Teller by Anne Hillerman
- Lab Girl by Hope Jahren
- The Walnut Tree by Charles Todd
2021
- Dinner with Edward by Isabel Vincent
- The Queen’s Gambit by Walter Tevis
- Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart
- The Engineer’s Wife by Tracey Enerson Wood
- The Tenth Muse by Catherine Chung
- Libertie by Kaitlyn Greenidge
- Nomadland by Jessica Bruder
- Afterlife by Julia Alvarez
- Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the quest for a fantastic future by Ashlee Vance
- Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
- The Last Romantics: a novel by Tara Conklin
- The Nickel Boys: a novel by Colson Whitehead
2020
- A Dog Called Jack by Ivy Pembroke
- Becoming by Michelle Obama
- Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
- Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
- The Gown: a novel of the Royal Wedding by Jennifer Robson
- Celestial Bodies by Jokha Alharthi
- The Darwin Affair by Tim Mason
- The Mountains Sing by Phan Que Mai Nguyen
- The Bear by Andrew Krivak
- Notorious RBG: the life and times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg by Irin Carmon & Shana Knizhnik
- An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
2019
- Chilbury Ladies’ Choir by Jennifer Ryan
- The Keeper of Lost Things by Ruth Hogan
- The Good House by Ann Leary
- Vinegar Girl: the taming of the shrew retold by Anne Tyler
- News of the World by Paulette Jiles
- Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
- Radium Girls by Kate Moore
- The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane by Lisa See
- Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
- The Masterpiece by Fiona Davis
- Beartown by Fredrik Backman
2018
- The Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
- Little Mercies by Heather Gudenkauf
- The Women in the Castle by Jessica Shattuck
- Eight Hundred Grapes by Laura Dave
- Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk by Kathleen Rooney
- The Lost City of Z by David Grann
- Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz
- Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue
- A Partial History of Lost Causes by Jennifer duBois
2017
- Everyone Brave is Forgiven by Chris Cleave
- The Circle by Dave Eggers
- The Ghost Map by Steven Johnson
- Mothering Sunday by Graham Swift
- Guests on Earth by Lee Smith
- Siracusa by Delia Ephron
- Sweet Tooth by Ian McEwan
- The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey
- Ratlines by Stuart Neville
- The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton
2016
- Vanessa and Her Sister by Priya Parmar
- The Nightingale by Kristen Hannah
- Amsterdam by Ian McEwan
- H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald
- A Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Marra
- Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee
- A Fall of Marigolds by Susan Meissner
- Yellow Crocus by Laila Ibrahim
- The Muralist by Barbara A. Shapiro
- Dead Wake by Erik Larson
- The Bullet by Mary Louise Kelly
2015
- What is Visible by Kimberly Elkins
- Secret Daughter by S.S. Gowda
- Sisters of Cain by M.G. Monfredo
- What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty
- A Man Called Ove by F. Backman
- The Narrow Road to the Deep North by R. Flanagan
- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
- The Magician’s Assistant by Ann Patchett
- The Wives of Los Alamos by TaraShea Nesbit
- The Art Forger by B.A. Shapiro
- The Dream Lover by Elizabeth Berg
2014
- The Paris Wife by Paula McLain
- Girl in Translation by Jean Kwok
- Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
- Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend by Matthew Dicks
- The Light Between the Oceans by M.L. Stedman
- The Supremes at Earl’s All-you-can-eat by Edward Kelsey More
- The Good Luck of Right Now by Matthew Quick
- The Secret Keeper by Kate Morton
- Still Life with Bread Crumbs by Anna Quindlen
- The Twelve Tribes of Hattie by Ayana Mathis
- Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd
2013
- Moloka’i by Alan Brenner
- Far to Go by Alison Pick
- Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey
- The Cat’s Table by Michael Ondaatje
- The Forty Rules of Love by Elif Shafak
- Canada by Richard Ford
- The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
- Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka
- Heading Out to Wonderful by Robert Goolrick
- Still Alice by Lisa Genova
- Istanbul, Memories and the City by Orhan Pamuk
2012
- Lucy by Ellen Feldman
- The Probable Future by Alice Hoffman
- A Call From Jersey by P.F. Kluge
- The Illuminator by Brenda Vantrease
- The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver
- Trespass by Rose Tremain
- Figures in Silk by Vanora Bennett
- The Quest for Anna Klein by Thomas Cook
- In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson
- Caleb’s Crossing by Geraldine Brooks
- Bristol House by Beverly Swerling
2011
- The Photograph by Penelope Lively
- The Coffee Trader by David Liss
- The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
- A Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrick
- The Calligrapher’s Daughter by Eugenia Kim
- Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively
- Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
- Mao’s Last Dancer by Li Cunxin
- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
- Day After Night by Anita Diamant
- Born on a Blue Day by Daniel Tammet
2010
- The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
- The Stolen Child by Keith Donohue
