BAD GIRLS BOOK CLUB
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BAD ASS PAST READS
DELIVERING CULTURE SINCE 2009
2025
Give Her Credit by Grace L Williams
The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhorn
Brothers on the Bashkaus by Eugene Buchanan
James by Percival Everett
Tell Me Everything by Elizabeth Strout
My Friends by Fredrik Backman
The Three Lives of Cate Kay by Kate Fagan
The Love of My Life by Rosie Walsh
Trust by Hernan Diaz
Penitence by Kristin Koval
The Life Cycle of the Common Octopus by Emma Knight
2024
The Measure by Nikki Erlick
Horse by Geraldine Brooks
Covent of Water by Abraham Verghese
Tom Lake by Ann Patchet
Anita DeMonte Laughs Last by Xochitil Gonzales
Mother Daughter Traitor Spy by Susan Elia MacNeal
The Master Butchers Singing Club by Louise Erdrich
My Name is Barbra by Barbra Streisand
Mother-Daughter Murder Night by Nina Simon
First Lie Wins by Ashley Elston
North Woods by Daniel Mason
2023
The Paris Apartment by Kelly Bowen
The Art Thief by Michael Finkel
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel
The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman
The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah
Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt
The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams
The Perfume Thief by Timothy Schaffert
2022
Fresh Water for Flowers by Valerie Perrin
Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell
Peace like a River by Leif Enger
The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict
The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles
Last Bus to Wisdom by Ivan Doig
Marrow: A Love Story by Elizabeth Lesser
The Only Woman in the Room by Marie Benedict
The Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Post by Allison Pataki
The Maid by Nita Prose
When We Were Young and Brave by Hazel Gaynor
The Keeper of Lost Things by Ruth Hogan
2021
American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins
Better Luck Next Time by Julia Claiborne Johnson
The Book of Two Ways by Jodi Picoult
When We believed in Mermaids by Barbara O'Neal
Good Company by Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney
Midnight Library by Matt Haig
The Vanishing Half by Britt Bennett
Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead
The Huntress by Kate Quinn
The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaeman
2020
Little Women (movie) by Greta Gerwig (Director)
The Cartiers: The Untold Story of the Family Behind the Jewelry Empire by Francesca Cartier Brickell
The Scent Keeper by Erica Bauermeister
Bitter Orange by Claire Fuller
The Lost Girls of Paris by Pam Jenoff
The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris
The Tenth Muse by Catherine Chung
The Henna Artist by Alka Joshi
Help Me by Marianne Powers
Breath by James Nestor
Daisy Jones & The Six By Taylor Jenkins Reid
2019
Born a Crime - Trevor Noah
Something in the Water - Catherine Steadman
A Place For Us - Fatima Farheen Mirza
Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows - Balli Kaur Jaswal
The Lacuna - Barbara Kingsolver
The Feather Thief - Kirk Wallace Johnson
Before We Were Yours - Lisa Wingate
Nine Perfect Strangers - Liane Moriarty
Whisper Network - Chandler Baker
Educated - Tara Westover
The Overstory - Richard Powers
2018
Murder on the Orient Express
Origin
Victoria
Papillon
Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
The Room on Rue Amélie
The Worst Hard Time
Everything Here is Beautiful
The Story of Arthur Truluv
Little Fires Everywhere
Where the Crawdads Sing
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
2017
A Short Guide to a Happy Life
The Perfume Collector
Sapiens
Hillbilly Elegy
Born to Run
The Light of Paris
Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk
A Gentleman in Moscow
A Man Called Ove
The Geography of Genius
When Breath Becomes Air
2016
Year of YES
The Japanese Lover
Flight Behavior
A Little Life
My Life on the Road
The Nest
The Swans of Fifth Avenue
The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper
The Underground Railroad
Today Will Be Different
We Should All Be Feminists
2016
Year of YES
The Japanese Lover
Flight Behavior
A Little Life
My Life on the Road
The Nest
The Swans of Fifth Avenue
The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper
The Underground Railroad
Today Will Be Different
We Should All Be Feminists
2017
A Short Guide to a Happy Life
The Perfume Collector
Sapiens
