Beehive Ladies Book Society

2023 Reading List

2022 reading list

Nov/Dec 2022 Faithful by Alice Hoffman Fiction
October 2022 While Justice Sleeps by Stacey Abrams Fiction/Mystery
Aug/Sept 2022 You’re leaving When? By Annabelle Gurwitch Biography/essays
July 2022 Anxious People by Fredrik Backman
June 2022 the Girl with the Louding Voice by Abi Darel
May 2022 the Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab
March/April 2022 The Giver of Starts by Jojo Moyes
February 2022 Interior Chinatown by CharlesYu
January 2022 Deacon King Kong by James McBride

Archival Reading list 2009-21

November/December 2021 Mrs. Everything by Jennifer Weiner

October 2021-Mexican Gothic by Silva Moreno-Garcia

August/September 2021-Caste by Isabel Wilkerson

July 2021-Circe by Madeline Miller

June 2021-Why we swim by Bonnie Tsui

May 2021- Midnight Library by Matt Haig

April 2021 - The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett

February/March 2021 - The Life She was Given by Ellen Marie Wiseman

January 2021- The Girl with Seven Names by Hyeonseo Lee

December 2020-Underground Airport by Ben H. Winters

October/Nov 2020-Once Upon a River by Diane Setterfield

August 2020- The Little Old Lady who Broke all the Rules by Catharina Ingelman-Sundberg

July 2020- the Downstairs Girl by Stacey Lee

June 2020- Love and other Consolation Prizes by Jamie Ford

May 2020- Where to Crawdads sing by Delia Owens

March 2020- There, There by Tommy Orange

February 2020- Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison

January 2020-Dear Mrs. Bird by PJ Pearce

December 2019-One Amazing Thing

November 2019-My Year of Rest and Relaxation-Ottessa Moshfegh

October 2019-History of Bees-Maja Lunde

September 2019-Little-Edward Carey

July 2019-Behold the Dreamers-Imbolo Mbue

June 2019- Becoming by Michelle Obama

May 2019-Sourdough-Robin Sloan

April 2019-Educated- Tara Westover

March 2019- An American Marriage by Tayari Jones

February 2019- White Teeth by Zadie Smith

January 2019 -Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion

November December 2018- Before we Were Yours by Lisa Wingate

October 2018- Radium Girls by Kate Moore

September 2018- Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman

August 2018-Born A Crime by Trevor Noah

June 2018 - Rules of Magic by Alice Hoffman

May 2018- Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng

April 2018-Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead

March 2018- Keeper of Lost things by Ruth Hogan

January 2018

Slade House by David Mitchell

December 2017-I am America (and so can you) by Stephen Colbert

November 2017-A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki

October 2017 - Commonwealth by Ann Patchet

September 2017 - A man called Ove by Fredrick Backman

June/July 2017 -Thomas Jefferson’s Crème Brulee by Thomas Craughwell

May 2017- Girl in the Red Coat by Kate Hamer

April 2017-Marriage of Opposites by Alice Hoffman

March 2017-The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman

January 2017

Signs preceding the end of the world by Yuri Herrera

December Cookie Exchange -

All the Light we Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

October 2016-

Shakespeare Saved my life by Laura Bates

September 2016-

Rocket Girl: The story of Mary Sherman by George D. Morgan

August 2016-The Girl with all the gifts by
M.R. Carey

June 2016- My Grandmother Said to tell you she's sorry

by Fredrik Backman

May 2016-Drowning Ruth by Christina Schwarz

March/April- Let's Pretend this Never Happened by Jenny Lawson

Feb 2016-Loving Frank by Nancy Horan

Jan 2016 - the Silence of Bonaventure Arrow by Rita Lagenski

Nov/Dec 2015- The Pecan Man by Cassie Dandridge Selleck

October 2015-The Magician Lie by Greer Macallister

September 2015-Ghost Boy by Martin Pistorius

August 2015-Where'd you go Bernadette? by

July 2015- Sandcastle Girls by Chris Bohjalian

May/June 2015 - Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett

March/April 2015- A Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Mara

February/March 2015- Destiny of the Republic: A tale of Madness...by Candice Millard

January 2015- The Master Butchers Singing Club by Louise Erdrich

November/December 2014- The First Fifteen lives of Harry August by Claire North

October/November 2014- I am Malala by Malala Yousafzai and Christina Lamb

September 2014 -And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini

July August 2014- Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo
May June 2014 - Mr Penumbra's 24 hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan
April 2014- Songs of Willow Frost by Jamie Ford
March 2014- March by Geraldine Brooks
February 2014 - The Holy or the Unbroken by Alan Light
January 2014 - Death Comes to Pemberly by P.D.James

Nov/Dec 2013-Dead End in Norvelt by Jack Gantos
October 2013- Ghost Bride by Yangsze Choo
August/September 2013: Quiet by Susan Cain
July/August 2013: Clara and Mr. Tiffany by Susan Vreeland
May/June 2013: The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey

March/April: Moloka'i by Alan Brennert
February/March 2013: The Cat's Table by Michael Ondaatje
January 2013: Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese

November/December 2012: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald October 2012: A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness September 2012: The World to Come by Dara Horn

July/August 2012:The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

June 2012:Big Stone Gap by Adriana Trigiani

May 2012: Swaplandia by Karen Russel

April 2012: Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende

March 2012:Room by Emma Donoghue
February 2012: I Feel Bad About my Neck by Nora Ephron January 2012: The Dovekeepers by Alice Hoffman

November/December 2011: A Christmas Memory by Truman Capote.

October 2011: The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde September 2011: The Female Brain by Louann Brizendine MD.

July/August 2011: Palace Walk by Naguib Mahfouz

June 2011: The Zookeeper' wife by Diane Ackerman

May 2011: The Wordy Shipmates by Sarah Vowell

April 2011: Without Reservations the travels of an independent woman by Alice Steinbach

March 2011: The Tortilla Curtain by TC Boyle

February 2011: Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford

January 2011: Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
Holiday 2010: Redbird Christmas by Fanny Flagg

October 2010: the Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman September 2010: the Story Sisters by Alice Hoffman July/August 2010: the Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton May 2010: 44 Scotland Street by Alexander McCall Smith April 2010: The Little Giant of Aberdeen County by Tiffany Baker

March 2010: The Given Day by Dennise Lehane

February 2010: The House at Sugar Beach by Helene Cooper

December/January 2010: the 13th Tale by Diane Setterfield

November/December 2009: Holidays on Ice by David Sedaris

October 2009: Pride & Prejudice & the Zombies by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame Smith

September 2009: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Pie Society by Mary Ann Schaffer and Annie Barrows

August 2009: Snowflower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See July 2009: Julie and Julia by Julie Powell

Saturday

March 2025

February 2025

Monday

January 2025 Killers of the Flower Moon

Friday

December 2024 The Wishing Game

Thursday

October/November Lone Woman

Friday

September 2024 Yellow Face

August 2024 Tom Lake

June/July 2024

May 2024

Tuesday

April 2024

Friday

March 2024

Jan/Feb 2024 Unlikely Animals