- The 19th Wife by David Ebershoff
- City of Thieves by David Benioff
- The House at Sugar Beach by Helene Cooper
- A Thread of Grace by Mary Doria Russell
- Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
- The Whistling Season by Ivan Doig
- The Day the Falls Stood Still by Cathy Marie Buchanan
- The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
- Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
- Dreamers of the Day by Mary Doria Russell
2009
- A Pale Blue Eye by Louis Bayard
- The Saffron Kitchen by Yasmin Crowther
- 84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff
- The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street by Helene Hanff
- Strapless by Deborah Davis
- Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
- Out Stealing Horses by Per Pettersen
- Harriet and Isabella by Patricia O’Brien
- The Ice Queen by Alice Hoffman
- Loving Frank by Nancy Horan
- The Witches of Eastwick by John Updike
- Gentleman and Players by Joanne Harris
2008
- Shadow Man by Mary Gordon
- Crow Lake by Mary Lawson
- The Apprentice by Jacques Pepin
- Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
- Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
- The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
- A Life of Privilege, Mostly by Gardner Botsford
- The Year of Fog by Michelle Richmond
- North River by Pete Hamill
- A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
2007
- Old New York: Four Novellas by Edith Wharton
- Closing Arguments by Frederick Busch
- If On a Winter’s Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino
- Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee
- Madonnas of Leningrad by Debra Dean
- Digging to America by Anne Tyler
- The Beautiful and the Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
- Sleeping Arrangements by Laura Shaine Cunningham
- The Lost German Slave Girl by John Bailey
- Nine Stories by J.D. Salinger
- Morality Play by Barry Unsworth
2006
- The Seal Wife by Katherine Harrison
- The Giver by Lois Lowry
- Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
- Hoot by Carl Hiaasen
- The Plot Against America by Philip Roth
- The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
- The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Murakami Haruki
- Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez
- The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: a Hmong Child, her American doctors, and the collision of two cultures by Anne Fadiman
- Main Street by Sinclair Lewis
- Snow by Orhan Pamuk
- Tulip Fever by Deborah Moggach
2005
- The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver
- Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
- One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Skinny Dip by Carl Hiaasen
- The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
- The Bookseller of Kabul by Åsne Seierstad
- Tender at the Bone by Ruth Reichl
- The Red Hat Club by Haywood Smith
- Brick Lane by Monica Ali
- On the Road by Jack Kerouac
- Enduring Love by Ian McEwan
- Object Lessons by Anna Quindlen
2004
- La Cucina: a Novel of Rapture by Lily Prior
- One Thousand White Women: the Journals of May Dodd by Jim Fergus
- A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
- Empire Falls by Richard Russo
- Reading Lolita in Tehran: a Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi
- The Song of the Lark by Willa Cather
- Mystic River by Dennis Lehane
- The Piano Tuner by Daniel Philippe Mason
- Angry Housewives Eating Bon-bons by Lorna Landvik
- Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
- The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
- Black Boy by Richard Wright
2003
- Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
- The Underpainter by Jane Urquhart
- Reservation Road by John Burnham Schwartz
- The Hours by Michael Cunningham
- Roxanna Slade by Reynolds Price
- Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
- Seneca Falls Inheritance by Miriam Grace Monfredo
- Selling of Lite Heaven by Suzanne Strempek Shea
- The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory
- Guenevere: Queen of the Summer Country by Rosalind Miles
- The Captain’s Wife by Douglas Kelley
- White Teeth by Zadie Smith
2002
- The Parrot Who Owns Me: The Story of a Relationship by Joanna Burger
- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
- While I Was Gone by Sue Miller
- Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
- The Ladies’ Man by Elinor Lipman
- Plain Truth by Jodi Picoult
- The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
- Stern Men by Elizabeth Glibert
- Republic of Love by Carol Shields
- The Beekeeper’s Apprentice by Laurie King
- Last Days of Summer by Steve Kluger
- The Giant’s House by Elizabeth McCracken
2001
- The Ginger Tree by Oswald Wynd
- Sleeping at the Starlite Motel: and Other Adventures on the Way Back Home by Bailey White
- The Color of Water: A Black Man’s Tribute to His White Mother by James McBride
- Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells
- Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
- Pope Joan by Donna Cross
- The Girl With the Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
- Kaaterskill Falls by Allegra Goodman
- The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
- Five Quarters of the Orange by Joanne Harris
- A Spanish Lover by Joanna Trollope
Tuesday Evening Book Group
The Evening book group usually meets the second Tuesday of each month at 7:00 pm. Check the list of previous Evening book group reading selections below.
