2021
Aurora and Dillsboro Selections
January – The Gifted School by Bruce Holsinger
February – Educatedby Tara Westover
March – The Women of the Copper Countryby Mary Doria Russell
April – Dear Edwardby Ann Napolitano
May- The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
June- Deacon King Kong by James McBride
June- Deacon King Kong by James McBride
July- The Book Women of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson
August- All Adults Here by Emma Straub
September– Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell
October – The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
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June- The Mother-in-Law by Sally Hepworth
July- Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell
August- Miss Benson’s Beetle by Rachel Joyce
September- The Gifted School by Bruce W. Holsinger
October- The Henna Artist by Alka Joshi.
2020
Aurora and Dillsboro Selections
January- Before We Were Yoursby Wingate
February–The Golden Child by Adam
August-When All is Said by Anne Griffin
September– The Secrets We Keptby Lara Prescott
October– The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
December – The Good Sister by Gillian McAllister
Moores Hill Selections
January- Next Year in Havanaby Cleeter
February– The Book Woman of Troublesome Creekby Richardson
March- American Princess by Thornton
2019
Aurora & Dillsboro Selections
January – The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
February-A Painted House by John Grisham
March– The Women in the Castle by Jessica Shattuck
April-An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
May-Plainsong by Kent Haruf
June- Next Year in Havanaby Chanel Cleeton
July- The Hate U Giveby Angie Thomas
August- Flight Behaviorby Barbara Kingsolver
September– The Italian Teacherby Tom Rachman
October- The Last Romanticsby Tara Conklin
Moores Hill Selections
January- The Women in the Castle by Jessica Shattuck
February- Half-Broke Horses by Jeanette Walls
March– Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult
April– Firefly Lane by Kristin Hannah
May- Everyone Knows You Go Home by Natalie Sylvester
June- Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walters
July- An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
August- Before We were Yours by Lisa Wingate
September- The Obituary Writer by Ann Hood
October- Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
2018
Aurora & Dillsboro Selections
January – The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
February – A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
March – Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
July – Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
August – The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin
September – The Romantics by Pankaj Mishra
October – A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
Moores Hill Selections
January- The Bear and the Nightingale, by Katherine Arden
February- Free Men, by Katy Simpson Smith
March- If the Creek Don’t Rise, by Leah Weiss
April- The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper, by Phaedra Patrick
May- A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
June – The Stars are Fire by Anita Shreve
July – Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
August – Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Stout
November – The One-in-a-Million Boy by Monica Wood
2017
Aurora & Dillsboro Selections
January: The Children Act, by Ian McEwan
February: The Girls, by Emma Cline
March: The Middlesteins by Jami Attenberg
April: Commonwealth, by Ann Patchett
May: Tender is the Night, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
June: Small Great Things, by Jodi Picoult
July: Juliet’s Nurse, by Lois Leveen
August: Negroland, by Margo Jefferson
September: A Spool of Blue Thread, by Anne Tyler
Moores Hill Selections
January: The Lake House, by Kate Morton
February: News of the World, by Paulette Jiles
March: The Book of Unknown Americans, by Cristina Henriquez
April: The Unquiet Dead, by Ausma Khan
May: A Spool of Blue Thread, by Anne Tyler
June: My Cousin Rachel, by Daphne Du Maurier
September: The Summer That Melted Everything, by Tiffany McDaniel
October: The Woman Next Door, by Yewande Omotoso
2016
Aurora & Dillsboro Selections
January: The Lotus Eaters, by Tatjana Soli
February: Circling the Sun, by Paula McLain
March: The Jazz Bird, by Craig Holden
April: Beautiful Ruins, by Jess Walter
May: Return to Me, by Justina Chen
June: Howards End, by E.M. Forster
July: Jasmine, by Bharati Mukherjee
August: The Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, by Jamie Ford
September: What This River Keeps, by Greg Schwipps
