Waterford Union High School’s
Book of the Month Club
Selections Read by Year
*Titles in orange indicate classic literature selections
2000-01
1. Seedfolks by Paul Fleischman
2. Montana 1948 by Larry Watson
3. The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
4. The Loop by Nicholas Evans
5. Izzy Willy Nilly by Cynthia Voigt
6. Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer
7. Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse
8. Roots by Alex Haley
9. The Green Mile by Stephen King
2001-2002
1. Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
2. The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
3. Devil in Massachusetts by Marion Starkey
4. Who Moved my Cheese? by Spencer Johnson, M.D.
5. First they Killed my Father: a Daughter of Cambodia Remembers by Loung Ung
6. Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Ann Burns
7. It’s Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life by Lance Armstrong
8. Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson
9. A Map of the World by Jane Hamilton
10. Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
11. A Hope in the Unseen by Ron Suskind
12. Blindness by Jose Saramago
2002-2003
1. The Rescue by Nicholas Sparks
2. Plain Truth by Jodi Picoult
3. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
4. Last Days of Summer by Steve Kluger
5. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
6. Gabriel’s Story by David Anthony Durham
7. Into the Forest by Jean Hegland
8. Gone for Good by Mark Childress
9. Plainsong by Kent Haruf
10. A Child Called “It” by Dave Pelzer
11. When the Legends Die by Hal Borland
12. A True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey
2003-2004
1. The Bottoms by Joe R. Lansdale
2. The Boy Next Door by Meggin Cabot
3. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
4. We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson (gothic fiction)
5. Kindred by Octavia Butler
6. Stiff: the Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach
7. Science Fiction Smorgasbord – choose a book by David Brin or Greg Bear
8. The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
9. Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe
10. Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
11. Red Water by Judith Freeman
12. Life of Pi by Yann Martel
2004-2005
1. Angels & Demons by Dan Brown
2. Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
3. A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
4. The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
5. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelino
6. Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels
7. Abraham: A Journey to the Heart of Three Faiths by Bruce Feiler
8. The Sand-Reckoner by Gillian Bradshaw
9. Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser
10. Speed of Dark by Elizabeth Moon
11.Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
12. The Gospel According to Larry by Janet Tashjian
13. Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie
2005-2006
1. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
2. The Rule of Four by Ian Caldwell
3. The Five Love Languages: How to Express Heartfelt Commitment to Your Mate by
Gary Chapman
4. The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
5. Mind Wide Open: Your Brain and the Neuroscience of Everyday
6. Sorcery and Cecelia or The Enchanted Chocolate Pot: Being the Correspondence of
Two Young Ladies of Quality Regarding Various Magical Scandals in London and the
Country - by Caroline Stevermer
7. Isaac the Pirate: To Exotic Lands - by Christophe Blain
8. Material World: A Global Family Portrait - by Peter Menzel, et al
9. Lucas - by Kevin Brooks
10. Man’s Search for Meaning - by Victor Frankl
11. Jennifer Government - by Max Barry
12. A Northern Light – by Jennifer Donnelly
13. Between a Rock and a Hard Place –by Aron Ralston
2006-2007
1. Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West- by Gregory Maguire
2. The Handmaid’s Tale – by Margaret Atwood
3. The Intelligencer – by Leslie Silbert
4. Zorro – by Isabelle Allende
5. Chanda’s Secrets – Allan Stratton
6. Wrapped in Rain – Charles Martin
7. Code Talker: A Novel About the Marines in World War II by Joseph Bruchac
8. Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
9. Work of Wolves by Kent Meyers
10. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Murial Spark
11. The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer
12. The Body of Christopher Creed by Carol Plum-Ucci
13. Snow Flower and the Secret Fan – by Lisa See
14. Perfect Circle by Sean Stewart
2007-2008
1. The Day of the Jackal- by Frederick Forsyth
2. Red Sky at Morning – by Richard Bradford
3. Water for Elephants – by Sara Gruen –
4. Anil’s Ghost - by Michael Ondaatje –
5. An Abundance of Katherines by John Green
6. Hamlet by Shakespeare
7. Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
8. The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak
9. Truck: A Love Story by Michael Perry
10. Firestorm by David Klass
11. My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult
12. Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America by Firoozeh Dumas
13. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
2008-2009
1. The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
2. Crow Lake by Mary Lawson
3. The Divide by Nicholas Evans
4. The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
5. A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah
6. Book of a Thousand Days by Shannon Hale
7. The Ghost at the Table by Suzanne Berne
8. Ana’s Story: A Journey of Hope by Jenna Bush
9. The Spellman Files by Lisa Lutz
10. Tallgrass by Sandra Dallas
11. Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
12. The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
13. Ambulance Girl: How I Saved Myself by Becoming an EMT by Jane Stern
14. The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis
2009-2010
1. The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
2. People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
3. The Shack by William P. Young
4. My Most Excellent Year by Steve Kluger
5. The Braid by Helen Frost
6. Be the Change by Lisa Endlich
7. Ghost at Work: A Bailey Ruth Mystery by Carolyn Hart
8. Story of a Girl by Sara Zarr
9. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing by M.T. Anderson
10. Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents by Terry Pratchett
11. The Ox-Bow Incident by Walter Van Tilburg Clark
12. Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson
13. The Lightning Thief: Percy Jackson #1 by Rick Riordan
14. The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
2010-2011
1. Death and the Lit Chick: A St. Just Mystery – by G.M. Malliet
2. Sh*t My Dad Says – by Justin Halpern (warning: contains profanity)
3. The Help - by Kathryn Stockett
4. Bet Me by Jennifer Crusie
5. If I Stay by Gayle Forman
6. Ford County: Stories by John Grisham
7. Whistling in the Dark by Leslie Kagan
8. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
9. Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult
10. Elsewhere by Gabrielle Zevin
11. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer& Annie
Barrows
12. Arabian Nights and Days by Naguib Mahfouz
13. Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters by Mark Dunn
14. The Oxford Project by Stephen Bloom
2011-2012
1.
