2019 |
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| MONTH | TITLE | AUTHOR | YES | NO | OTHER | |
| January | Always Too Much and Never Enough | Jasmin Singer | 8 | 0 | 1 | |
| February | The Plot Against America | Philip Roth | - | - | - | |
| March | Lab Girl | Hope Jahren | - | - | - | |
| April | The Immortalists | Chloe Benjamin | - | - | - | |
| May | Esther the Wonder Pig: Changing the World One Heart at a Time | Steve Jenkins and Derek Walter with Caprice Crane | - | - | - | |
| June | There There | Tommy Orange | - | - | - | |
| July | -- | -- | - | - | - | |
| August | -- | -- | - | - | - | |
| September | -- | -- | - | - | - | |
| October | -- | -- | - | - | - | |
| November | -- | -- | - | - | - | |
2018 |
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| MONTH | TITLE | AUTHOR | YES | NO | OTHER | |
| January | The Age of Innocence | Edith Wharton | 3 | 0 | 0 | |
| February | The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds | Michael Lewis | 6 | 1 | 1 | |
| March | The Green and the Red | Armand Chauvel | 1 | 1 | 0 | |
| April | How to Create a Vegan World: A Pragmatic Approach | Tobias Leenaert | 11 | 0 | 1 | |
| May | The Underground Railroad | Colson Whitehead | 5 | 0 | 0 | |
| June | Eleanor and Hick: The Love Affair That Shaped a First Lady | Susan Quinn | 6 | 0 | 0 | |
| July | Station Eleven | Emily St. John Mandel | 0 | 2 | 0 | |
| August | Ageless Vegan: The Secret to Living a Long and Healthy Plant-Based Life | Tracye McQuirter and Mary McQuirter | 10 | 0 | 0 | |
| September | The Mayor of Casterbridge | Thomas Hardy | 2 | 0 | 0 | |
| October | Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? | Frans de Waal | 3 | 1 | 1 | |
| November | Less | Andrew Sean Greer | 2 | 1 | 1 | |
2017 |
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| MONTH | TITLE | AUTHOR | YES | NO | OTHER | |
| January | Meatonomics | David Robinson Simon | 5 | 0 | 2 | |
| February | The Vegetarian | Han Kang | 5 | 1 | 3 | |
| March | Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption | Bryan Stevenson | 7 | 0 | 1 | |
| April | Redeployment | Phil Klay | 2 | 1 | 0 | |
| May | The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness | Sy Montgomery | 7 | 2 | 3 | |
| June | The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy | Douglas Adams | 10 | 0 | 2 | |
| July | What a Fish Knows: The Inner Lives of our Underwater Cousins | Jonathan Balcombe | 8 | 0 | 1 | |
| August | Scoop | Evelyn Waugh | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
| September | The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals | Charles Darwin | 1 | 4 | 1 | |
| October | The Handmaid’s Tale | Margaret Atwood | 8 | 1 | 0 | |
| November | Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City | Matthew Desmond | 9 | 0 | 0 | |
2016 |
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| MONTH | TITLE | AUTHOR | YES | NO | OTHER | |
| January | Off the Reservation | Glen Merzer | 4 | 1 | 4 | |
| February | Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End | Atul Gawande | 6 | 0 | 3 | |
| March | My Brilliant Friend | Elena Ferrante | 5 | 0 | 1 | |
| April | Elephant Company: The Inspiring Story of an Unlikely Hero and the Animals Who Helped Him Save Lives in World War II | Vicki Croke | 3 | 0 | 3 | |
| May | Leaving Time | Jodi Picoult | 5 | 2 | 1 | |
| June | The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History | Elizabeth Kolbert | 7 | 0 | 3 | |
| July | Jerry’s Vegan Women | Ben Shaberman | 2 | 2 | 2 | |
| August | The Most Good You Can Do: How Effective Altruism Is Changing Ideas About Living Ethically | Peter Singer | 8 | 1 | 3 | |
| September | The Bear Went Over the Mountain | William Kotzwinkle | 3 | 2 | 2 | |
| October | The Glass Castle | Jeannette Walls | 3 | 0 | 1 | |
| November | Dietland | Sarai Walker | 2 | 2 | 2 | |
2015 |
