Mukilteo Monday Morning Book Group: 2026 SelectionsLike this list

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• Framed

  Astonishing True Stories of Wrongful Convictions

  Grisham, John,

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  Jan 26: Framed shares ten true stories of men who were innocent but found guilty and forced to sacrifice friends, families, wives, and decades of their lives to prison while the guilty parties remained free. In each of the stories, John Grisham and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• James

  a Novel

  Everett, Percival,

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  Feb 23: James is a retelling of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and ferociously funny, told from the enslaved Jim's point of view. While many narrative set pieces of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn remain in place (floods and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Marriage at Sea

  a True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck

  Elmhirst, Sophie,

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  Mar 30: The electrifying true story of a young couple shipwrecked at sea: a mind-blowing tale of obsession, survival, and partnership stretched to its limits. Maurice and Maralyn make an odd couple. He's a loner, awkward and obsessive; she's…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Berry Pickers

  a Novel

  Peters, Amanda,

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  Apr 27: July 1962. A Mi'kmaq family from Nova Scotia arrives in Maine to pick blueberries for the summer. Weeks later, four-year-old Ruthie, the family's youngest child, vanishes. In Maine, a young girl named Norma grows up as the only child of an…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Motorcycle Diaries

  Notes on a Latin American Journey

  Guevara, Che, 1928-1967,

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  May 18: The Motorcycle Diaries is Che Guevara's diary of his journey to discover Latin America while still a medical student, setting out in 1952 on a vintage Norton motorcycle together with his friend Alberto Granado, a biochemist.

• Wild Dark Shore

  McConaghy, Charlotte,

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  June 29: Dominic Salt and his three children are caretakers of Shearwater, a tiny island not far from Antarctica. Home to the world's largest seed bank, Shearwater was once full of researchers, but with sea levels rising, the Salts are now its final…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Fever in the Heartland

  the Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them

  Egan, Timothy,

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  July 27: The Roaring Twenties was the height of the uniquely American hate group, the Ku Klux Klan. They hated Blacks, Jews, Catholics and immigrants in equal measure, and took radical steps to keep these people from the American promise. And the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

  a Novel

  Vuong, Ocean, 1988-

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  Aug 31: Brilliant, heartbreaking, tender, and highly original - poet Ocean Vuong's debut novel is a sweeping and shattering portrait of a family, and a testament to the redemptive power of storytelling. On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous is a letter…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Tulalip, From My Heart

  An Autobiographical Account of a Reservation Community

  Dover, Harriette Shelton, 1904-1991

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  Sep 28: Harriette Shelton Dover describes her life on the Tulalip Reservation and recounts the myriad problems tribes faced after resettlement. Born in 1904, Dover grew up hearing the elders of her tribe tell of the hardships involved in moving…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Parable of the Sower

  Butler, Octavia E.

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  Oct 26: Written in 1993 but set in 2025, Parable of the Sower is Octavia E. Butler's critically acclaimed, prophetic, and gripping post-apocalyptic novel about a teen named Lauren Olamina living in a nearfuture America devastated by climate…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Bad-ass Librarians of Timbuktu

  and Their Race to Save the World's Most Precious Manuscripts

  Hammer, Joshua, 1957-

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  Nov 30: In the 1980s, a young adventurer and collector for a government library, Abdel Kader Haidara, journeyed across the Sahara Desert and along the Niger River, tracking down and salvaging tens of thousands of ancient Islamic and secular…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Heart of Winter

  a Novel

  Evison, Jonathan,

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  Dec 28: Abe Winter and Ruth Warneke were never meant to be together. Yet their catastrophic blind date in college evolved into a seventy-year marriage and a life on a farm on Bainbridge Island with their hens and beloved Labrador. In this…Read moreRead more of this annotation