Hillbilly Elegy
Born to Run
The Light of Paris
Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk
A Gentleman in Moscow
A Man Called Ove
The Geography of Genius
When Breath Becomes Air
2016
Year of YES
The Japanese Lover
Flight Behavior
A Little Life
My Life on the Road
The Nest
The Swans of Fifth Avenue
The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper
The Underground Railroad
Today Will Be Different
We Should All Be Feminists
2015
A Deadly Wandering, A Tale of Tragedy and Redemption in the Age of Attention, by Matt Richtel
The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion
The Kitchen Counter Cooking School by Kathleen Flinn
Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker by Jennifer Chiavarinni
Picnic in Provence by Ellizabeth Bard
The Road to Character by David Brooks
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
Circling the Sun by Paula McLain
Just Kids by Patti Smith
The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying-Up by Marie Kondo
2014
The Hummingbird's Daughter by Luis Alberto Urrea
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd
Dancing Fish and Ammonites by Penelope Lively
East of the Sun by Julia Gregson
Delicious by Ruth Reichl
Still Life with Bread Crumbs by Anna Quindlen
The Painter by Peter Heller
The Boys in the Boat By Daniel James Brown
The Astronaut Wives Club by Lily Koppel
2013
What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarity
Geography of Bliss by Eric Weiner
She Matters by Susanna Sonneberg
Where'd You Go Bernadette by Maria Semple
Aviator's Wife by Melanie Benjamin
Lean In by Sheryl Sandberg
Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter
Sisterhood by Helen Bryan
Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson
Full Bloom: The Art and Life of Georgia O'Keeffe by Hunter Drohojowska by Philp
Shadow Catcher by Marianne Wiggins
The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating by Elisabeth Tova Bailey
2012
Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
Flight of Gemma Hardy by Margot Livesey
11/23/63 by Stephen King
Catherine the Great by Robert Massie
House of Velvet & Glass by Katherine Howe
The Mirror by Marlys Millhiser
Paris Wife by Paula McLain
The Receptionist by Janet Groth
Wild by Cheryl Strayed
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
2011
Life by Keith Richards
Must You Go by Alina Simone
Dalai Lama's Little Book of Inner Peace by His Holiness the Dalai Lama
South of Broad by Pat Conroy
Like Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
Miss Bossy Pants by Tina Fey
Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
A Town Called Alice by Nevil Shute
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerlad
Gift From the Sea by Anne Morrow Lindburgh
2010
When We Were Gods by Colin Falconer
Lost Symbol by Dan Brown
Red Tent by Anita Diament
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton
The Summer Guest by Justin Cronin
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
The Long Walk by Slawomir Rawicz
Friday Night Knitting Club by Kate Jacobs
2009
Julie & Julia by Julie Powell
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man by Steve Hardy
Vision in White by Nora Roberts
Loving Frank by Nancy Horan
Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbary
Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society by Annie Barrows
SUGGESTED BOOKS TO
CHOOSE FROM
I Am Malala - by Malala Yousafzai & Christina Lamb
Walk in the Woods
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl - by Jesse Andrews
Flood Girls - by Richard Fifield
The Righteous Mind (Why Good People are divided by politics & religion) - by Jonathan Haidt
The Wonder - by Emma Donoghue
Everybody's Fool - by Richard Russo
Ninety-nine Stories of God - by Joy Williams
Lara: The Untold Story that Inspired Doctor Zihvago - by Anna Pasternak
Peacock and Vine: On William Morris and Mariano Fortuny - by A.S. Byatt
Immortalist - Chloe Benjamin
The Golden Hour - Beatriz Williams
Untamed - Glennon Doyle
Practical Magic - Alice Hoffman
Glass Ocean - by Lauren Willig
Dear Edward - by Ann Napolitano
Chicken Sisters - by KJ Dell'Antonia
News of the World - by Paulette Jiles
Anxious People - by Fredrik Backman
Moonflower Murders - by Anthony Horowitz
The Cold Millions - by Jess Walter
Bitter Orange - by Claire Fuller
The Art of Hearing Heartbeats - by Jan-Philipp Sendker
The House in the Cerulean Sea - by TJ Klune
Cloud Cuckoo Land - by Anthony Doerr
