The MPS Book Club facilitates members gathering to discuss a book, fiction or non-fiction, chosen by the group in advance. Meetings attract those who want to get together socially for a stimulating discussion and light refreshment.  To join, please email the MPS at mps@mdpsych.org.  If you don’t have time for meetings, we offer this list of past selections and encourage you to enjoy the books on your own.

2025

• January – Tell Me Everything by Elizabeth Strout

2024

• January – Tom Lake by Ann Patchette
• March – The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store by James McBride
• May – Absolution by Alice McDermott
• September – Necessary Trouble by Drew Gilpin Faust
• November – James by Percival Everett

2023

• February – The Kingdom of Sand by Andrew Holleran
• May – The Shaking Woman or A History of My Nerves by Siri Hustvedt
• September – Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
• November – The Master of Petersburg by J.M. Coetzee

2022

• January  – The Transit of Venus by Shirley Hazzard
• March  – O William!  by Elizabeth Strout
• May – Snow by Orhan Pamuk
• September – Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr
• December – The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V. E. Schwab

2021

• May – Klara and The Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
• September – All the Light We Can Not See by Anthony Doerr
• November  –Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann

2020

• March – Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson
• May – Olive, Again by Elizabeth Strout
• July – The Idiot by Dostoyevsky
• November – Deacon King Kong by James McBride

2019

• November – The Dutch House by Ann Patchett 
• September –  Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
• May – Educated by Tara Westover
• March – What’s Left of the Night by Ersi Sotiropoulos
• January – The Rent Collector by Cameron Wright

2018

• January – Winter Mythologies and Abbots by Pierre Michon
• April – Life after Life by Kate Atkinson
• June – The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
• September – Middlemarch by George Eliot
• November – Transcription by Kate Atkinson

2017

• January – Commonwealth by Ann Patchett
• March – Hillbilly Elegy by J. D. Vance
• June – The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri
• September – A Gentleman in Moscow: A Novel by Amor Towles
• November – Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue

2016

• January – Euphoria by Lily King
• March – The Wright Brothers by David McCullough
• May – The Japanese Lover by Isabel Allende
• September – FATES and FURIES by Lauren Groff
• December – The Wonder by Emma Donoghue

2015

• January – Veronika Decides to Die: A novel of Redemption by Paulo Coelho
• March – Still Aliceby Lisa Genova
• May – The Boys in the Boatby Daniel James Brown
• September – The Infatuations by Javier Marias
• November – The Good Doctor by Damon Galgut

2014

• May – The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
• September- Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
• November – A Gift of Rain by Tan Twan Eng