Laguna Niguel, California Established 1993
Celebrating 31 Years in 2024!
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What We Have Read |
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Non Fiction/Memoirs |
Albom, Mitch | Tuesday's With Morrie
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Albright, Madeleine Korbel | Prague Winter: A Personal Story of Remembrance and War, 1937-1948 |
Bauby, Jean-Dominique | The Diving Bell and the Butterfly |
Berenot, John | Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil |
Bradley, James | Flags of Our Fathers |
Brokaw, Tom | The Greatest Generation |
Bryson, Bill | One Summer - America, 1927 |
Bryson, Bill | The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid |
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Cahalan, Susannah | Brain on Fire |
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Carreyrou, John | Bad Blood |
Corrigan, Kelly | The Middle Place
| Demick, Barbara | Nothing to Envy-Ordinary Lives in North Korea | Dumas, Firoozeh | Funny in Farsi
| Eire, Carlos | Waiting for Snow in Havana
***Karen's FAVORITE!*** |
Erdich, Louise | The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse |
Fast, Howard | Freedom Road |
Frey, James | A Million Little Pieces |
Gates, Melinda | The Moment of Lift |
Gawande, Awul | Being Mortal |
Gilbert, Elizabeth | Eat, Pray, Love |
Graham, Katherine | Personal History |
Harr, Jonathan | A Civil Action |
Hemingway, Ernest | A Movable Feast |
Hillenbrand, Laura | Unbroken |
Ker Conroy, Jill | The Road from Coorain |
Kidder, Tracy | Mountains Beyond Mountains |
Kiernan, Denise | The Girls of Atomic City |
Kohler, Dawn | A New Dawn Raising |
LaFarge, Annik | Chasing Chopin |
Lindbergh, Anne Morrow | Gifts from the Sea |
Locke, Tembi | From Scratch |
Mayes, Francis | Under the Tuscan Sun |
McBride, James | The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store |
McBride, James | The Color of Water |
McCourt, Frank | Angelas Ashes |
Morgan, Marlo | Mutant Message Down Under |
Mortenson, Greg Relin, David Oliver | Three Cups of Tea |
Orlean, Susan | The Library Book |
Quinones, Sam | Dreamland |
Russell, Helen | The Year of Living Danishly |
Sandberg, Sheryl | Lean In |
Simard, Suzanne | Finding the Mother Tree |
Troost, J. Maartin | The Sex Lives of Cannibals |
Vance, J.D. | Hillbilly Elegy |
Vincent, Isabel | Dinner with Edward |
Wall, Jeannette | Glass Castle |
Weatherford, Jack | Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World |
Yosafazi, Malala | I Am Malala |
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Historical Fiction |
Allende, Isabel | A Long Petal of the Sea |
Alvarez, Julia | In the Time of the Butterflies |
Badani, Sejal | The Storyteller's Secret |
Baker Kline, Christina | The Orphan Train |
Benjamin, Melanie | The The Aviators Wife ***Michele's FAVORITE!*** |
Brooks, Geraldine | Horse |
Blum, Jenna | Those That Save Us |
Boyle, T.C. | The Women |
Cash, Wiley | The Last Ballad |
Chevalier, Tracy | The Girl with the Pearl Earring |
Chiaverini, Jennifer | Mrs. Lincon's Dressmaker |
Corea, Armando Lucas | The German Girl |
Cummins, Jeanine | American Dirt |
DeBernieres, Louis | Corelli's Mandolin |
de Rosnay, Tatiana | Sarah's Key |
Doerr, Anthony | All the Light We Cannot See
***Carol's FAVORITE!*** |
Erdich, Louise | The Night Watchman |
Feldman, Ellen | Paris Never Leaves You |
Follet, Ken | Fall of Giants |
Follet, Ken | Winter of the World |
Follett, Ken | The Pillars of the Earth |
Goodwin, Daisy | An American Heiress |
Gregory, Philippa | The Other Boylyn Girl
***Judy's FAVORITE!*** |
Hannah, Kristin | The Nightingale |
Hannah, Kristin | The Four Winds |
Hegi, Ursula | Stones from the River |
Hirahara, Naomi | Clark & Division |
Jiles, Paulette | News of the World |
Kingsolver, Barbara | Poisonwood Bible
***Jo's FAVORITE!*** |
Krueger, William Kent | This Tender Land |
Larson, Erik | The Devil in the White City |
Larson, Erik | The Splendid and the Vile |
McBride, James | The Good Lord Bird |
McBride, James | TThe Heaven & Earth Grocery Store |
