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Books on Tap is held at Champion Brewing Company. Please email Krista Farrell (kfarrell at jmrl dot org) for more information. Discussions take place the first Thursday of each month at 7pm.

Selections for 2022:

• Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy (January 6)
• Beloved by Toni Morrison (February 3)
• We Are Not Free by Traci Chee (March 3 - Same Page Community Read)
• My Monticello by Jocelyn Nicole Johnson (April 7)
• The Mountains Sing by Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai (May 5)
• The Soul of an Octopus by Sy Montgomery (June 2)
• Rocket Boys by Homer Hickam (July 7)
• The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles (August 4)

Selections for 2021:

• In the Kingdom of Ice by Hampton Sides (January 7)
• Switched On by Jon Elder Robison (February 4)
• Red At the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson (March 3 Same Page)
• Elevation by Stephen King (April 1)
• News of the World by Paulette Jiles (May 6)
• The Friend by Sigrid Nunez (June 3)
• The Library Book by Susan Orlean (July 1)
• Night Boat to Tangier by Kevin Barry (August 5)
• The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger (September 2)
• Still Life by Louise Penny (October 7)
• Feed by M.T. Anderson (November 4)
• Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng (December 2)

Selections for 2020:

• No January meeting
• An American Marriage by Tayari Jones (February 6)
• Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson (March 5)
• Lab Girl by Hope Jahren (April 2)
• There There by Tommy Orange (May 7)
• Clock Dance by Anne Tyler (June 4)
• Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (July 2)
• The Receptionist: An Education at the New Yorker by Janet Groth (August 6)
• Educated: a Memoir by Tara Westover (September 3)
• Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson (October 1)
• My Sister, The Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite (November 5)
• Travels with Charley by John Steinbeck (December 3)

Selections for 2019:

• The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown (January 3)
• Another Brooklyn by Jacqueline Woodson (February 7)
• The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane by Lisa See (March 7)
• Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich (April 4)
• The Book of Unknown Americans by Cristina Henriquez (May 2)
• Boy Erased by Garrard Conley (June 6)
• No July meeting
• Barracoon: the Story of the Last "Black Cargo" by Zora Neale Hurston (August 1)
• Vinegar Girl by Anne Tyler (September 5)
• Accordion Crimes by E. Annie Proulx (October 3)
• The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien (November 7)
• Holidays on Ice by David Sedaris (December 5)

Selections for 2018:

• The Call of the Wild by Jack London (January 4)
• Black Water Rising by Attica Locke (February 1)
• What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank by Nathan Englander (March 1)
• Ragnarok by A.S. Byatt (April 5)
• We the Animals by Justin Torres (May 3)
• Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (June 7)
• Dear Committee Members by Julie Schumacher (July 5)
• Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offill (August 2)
• Devil in the White City by Erik Larson (September 6)
• The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas - A Cville OneBook Event (October 4)
• The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood (November 1)
• Seven Days of Us by Francesca Hornak (December 6)

Selections for 2017:

• We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson (January 5)
• Mislaid by Nell Zink (February 2)
• Silver Sparrow by Tayari Jones (March 2)
• The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway (April 6)
• Family Life by Akhil Sharma (May 4)
• Methland: the Death and Life of an American Small Town by Nick Reding (June 1)
• The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood (July 6)
• The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde (August 3)
• The Sellout by Paul Beatty (September 7)  
• House of Stone by Anthony Shadid (October 5)  
• A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway (November 2)
• Ten Thousand Things by Maria Dermoût (December 7)

Selections for 2016:

• The Yellow Birds by Kevin Powers (January 7)
• The Turner House by Angela Flournoy (February 4)
• The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers (March 3)
• Tenth of December by George Saunders (April 7)
• A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again by David Foster Wallace (May 5)
• Dubliners by James Joyce (June 2)
• The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon (July 7)
• Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates (August 4)
• Mothering Sunday by Graham Swift (September 1 )
• Strange Library by Haruki Murakmai (October 6)
• The Dinner by Herman Koch (November 3)
• A Christmas Memory by Truman Capote (December 1)

Selections for 2015:

• A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway (October 2015)
• The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie (November 2015)
• Last Night at the Lobster by Stewart O'Nan (December 2015)