Here is a list of books read by TBE Reads, our community’s book club. Books are chosen by leaders on a rotating basis. This list will give you a sense of the types of books we read. Contact Debbie Herman to get on the reader list.
Coming up:
Signal Fires by Dani Shapiro
Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt
Dear Elisa with author Andrea Stein
2024
The Postcard by Anne Berest
Ana Turns with author Lisa Gornick
Drawing in the Dust by Zoe Klein
Absolution by Alice McDermott
The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store by James McBride
The Secret Life of Sunflowers by Marta Molnar
2023
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
Hester by Laurie Albanese and The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano
The Lemon Tree by Sandy Tolan
2022
The Sleep of Apples with author Ami Sands Brodoff
Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell
The Last Rose of Shanghai by Weina Dai Randel
The Passenger by Cormac McCarthy
The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles
The Beekeeper of Aleppo by Christy Lefteri
Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr
2021
The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes
2020
The Female Persuasion by Meg Wolitzer
Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
The Lost Girls of Paris by Pam Jenoff
Beyond the Ghetto Gates with author Michelle Cameron
The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion
My Own Words by Ruth Bader Ginsberg
2019
The Thing Around Your Neck by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Inheritance by Dani Shapiro
Where the Crawdad Sings by Delia Owens
Educated, A Memoir by Tara Westover
Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor by Yossi Klein Halevi
Unorthodox by Deborah Feldman
2018
Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman
Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue
The Genius of Judaism by Bernard-Henri Lévy
We Were the Lucky Ones by Georgia Hunter
Rashi’s Daughters (Book I: Joheved) by Maggie Anton
Lift and Separate by Marilyn Simon Rothstein
Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance
2017
The Orphan’s Tale by Pam Jenoff
In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson
My Beloved World, a Memoir by Sonia Sotomayor
