RETENTION: Altrusa Wine & Chocolate Literary Society

January - Gifts of War - Mackenzie Ford

February - To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee

March - Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand – Helen Simonson

April - Rescuing Sprite-A Dog Lover's Story of Joy and Anguish – Mark Levin

May – Bossy Pants – Tina Fey

June – The Street Sweeper – Elliot Perlman

This is Elliot Perlman's epic third novel. It is an engaging minor-key tale of two broken, seemingly unrelated men. One is a Bronx-bred ex-con named Lamont Williams, struggling to hold on to a hospital janitorial job and find the daughter he hasn't seen since she was a toddler; the other, Australian expat Adam Zignelik, a Columbia professor in his late 30s who can’t seem to stop sabotaging his relationship and his last shot at tenure. But when Lamont befriends an elderly cancer patient with a telltale string of numbers tattooed on his forearm, and Adam makes a life-altering discovery in the dusty archives of a long-forgotten academic at a third-rate Midwestern university, the book blazes into Technicolor.

July – Before You Know Kindness - Chris Bohjalian

August – Tin Roof Blowdown – James Lee Burke

September - #1 Ladies Detective Agency – Alexander McCall-Smith

October – The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald

November – 11/22/63 – Stephen King