McLain, Paula | The Paris Wife |
McLain, Paula | Circling the Sun |
Morris, Heather | The Tattooist of Auschwitz |
Morton, Kate | The Secret Keeper |
Moyes, JoJo | The Giver of Stars |
Mullen, Thomas | The Last Town on Earth |
Nemirovsky, Irene | Suite Francaise
***Kathy's FAVORITE!*** |
Nguyen, Viet Thanh | The Sympathizer
| Ondaatje, Michael | The English Patient |
Pitre, Michael | Fives and Twenty Fives |
Quinn, Kate | The Alice Network |
Rooney, Kathleen | Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk |
See, Lisa | Snow Flower and the Secret Fan |
Sijie, Dai | Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress |
Skenandore, Amanda | The Second Life of Mirielle West |
Towles, Amor | A Gentleman in Moscow |
Turlow, Scott | Ordinary Heroes
| Whitehead, Colson | The Underground Railroad
| Zusak, Markus | The Book Thief
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Classics |
Alcott, Louisa May | Little Women |
Bradbury, Ray | The Illustrated Man |
Brooks, Geraldine | March |
Collins, Wilkie | The Woman in White |
Faulkner, William | The Sound and the Fury |
Fitzgerald, F. Scott | Tender is the Night |
Heller, Joseph | Catch 22 |
Lawrence, D.H. | Lady Chatterly's Lover |
Michener, James | The Source |
Twain, Mark | The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn |
Rand, Ayn | Fountainhead |
Vonnegut, Kurt | Slaughterhouse Five |
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Fiction |
Allende, Isabel | House of the Spirits |
Allende, Isabel | In the Midst of Winter |
Allison, Dorothy | Bastard Out of Carolinas |
Backman, Fredrik | A Man Called Ove |
Baker Kline, Christina | The Orphan Train |
Bell,Christine | The Perez Family |
Benway Robin | Far From the Tree |
Berg, Elizabeth | Pull of the Moon |
Berg, Elizabeth | The Art of Mending |
Bragg, Rick | Ava's Man |
Brown, Dan | The Da Vinci Code |
Canin, Ethan | Blue River |
Chabon, Michel | Kavalier & Clay |
Chaon, Dan | Await Your Reply |
Clarke, Breena | River Cross My Heart |
Coben, Harlan | Caught |
Clayton, Meg | The Wednesday Sisters |
Coelho, Paolo | The Alchemist |
Collins, Suzanne | The Hunger Games |
Commer, Joe | Beachcombing for a Shipwrecked God |
Conroy, Pat | Beach Music |
Conroy, Pat | The Great Santini |
Cunningham, Michael | The Hours |
D'Aprix Sweeney, Cynthia | The Nest |
Dave, Laura | The Last Thing He Told Me |
Dibdin, Michael | Dead Lagoon |
Dickenson, Charles | The Widow's Adventure |
Donoghue, Emma | Room |
Dorris, Michael | Yellow Raft in Blue Water |
Dubus, Andre | House of Sand and Fog |
Edwards, Kim | Memory Keeper's Daughter |
Eggers, Dave | The Circle |
Esquivel, Laura | Like Water For Chocolate |
Evans, Nicholas | Horse Whisperer |
Fitch, Janet | White Oleander |
Flagg, Fannie | Welcome to the World Baby Girl |
Flagg, Fannie | I Still Dream About You |
Flagg, Fannie | Red Bird Christmas |
Flynn, Gillian | Gone Girl |
Ford, Jamie | Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet |
Garmus, Bonnie | Lessons in Chemistry |
George, Nina | The Little Paris Bookshop |
Gibbons, Regubald | Sweet Bitters |
Glass, June | Three Junes |
Golden, Arthur | Memoirs of a Giesha |
Green, Elizabeth | Confessions of a Curious Bookseller |
Grisham, John | A Painted House |
Grisham, John | Skipping Christmas |
Gruen, Sara | Water for Elephants |
Guterson, David | Snow Falling on Ceders ***Andrea's FAVORITE!*** |
Haddon, Mark | The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night |
Halliday, Lisa | Asymmetry |
Hamilton, Jane | Book of Ruth |
Harris, Joanne | Chocolat |
Hartwick, Cynthia | Ladies with Options |
Haruf, Kent | Plainsong |
Hoffman, Alice | Turtle Moon |
Hoffman, Beth | Saving Cee Cee Honeycut |
Hosseini, Khaled | A Thousand Splendid Suns |
Hosseini, Khaled | Kite Runner |
Irving, John | A Prayer for Owen Meany
***Nancy K's FAVORITE!*** |
Irving, John | Widow for One Year |
Ishiguro, Kazuo | Remains of the Day |
Ishiguro, Kazuo | Klara and the Sun |
Jacobs, Kate | The Friday Night Knitting Club |
Jewell, Lisa | Then She Was Gone |
Jonasson, Jonas | The 100 Year Old Man Who Jumped Out the Window and Disappeared |