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| MONTH | TITLE | AUTHOR | YES | NO | OTHER | |
| January | Defiant Daughters: 21 Women on Art, Activism, Animals, and the Sexual Politics of Meat | Kara Davis and Wendy Lee, eds. | 3 | 0 | 4 | |
| February | The Rosie Project: A Novel | Graeme Simsion | 3 | 0 | 1 | |
| March | The Lucky Ones: My Passionate Fight for Farm Animals | Jenny Brown | 10 | 0 | 1 | |
| April | Dog On It | Spencer Quinn | 3 | 4 | 3 | |
| May | A Fighting Chance | Elizabeth Warren | 8 | 1 | 0 | |
| June | The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry | Gabrielle Zevin | 5 | 0 | 1 | |
| July | The Lusty Vegan: A Cookbook and Relationship Manifesto for Vegans and Those Who Love Them | Ayinde Howell and Zoe Eisenberg | 1 | 3 | 5 | |
| August | The Adventures of Vivian Sharpe, Vegan Superhero | Marla Rose | 7 | 0 | 0 | |
| September | Will Travel for Vegan Food | Kristin Lajeunesse | 8 | 1 | 3 | |
| October | Lord of the Flies | William Golding | 4 | 1 | 3 | |
| November | The Astronaut Wives Club | Lily Koppel | 4 | 1 | 4 | |
2014 |
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| MONTH | TITLE | AUTHOR | YES | NO | OTHER | |
| January | Where’d You Go, Bernadette | Maria Semple | 7 | 0 | 3 | |
| February | My Beloved World | Sonia Sotomayor | 9 | 0 | 1 | |
| March | Tell the Wolves I’m Home | Carol Rifka Brunt | 6 | 0 | 0 | |
| April | Veganomics: The Surprising Science on What Motivates Vegetarians, from the Breakfast Table to the Bedroom | Nick Cooney | 15 | 0 | 0 | |
| May | The Chain | Robin Lamont | 2 | 2 | 1 | |
| June | The Genius of Dogs | Brian Hare and Vanessa Woods | 1 | 0 | 3 | |
| July | The Odds: A Love Story | Stewart O’Nan | 6 | 1 | 1 | |
| August | Prosperity without Growth: Economics for a Finite Planet | Tim Jackson | 6 | 0 | 4 | |
| September | The Awareness | Gene Stone and Jon Doyle | 1 | 2 | 2 | |
| October | Animal Wise: How We Know Animals Think and Feel | Virginia Morell | 11 | 2 | 1 | |
| November | We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves | Karen Joy Fowler | 6 | 0 | 0 | |
2013 |
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| MONTH | TITLE | AUTHOR | YES | NO | OTHER | |
| January | The Bond | Wayne Pacelle | 6 | 0 | 0 | |
| February | Gilead | Marilynne Robinson | 1 | 0 | 3 | |
| March | Rin Tin Tin | Susan Orlean | 8 | 0 | 2 | |
| April | Dandelion Wine | Ray Bradbury | 5 | 0 | 2 | |
| May | Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Can’t Stop Talking | Susan Cain | 13 | 0 | 1 | |
| June | Three Bags Full | Leonie Swann | 3 | 0 | 1 | |
| July | Wild | Cheryl Strayed | 15 | 0 | 0 | |
| August | The Weird Sisters | Eleanor Brown | 3 | 1 | 3 | |
| September | Infidel | Ayaan Hirsi Ali | 3 | 1 | 1 | |
| October | How It All Began | Penelope Lively | 5 | 0 | 0 | |
| November | Finding Ultra: Rejecting Middle Age, Becoming One of the World’s Fittest Men, and Discovering Myself | Rich Roll | 16 | 1 | 1 | |
2012 |
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| MONTH | TITLE | AUTHOR | YES | NO | OTHER | |
| January | The Straight Man | Richard Russo | 2 | 0 | 1 | |
| February | The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival | John Vailllant | 12 | 0 | 0 | |
| March | When the Killing’s Done | T.C. Boyle | 2 | 6 | 2 | |
| April | Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything | Joshua Foer | 9 | 0 | 1 | |
| May | Netherland | Joseph O’Neill | 2 | 2 | 1 | |
| June | Animal Impact: Secrets Proven to Achieve Results and Move the World | Caryn Ginsberg | 11 | 0 | 0 | |
| July | Lolly Willowes | Sylvia Townsend Warner | 3 | 0 | 1 | |
| August | Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen | Christopher McDougall | 13 | 0 | 1 | |
| September | The Submission | Amy Waldman | 4 | 1 | 0 | |
| October | Transition | Chaz Bono | 5 | 0 | 0 | |
