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RIM Book Group


If you are looking for books to read, why not read one of the upcoming selections and join in the discussion?  See your M'Ocean for the meeting location and directions. See below for list of previously discussed selections.

Month Title Author Host(ess)
Apr. 27 The Sentence Louise Erdrich via ZOOM
May 18 Carnegie's Maid Marie Benedict via ZOOM


Until further notice, all RIM Book Group meetings will be
virtual (electronic) via ZOOM. You should be receiving the
ZOOM login info (meeting IDs and passcodes) by email.
If you do not, please contact Tom P.


List of books that the Book Group has previously read and discussed:

11/22/63 by Stephen King
1491 by Charles C. Mann
1984 by George Orwell
The 13th Juror by John Lescroart

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
All True Travels and Adventures of Liddie Newton by Jane Smiley
Always, In December by Emily Stone
A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
American Wolf by Nate Blakeslee
Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt
The Answer Is... (A memoir) by Alex Trebek
Anxious People by Fredrik Backman
Artemis by Andy Weir
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
Atonement by Ian McEwan

Back When We were Grownups by Anne Tyler
Beartown by Fredrik Backman
Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
Bowling Alone by Robert D. Putnam and Lewis M. Feldstein
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope
by William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer
The Boys in the Boat by Daniel Brown
Bridge of Sighs by Richard Russo
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz
The Broken Teaglass by Emily Arsenault
Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín

The Camel Bookmobile by Masha Hamilton
Candide by Voltaire
Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Charmed Circle by Dolores Riccio
The Chelsea Girls by Fiona Davis
Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith
The Children Act by Ian McEwan
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Christmas Letters by Debbie Macomber
The Christmas Pig by Kinky Friedman
The Christmas Train by David Baldacci
Circle of Five by Dolores Riccio
The Clock Winder by Anne Tyler
The Crossing Places by Elly Griffiths
The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper by Phaedra Patrick
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
Custom of the Country by Edith Wharton
Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese

Dark Matter by Blake Crouch
The Daughters of Yalta by Catherine Grace Katz
The DaVinci Code by Dan Brown
The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
Digital Fortress by Dan Brown
The Dinner by Herman Koch
Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee
The Divine Circle of Ladies Making Mischief by Dolores Stewart Riccio
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells
The Dogs of Babel by Carolyn Parkhurst

Earth's the Right Place for Love by Elizabeth Berg
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
Educated: a memoir by Tara Westover
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
The Elephant Whisperer by Lawrence Anthony
Empire Falls by Richard Russo
Everyone Brave is Forgiven by Chris Cleave

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
A Fall of Marigolds by Susan Meissner
The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah
Future Shock by Alvin Toffler

Garlic and Sapphires by Ruth Reichl
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
Girl Waits With Gun by Amy Stewart
The Given Day by Dennis Lehane
Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J. K. Rowling
The Heartsong of Charging Elk by James Welch
Heaven Is For Real by Todd Burpo
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly
The Horned Man by James Lasdun
The Hound of the Baskervilles Arthur Conan Doyle
House at the Edge of Night by Catherine Banner
The House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus II
How to Read and Why by Harold Bloom
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Hungry Ocean by Linda Greenlaw

I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
I'm a Stranger Here Myself by Bill Bryson
Intuition by Allegra Goodman

Judas by Amos Oz

Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain
The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
The Knowledge by Martha Grimes

Lady Cop Makes Trouble by Amy Stewart
Lake of Dead Languages by Carol Goodman
Lake Woebegone Days by Garrison Keillor
Last Night at The Lobster by Stewart O'Nan
A Lesson before Dying by Ernest Gaines
The Lifeboat by Charlotte Rogan
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
The Light Between Oceans by M. L. Stedman
Light on Snow by Anita Shreve
The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles
The Lions of Fifth Avenue by Fiona Davis
Little Bee by Chris Cleave
Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
Loitering with Intent by Muriel Sparks
Lost Horizon by James Hilton
Loving Frank by Nancy Horan
The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri

The Magician's Lie by Greer Macallister
Man in Full by Thomas Wolfe
The Map Thief (non-fiction ver.) by Michael Blanding
The Marriage Artist by Andrew Winer
The Martian by Andy Weir
Mayflower by Nathaniel Philbrick
Meet Me at the Museum by Anne Youngson
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
The Mermaid Chair by Sue Monk Kidd
Middlemarch by George Eliot
Mother of Pearl by Melinda Haynes
Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
My Dream of You by Nuala O'Faolain

The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
The Narrowboat Summer by Anne Youngson
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
News of the World by Pauelette Jiles
The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
Norwegian by Night by Derek B. Miller

On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
On Gold Mountain by Lisa See
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline
Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell

A Painted House by John Grisham
Patchwork Planet by Anne Tyler
People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray
A Piece of The World by Christina Baker Kline
Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
The Poacher's Son by Paul Doiron
Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
Pope Joan by Donna Woolfolk Cross
Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver

Quite a Year for Plums by Bailey White

Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore by Elizabeth Rush
The Round House by Louise Erdrich
Royal Mistress by Ann Easter Smith
The Rules of Civility by Amor Towles
Running with Sherman: The Donkey with the Heart of a Hero by Christopher McDougall

Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay
Saturday by Ian McEwan
The Secret Diary of Hendrick Groen by Hendrick Groen
Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
She's Not There: A Life in Two Genders by Jennifer Finney Boylan
The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx
Shop Girl by Steve Martin
Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane
Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult
Snow by Orhan Pamuk
Snow Falling On Cedars by David Guterson
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
So Much for That by Lionel Shriver
Songs of Willow Frost by Jamie Ford
Spot of Bother, A by Mark Haddon
The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin
The Story of Lucy Gault by William Trevor
The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Tara Road by Maeve Binchy
Teacher Man by Frank McCourt
The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
This Is Happiness by Niall Williams
This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger
This Year It Will Be Different by Maeve Binchy
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
Thread of Grace by Mary Doria Russell
To Kill a Mocking Bird by Harper Lee
Townie by Andre Dubus III
The Truth According to Us by Annie Barrows

Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
The Universe in a Single Atom by His Holiness the Dalai Lama

Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan

Waiting by Ha Jin
A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
The Weight of Water by Anita Shreve
The Weird Sisters by Eleanor Brown
When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalinithi
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
The Whip by Karen Kondazian
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
Wish You Well by David Baldacci
The Wright Brothers by David McCullough

The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon
The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls by Anton DiSclafani




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