July

“Defining words properly is a fine and peculiar craft.”
― Simon Winchester, The Professor and the Madman

2008 - Surprised by Joy by CS Lewis
2010 - Shane by Jack Schaefer
2011 - Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
2012 - Nature by Emerson
Walking by Thoreau
2013 - Stepping Heavenward by Elizabeth Prentiss
2014 - The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester
2015 - Possession by AS Byatt
2016 - Better Than Before by Gretchen Rubin
2017 - A Midsummer Night’s Dream by Shakespeare
2018 - A Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Marra
2019 - The Underground Girls of Kabul by Jenny Nordberg
2020 - Radio Shangri-la by Lisa Napoli
2021 - Braiding Sweetgrass by RW Kimmerer
Bonus Book: Bury Your Dead by Louise Penny
2022 - Longitude by Dava Sobel
Bonus Book: A Better Man by Louise Penny
2023 - Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Bonus Book: Wife of the Gods by Kwei Quartey
2024 - The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington
Bonus Book: Storm Front by Jim Butcher
2025 - The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea by Axie Oh
Bonus book - Watchers of Time by Charles Todd