The Comprehensive Alpine Book Club Reading list 2005-20

2005 Book Club Reading List

October: The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
November: Blood Brothers by Elias Chacour
December: Mitten Strings for God-Reflections for Mothers in a Hurry by Katrina Kenison

2006 Book Club Reading List

January: The Cay by Theodore Taylor
February: Letters for Emily by Cameron Wright
March: These is My Words by Nancy Turner
April: The Diaries of Adam and Eve by Mark Twain
May: Tarzan: King of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs
June: Glimpses Into the Life and Heart of Marjorie Pay Hinckley
July: No Book
August: Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang
September: Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
October: The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
November: The Goose Girl by Shannon Hale
December: No book

2007 Book Club Reading List

January: Share a favorite children’s book
February: Persuasion by Jane Austen
March: Candle in the Darkness by Lynn Austin
April: Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
May:  Star Girl by Jerry Spinelli
June: Bad Ground by Dale Cramer
July: No book
August: Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn
September: Charms for the Easy Live by Kaye Gibbons
October: Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
November: Out to Pature: But Not Over the Hill by Effie Leland Wilder
December: The Wednesday Letters by Jason Wright

2008 Book Club Reading List

January: The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis
February: The Trapp Family Singers by Maria Von Trapp
March: Animal Farm by George Orwell
April: Still Life With Rice and In the Absence of Sun by Helie Lee
May: Life of Pi by Yann Martel
June: An Unquiet Mind by Kay Redfield Jamison
July: Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
October: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving
November: Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson
December: Life of our Lord by Charles Dickens  and Christmas Jars by Jason Wright.

2009 Book Club Reading List

January: Train to Potevka by Michael Ramsdell
February: Enders Game and Enders Shadow by Orson Scott Card
March:The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
April: The Holy Secret by James Ferrell
May: Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
June: Hidden Places by Lynn Austin
July: March by Geraldine Brooks
August: Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
September: Reviving Ophelia by Mary Pipher
October: Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
November: Forest Lover by Susan Vreeland
December: The Greatest Christmas Pageant Ever by Barbara Robinson

2010 Book Club Reading List

January: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer
February: The Princess Bride by William Goldman
March: The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
April: Broken Things to Mend by Jeffrey R. Holland
May: To Destroy You Is No Loss by JoAn Criddle
June: Pope Joan by Donna Woolfolk Cross
July: Reading and Discussion of Declaration of Independence  and Seven Miracles that Saved America by Chris Stewart
August: The Blue Castle by L.M. Montgomery
September: The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch
October: Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
November: The Help by Kathryn Stockett
December: Mary and Joseph by Robert Marcum

2011 Book Club Reading List

January: The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton
February: A Marriage Made in Heaven: Or Too Tired For an Affair by Erma Bombeck
March:  Sarah’s Key by Tatiana de Rosnay
April: To the Rescue – The Biography of Thomas S. Monson by Heidi S. Swinton
May:  Saving CeeCee Honeycutt by Beth Hoffman
June: David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
July: The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War by Michael Shaara
August: Cordelia Underwood: Or the Marvelous Beginnings of the Moosepath League by Van Reid
September: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
October: Doomsday Book by Connie Willi
November: No book
December: The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus by Amelia Houghton

2012 Book Club Reading List

January: Matched by Ally Condie
February: The Quiet Heart by Patricia Holland
March: The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
April: Voice(s) of Hope: Latter-day Saint Perspectives on Same-Gender Attraction – An Anthology of Gospel Teachings and Personal Essays by Ty Mansfield
May: Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn
June: Dr. Zhivago or Anna Karenina
July: Mrs. Mike by Benedict and Nancy Freedman
August: Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford
September: The Entitlement Trap: How to Rescue Your Child with a New Family System of Choosing, Earning, and Ownership by Richard and Linda Eyre
October: The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie: A Flavia de Luce Mystery by Alan Bradle
November: Ida B…and Her Plans to Maximize Fun, Avoid Disaster, and (Possibly) Save the World Katherine Hannigan
December: Truce: The Day the Soldiers Stopped Fighting by Jim Murphy

2015 Book Club Reading List

January: To Mormons with Love by Chrisy Ross
February: Gift from the Sea by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
March: Driven: An Autobiography by Larry H. Miller
April: The Power of Everyday Missionaries: The What and How of Sharing the Gospel by Clayton Christensen
May: Running for my Life: One Lost Boy’s Journey from the killing Fields of Sudan to the Olympic Games by Lopez Lomong
June: Still Alice by Lisa Genova
July: River of Doubt by Candice Millard
August: Prizewinner of Defiance, Ohio: How My Mother Raised 10 Kids on 25 Words or Less by Terry Ryan
September: Cinder by Marissa Myer
October: The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Lois Stevenson
November: The Five Love Languages by Gary D. Chapman
December: The Other Wiseman by Henry Van Dyke

2016 Book Club Reading List

January: The Bronze Bow by Elizabeth George Speare
February: Just Ella by Annette Larsen
March: The Wilderness by McKay Coppins
April: The Infinite Atonement by Tad Callister
May: Silas Marner by George Eliot
June: Funny in Farsi by Firooseh Dumas
July: No book
August: Where the Wind Leads: A Refugee Family’s Miraculous Story of Loss, Rescue, and Redemption by Vinh Chung
September: Eat Cake by Jeanne Ray
October: Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaman
November: My Life in France by Julia Child
December: Jacob T. Marley by R. William Bennett

2017 Book Club Reading List

January: In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan
February: Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown
March: A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
April: Covenant Hearts by Bruce Hafen
May: Biography of Gordon B. Hinckley by Sheri Dew
June: All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
July: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
August: Counting by 7’s by Holly Goldberg Sloan
September: The 100 Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Dissappeared by Jonas Jonasson
October: The Wolves of Willoughby Chase by Joan Aiken
November: The Orphan Keeper by Camron Wright
December: Louisa May Alcott Christmas Treasury

2018 Book Club Reading List

January: How to Be Lovely by Melissa Hellstern
February: Daring Greatly by Brene Brown
March: Counting By 7’s by Holly Goldberg Sloan
April: That We May Be One by Tom Christofferson
May: The Christ Who Heals by Tyrell Givens
June: Make Your Bed: Little Things that Can Change Your Life and Maybe the World by Admiral William H. McCraven
July: Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow
August: Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
September: A Different Kind of Daughter by Maria Toorpakai
October: The Night Gardener by Jonathan Auxier
November: The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorn
December: The Character of Christ by David Bednar

2019 Book Club Reading List

January: Wolf Hollow by Lauren Wolk
February: Delusions of Gender: How our Minds, Society and Neurosexism Create Difference by Cordelia Fine.
March: Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegnar
April: The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment by Eckhart Tolle
May – August : No book (we were taking a break)
September:Educated by Tara Westover
October: Crocodile on the Sandbank by Barbra Mertz
November: Queen of Water by Laura Resau and Maria Virginia Farinango
December: Share kids book for our Christmas book club

2020 Book Club Reading List

January: When I Found Youby Catherine Ryan Hyde
February: Little Britches by Ralph Moody
March: COVID-19…
July: The Jane Austen Society by Natalie Jenner
August: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
September: Once Upon a River by Diane Setterfield