To promote the importance of reading for both pleasure and knowledge, The Friends of the Woodstock Library purchase a new book each month for our Library.
2022
November: Dickens and Prince by Nick Hornby
October: Cooking From the Spirit: Easy, Delicious, and Joyful Plant-Based Inspirations by Tabitha Brown
September: The Chaos Machine by Max Fisher
August: The Last White Man by Mohsin Hamid
July: Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks by Patrick Radden Keefe
June: The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us by Steve Brusatte
May: Outdoor Kids in an Inside World by Steven Rinella
April: The Candy House by Jennifer Egan
March: The Invisible Kingdom by Meghan O’Rourke
February: The Violin Conspiracy by Brendan Slocumb
January: Bibliolepsy by Gina Apostol
2021
December: Afternoon at McBurger’s by Ana Galvañ
November: Our Country Friends by Gary Shteyngart
October: We Are Not Like Them by Christine Pride & Jo Piazza
September: Afterparties: Stories by Anthony Veasna So
August: The Love Songs of W.E.B. DuBois by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
July: This Is Your Mind by Michael Pollan
June: Widespread Panic by James Ellroy
May: The Premonition by Michael Lewis
April: Beeswing by Richard Thompson
March: Foregone by Russell Banks
February: The Paris Library by Janet Skeslien Charles
January: Black Buck by Mateo Askaripour
2020
December: D: A Tale of Two Worlds by Michel Faber
November: We Keep the Dead Close: A Murder at Harvard and a Half Century of Silence by Becky Cooper
October: A Song for the Dark Times by Ian Rankin
September: The Lying Life of Adults by Elena Ferrante
August: Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
July: I Got a Monster: The Rise and Fall of America’s Most Corrupt Police Squad by Baynard Woods & Brandon Soderberg
June: Devolution by Max Brooks
May: Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins
April: Sin Eater by Meg Campisi
March: The Mirror and the Light by Hilary Mantel
February: Smacked: A Story of White-Collar Ambition, Addiction & Tragedy by Eilene Zimmerman
January: Boys & Sex by Peggy Orenstein
2019
December: Ship of Dreams: The Sinking of the Titanic and the End of the Edwardian Era by Gareth Russell
November: The Second Sleep by Robert Harris
October: Me by Elton John
September: The Testaments by Margaret Atwood
August: Inland by Téa Obreht
July: The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
June: Sorcery of Thorns by Margaret Rogerson
May: Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud and the Last Trial of Harper Lee by Casey Cep
April: Normal People by Sally Rooney
March: The Wolf and the Watchman by Niklas Natt Och Dag
February: Leading Men by Christopher Castellani
January: Golden State by Ben H. Winters
2018
December: The Dakota Winters by Tom Barbash
November: The Feral Detective by Jonathan Lethem
October: The Library Book by Susan Orlean
Killing Commendatore by Haruki Murakami
September: Lethal White by Robert Galbraith
August: Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors and the Drug Company That Addicted America by Beth Macy
July: Death of Truth: Notes on Falsehood in the Age of Trump by Michiko Kakutani
June: Blood Standard by Laird Barron
May: Barracoon: The Story of the Last Black Cargo by Zora Neale Hurston
April: MacBeth by Jo Nesbø
March: Speak No Evil by Uzodinma Iweala
February: The Hazel Wood by Melissa Albert
January: The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin