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*[http://aries.jmrl.org/record=b1365883~S9'''Fellow Travelers'''] by Thomas Mallon (June 2019) [[Category:Book Groups]] | *[http://aries.jmrl.org/record=b1365883~S9'''Fellow Travelers'''] by Thomas Mallon (June 2019) [[Category:Book Groups]] | ||
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*[http://aries.jmrl.org/record=b1348862~S9'''Born a Crime'''] by Trevor Noah (July 2019) | *[http://aries.jmrl.org/record=b1348862~S9'''Born a Crime'''] by Trevor Noah (July 2019) | ||
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*[http://aries.jmrl.org/record=b1371528~S9'''A Place for Us'''] by Fatima Farheen Mirza (August 2019) | *[http://aries.jmrl.org/record=b1371528~S9'''A Place for Us'''] by Fatima Farheen Mirza (August 2019) | ||
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*[http://aries.jmrl.org/record=b1277528~S9'''The Sandcastle Girls'''] by Chris Bohjalian (September 2019) | *[http://aries.jmrl.org/record=b1277528~S9'''The Sandcastle Girls'''] by Chris Bohjalian (September 2019) | ||
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*[http://aries.jmrl.org/record=b1370758~S9'''The Soul of America'''] by Jon Meacham (October 2019) | *[http://aries.jmrl.org/record=b1370758~S9'''The Soul of America'''] by Jon Meacham (October 2019) | ||
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*[http://aries.jmrl.org/record=b1371624~S9'''There There'''] by Tommy Orange (November 2019) | *[http://aries.jmrl.org/record=b1371624~S9'''There There'''] by Tommy Orange (November 2019) | ||
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* December 2019- No Selection | * December 2019- No Selection | ||
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*[http://aries.jmrl.org/record=b1356587~S9'''Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore'''] by Matthew Sullivan (January 2020) | *[http://aries.jmrl.org/record=b1356587~S9'''Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore'''] by Matthew Sullivan (January 2020) | ||
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*[http://aries.jmrl.org/record=b1207666~S9'''The Woman in the Dunes'''] by Kobo Abe (February 2020) | *[http://aries.jmrl.org/record=b1207666~S9'''The Woman in the Dunes'''] by Kobo Abe (February 2020) | ||
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*Same Page 2020 title [[Category:Book Groups]] | *Same Page 2020 title [[Category:Book Groups]] | ||
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*[http://aries.jmrl.org/record=b1370116~S9'''Convenience Store Woman'''] by Sayaka Murata (April 2020) | *[http://aries.jmrl.org/record=b1370116~S9'''Convenience Store Woman'''] by Sayaka Murata (April 2020) | ||
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*[http://aries.jmrl.org/record=b1367677~S9'''Educated'''] by Tara Westover (May 2020) | *[http://aries.jmrl.org/record=b1367677~S9'''Educated'''] by Tara Westover (May 2020) | ||
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Brown Baggers selections for June 2019 - May 2020:
- Fellow Travelers by Thomas Mallon (June 2019)
- Born a Crime by Trevor Noah (July 2019)
- A Place for Us by Fatima Farheen Mirza (August 2019)
- The Sandcastle Girls by Chris Bohjalian (September 2019)
- The Soul of America by Jon Meacham (October 2019)
- There There by Tommy Orange (November 2019)
- December 2019- No Selection
- Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore by Matthew Sullivan (January 2020)
- The Woman in the Dunes by Kobo Abe (February 2020)
- Same Page 2020 title
- Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata (April 2020)
- Educated by Tara Westover (May 2020)
Brown Baggers selections for June 2018 - May 2019:
- I Was Told To Come Alone by Souad Mekhennet (June 2018)
- The Zookeeper's Wife by Diane Ackerman (July 2018)
- The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane by Lisa See (August 2018)
- The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood (September 2018)
- H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald (October 2018)
- The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom (November 2018)
- December 2018 - No Selection
- Friends Divided by Gordon S. Wood (January 2019)
- Lillian Boxfish Takes A Walk by Kathleen Rooney (February 2019)
- TBD Same Page 2019 title.
- Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders (April 2019)
- Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan (May 2019)
Brown Baggers selections for June 2017 - May 2018:
- A Long Way Home by Saroo Brierley (June 2017)
- Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi (July 2017)
- My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult (August 2017)
- 1984 by George Orwell (September 2017)
- A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman (October 2017)
- Last Days of Night by Graham Moore (November 2017)
- December 2017 - No Selection
- Istanbul by Orhan Pamuk (January 2018)
- The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead (February 2018)
- What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank by Nathan Englander (March 2018) - This is the Same Page 2018 title.
- Hillbilly Elegy by JD Vance (April 2018)
- The Bad-ass Librarians of Timbuktu by Joshua Hammer (May 2018)
Brown Baggers selections for January 2016 - May 2017:
- The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters (January 2016)
- Radiance of Tomorrow by Ishmael Beah (February 2016)
- The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (March 2016) - This is the Big Read 2016 title.