| November | The Marriage Plot | Jeffrey Eugenides | 2 | 0 | 0 | |
2011 |
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| MONTH | TITLE | AUTHOR | YES | NO | OTHER | |
| January | Eating Animals | Jonathan Safran Foer | 15 | 0 | 1 | |
| February | Sag Harbor | Colson Whitehead | 6 | 0 | 1 | |
| March | No One Would Listen: A True Financial Thriller | Harry Markopolos | 11 | 0 | 0 | |
| April | The Vampire and The Vegan | Merlene Alicia Vassall | 10 | 0 | 2 | |
| May | Farm Sanctuary: Changing Hearts and Minds About Animals and Food | Gene Baur | 7 | 0 | 0 | |
| June | Let the Great World Spin | Colum McCann | 2 | 0 | 2 | |
| July | The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks | Rebecca Skloot | 8 | 0 | 0 | |
| August | The Imperfectionists | Tom Rachman | 6 | 3 | 0 | |
| September | Just Kids | Patti Smith | 7 | 0 | 1 | |
| October | Anthill | E.O. Wilson | 4 | 0 | 1 | |
| November | The World Peace Diet | Will Tuttle | 4 | 1 | 3 | |
2010 |
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| MONTH | TITLE | AUTHOR | YES | NO | OTHER | |
| January | The Great Man | Kate Christensen | 10 | 0 | 3 | |
| February | A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier | Ishmael Beah | 9 | 0 | 0 | |
| March | Stoner | John Williams | 5 | 0 | 1 | |
| April | Animals Make Us Human | Temple Grandin | 7 | 1 | 3 | |
| May | The Elegance of the Hedgehog | Muriel Barbery | 5 | 1 | 2 | |
| June | The Geography of Bliss | Eric Weiner | 11 | 1 | 3 | |
| July | The Heart is a Lonely Hunter | Carson McCullers | 5 | 0 | 1 | |
| August | Your Inner Fish: A Journet into the 3.5 Billion Year History of the Human Body | Neil Shubin | 4 | 0 | 1 | |
| September | The Art of Racing in the Rain | Garth Stein | 2 | 2 | 2 | |
| October | A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail | Bill Bryson | 9 | 0 | 0 | |
| November | The Lovely Bones | Alice Sebold | 6 | 2 | 1 | |
2009 |
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| MONTH | TITLE | AUTHOR | YES | NO | OTHER | |
| January | Nim Chimpsky: The Chimp Who Would Be Human | Elizabeth Hess | 5 | 0 | 0 | |
| February | The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears | Dinaw Mengestu | 9 | 0 | 1 | |
| March | In Praise of Slowness: Challenging the Cult of Speed | Carl Honore | 7 | 3 | 1 | |
| April | The Dogs of Babel | Carolyn Parkhurst | 4 | 1 | 2 | |
| May | Around the World on Two Wheels: Annie Londonderry’s Extraordinary Ride | Peter Zheutlin | 5 | 0 | 0 | |
| June | Flowers for Algernon | Daniel Keyes | 4 | 1 | 0 | |
| July | Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness | Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein | 5 | 0 | 1 | |
| August | Rabbit, Run | John Updike | 2 | 1 | 3 | |
| September | Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace… One School at a Time | Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin | 14 | 1 | 0 | |
| October | Olive Kitteridge | Elizabeth Strout | 5 | 0 | 3 | |
| November | The Vegan Monologues | Ben Shaberman | 16 | 0 | 3 | |
2008 |
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| MONTH | TITLE | AUTHOR | YES | NO | OTHER | |
| January | Pleasurable Kingdom | Jonathan Balcombe | 9 | 0 | 0 | |
| February | Water for Elephants | Sara Gruen | 3 | 0 | 0 | |
| March | Never Cry Wolf: Amazing True Story of Life Among Arctic Wolves | Farley Mowat | 9 | 0 | 0 | |
| April | The Tempest | William Shakespeare | 7 | 0 | 2 | |
| May | Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life | Barbara Kingsolver | 5 | 1 | 0 | |
| June | A Long Fatal Love Chase | Louisa May Alcott | 3 | 1 | 1 | |
| July | The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy: An Economist Examines the Markets, Power, and Politics of World Trade | Pietra Rivoli | 10 | 0 | 0 | |
| August | Tales of the City | Armistead Maupin | 7 | 0 | 0 | |