October: The Kitchen House, by Kathleen Grissom
Moores Hill Selections
January: The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry, by Gabrielle Zevin
February: Ordinary Grace, by William Kreuger
March: A Replacement Life, by Boris Fishman
April: The Other Typist, by Suzanne Rindell
May: Where’d You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple
June: What This River Keeps, by Greg Schwipps
July: The Piano Teacher, by Janice Lee
August: The Truth According to Us, by Annie Barrows
September: Crooked letter, crooked letter, by Tom Franklin
October: My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry, by Fredrik Backman
November: The Turner House, by Angela Flournoy
2015
Aurora & Dillsboro Selections
January: The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, Rachel Joyce
February: Z – A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald, Therese Anne Fowler
March: Don’t Go, Lisa Scottoline
April: The Flame Trees of Thika, Elspeth Huxley
May: The Hurricane Sisters, Dorothea Benton Frank
June: The Widower’s Tale, Julia Glass
July: Lady Macbeth, Susan Fraser King
August: The Lace Reader, Brunonia Barry
September: Go set A Watchman, Harper Lee
October: How to Be an American Housewife, Margaret Dilloway
Moores Hill Selections
January: Under the Wide and Starry Sky, Nancy Horan
February: Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand, Helen Simonson
March: Still Life with Bread Crumbs, Anna Quindlen
April: The Elegance of the Hedgehog, Muriel Barbery
May: Ship of Brides, Jojo Moyes
June: The Rosie Project, Graeme Simsion
July: Down River, John Hart
August: The Orchardist, Amanda Coplin
September: The Widower’s Tale, Julia Glass
October: Neverhome, Laird Hunt
November: Painted Horses, Malcolm Brooks
2014
Aurora & Dillsboro Selections
January: The Red Chamber, Pauline Chen
February: The Gravity of Birds, Tracey Guzeman
March: The Magnificent Ambersons, Booth Tarkington
April: The Invention of Wings, Sue Monk Kidd
May: The Orchardist, Amanda Coplin
June: In the Time of Butterflies, Julia Alvarez
July: Sarah’s Key, Tatiana de Rosnay
August: Language of Flowers, Vanessa Diffenbaugh
September: The Thread That Runs So True, Jesse Stuart
October: The Cellist of Sarajevo, Steven Galloway
Moores Hill Selections
January: Jack 1939, Francine Mathews
February: Molokai, Alan Brennart
March: Snow Child, Eowyn Ivey
April: Conflict of Interest, Adam Mitzner
May: Russian Winter, Daphne Kalotay
June:Elsewhere, Richard Russa
July:Gone Girl, Gillian Flynn
August:The Art Forger, Barbara Shapiro
September:Whistling Past the Graveyard, Susan Crandall
October:The All-Girl Filling Station’s Last Reunion, Fannie Flagg
November:The Boy in the Suitcase, Lene Kaaberbol and Agnete Friis
2013
Aurora & Dillsboro Selections
January: The Homecoming of Samuel Lake, Jenny Wingfield
February: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Mark Haddon
March: Light Between Oceans, M.L. Stedman
April: Sister Carrie, Theadore Dreiser
May: A Walk in the Wood, Bill Bryson
June: Defending Jacob, William Landay
July: Mrs. Lincoln’s Dressmaker, Jennifer Chiaverini
August: Interred with Their Bones, Jennifer Lee Carrell
September: The Song of Achilles, Madeline Miller
October: The Tortilla Curtain, T. C. Boyle
Moores Hill Selections
January: The Dovekeepers, Alice Hoffman
February: The Midwife of Hope River, Patricia Harman
March: Garden of Evening Mists, Tan Twan Eng
April: Defending Jacob, William Landay
May: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Mark Haddon
June: The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, Rachel Joyce
July: Language of Flowers, Vanessa Diffenbaugh
August: The Secrets of Mary Bowser, Lois Leveen
September: The Cellist of Sarajevo, Steven Galloway
October: The Revenge of the Radioactive Lady, Elizabeth Stuckey-French
November: Flight Behavior, Barbara Kingsolver
2012
Aurora & Dillsboro Book Selections
February: How Green Was My Valley, Llewellyn
March: Haroun and the Sea of Stories , Salmin Rushdie
April: O’ Pioneers, Willa Cather
May: the Fifth Child, Lessing
June: Pontoon, Garrison Kellior
July: Goodbye, Mr. Chips, James Hilton
August: The Paris Wife, Paula McLain
September: Madame Tussuad, Michelle Moran
October: Crooked Letter Crooked Letter, Tom Franklin
2012 Moores Hill Selections
January: Art of Racing in the Rain, Garth Stein
February: The Inside Ring, Mike Lawson
March: The Story of Beautiful Girl, Rachel Simon
April: The Taste of Salt, Martha Southgate
May: Before I Go to Sleep, S.J. Watson
June: Heart in the Right Place, Carolyn Jourdan
July: State of Wonder, Ann Patchett
August: Night Circus, Erin Morgenstern
September: Still Life, Louise Penny
October: Caleb’s Crossing, Geraldine Brooks
