My mom’s book club has been meeting for 27 years. Twenty. Seven. Years. They started in 1999, and have read over 300 books. And because they are the most organized women alive… they wrote every single one down.
I got my hands on the list and was honestly humbled. Out of 300+ books, I’ve only read 35. Thirty-five! And so many of them are titles I know — bestsellers, award winners, books that have been everywhere. No excuses.
Check out the full list below, either to see how many you’ve read, ideas for your next book club read, or just to take a peek at what other folks are reading!
1999
Memoirs of a Geisha
Poisonwood Bible
Mrs. Dalloway
Spending
Pilot’s Wife
The Reader
Crossing to Safety
Midwives
Reviving Ophelia
Snow Falling on Cedars
Visitors
2000
Love in the Time of Cholera
Yellow Raft in Blue Water
What We Keep
Cider House Rules
Tortilla Curtain
Red Tent
Amy and Isabelle
The Magician’s Assistant
Julie and Romeo
Durable Goods
Map of Love Moving
Violations
2001
Starting Out in the Evening
Drowning Ruth
Ahab’s Wife
Corelli’s Mandolin
Girl With a Pearl Earring
Lust for Life
The Mammy
The Picture of Dorian Gray
We Were the Mulvaneys
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Glass Palace
Tell No One
The Big Stone Gap
2002
Corrections
Rebecca
Princess
Hannah’s Daughters
The Secret Life of Bees
Atonement
Summer After June
Five Quarters of the Orange
How to Be Good
Of Human Bondage
Tender is the Night
2003
Blessings
The Last Girls
The Other Boleyn Girl
Year of Wonders
Bel Canto
The Da Vinci Code
Three Junes
While I Was Gone
East of Eden
Mystic River
The Time Traveler’s Wife
2004
A Leap of Faith
The Amateur Marriage
The Many Lives & Secret Sorrows of Josephine B.
Waiting
Kite Runner
Alias Grace
The Jane Austen Book Club
My Sister’s Keeper
The Color of Water
A Fine Balance
Tales of Passion, Tales of Woe
2005
Time & Again
A Year By the Sea
The Art of Mending
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Little Children
Defying Gravity
Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons
Twilight
Snow Flower & the Secret Fan
The English Teacher
Absent Friends
Aloft
2006
Amagansett
A Thread of Grace
The 10th Circle
Gentlemen & Players
The Glass Castle
The Photograph
The Alchemist’s Daughter
1000 White Women
Water for Elephants
2007
The Thirteenth Tale
The Alchemist
Mrs. Kimble
The Tender Bar
Special Topics in Calamity Physics
A Thousand Splendid Suns
Shadow of the Wind
What Makes Sammy Run
The Whistling Season
The Boleyn Inheritance
100 Years of Solitude
Travels With Charley
2008
On Chesil Beach
Queen of the South
Pillars of the Earth
Suite Française
The Savage Garden
The Gravedigger’s Daughter
The House at Riverton
Loving Frank
Devil in the White City
The Wednesday Letters
The Lace Reader
2009
Run
The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society
The Hour I First Believed
The Given Day
Olive Kitteridge
Still Alice
The 19th Wife
The Road
The Help
The Secret Scripture
Wishful Drinking
2010
A Separate Country
The Piano Teacher
They Did It With Love
Little Bee
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter & Sweet
The Housekeeper & the Professor
Some Girls: My Life in a Harem
Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
A Soft Place to Land
The Postmistress
One Day
Perfection
2011
Amsterdam
A Farewell to Arms
The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox
Unbroken
Adults
Room
The Paris Wife
Forever
What Alice Forgot
The Kitchen House
Rules of Civility
2012
The Marriage Plot
The Hunger Games
History of a Pleasure Seeker
11/22/63
The Red Book
The Dressmaker
Gone Girl
The Whipping Club
Netherland
The Chaperone
The Light Between Oceans
2013
Tell the Wolves I’m Home
Restless
Me Before You
The Good House
The Interestings
Life After Life
The Dinner
Orange is the New Black
The Husband’s Secret
The Cuckoo’s Calling
The Boys in the Boat
2014
The Goldfinch
Longbourn
The Invention of Wings
Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore
The Banks of Certain Rivers
Cutting for Stone
Orphan Train
This is Where I Leave You
The Fault in Our Stars
The Snow Queen
Adultery
Neverhome
2015
And Then There Were None
The Girl on the Train
A Spool of Blue Thread
All the Light We Cannot See
The Art Forger
Dead Wake
Saint Mazie
I Am Pilgrim
The Glitter and the Gold
Let the Great World Spin
The Home Place
2016
Emma
The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
My Name is Lucy Barton
When Breath Becomes Air
The Nest
The Lilac Girls
Our Souls at Night
Before the Fall
A Man Called Ove
Nutshell
Hungry Heart
2017
Last Days of Night
The Rent Collector
Ghost Hampton
The Second Mrs. Hockaday
The Paris Architect
Into the Water
The Perfume Collector
The Light We Lost
A Gentleman in Moscow
The Lying Game
The Last Mrs. Parrish
2018
The Reminders
The Woman in the Window
Before We Were Yours
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Home Fire
Tangerine
Something in the Water
The Girl Who Wrote in Silk
White Houses
The Masterpiece
The Collector’s Apprentice
2019
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
The Wife
The Great Alone
Inheritance
Daisy Jones & the Six
A Man is No Woman
City of Girls
Flight Behavior
The Unlonely Planet
The House of Broken Angels
Beneath a Scarlet Sky
2020
Just Kids
The Dutch House
A Long Petal of the Sea
Such a Fun Age
The Only Woman in the Room
Never Have I Ever
The Sweeney Sisters
Normal People
The Vanishing Half
Untamed
The Bookshop of Yesterdays
American Dirt
2021
Dearest Friend
Darling Rose Gold
Monogamy
The Four Winds
Hidden Valley Road
The Mountains Sing
Blush
Scruples
The Paper Palace
The Henna Artist
The Reading List
2022
Malibu Rising
The Magnolia Palace
The Last Flight
The Maid
The Lincoln Highway
One Italian Summer
Family Money
The Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Post
The Measure
The Marriage Portrait
Jacqueline in Paris
2023
In Cold Blood
Our Missing Hearts
Mad Honey
Lessons in Chemistry
Hello Beautiful
Hang the Moon
The House of Eve
The Cloisters
Tom Lake
North Woods
The Leftover Woman
2024
Madame Fourcade’s Secret War
The Berry Pickers
Remarkably Bright Creatures
The Golden Gate
The Women
Book Lovers
The General and Julia
All That Is Mine I Carry With Me
The Bird Hotel
Disclaimer
Gentlemen and Players
2025
The Return
The God of the Woods
The Frozen River
James
All the Colors of the Dark
Great Big Beautiful Life
Book Club for Troublesome Women
Martha’s Vineyard Beach & Book Club
The Names
The Correspondent
Gone Before Goodbye
2026
Lonesome Dove
In Five Years
More Than Enough
The Mad Wife
Enormous Wings
The Calamity Club