Jones, Edward P. | The Known World |
Joyce, Rachel. | The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry |
Kamali, Marjan | The Stationery Shop
| Kidd, Sue Monk | The Secret Life of Bees
***Pam's FAVORITE!*** |
Kincaid, Jamaica | Annie John |
King, Lily | Writers & Lovers |
King, Stephen | Needful Things
***Susie's FAVORITE!*** |
Kingsolver, Barbara | Animal Dreams |
Kingsolver, Barbara | Bean Trees |
Kingsolver, Barbara | Prodigal Summer |
Lamb, Wally | I Know This Much is True |
Landvik, Lorna | Angry Housewives Eatting Bon Bons |
Landvik, Lorna | The Honk and Hollar Opening Soon |
Landvik, Lorna | The Tall Pine Polka |
Larsson, Stieg | The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo |
Lee, Min Jin | Pachinko |
Letts, Billie | Where the Heart Is |
Lurie, Alison | Foreign Affairs |
Lott, Brett | Jewel |
Mapson, JoAnn | Bad Girl Creek |
Martel, Yann | Life of Pi
***Dawn's FAVORITE!*** |
McCarthy, Cormac | All the Pretty Horses |
McLain, Paula | The Paris Wife |
Michaelides, Alex | The Silent Patient |
Miller, Derek | Norwegian by Night |
Miller, Madeline | Circe |
Miller, Sue | Family Pictures |
Miller, Sue | While I Was Gone |
Morgenstern, Erin | The Night Circus |
Moriarty, Liane | Big Little Lies |
Morrison, Toni | Beloved |
Morsi, Pamela | Doing Good |
Niffenegger, Audrey | The Time Travelers Wife |
O'Brien, Tim | The Things They Carried |
O'Nam, Stuart | Emily Alone |
Ondaatje, Michael | The Cats Table |
Otto, Whitney | How to Make an American Quilt |
Owens, Delia | Where the Crawdads Sing***Mary's FAVORITE!*** |
Packer, Ann | The Dive from Clausen's Pier |
Palicio, R.J. | Wonder |
Patchett, Ann | Bel Canto |
Patchett, Ann | Commonwealth |
Patchett, Ann | The Dutch House |
Picoult, Jodi | My Sister's Keeper
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Picoult, Jodi | The Pact |
Picoult, Jodi | Small Great Things |
Prose, Nita | The Maid |
Proulx, Annie | Shipping News |
Roth, Philip | The Plot Against America |
Rowling, JK | Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone |
Russo, Richard | Empire Falls |
Russo, Richard | Straight Man |
Ryan, Catherine | Pay It Forward |
Salzman, Mark | Lying Awake |
Sample, Maria | Where'd You Go Bernadette |
Sedaris, David | Holidays on Ice |
Sebold, Alice | Lovely Bones |
Sendkar, Jan-Philipp | The Art of Hearing Heartbeats |
Shaffer, Mary Ann | The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society |
Shields, Carol | Stone Diaries |
Shreve, Anita | The Pilot's Wife |
Smiley, Jane | A Thousand Acres |
Simonson, Helen | Major Pettigrews Last Stand |
Sloan, Robin | Sourdough |
Smolinski, Jill | The Next Thing on My List |
Stedman, M.L. | The Light Between Oceans |
Stegner, Wallace | Angle of Repose |
Stegner, Wallace | Crossing to Safety |
Stout, Elizabeth | Olive Kitteridge |
Stradal, J. Ryan | Kitchens of the Great Midwest |
Stradal, J. Ryan | The Lager Queen of Minnesota |
Stradal, J. Ryan | Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club |
Siddons, Anne Rivers | Up Island |
Stockett, Katheryn | The Help |
Sundaresan, Indu | The Twentieth Wife |
Tan, Amy | Joy Luck Club |
Tan, Amy | Kitchen God's Wife |
Tobar, Hector | The Barbarian Nurseries |
Towles, Amor | The Lincoln Highway |
Tropper, Jonathan | Everything Changes |
Tsukiyama, Gail | The Samurai's Garden
***Nancy L's FAVORITE!*** |
Tyler, Anne | A Patchwork Planet |
Tyler, Anne | Ladder of the Years |
Tyler, Anne | St. Maybe |
Van Plelt, Shelby | Remarkably Bright Creatures |
Verghese, Abraham | Cutting for Stone |
von Herzen, Lane | Copper Crown |
Walker, Alice | The Color Purple |
Walker, Wendy | All Is Not Forgotten |
Waller, Robert James | Bridges of Madison County |
Weiner, Jennifer | Good in Bed |
Wells, Rebecca | The Divine Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood |
Wilson, Kevin | Nothing to See Here |
Wingate, Lisa | Before We Were Yours |
Witt, Lana | The Heart of a Thirsty Woman |
Zafon, Carlos Ruiz | The Shadow of the Wind |
Zevin, Gabrielle | A Storied Life of AJ Fikry |
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