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Books on Tap is a book club held at Champion Brewing Company at 324 6th St. SE in Charlottesville, Virginia. Discussions take place the first Thursday of each month at 7pm.

Selections for 2019:

• No January meeting
• An American Marriage by Tayari Jones (February 6)
• Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacquline Woodson (March 5)
• Lab Girl by Hope Jahren (April 2)
• There There by Tommy Orange (May 7)
• Clock Dance by Anne Tyler (June 4)

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)