- The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan (April 2016)
- One Summer: America, 1927 by Bill Bryson (May 2016)
- Howard's End by E.M. Forster (June 2016)
- The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion (July 2016)
- The Boys in the Boat (August 2016)
- King, Queen, Knave by Vladimir Nabokov (September 2016)
- Gray Mountain by John Grisham (October 2016)
- The Round House by Louise Erdrich (November 2016)
- No December 2016 selection
- The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas (January 2017)
- The English Passengers by Matthew Kneale (February 2017)
- Silver Sparrow by Tayari Jones (March 2017)
This is the Big Read 2017 title.
- Mornings on Horseback by David McCullough (April 2017)
- Old Filth by Jane Gardam (May 2017)
Brown Baggers selections for February 2015 - December 2015:
- The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd (February 2015)
- The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri (March 2015)
This is the Big Read 2015 title.
- A Visit From the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan (April 2015)
- The Reader by Bernard Schlink (May 2015)
- We Were Liars by E. Lockhart (June 2015)
- Thank You, Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse (July 2015)
- Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand (August 2015)
- The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman (September 2015)
- Dear Committee Members by Julie Schumacher (October 2015)
- All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr (November 2015)
- No December 2015 selection
Brown Baggers selections for February 2014 - January 2015:
- The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Steadman (February 2014)
- True Grit by Charles Portis (March 2014)
This is the Big Read 2014 title.
- Dear Life by Alice Munro (April 2014)
- Mr. Penumbra's 24 Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloane (May 2014)
- The Book of Daniel by E.L. Doctorow (June 2014)
- Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain (July 2014)
- Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain (August 2014)
- Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe (September 2014)
- I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai with Christina Lamb (October 2014)
- The Good Lord Bird by James McBride (November 2014)
- No December 2014 selection
- The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt (January 2015)
Brown Baggers selections for February 2013 - January 2014:
- Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery (February 2013)
- Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan (March 2013)
This is the Big Read 2013 Title.
- House of Stone: a Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East by Anthony Shadid (April 2013)
- American Pastoral by Philip Roth (May 2013)
- Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes (June 2013)
- A Train in Winter: an Extraordinary Story of Women, Friendship, and Resistance in Occupied France by Caroline Moorehead (July 2013)
- Canada by Richard Ford (August 2013)
- A Study in Scarlet by A. C. Doyle (September 2013)
- Master of the Mountain by Henry Wiencek (October 2013)
- Sweet Tooth by Ian McEwan (November 2013)
- No selection for December 2013
- Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver (January 2014)
Brown Baggers selections for February 2012 - January 2013:
- Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford (February 2012)
- Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo A. Anaya (March 2012)
This is the Big Read 2012 Title.
- People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks (April 2012)
- Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali (May 2012)
- The Good Priest's Son by Reynolds Price (June 2012)
- The Hare with Amber Eyes: a Family's Century of Art and Loss by Edmund de Waal (July 2012)
- The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey (August 2012)
- The Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller (September 2012)
- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Sloot (October 2012)
- We, the Drowned by Carsten Jensen (November 2012)
- No selection for December 2012
- Bleak House by Charles Dickens (January 2013)
Brown Baggers selections for February 2011 - January 2012:
- Child of My Heart by Alice McDermott (February 2011)
- The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett (March 2011 The group's meeting will be March 24th instead of 17th due to Virginia Festival of the Book.)
- Confederates in the Attic by Tony Horwitz (April 2011)
- Look Homeward, Angel by Tom Wolfe (May 2011)
- Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson (June 2011)
- One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (July 2011)
- The Help by Kathryn Stockett (August 2011)
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (September 2011)
- Charming Billy by Alice McDermott (October 2011)
- The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey by Candice Millard (November 2011)
- No selection for December 2011
- Moby Dick by Herman Melville (January 2012)
Brown Baggers selections for February 2010 – January 2011:
- A Lesson before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines (February 2010)
- An Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett (The group's meeting will be March 11th instead of 18th due to Virginia Festival of the Book.)
- The City of Falling Angels by John Berendt (April 2010)
- The Sun also Rises by Ernest Hemingway (May 2010)
- A Cook's Tour : in Search of the Perfect Meal by Anthony Bourdain (June 2010)
- The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer (July 2010)
- City of Thieves by David Benioff (August 2010)
- The Professor and the Mad Man by Simon Winchester (September 2010)
- Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (October 2010)
- Slaughterhouse-five by Kurt Vonnegut (November 2010)
- No selection for December 2010
- The Maples Stories by John Updike (January 2011)
Brown Baggers selections for September 2008 – January 2010:
- Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen (September 2008)
- An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England by Brock Clarke (October 2008)
- A Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin (November 2008)
- No selection for December 2008
- Run by Ann Patchett (January 2009)
- Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston (February 2009)
- The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (March 2009)
- Devil in the White City by Erik Larsen (April 2009)
- The Painted House by John Grisham (May 2009)
- My Stroke of Insight by Jill Bolte Taylor (June 2009)
- Loving Frank by Nancy Horan (July 2009)
- Netherland by Joseph O'Neill (August 2009)
- March by Geraldine Brooks (September 2009)
- Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (October 2009)
- Embers by Sàndor Màrai (November 2009)
- No selection for December 2009
- Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (January 2010)