The next meeting is on Tuesday, October 13 at 7:00 pm to discuss Catalina: a novel by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio. Some print copies are available for checkout at the library. The eBook and audiobook may be available on Libby.
If you have any questions about the Evening book group, please contact the Reference Department in person, by phone (908) 608-8603 x3, or email referencedept@bhplnj.org.
2026
- The Bookish Life of Nina Hill by Abbi Waxman
- Take My Hand by Dolen Perkins-Valdez
- So Late in the Day: stories of women and men by Claire Keegan
- North Woods: a novel by Daniel Mason
- Crying in H Mart: a memoir by Michelle Zauner
- The Emperor of Gladness: a novel by Ocean Vuong
- The Lost Summers of Newport: a novel by Beatriz Williams, Lauren Willig & Karen White
- The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
- Catalina: a novel by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
2025
- The Door-to-Door Bookstore by Carsten Henn
- Love & Whiskey: the remarkable true story of Jack Daniel, his master distiller Nearest Green, and the improbable rise of Uncle Nearest by Fawn Weaver
- The First Ladies: a novel by Marie Benedict & Victoria Christopher Murray
- The Music of Bees: a novel by Eileen Garvin
- Horse by Geraldine Brooks
- Georgia: a novel of Georgia O’Keefe by Dawn Tripp
- Conversations with Friends: a novel by Sally Rooney
- Night Watch: a novel by Jayne Anne Phillips
- Be Ready When the Luck Happens: a memoir by Ina Garten
- There, There by Tommy Orange
- Persuasion by Jane Austen
2024
- The Henna Artist by Alka Joshi
- Beloved by Toni Morrison
- The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak
- Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow: a novel by Gabrielle Zevin
- Fly Girl by Ann Hood
- Foster by Claire Keegan
- Hester: a novel by Laurie Lico Albanese
- Remarkably Bright Creatures: a novel by Shelby Van Pelt
- Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler
- The Seed Keeper by Diane Wilson
- The Idea Factory by Jon Gertner
2023
- The Reading List: a novel by Sara Nisha Adams
- The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah
- Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
- The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
- Circe by Madeline Miller
- The Stationery Shop by Marjan Kamali
- Hello, Sunshine by Laura Dave
- The Only Woman in the Room by Marie Benedict
- The Doctors Blackwell by Janice P. Nimura
- This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger
- Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories by Truman Capote
2022
- The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin
- Perestroika in Paris by Jane Smiley
- The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
- Catch and Kill: lies, spies, and a conspiracy to protect predators by Ronan Farrow
- A Woman Is No Man by Etaf Rum
- A Long Petal of the Sea by Isabel Allende
- Grayson by Lynne Cox
- The Flight Attendant by Chris Bohjalian
- The Wife: a novel by Meg Wolitzer
- The Tale Teller by Anne Hillerman
- Lab Girl by Hope Jahren
- The Walnut Tree by Charles Todd
2021
- Dinner with Edward by Isabel Vincent
- The Queen’s Gambit by Walter Tevis
- Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart
- The Engineer’s Wife by Tracey Enerson Wood
- The Tenth Muse by Catherine Chung
- Libertie by Kaitlyn Greenidge
- Nomadland by Jessica Bruder
- Afterlife by Julia Alvarez
- Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the quest for a fantastic future by Ashlee Vance
- Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
- The Last Romantics: a novel by Tara Conklin
- The Nickel Boys: a novel by Colson Whitehead
2020
- The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett
- Warlight by Michael Ondaatje
- Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
- The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah
- The Gown: a novel of the Royal Wedding by Jennifer Robson
- Celestial Bodies by Jokha Alharthi
- The Darwin Affair by Tim Mason
- The Mountains Sing by Phan Que Mai Nguyen
- The Bear by Andrew Krivak
- Notorious RBG: the life and times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg by Irin Carmon & Shana Knizhnik
- An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
2019
- Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
- Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver
- A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
- Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata
- Euphoria by Lily King
- Girl Waits with Gun by Amy Stewart
- Killers of the Flower Moon by John Berendt
- The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
- The Widows of Malabar Hill by Sujata Massey
- The Library Book by Susan Orlean
2018
- Carry Me by Peter Behrens
- Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance
- Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
- The Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twan Eng
