• January: Surprise Me/Kinsella
• February: The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend/Bivald
• March: Long Way Down/Reynolds
• April: The Underground Railroad/Whitehead
• May: Disappearing Earth/Phillips
• June: Maid/Land
• July: Nothing to See Here/Wilson
• August: The Miniaturist/Burton
• September: One by One/Ware
• October: Save Me the Plums/Reichl
• November: The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane/See
• December: The Stranger in the Woods/Finkel

• January: New Year’s Party!
• February:  The Travelling Cat Chronicles/Arikawa
• March: How to Walk Away/Center
• April: The Bird King/Wilson
• May: An American Marriage/Jones
• June: The Tenth Muse/Chung
• July: Their Eyes Were Watching God/Hurston
• August: My Name is Lucy Barton/Strout
• September: The Turner House/Flournoy
• October: The Water Dancer/Coates
• November: The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter/McCullers
• December: Heart Berries/Mailhot

• January:  Lost Lake/Allen
• February:  Astoria/Stark
• March:  Nutshell/McEwan
• April:  Station Eleven/Mandel
• May:  My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry/Backman
• June:  A Visit from the Goon Squad/Egan
• July:  No meeting (Happy 4th of July!)
• August:  The Astronaut Wives Club/Koppel
• September:  Asymmetry/Halliday
• October:  Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine/Honeyman
• November:  News of the World/Jiles
• December:  In the Midst of Winter/Allende

• January: Wait for Signs/Johnson
• February: The House Girl/Conklin
• March: The Wangs vs. the World/Chang
• April: The Red Garden/Hoffman
• May: Behind the Beautiful Forevers/Boo
• June: Small Blessings/Woodruff
• July: Rise & Shine, Benedict Stone/Patrick
• August: Be Frank with Me/Johnson
• September: The Girl Who Fell from the Sky/Durrow
• October: The All-Girl Filling Station’s Last Reunion/Flagg
• November: Euphoria/King
• December: Goodbye, Vitamin/Khong

• January: The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry/Joyce
• February: The Round House/Erdrich
• March: Tale for the Time Being/Ozeki
• April: The Diver’s Clothes Lie Empty/Vida
• May: The Lost City of Z/Grann
• June: The Dog Stars/Heller
• July: The Little Giant of Aberdeen County/Baker
• August: The Vacationers/Straub
• September: As Husbands Go/Isaacs
• October: Burial Rites/Kent
• November: Tallgrass/Dallas
• December: The Things We Keep/Hepworth

• January: Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore/Sloan
• February: My Antonia/Cather
• March: Boy, Snow, Bird/Oyeyemi
• April: Code Name: Verity/Wein
• May: Remarkable Creatures/Chevalier
• June: Pirate Hunters/Kurson
• July: The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry/Zevin
• August: The Paris Wife/McLain
• September: Our Souls at Night/Haruf
• October: Lila/Robinson
• November: Where’d You Go Bernadette/Semple
• December: The Rosie Project/Simsion

• January: No meeting
• February: Mudbound/Jordan
• March: Mink River/Doyle
• April: Barbarian Nurseries/Tobar
• May: A More Perfect Heaven/Sobel
• June: The Madonnas of Leningrad/Dean
• July: No meeting
• August: The Bartender’s Tale/Doig
• September: The Chaperone/Moriarty
• October: The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving/Evison
• November: Juliet/Fortier
• December: Holidays on Ice/Sedaris

• January: No meeting
• February: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn/Smith
• March: Nothing Daunted/Wickenden
• April: The Elegance of the Hedgehog/Barbery
• May: Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand/Simonson
• June: Cuckoo’s Calling/Galbraith
• July: No meeting
• August: A Partial History of Lost Causes/DuBois
• September: Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk/Fountain
• October: We Need New Names/Bulawayo
• November: Sacre Bleu/Moore
• December: No meeting

• January: No meeting
• February: A Moveable Feast/Hemingway
• March: The American Heiress/Goodwin
• April: My Abandonment/Rock
• May: The Imperfectionists/Rachman
• June: The Geography of Bliss/Weiner
• July: No meeting
• August: The Spellman Files/Lutz
• September: The Tiger’s Wife/Obreht
• October: The Postmistress/Blake
• November: The Lonely Polygamist/Udall
• December: The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey/Mosley

As a way to connect with our happy Valley readers during our closure from COVID-19 (and a little while after we were back open) we would talk about something we read every week. The first Thursday of the month was still reserved for our regular Book Group meeting. Every other Thursday we would read and discuss a short story. Below is the list of everything we read during this period. There are some absolute gems in there! All the stories are available online; just click on the link.