| September | How Starbucks Saved My Life | Michael Gates Gill | 10 | 0 | 0 | |
| October | Caucasia | Danzy Senna | 5 | 1 | 1 | |
| November | The World Without Us | Alan Weisman | 8 | 0 | 0 | |
2007 |
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| MONTH | TITLE | AUTHOR | YES | NO | OTHER | |
| January | The Jane Austen Book Club | Karen Jay Fowler | 2 | 1 | 3 | |
| February | For the Prevention of Cruelty: the history and legacy of animal rights activism in the United States | Diane L. Beers | 3 | 0 | 1 | |
| March | The Heidi Chronicles, Uncommon Women and Others, and Isn’t It Romantic | Wendy Wasserstein | 8 | 0 | 1 | |
| April | Harvest for Hope: A Guide to Mindful Eating | Jane Goodall | 3 | 0 | 0 | |
| May | Slaughterhouse-Five | Kurt Vonnegut | 9 | 0 | 1 | |
| June | Night | Elie Wiesel | 7 | 0 | 0 | |
| July | Timbuktu | Paul Auster | 5 | 0 | 1 | |
| August | The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature | Geoffrey Miller | 2 | 1 | 0 | |
| September | Black Beauty | Anna Sewell | 4 | 0 | 1 | |
| October | Voodoo Science: The Road from Foolishness to Fraud | Robert Park | 5 | 0 | 0 | |
| November | Unsafe Harbor: A Rachel Porter Mystery | Jessica Speart | 2 | 5 | 3 | |
2006 |
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| MONTH | TITLE | AUTHOR | YES | NO | OTHER | |
| January | Confessions of an Economic Hit Man | John Perkins | 10 | 0 | 2 | |
| February | Rubyfruit Jungle | Rita Mae Brown | 12 | 1 | 1 | |
| March | The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time | Jonathan Weiner | 5 | 0 | 2 | |
| April | Lost in the City | Edward P. Jones | 8 | 1 | 1 | |
| May | Bayou Farewell: the rich life and tragic death of Louisiana’s cajun coast | Mike Tidwell | 6 | 0 | 0 | |
| June | The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time | Mark Haddon | 10 | 0 | 1 | |
| July | Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood | Marjane Satrapi | 7 | 0 | 0 | |
| August | Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close | Jonathan Safran Foer | 7 | 0 | 0 | |
| September | Banker to the Poor: micro-lending and the battle against world poverty | Muhammad Yunus | 5 | 0 | 0 | |
| October | Sammy’s Hill | Kristin Gore | 2 | 0 | 2 | |
| November | Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books | Azar Nafisi | 4 | 1 | 3 | |
| December | VSDC Holiday Event | |||||
2005 |
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| MONTH | TITLE | AUTHOR | YES | NO | OTHER | |
| January | The Awakening | Kate Chopin | 2 | 1 | 2 | |
| February | Silent Spring | Rachel Carson | 7 | 0 | 0 | |
| March | West of the Jordan | Laila Halaby | 2 | 2 | 1 | |
| April | Dominion | Matthew Scully | 4 | 0 | 0 | |
| May | Nathan Coulter | Wendell Berry | 0 | 2 | 0 | |
| June | Red Tails in Love: A Wildlife Drama in Central Park | Marie Winn | 5 | 0 | 0 | |
| July | The Kite Runner | Khaled Hosseini | 8 | 0 | 0 | |
| August | Among the Bears: Raising Orphaned Cubs in the Wild | Benjamin Kilham | 1 | 2 | 0 | |
| September | Like Life: Stories | Lorrie Moore | 0 | 2 | 2 | |
| October | The Tipping Point: how little things can make a big difference | Malcolm Gladwell | 8 | 2 | 2 | |
| November | The Inn at Lake Devine | Elinor Lipman | 8 | 0 | 1 | |
| December | VSDC Holiday Event | |||||
2004 |
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| MONTH | TITLE | AUTHOR | YES | NO | OTHER | |
| January | Old Books, Rare Friends: two literary sleuths and their shared passion | Leona Rostenberg, Madeleine Stern | 4 | 1 | 0 | |
| February | River, Cross My Heart | Breena Clarke | 5 | 1 | 1 | |
| March | Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America | Barbara Ehrenreich | 8 | 0 | 1 | |
| April | The Red Pony | John Steinbeck | 3 | 0 | 2 | |
| May | Globalization and Its Discontents | Joseph E. Stiglitz | 7 | 2 | 1 | |
| June | How to be Good | Nick Hornby | 9 | 1 | 1 | |