- The Underground Girls of Kabul by Jenny Nordberg
- Resistance by Owen Sheers
- The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop by Lewis Buzbee
- Association of Small Bombs by Karan Mahajan
- Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff
- My Beloved World by Sonia Sotomayor
- Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
2017
- Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
- The Woods by Harlan Coben
- Love Anthony by Lisa Genova
- Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger
- Rainbow Comes and Goes by Anderson Cooper
- Shelter by Jung Yun
- Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
- The Little Paris Bookshop by Nina George
2016
- The View from Castle Rock by Alice Munro
- All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
- Our Souls at Night by Kent Haruf
- Uncle Tungsten: memories of a chemical boyhood by Oliver W. Sacks
- Left Neglected: a novel by Lisa Genova
- Teatime for the Firefly by Shona Patel
- The Martian: a novel by Andy Weir
- Necessary Lies by Diane Chamberlain
- Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
- Brooklyn, a novel by Colm Toibin
- Being Mortal by Atul Gawande
2015
- The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin
- Letters from Skye by Jessica Brockmole
- Burial Rites by Hannah Kent
- Testament of Mary by Colm Toiban
- The Hundred Foot Journey by Richard Morais
- The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce
- My Kind of Place, travel stories from a woman who’s been everywhere by Susan Orlean
- Museum of Extraordinary Things by Alice Hoffman
- The Children Act by Ian McEwan
- The Illusionists by Rosie Thomas
- The $60,000 Dog: my life with animals by Lauren Slater
2014
- The Pact by Davis, Jenkins and Hunt
- The Orphan Master’s Son by Adam Johnson
- Taliban Cricket Club by Timeri N. Murari
- The Woman Upstairs by Claire Messud
- The Round House by Louise Erdrich
- Someone by Alice McDermott
- The Unchangeable Spots of Leopards by Kristopher Jansma
- The Rules of Civility by Amor Towles
- Charming Billy by Alice McDermott
- The Sandcastle Girls by Chris Bohjalian
- Dubliners by James Joyce
2013
- The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
- How It All Began by Penelope Lively
- The Light of Day by Graham Swift
- Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
- The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
- Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom
- The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh
- Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
- Ghana Must Go by Taiye Selasi
- The Aviator’s Wife by Melanie Benjamin and Gift from the Sea by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
- Defending Jacob by William Landay
2012
- The Girl in the Garden by Kamala Nair
- The Reservoir by John Milliken Thompson
- Troubles by J.G. Farrell
- Tortilla Curtain by T.C. Boyle
- The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates by Wes Moore
- The Plague of Doves by Louise Erdrich
- The Tiger’s Wife by Tea Obreht
- Death Comes to Pemberley by P.D. James
- Holy Cow by Sarah MacDonald
2011
- Tales from the Jazz Age by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Feed by M.T. Anderson
- The Bastard of Istanbul by Elif Shafak
- Packing for Mars by Mary Roach
- The Lock Artist by Steve Hamilton
- The Postmistress by Sarah Blake
- Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
- We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
- The Tower, the Zoo and the Tortoise by Julia Stuart
- The Rapture by Liz Jensen
- Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand by Helen Simonson
2010
- The Comedians by Graham Greene
- Last Night at the Lobster by Stewart O’Nan
- How to Be Good by Nick Hornby
- The Seduction of Water by Carol Goodman
- The Millennium Trilogy by Stieg Larsson
- The Traveler by Ron McLarty
- On Agate Hill by Lee Smith
- The Ghosts of Belfast by Stuart Neville
- Theme selections: memoirs and novels on the immigrant experience in the United States; American expatriate memoirs
2009
- The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
- Crow Road by Iain Banks
- The Founding Brothers by Joseph Ellis
- The Tenderness of Wolves by Stef Penney
- The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
- Theme selections: favorite summer books; hard-boiled mysteries, Agatha Christie and the Golden age of mysteries
2008
- The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven by Sherman Alexie
- Losing Julia by Jonathan Hull
- Starting Out in the Evening by Brian Morton
- The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
- China Boy by Gus Lee
- Summons to Memphis by Peter Taylor
- Fortunate Son by Walter Mosley
- Men Are From Mars, Women are from Venus by John Gray
- The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O’Farrell
- Easter Island by Jennifer Vanderbes
2007
- The Borgia Bride by Jeanne Kalogridis
- The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
