Book Bites meets @ 2pm on the 2nd Tuesday of every month.
There is no required reading, guests are invited to share their favorite read(s) since the last meeting.
Please enjoy these recommendations from Book Bites readers (✪ indicates a repeat recommendation):
22 Seconds (James Patterson)
101 Great American Poems (The American Poetry & Literacy Project)
Abide with Me (Elizabeth Strout)
The Accident (Linwood Barclay)
Agnes Grey (Anne Bronte)
Alaskan Holiday (Debbie Macomber)
All the Water in the World (Karen Raney)
Among Others (Jo Walton)
Anne Boleyn: A King's Obsession (Alison Weir)
The Art of French Kissing (Brianna R. Shrum)
The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini (Benvenuto Cellini)
The Awakening (Kate Chopin)
The Banned Bookshop of Maggie Banks (Shauna Robinson)
A Baxter Family Christmas (Karen Kingsbury)
The Beachside Inn (Fiona Baker)
Because Internet (Gretchen McCulloch)
Becoming (Michelle Obama)
Beneath a Scarlet Sky (Mark T. Sullivan)
The Betsy Tacy Treasury (Maud Hart Lovelace)
Bitter (Akwaeke Emezi)
Blind Spot: The Hidden Biases of Good People (Mahzarin R Banaji & Anthony Greenwald)
The Body: A Guide for Occupants (Bill Bryson)
The Book Charmer (Karen Hawkins)
The Book of Awesome (Neil Pasricha)
The Book of Hope (Jane Goodall)
The Book of Longings (Sue Monk Kidd)
Booth (Karen Joy Fowler)
Braiding Sweetgrass (Robin Wall Kimmerer)
The Bright Unknown (Elizabeth Byler Younts)
The Bromance Book Club (Lyssa Kay Adams)
Bronze Drum (Phong Nguyen)
Brush of Wings (Karen Kingsbury)
Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle (Emily Nagoski)
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (Dee Brown)
Camino Island (John Grisham)
Chicken Soup for the Sports Fan's Soul (Jack Canfield)
A Christmas Carol (Charles Dickens)
Christmas Carol Murder (Leslie Meier)
Christmas Shopaholic (Sophie Kinsella)
The Chosen and the Beautiful (Nghi Vo)
Cold Sassy Tree (Olive Ann Burns)
A Column of Fire (Ken Follett)
The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper (Phaedra Patrick)
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Mark Haddon)
The Curse of Chalion (Lois McMaster Bujold)
A Darker Shade of Magic (V.E. Schwab)
The Darkness Manifesto (Johan Eklof)
The Dead Romantics (Ashley Poston)
Dear George, Dear Mary: A Novel of George Washington's First Love (Mary Calvi)
The Death of Mrs. Westaway (Ruth Ware)
Demon Copperhead (Barbara Kingsolver)
Deogratias: A Tale of Rwanda (JP Stassen)
Desert Star (Michael Connelly)
The Devil in the White City (Erik Larson)✪
The Dictionary of Lost Words (Pip Williams)
Don Quixote (Miguel de Cervantes)
Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands (Kate Beaton)
the Dune series (Frank Herbert)
The Dutch Wife (Ellen Keith)
Eat, Pray, Love (Elizabeth Gilbert)
The Education of Little Tree (Forrest Carter)
Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Heather Fawcett)
Every Fifteen Minutes (Lisa Scottoline)
Every Last Cuckoo (Kate Maloy)
The Fallen (David Baldacci)
Fauci: Expect the Unexpected (Anthony Fauci)
Fellowship Point (Alice Elliott Dark)
Fifth Avenue Glamour Girl (Renee Rosen)
The Firm (John Grisham)
The Five Wounds (Kirstin Valdez Quade)
The Flight Girls (Noelle Salazar)
Folly Beach (Dorothea Benton Frank)
Forgiving Paris (Karen Kingsbury)
The Four Winds (Kristin Hannah)
The Gift of Forgiveness (Katharine Schwarzenegger Pratt)
The Girl from Guernica (Karen Robards)
The Girl in His Shadow (Audrey Blake)
The Girls in the Stilt House (Kelly Mustian)