| July | Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things | William McDonough, Michael Braungart | 4 | 0 | 0 | |
| August | Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress | Sijie Dai | 5 | 1 | 0 | |
| September | Strange Fruit: The Biography of a Song | David Margolick | 5 | 2 | 2 | |
| October | Tell Me a Riddle | Tillie Olsen | 0 | 2 | 2 | |
| November | Wild Health: how animals keep themselves well and what we can learn from them | Cindy Engel | 4 | 0 | 1 | |
| December | VSDC Holiday Party | |||||
2003 |
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| MONTH | TITLE | AUTHOR | YES | NO | OTHER | |
| January | Ethics into Action: Henry Spira and the Animal Rights Movement | Peter Singer | 6 | 0 | 0 | |
| February | Headlong: A Novel | Michael Frayn | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| March | The Botany of Desire: A Plant’s-Eye View of the World | Michael Pollan | 5 | 0 | 0 | |
| April | Disgrace | J.M. Coetzee | 7 | 1 | 0 | |
| May | The Tao of Pooh | Benjamin Hoff | 11 | 0 | 0 | |
| June | Mrs. Dalloway | Virginia Woolf | 5 | 1 | 1 | |
| July | The Wilderness World of John Muir | John Muir | 6 | 0 | 0 | |
| August | The Nanny Diaries | Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus | 4 | 1 | 1 | |
| September | All of One Peace, Essays on Nonviolence | Colman McCarthy | 8 | 0 | 0 | |
| October | Interpreter of Maladies | Jhumpa Lahiri | 8 | 0 | 0 | |
| November | Pilgrim at Tinker Creek | Annie Dillard | 1 | 0 | 2 | |
| December | Readings by group: Share something up to 3 minutes long | |||||
2002 |
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| MONTH | TITLE | AUTHOR | YES | NO | OTHER | |
| January | I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings | Maya Angelou | 3 | 0 | 1 | |
| February | Me Talk Pretty One Day | David Sedaris | 4 | 1 | 0 | |
| March | Girl with a Pearl Earring | Tracy Chavalier | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| April | Living Among Meat Eaters: The Vegetarian’s Survival Handbook | Carol J. Adams | 2 | 0 | 2 | |
| May | The Edible Woman | Margaret Atwood | 2 | 2 | 1 | |
| June | The Parrot’s Lament: and other true tales of animal intrigue, intelligence, and ingenuity | Eugene Linden | 2 | 2 | 0 | |
| July | Blitzcat | Robert Westall | 5 | 0 | 1 | |
| August | Fast Food Nation | Eric Schlosser | 7 | 0 | 0 | |
| September | The Jungle | Upton Sinclair | 3 | 0 | 0 | |
| October | The Battle for God | Karen Armstrong | 0 | 0 | 3 | |
| November | Ishmael | Daniel Quinn | 4 | 3 | 0 | |
| December | Readings by group: Share something up to 3 minutes long | |||||
2001 |
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| MONTH | TITLE | AUTHOR | YES | NO | OTHER | |
| January | The Chosen | Chaim Potok | 12 | 1 | 0 | |
| February | Through a Window | Jane Goodall | 6 | 0 | 0 | |
| March | After the Blue | Russel Like | 1 | 2 | 2 | |
| April | Sex on the Brain: the biological differences between men and women | Deborah Blum | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
| May | Regeneration | Pat Barker | 3 | 0 | 1 | |
| June | Rattling the Cage: Toward Legal Rights for Animals | Steven Wise | 0 | 0 | 3 | |
| July | Waiting | Ha Jin | 4 | 0 | 1 | |
| August | Into the Wild | Jon Krakauer | 6 | 1 | 3 | |
| September | A Home at the End of the World | Michael Cunningham | 4 | 0 | 0 | |
| October | How I Became Hettie Jones | Hettie Jones | 5 | 0 | 0 | |
| November | Sunshine Rider: The First Vegetarian Western | Ric Lynden Hardman | ||||
| December | Readings by group: Share something up to 3 minutes long | |||||
2000 |
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| MONTH | TITLE | AUTHOR | YES | NO | OTHER | |
| January | The Rarest of the Rare | Diane Ackerman | 5 | 0 | 0 | |
| February | Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone | J. K. Rowling | 3 | 0 | 0 | |