• 1/27/22: “Three Exhausting Weeks” by Tom Hanks
• 1/13/22: “If at First You Don’t Succeed, Try, Try Again” by Zen Cho
• 12/16/21: “Dolls’ Eyes” by A. S. Byatt
• 12/9/21: “Hotel Seattle” by Lily King
• 11/18/21: “Remedies” by Kali Fajardo-Anstine
• 10/28/21: “For He Can Creep” by Siobhan Carroll
• 10/14/21: “Judge Dee and the Limits of the Law” by Lavie Tidhar
• 9/30/21: “House for Sale” by Colm Tóibín
• 9/23/21: “On the Lonely Shore” by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
• 9/16/21: “Crystal Palace” by Carribean Fragoza
• 9/9/21: “Pity and Shame” by Ursula K. Le Guin
• 8/26/21: “The Angel of Khan el-Khalili” by P. Djèlí Clark – Read | Listen
• 8/19/21: “Jonathan” by Rosamunde Pilcher
• 8/12/21: “A Bleed of Blue” by Amy Key
• 7/29/21: “All Saints’ Mountain” by Olga Tokarczuk
• 7/22/21: “Faith” by Sayaka Murata
• 7/15/21: “Gooseberries” by Anton Chekhov
• 7/8/21: “Standard Loneliness Package” by Charles Yu
• 6/24/21: “The Faery Handbag” by Kelly Link
• 6/17/21: “Playing Kerri Strug” by Kiley Reid
• 6/10/21: “Chance Me” by Caitlin Horrocks
• 5/27/21: “B & B” by Celeste Ng
• 5/20/21: “The Fruit of My Woman” by Han Kang
• 5/13/21: “The Summer After the War” by Kazuo Ishiguro
• 4/29/21: “Paper Menagerie” by Ken Liu – Read | Listen
• 4/22/21: “The Deep” by Anthony Doerr
• 4/15/21: “Shakespeare, New Mexico” by Valeria Luiselli
• 4/8/21: “Sleep” by Haruki Murakami
• 3/25/21: “Two Sad Clowns” by Elizabeth McCracken
• 3/18/21: “Galatea” by Madeline Miller
• 3/11/21: “Motherland” by Min Jin Lee
• 2/25/21: “Sonny’s Blues” by James Baldwin
• 2/18/2021: “Asunder” by Nnedi Okorafor
• 2/11/2021: “What It Means When a Man Falls From the Sky” by Lesley Nneka Arimah
• 1/28/2021: “Cathedral” by Raymond Carver
• 1/21/2021: “The Hermit’s Story” by Rick Bass
• 1/14/2021: “The Library of Babel” by Jorge Luis Borges
• 12/17/2020: “The Great Silence” by Ted Chiang
• 12/10/2020: “Sussex, Essex, Wessex, Northumbria” by Brandon Taylor
• 11/19/2020: “Postcards from the Apocalypse” & “Welcome to Your Authentic Indian Experience™” by Rebecca Roanhorse
• 11/12/2020: “New Jesus” by Tommy Orange
• 10/29/2020: “The Upstairs People” by Laura van den Berg
• 10/22/2020: “The Second Bakery Attack” by Haruki Murakami
• 10/15/2020: “Safe Passage” by Ramona Ausubel
• 10/8/2020: “The Antique Ring” by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• 9/24/2020: “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” by Ambrose Bierce
• 9/17/2020: “I Sing the Body Electric” by Ray Bradbury
• 9/10/2020: “The Night Garden” by Shruti Swamy
• 8/27/2020: “The Foster Portfolio” by Kurt Vonnegut
• 8/20/2020: “The Line” by Amor Towles
• 7/30/2020: “The Open Boat” by Stephen Crane
• 7/23/2020: “The Barn at the End of Our Term” by Karen Russell
• 7/16/2020: “Omakase” by Weike Wang
• 7/9/2020: “Aguacero” by Patricia Engel
• 6/25/2020: “The City Born Great” by N. K. Jemisin
• 6/18/2020: “202 Checkmates” by Rion Amilcar Scott
• 6/11/2020: “Recitatif” by Toni Morrison
• 5/28/2020: “A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner
• 5/21/2020: “The Water That Falls on You from Nowhere” by John Chu
• 5/14/2020: “Tenth of December” by George Saunders
• 4/30/2020: “A Room in Baltimore” by Madeleine L’Engle
• 4/23/2020: “All Will Be Well” by Yiyun Li
• 4/16/2020: “The Apologizer” by Milan Kundera
• 4/9/2020:  “Anything You Might Want” by Anjali Sachdeva