Chapters Past Titles
Chapters, a book discussion group for adults, is the perfect place to meet other members of your community, discuss interesting books and share ideas and opinions in a relaxed and informal setting. Chapters meets at 7 p.m. in the downstairs Board Room on the third Thursday of the month. To register, email wmtl@wmtl.org , call 973-728-2822 or visit the Adult/Teen Services desk.
2013 |
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| The Barbarian Nurseries | Hector Tobar |
| Sweet Summer: Growing Up With and Without My Dad | Bebe Moore Campbell |
2012 |
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| Beautiful Ruins | Jess Walter |
| The Fellowship of the Ring | J.R.R. Tolkien |
| My Year with Eleanor | Noelle Hancock |
| Nightwoods | Charles Frazier |
| Peace Like a River | Leif Enger |
| Pride & Prejudice | Jane Austen |
| The Pursuit of Happyness | Chris Gardner |
| Seabiscuit | Laura Hillenbrand |
| The Warmth of Other Suns | Isabel Wilkerson |
| Watermark | Vanitha Sankaran |
2011 |
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| Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother | Amy Chua |
| Blame | Michelle Huneven |
| Every Last One | Anna Quindlen |
| My Name is Mary Sutter | Robin Oliveira |
| The Other Wes Moore | Wes Moore |
| Outliers | Malcolm Gladwell |
| Oxygen | Carol Cassella |
| Unbroken | Laura Hillenbrand |
| The Wives of Henry Oades | Johanna Moran |
| Zoo Story | Thomas French |
2010 |
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| Animal, Vegetable, Miracle | Barbara Kingsolver |
| The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time | Mark Haddon |
| The Grapes of Wrath | John Steinbeck |
| The Help | Kathryn Stockett |
| The Historian | Elizabeth Kostova |
| The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks | Rebecca Skloot |
| Mudbound | Hillary Jordan |
| The Postmistress | Sarah Blake |
| Pretty is What Changes | Jessica Queller |
| Three Weeks to Say Goodbye | C.J. Box |
2009 |
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| Cost | Roxana Robinson |
| The Double Bind | Chris Bohjalian |
| The Great Gatsby | F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| The House on Beartown Road | Elizabeth Cohen |
| Howards End | E.M. Forster |
| My Life in Fance | Julia Child |
| On Beauty | Zadie Smith |
| The Secret Scripture | Sebastian Barry |
| Teacher Man | Frank McCourt |
| Those Who Save Us | Jenna Blum |
2008 |
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| A Free Life | Ha Jin |
| The Color of Water | James McBride |
| Cry, the Beloved Country | Alan Paton |
| Digging to America | Anne Tyler |
| The Glass Castle | Jeannette Walls |
| The Great Santini | Pat Conroy |
| Lost Men | Brian Leung |
| The Plot Against America | Philip Roth |
| Snow Flower and the Secret Fan | Lisa See |
| The Year of Magical Thinking | Joan Didion |
2007 |
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| Angel’s Rest | Charles R. Davis |
| The Buffalo Soldier | Chris Bohjalian |
| Eat, Pray, Love | Elizabeth Gilbert |
| Lydia Cassatt Reading the Morning Paper | Harriet Scott Chessman |
| Open Secrets | Alice Munro |
| Portrait in Sepia | Isabel Allende |
| Stones from the River | Ursula Hegi |
| Tender at the Bone | Ruth Reichel |
| Their Eyes Were Watching God | Zora Neale Hurston |
| A Tree Grows in Brooklyn | Betty Smith |
2006 |
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| Atonement | Ian McEwan |
| Deafening | Frances Itani |
| The Ditchdigger's Daughter | Yvonne S. Thornton |
| The Ha-Ha | Dave King |
| The Ice Queen | Alice Hoffman |
| The Lost Legends of New Jersey | Frederick Reiken |
| The Memory Keeper's Daughter | Kim Edwards |
| The Rule of Four | Ian Caldwell, Dustin Thomason |
| A Wedding in December | Anita Shreve |
| You Remind Me of Me | Dan Chaon |
2005 |
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| The Falls | Joyce Carol Oates |
| Gift from the Sea | Ann Morrow Lindbergh |
| Happiness | Will Ferguson |
| The Lake of Dead Languages | Carol Goodman |
| The Life of Pi | Yann Martel |
| The Shadow of the Wind | Carlos Ruiz Zafon |
| A Shortcut in Time | Charles Dickinson |
| The Eyre Affair | Jasper Fforde |
| The Confessions of Max Tivoli | Sean Green |
| The Time Traveler's Wife | Audrey Niffennegger |
2004 |
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| All is Vanity | Christina Schwarz |
| Bel Canto | Ann Patchett |
| Child of My Heart | Alice McDermott |
| Hidden Power | Kati Marton |
| The Kite Runner | Khaled Hosseini |
| The Last Girls | Lee Smith |
| A Long Way from Home | Connie Briscoe |
| Lucy | Ellen Feldman |
| The Mammoth Cheese | Sheri Holman |
| The Nanny Diaries | Emma McLaughlin, Nicola Kraus |
| Sister of My Heart | Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni |
| The Song Reader | Lisa Tucker |
2003 |
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| The Accidental Tourist | Anne Tyler |
| The Dive from Clausen's Pier | Ann Packer |
| I Know This Much Is True | Wally Lamb |
| Martyr's Crossing | Amy Wilentz |
| The New Work of Dogs | Jon Katz |
| Old Dogs and Children | Robert Inman |
| The Secret Life of Bees | Sue Monk Kidd |
| A Walk in the Woods | Bill Bryson |
| Without Reservations | Alice Steinbach |
2002 |
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| The Cater Street Hangman | Anne Perry |
| City of Light | Lauren Belfer |
| Clover | Dori Sanders |
| Confederates in the Attic | Tony Horwitz |
| Disobedience | Jane Hamilton |
| Four Letters of Love | Niall Williams |
| Henry and Clara | Thomas Mallon |
| Miss Julia Speaks Her Mind | Ann B. Ross |
| She Walks These Hills | Sharyn McCrumb |
| A Spanish Love | Joanna Trollope |
| The Stone Diaries | Carol Shields |
| This One and Magic Life | Anne George |
2001 |
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| Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistlestop Cafe | Fannie Flagg |
| The Kitchen God's Wife | Amy Tan |
| Lord of the Flies | William Golding |
| The Lords of Discipline | Pat Conroy |
| Montana 1948 | Larry Watson |
| Plainsong | Kent Haruf |
| The Poisonwood Bible | Barbara Kingsolver |
| The Red Tent | Anita Diamant |
| Reservation Road | John Burnham Schwartz |
| Saint Maybe | Anne Tyler |
| Talking God | Tony Hillerman |
| To Kill a Mockingbird | Harper Lee |