| March | Thoughts Without a Thinker: psychotherapy from a Buddhist perspective | Mark Epstein | 10 | 2 | 1 | |
| April | Women of Sand and Myrrh | Hanan Al-Shaykh | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
| May | Stonewall | Martin Duberman | 3 | 0 | 0 | |
| June | My Year of Meats | Ruth Ozeki | 3 | 0 | 1 | |
| July | A Tribe Apart: A Journey into the Heart of American Adolescence | Patricia Hersch | 6 | 0 | 1 | |
| August | The Hundred Secret Senses | Amy Tan | 6 | 0 | 0 | |
| September | Waiting to Forget | Margaret Moorman | 4 | 0 | 0 | |
| October | To Kill a Mockingbird | Harper Lee | 9 | 0 | 0 | |
| November | The Orchid Thief | Susan Orlean | 4 | 1 | 0 | |
| December | Readings by group: Share something up to 3 minutes long | |||||
1999 |
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| MONTH | TITLE | AUTHOR | YES | NO | OTHER | |
| January | The God of Small Things | Arundhati Roy | 2 | 1 | 3 | |
| February | Toxic Sludge is Good for You! Lies, Damn Lies and the Public Relations Industry | John Stauber, Sheldon Rampton | 11 | 0 | 0 | |
| March | Animal Husbandry | Laura Zigman | 6 | 0 | 0 | |
| April | Cultivating the Mind of Love | Thich Nhat Hanh | 3 | 2 | 3 | |
| May | Animal Farm | George Orwell | 13 | 0 | 0 | |
| June | Desert Solitaire | Edward Abbey | 4 | 2 | 4 | |
| July | The Dispossessed | Ursula LeGuin | 5 | 2 | 1 | |
| August | The Call of Service: A Witness to Idealism | Robert Coles | 3 | 2 | 2 | |
| September | How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents | Julia Alvarez | 0 | 3 | 1 | |
| October | The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: a Hmong child, her American doctors, and the collision of two cultures | Anne Fadiman | 5 | 2 | 1 | |
| November | A Cry for Self-Help | Jaqueline Girdner | 0 | 3 | 2 | |
| December | Readings by group: Share something up to 3 minutes long | |||||
1998 |
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| MONTH | TITLE | AUTHOR | YES | NO | OTHER | |
| January | None to Accompany Me | Gordimer | 2 | 0 | 4 | |
| February | The Snow Leopard | Matthiessen | 1 | 4 | 2 | |
| March | True Story: A Comedy Novel | Maher | 4 | 3 | 0 | |
| April | Spontaneous Healing | Weil | 7 | 1 | 0 | |
| May | On the Road | Kerouac | 8 | 0 | 0 | |
| June | Long Quiet Highway: Waking Up America | Goldberg | 5 | 0 | 0 | |
| July | Martha Quest | Lessing | 2 | 0 | 1 | |
| August | The Dreaded Comparison: Human and Animal Slavery | Spiegel | 7 | 0 | 2 | |
| September | Enormous Changes at the Last Minute | Paley | 1 | 3 | 1 | |
| October | The Starship and the Canoe | Brower | 7 | 0 | 0 | |
| November | Food for the Gods | Berry | 6 | 0 | 2 | |
| December | Readings by group: Share something up to 3 minutes long | |||||
1997 |
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| Recommend? | ||||||
| MONTH | TITLE | AUTHOR | YES | NO | OTHER | |
| January | The Wedding | Dorothy West | 9 | 0 | 2 | |
| February | Paula | Isabel Allende | 5 | 0 | 0 | |
| March | Paddy Clark Ha Ha Ha | Doyle | 2 | 0 | 2 | |
| April | The Saturated Self: Dilemmas of Identity in Contemporary Life | Gergen | 0 | 4 | 1 | |
| May | The Here and Now | Cohen | 2 | 2 | 1 | |
| June | The Jew in the Lotus: A Poet’s Rediscovery of Jewish Identity in Buddhist India | Kamenetz | 3 | 2 | 2 | |
| July | Open Secrets | Munro | 2 | 2 | 0 | |
| August | Amazing Grace: The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation | Kozol | 6 | 0 | 0 | |
| September | Candida | Shaw | 4 | 0 | 1 | |
| October | The Invisible Partners: how the male and female in each of us affects our relationships | Sanford | 2 | 5 | 0 | |
| November | I Should Have Stayed Home: The Worst Trips of the Great American Writers | Rapoport & Castanera, editors | 4 | 0 | 0 | |
| December | Readings by group: Share something up to 3 minutes long | |||||