The Central Library Brown Baggers met yesterday to pick reading selections for the upcoming year. Group members brought a wide variety of excellent book suggestions, but there are only so many months in the year! Check out the list of finalists below to get a head start — there’s also still time to start reading Barbara Kingsolver’s Flight Behavior for our meeting on January 16 at noon.

February: The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman
March: True Grit by Charles Portis – Big Read 2014 title
April: Dear Life by Alice Munro
May: Mr. Penumbra’s 24 Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloane
June: The Book of Daniel by E.L. Doctorow
July: Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain
August: Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain
September: Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
October: I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai with Christina Lamb
November: The Good Lord Bird by James McBride
[No December selection — meet to pick titles for 2015]
January 2015: The Goldfinch – Donna Tartt