The Giver of Stars (Jojo Moyes)
Goodnight, Texas (William J. Cobb)
The Great Alone (Kristin Hannah)
The Guardians (John Grisham)
Harry's Trees (Jon Cohen)
The Haunting of Tram Car 015 (P. Djeli Clark)
Have I Told You This Already? (Lauren Graham)
the Heartland series (Lauren Brooke)
The Henna Artist (Alka Joshi)
Her Hidden Genius (Marie Benedict)
Her Royal Spyness (Rhys Bowen)
The Hidden Life of Trees (Peter Wohlleben)
The Hidden One (Linda Castillo)
Hiding the Light: Why I Risked Everything to Leave Islam and Follow Jesus (Rifqa Bary)
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams)
Holidays with Jane: Trick or Sweet (Rebecca M. Fleming)
Home for Christmas (Courtney Cole)
Horse (Geraldine Brooks)✪
The House Girl (Tara Conklin)
The House of Seven Gables (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
How Beautiful We Were (Imbolo Mbue)
How to Stay Smart in a Smart World (Gerd Gigerenzer)
Humankind: A Hopeful History (Rutger Bregman)
The Huntress (Kate Quinn)
I Remember Nothing: and Other Reflections (Nora Ephron)
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Rebecca Skloot)
In a Dark, Dark Wood (Ruth Ware)
In Her Shoes (Jennifer Weiner)
The Ink Black Heart (Robert Galbraith)
Interpreter of Maladies (Jhumpa Lahiri)
The Invention of Nature (Andrea Wulf)
It Dies with You (Scott Blackburn)
It Ends with Us (Colleen Hoover)
The It Girl (Ruth Ware)
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (Susanna Clarke)
Kamila Knows Best (Farah Heron)
Kids and Cornbread Cakes (Alisah Horne)
Lady Clementine (Marie Benedict)
Lady First: The World of First Lady Sarah Polk (Amy S. Greenberg)
A Lady's Guide to Fortune-Hunting (Sophie Irwin)
The Last House on the Street (Diane Chamberlain)
The Last Juror (John Grisham)
The Last Thing He Told Me (Laura Dave)
The Late Mrs. Willoughby (Claudia Gray)
Lent (Jo Walton)
Lessons in Chemistry (Bonnie Garmus) ✪
Lie Down with Lions (Ken Follett)
Lilac Girls (Martha Hall Kelly)
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (CS Lewis)
A Little Something Different (Sandy Hall)
The Little Wartime Library (Kate Thompson)
The Lobotomist's Wife (Samantha Greene Woodruff)
The Lost Apothecary (Sarah Penner)
Lost Empire (Clive Cussler)
The Lost Girls of Paris (Pam Jenoff)
Lost in Translation: An Illustrated Compendium of Untranslatable Words from Around the World (Ella Frances Sanders)
Love in Color (Bolu Babalola)
The Lucky One (Nicholas Sparks)
Mad Honey (Jodi Picoult)
Man-Eaters of Kumaon (Jim Corbett)
Marilla of Green Gables (Sarah McCoy)
The Measure (Nikki Erlick)
The Midnight Library (Matt Haig)
The Miniscule Mansion of Myra Malone (Audrey Burges)
The Murder of Mr. Wickham (Claudia Gray)
My Fine Fellow (Jennieke Cohen)
Nettle & Bone (T Kingfisher)
Never (Ken Follett)
The Night Watchman (Louise Erdich)
No Time to Spare (Ursula K LeGuin)
Not Your Average Hot Guy (Gwenda Bond)
Now is Not the Time to Panic (Kevin Wilson)
Once Upon a Wardrobe (Patti Callahan)
One by One (Ruth Ware)
One Night on the Island (Josie Silver)
The Only Woman in the Room (Marie Benedict)
Out of the Clear Blue Sky (Kristan Higgins)
Overdue: Reckoning with the Public Library (Amanda Oliver)
Parable of the Sower (Octavia Butler)
The Perfumist of Paris (Alka Joshi)
The Personal Librarian (Marie Benedict)
Pet (Akwaeke Emezi)
Pirate King (Laurie R King)
Prairie Lotus (Linda Sue Park)
The Prayer Box (Lisa Wingate)
Prodigal Summer (Barbara Kingsolver)
A Psalm for the Wild-Built (Becky Chambers)