The Imperfectionists – by Tom Rachman
2.
Open and Shut by David Rosenfelt
3.
The Middle Place by Kelly Corrigan
4.
Feed by M.T. Anderson
5.
Laika by Nick Abadzis
6.
Jellicoe Road by Melina Marchetta
7.
Packing for Mars: the Curious Science of Life in the Void by Mary Roach
8.
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley
9.
Revolution by Jennifer Donnelly
10. Trash by Andy Mulligan
11. Half Broke Horses by Jeanette Walls
12. Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver
13. If You Could See Me Now by Cecilia Ahern
14. Bossypants by Tina Fey
2012-2013
1.
Drop Dead Healthy: One Man’s Humble Quest for Bodily Perfection by A.J.
Jacobs
2.
Now You See Me by S.J. Bolton
3.
The Wedding Dress by Rachel Hauck
4.
The Godwulf Manuscript by Robert B. Parker
5.
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
6.
Dead to You by Lisa McMann
7.
The Grimm Legacy by Polly Shulman
8.
Young Samurai: The Way of the Warrior by Chris Bradford
9.
City of Bones by Cassandra Clare
10. The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester
11. Girl in Translation by Jean Kwok
12. The Extraordinary Secrets of April, May, & June by Robin Benway
13. Between the Lines by Jodi Picoult and Samantha Van Leer
14. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L’Engle
2013-2014
1. Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns) by Mindy Kaling
2. The Righteous by Michael Wallace
3. Safekeeping by Karen Hesse
4. The Ark by Boyd Morrison
5. Oogy: The Dog Only a Family Could Love by Larry Levin
6. Draw the Dark by Ilsa Bick
7. The Program by Suzanne Young
8. The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
9. The Hero’s Guide to Saving Your Kingdom by Christopher Healy
10. The Maze Runner by James Dashner
11. Enrique’s Journey by Sonia Nazario
12. Legend by Marie Lu
13. Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford
2014-2015
1. Sycamore Row by John Grisham
2. Walking on Air by Catherine Anderson
3. Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
4. 10% Happier: How I Tamed bye voice in My head, Reduced Stress…by Dan
Harris
5. How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character by
Paul Tough
6. Out of My Mind by Sharon Draper
7. The Museum of Extraordinary Things by Alice Hoffman
8. Ready Player One by Earnest Cline
9. Baking Cakes in Kigali by Gaile Parkin
10. The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness
11. Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell
12. I am Malala by Malala Yousafzai
13. This Star Won’t Go Out by Esther Earl
14. The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd
15. We’ve Got a Job: The 1963 Birmingham Children’s March by Cynthia Levinson
2015-2016
1. The Monuments Men: Allied heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure
Hunt in History by Robert Edsel
2. All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
3. Defending Jacob by William Landay
4. A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley
5. Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline
6. Orange is the New Black by Piper Kerman
7. Code Name Verity by Eliazbeth Wein
8. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope by
William Kamkwamba
9. Reconstructing Amelia by Kimberly McCreight
10. Vango by Timothee de Fombelle
11. The Book of Unknown Americans by Chritina Henriquez
12. The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
13. Go set a Watchman by Harper Lee
14. As Red as Blood by Salla Simukka
15. Half a Life by Darin Strauss