- Zuleika Dobson by Max Beerbohm
- The History of Love by Nicole Krauss
- Triangle: the Fire That Changed America by David Von Drehle
- The Lucky Gourd Shop by Joanna C. Scott
- The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow
- The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
- The Known World by Edward P. Jones
- Suite Française by Irene Nemirovsky
- Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D.H. Lawrence
- The Clear Light of Day by Anita Desai
2006
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
- Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
- The Birth of Venus by Sarah Dunant
- Child of My Heart by Alice McDermott
- Nickel and Dimed: on (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich
- Michelangelo and the Pope’s Ceiling by Ross King
- Citizen of the Galaxy by Robert A. Heinlein
- Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
- Forever by Pete Hamill
- Aloft by Chang-rae Lee
- March by Geraldine Brooks
- Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat
2005
- The Kitchen Boy: a Novel of the Last Tsar by Robert Alexander
- The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
- A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court by Mark Twain
- Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich
- The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse by Louise Erdrich
- The Devil in the White City : Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America by Erik Larson
- The Story of Lucy Gault by William Trevor
- The Bonesetter’s Daughter by Amy Tan
- The Blessing Stone by Barbara Wood
- Becoming Madame Mao by Anchee Min
- The Green Mile by Stephen King
- The Confessions of Max Tivoli by Andrew Sean Greer
2004
- The Iceman Cometh by Eugene O’Neill
- The Dress Lodger by Sheri Holman
- Atonement by Ian McEwan
- The Human Stain by Philip Roth
- Amsterdam by Ian McEwan
- Life of Pi by Yann Martel
- Reading Lolita in Tehran: a Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi
- Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang
- The Emperor of Ocean Park by Stephen L. Carter
- The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
- Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
- Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie
2003
- Montana 1948 by Larry Watson
- The Big Picture by Douglas Kennedy
- Chiefs by Stuart Woods
- Days of Awe by Achy Obejas
- Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
- Year of Wonders: a Novel of the Plague by Geraldine Brooks
- Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
- Dracula by Bram Stoker
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh: Her Life by Susan Hertog
- The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
- Islam: a Short History by Karen Armstrong
- What Everyone Needs to Know About Islam by John L. Esposito
2002
- Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Ann Burns
- Chang and Eng by Darin Strauss
- The Rapture of Canaan by Sheri Reynolds
- Heat and Dust by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
- The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
- Los Alamos by Joseph Kanon
- Tess of the D’urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
- The Bear Went Over the Mountain by William Kotzwinkle
- One Thousand White Women: the Journals of May Dodd by Jim Fergus
- The Hook by Donald E. Westlake
- The Awakening by Kate Chopin
- The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
2001
- Falling Leaves: the True Story of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter by Adeline Yen Mah
- Corelli’s Mandolin by Louis De Bernieres
- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
- Uncivil Seasons by Michael Malone
Spicy Book Group (18+)
Join us on Saturday, October 3 at 2 pm for Spicy Book Club, for adults (18+).
We’re discussing ‘Daggermouth’ by H. M. Wolfe!
You can pick up a copy at the Library or reserve it here! Registration not required.
If you have any questions about Spicy Book Club, please contact the Reference Department in person, by phone (908) 608-8603 x3, or email referencedept@bhplnj.org.
Mayor’s Wellness Book Group
The Mayor’s Wellness book group usually meets the second Wednesday of each month at 7:00 pm at Delicious Heights in Berkeley Heights.
The Mayor’s Wellness Book Club will discuss Poisonous People: how to resist them and improve your life by Leanne ten Brinke on October 14, 7:00 pm at Delicious Heights.
If you have any questions or would like to join the Mayor’s Wellness book group, please email programs@bhplnj.org.
2026
- Wintering: the power of rest and retreat in difficult times by Katherine May
- Love 2.0 by Barbara Fredrickson
- Atomic Habits by James Clear
- Meditations for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman
- The Art of Taking It Easy by Brian King
- Finding Your Way in a New Wild World by Martha Beck
- Poisonous People: how to resist them and improve your life by Leanne ten Brinke