The Radical Potter: The Life and Times of Josiah Wedgwood (Tristram Hunt)
Raising Lazarus (Beth Macy)
A Redbird Christmas (Fannie Flagg)
Redeeming Love (Francine Rivers)
Remarkably Bright Creatures (Shelby Van Pelt) ✪
Run, Rose, Run (Dolly Parton & James Patterson)
The Saints of Swallow Hill (Donna Everhart)
The Santa Claus Girl (Patricia P Goodin)
Saved (Benjamin Hall)
The Scarlet Letter (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
The Searcher (Tana French)
Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six (Lisa Unger)
The Secret Keeper of Jaipur (Alka Joshi)
The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle (Stuart Turton)
The Sharing Knife: Beguilement (Lois McMaster Bujold)
The Silent Patient (Alex Michaelides)
A Simple Murder (Linda Castillo)
The Siren of Sussex (Mimi Matthews)
The Siren Queen (Nghi Vo)
The 6:20 Man (David Baldacci)
Small Gods (Terry Pratchett)
The Social Climber (Amanda Pellegrino)
Something Wilder (Christina Lauren)
Sooley (John Grisham)
Spells for Forgetting (Adrienne Young)
The Spirit Ring (Lois McMaster Bujold)
The Stand-Up Groomsman (Jackie Lau)
The Stars are Fire (Anita Shreve)
Strong Men: Mussolini to the Present (Ruth Ben-Ghiat)
Summer at Willow Lake (Susan Wiggs)
Summer Hours at the Robbers Library (Sue Halpern)
The Summer Place (Jennifer Weiner)
The Sunflower (Richard Paul Evans)
The Surgeon's Daughter (Audrey Blake)
Sworn to Silence (Linda Castillo)
Take Your Breath Away (Linwood Barclay)
Talking as Fast as I Can (Lauren Graham)
The Tattooist of Auschwitz (Heather Morris)
The Terminal Man (Michael Crichton)
The Testaments (Margaret Atwood)
Texas Ranger (James Patterson)
Them: Why We Hate Each Other - and How to Heal (Ben Sasse)
Then She Was Gone (Lisa Jewell)
The Things They Carried (Tim O'Brien)
This Boy's Life (Tobias Wolff)
This Tender Land (William Kent Krueger)
Time is a River (Mary Alice Monroe)
A Time to Kill (John Grisham)
The Trackers (Charles Frazier)
Travels with Charley: In Search of America (John Steinbeck)
Travels with George: In Search of Washington and His Legacy (Nathaniel Philbrick)
Troubles in Paradise (Elin Hilderbrand)
True Grit (Charles Portis)
The Turn of the Key (Ruth Ware)
The Twelve Topsy-Turvy Very Messy Days of Christmas (James Patterson + Tad Safran)
Two by Two (Nicholas Sparks)
Undercover (Danielle Steel)
Underland (Robert Macfarlane)
The Unhoneymooners (Christina Lauren)
Untamed (Will Harlan)
Vanderbilt (Anderson Cooper + Katherine Howe)
The Violin Conspiracy (Brendan Slocumb)
A Virgin River Christmas (Robyn Carr)
Warlight (Michael Ondaatje)
A Well-Behaved Woman: A Novel of the Vanderbilts (Therese Anne Fowler)
West with Giraffes (Lynda Rutledge)
What Happens in Paradise (Elin Hilderbrand)
What Happened That Night (Sandra Block)
What Happened to the Bennetts (Lisa Scottoline)
What Your Food Ate: How to Heal Our Land and Restore Our Health (David R Montgomery and Anna Bickle)
When Books Went to War: The Stories that Helped Us Win WWII (Molly Guptill Manning)
Where the Crawdads Sing (Delia Owens)
The Whispered Word (Ellery Adams)
The Wife (Alafair Burke)
Winnie-the-Pooh (A.A. Milne)
Winter Garden (Kristin Hannah)
Winter in Paradise (Elin Hilderbrand)
With or Without You (Domenica Ruta)
The Woman in Cabin 10 (Ruth Ware)
The Woman with the Blue Star (Pen Jenoff) ✪
Women Who Run with the Wolves (Clarissa Pinkola Estes)
Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries (Kory Stamper)
The Word for World is Forest (Ursula K LeGuin)
World Without End (Ken Follett)
