Cadott Book Club 2016-2017
The Circle : a novel / Dave Eggers.
November 17th, 2016
When Mae Holland is hired to work for the Circle, the world's most powerful internet company, she
feels she's been given the opportunity of a lifetime. Mae can't believe her luck, her great fortune to
work for the most influential company in the world--even as life beyond the campus grows distant,
even as a strange encounter with a colleague leaves her shaken, even as her role at the
Circle becomes increasingly public.
Uglies/ Scott Westerfeld
December 15th, 2016
In Tally's world, your sixteenth birthday brings an operation that turns you from a repellent ugly into a
stunningly attractive pretty and catapults you into a high-tech paradise where your only job is to have
a really great time. In just a few weeks Tally will be there. But Tally's new friend Shay isn't sure she
wants to be pretty. When Shay runs away, Tally learns about a whole new side of the pretty world-and it isn't very pretty. The authorities offer Tally the worst choice she can imagine: find her friend
and turn her in, or never turn pretty at all. The choice Tally makes changes her world forever.
The girl on the train / Paula Hawkins
January 19th, 2017
After witnessing something shocking from the window of her commuter train, Rachel offers what she
knows to the police, and becomes inextricably entwined in what happens next, as well as in the lives
of everyone involved. Has she done more harm than good?
A heartbreaking work of staggering genius / by Dave Eggers
February 17th, 2017
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius is the moving memoir of a college senior who, in the
space of five weeks, loses both of his parents to cancer and inherits his eight-year-old brother. Here
is an exhilarating debut that manages to be simultaneously hilarious and wildly inventive as well as a
deeply heartfelt story of the love that holds a family together.
Where'd you go, Bernadette : a novel / Maria Semple.
March 16th, 2017
When her notorious, hilarious, volatile, talented, troubled, and agoraphobic mother goes missing,
teenage Bee begins a trip that takes her to the ends of the earth to find her.
The same sky : a novel / Amanda Eyre Ward
April 20th, 2017
Unable to conceive, she's trying desperately to adopt but her destiny is quickly altered by a young
woman she's never met. Fearless thirteen-year-old Carla Trujilio is being raised by her grandmother
in Honduras along with her four year old twin brothers. Her mother is sending money home from
Texas where she's trying to make a better life for her family, but she only has enough to bring one
son to her. When Carla's grandmother dies, Carla decides to take her fate into her own hands and
embarks on a dangerous journey across the border with Junior, the twin left behind. Two powerful
journeys intersecting at a pivotal moment in time: Alice and Carla's lives will be forever and
profoundly changed.
Fast girl : a life spent running from madness / Suzy Favor Hamilton
May 18th, 2017
The former middle distance Olympic runner and high-end escort speaks out for the first time
about her battle with mental illness, and how mania controlled and compelled her in competition,
but also in life
The awakening / Kate Chopin
June 15th, 2017
Edna Pontellier, a Victorian-era wife and mother, is awakened to the full force of her desire for
love and freedom when she becomes enamored with Robert LeBrun, a young man she meets
while on vacation.
The husband's secret / Liane Moriarty.
July 20th, 2017
Discovering a tattered letter that says she is to open it only in the event of her husband's death,
Cecelia, a successful family woman, is unable to resist reading the letter and discovers
a secret that shatters her life and the lives of two other women.
The Boston girl : a novel / Anita Diamant
August 17th, 2017
Addie Baum is The Boston Girl, born in 1900 to immigrant parents who were unprepared for and
suspicious of America and its effect on their three daughters. Growing up in the North End, then a
teeming multicultural neighborhood, Addie's intelligence and curiosity take her to a world her
parents can't imagine--a world of short skirts, movies, celebrity culture, and new opportunities for
women. Addie wants to finish high school and dreams of going to college. She wants a career
and to find true love.
The storied life of A.J. Fikry : a novel / Gabrielle Zevin
September 21st, 2017
When his most prized possession, a rare collection of Poe poems, is stolen, bookstore owner A.
J. Fikry begins isolating himself from his friends, family and associates before receiving a
mysterious package that compels him to remake his life.
The life we bury : a novel / Allen Eskens
October 19th, 2017
College student Joe Talbert has to interview a stranger and write a brief biography for an English
class. With deadlines looming, Joe heads to a nearby nursing home to find a willing subject.
There he meets Carl Iverson, a dying Vietnam veteran--and a convicted murderer on medical
parole. Unable to reconcile the heroism of the soldier with the despicable acts of the convict, Joe-with the help of Lila, his skeptical neighbor--throws himself into uncovering the truth.