November: Alice I Have Been, Melanie Benjamin
2011
Aurora & Dillsboro Book Selections
January: Boy’s Life, Robert McGammon
February: Little Bee, Chris Cleave
March: Major Pettigres’s Last Stand, Helen Simonson
April: Hiding in the Spotlight, Greg Dawson
May: Cold Sassy Tree, Olive Burns
June: Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro
July: Hard Times, Charles Dickens
August: The Confession, John Grisham
September: The Bridges of Madison County, Robert James Waller
October: The House at Riverton, Kate Morton
Moores Hill Book Selections
January: The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation: the Pox Party , M.T. Anderson
February: The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox, Maggie O’Farrell
March: The Lotus Eaters, Tatjana Soli
April: The Lace Reader, Brunonia Barry
May: The Last Time I Was Me, Cathy Lamb
June: Strength in What Remains, Tracy Kidder
July: Lady Macbeth, Susan Fraser King
August: The Calligrapher’s Daughter, Eugenia Kim
September: Finding Nouf, Zoe Ferraris
October: When We Were Strangers, Pamela Schoenwaldt
November: Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, Jamie Ford
2010
Say You’re One of Them, Uwen Akpan
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, Lisa See
Saving CeeCee Honeycut, Beth Hoffman
Tamar, Mal Peet
Olive Ketteridge, Elizabeth Strout
Remarkable Creatures, Tracy Chevalier
The Help, Kathryn Stockett
Cutting for Stone, Abraham Verghese
The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox, Maggie O’Farrell
Half-Broke Horses, Jeannette Walls
2009
January: Three Cups of Tea, Greg Mortenson
February: Year of Wonder, Geraldine Brooks
March: Gift from the Sea<, Anne Morrow Lindbergh
April: The Pianist, W’adys’aw Szpilman
May: Big Stone Gap, Adriana Trigiani
June: The Alchemist, Paul Coelho
July: I am Rebrandt’s Daughter, Lynn Cullen
August: The Blessing Way, Tony Hillerman
September: A Test of Wills, Charles Todd
October: The Guerneys Literary and Potato Peel Socitey, Mary Ann Shaffer
2008
A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini
1000 White Women, Jim Fergus
Water for Elephants, Sara Guren
Eat, Pray, Love, Elizabeth Gilbert
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Betty Smith
The Memory Keeper’s Daughter, Kim Edwards
Innocent Man, John Grisham
My Sister’s Keeper, Jodi Picoult
March, Geraldine Brooks
Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
2007
The Book Thief, Markus Zus
Home to Harmony, Phillip Gulley
The Devil in the White City, Erik Larson
Cat’s Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut
A Raisin in the Sun, Larraine Hansberry
And Then There Were None, Agatha Christie
The Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls
Diary of Mattie Spenser, Sandra Dallas
Great American Short Stories, Various
The Greatest Generation, Tom Brokaw
2006
Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton
A Million Litter Pieces, James Frey
Plainsong, Kent Haruf
Night, Elie Wiesel
Maisie Dobbs, Jacqueline Winspear
The Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold
The Giver, Lois Lowry
Zippy, Haven Kimmel
The Secret Life of Bees, Sue Monk Kidd
China Trade, S.J. Rozan
2005
Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
First Ladies…, Margaret Truman
Macbeth, William Shakespeare
The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency, Alexander McCall-Smith
Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry, Mildred Taylor
Inamorata, Joseph Gangemi
Julie & Romeo, Jeanne Ray
The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini
Memoirs of a Geisha, Arthur Golden
Fried Green Tomatoes, Fannie Flagg
2004
East of Eden, John Steinbeck
Patty Jane’s House of Curl, Lorna Landvig
Seabiscuit, Laura Hillenbrand
The Time Machine, H.G. Wells
The Midwife’s Apprentice, Karen Cushman
Riders of the Purple Sage, Zane Grey
The Body in the Transept, Jeanne Dams
O Pioneers, Willa Cather
The Samurai’s Garden, Gail Tsukiyama
Peace Like a River, Leif Enger
2003
Stones from the River, Ursula Hegi
Montana 1948, Larry Walston
Charms for the Easy Life, Kaye Gibbons
Like Water for Chocolate, Laura Esquivel
Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck
Black and Blue, Anna Quindlen
Good Night, Mr Tom, Michelle Magorian
The Friendly Persuasion, Jessamyn West
Hound of the Baskervilles, Arthur Conan Doyle
Snow Falling on Cedars, David Guterson
2002
Back When We Were Grownups, Anne Tyler
Murder By Peacocks, Donna Andrews
Girl with a Pearl Earring, Tracy Chevalier
Chocolat, Joanne Harris
Summer of My German Soldier, Bette Greene
Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan
Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte
Rebecca, Daphne BuMaurier