2020-2021 SELECTIONS
- November: The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes
- December: American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins
- January: Circe by Madeline Miller
- February: The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
- March: The Henna Artist by Alka Joshi
- April: A Long Petal of the Sea by Isabel Allende
Here are the books we've discussed or will shortly, with the most recent first:
- A Long Petal of the Sea by Isabel Allende
- The Henna Artist by Alka Joshi
- The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
- Circe by Madeline Miller
- American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins
- The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes
- The Dutch House by Ann Patchett
- Persuasion by Jane Austen
- Repentance by Alan Lam
- The Secrets Between Us by Thrity Umrigar
- Daughter of Moloka'i by Alan Brennert
- The Secret of Clouds by Alyson Richman
- Red Notice by Bill Browder
- Those Who Save Us by Jenna Blum
- The Water Will Come by Jeff Goodell
- An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
- Killers of the Flower Moon by David Gann
- We Were the Lucky Ones by Georgia Hunter
- News of the World by Paulette Jiles
- Bellevue by David Oshinsky
- Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
- Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
- Elephant Company by Vicki Croke
- Lab Girl by Hope Jahren
- Commonwealth by Ann Patchett
- Everyone Brave Is Forgiven by Chris Cleave
- The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin
- The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri
- Telex from Cuba by Rachel Kuschner
- My Beloved World by Sonia Sotomayor
- Americanah by Chiamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Euphoria by Lily King
- The Boys in the Boat by Daniel Brown
- All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
- Voice of the River by Marjory Stoneman Douglas
- An Unseemly Wife by E. B. Moore
- Troublesome Young Men by Lynn Olson
- Defending Jacob by William Landay
- The Hare with the Amber Eyes by Edmund de Waal
- The Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline
- Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri
- Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver
- The Lost Wife by Alyson Richman (Wellesley '94)
- Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh
- The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach
- The Golden Hour by Margaret Wurtle
- Unbroken by Laura Hillebrand
- Old Filth by Jane Gardam
- Saturday by Ian McEwan
- The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewdki
- Killing Mr. Watson by Peter Matthiesen
- Caleb's Crossing by Geraldine Brooks
- Rules of Civility by Amor Towles
- The Tiger's Wife by Tea Obreht
- Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
- The Glass Room by Simon Mawer
- The Given Day by Dennis Lehane
- Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks
- The Space between Us by Thrity Umrigar
- Run by Ann Patchett
- A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
- The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
- Shalimar the Clown by Salman Rushdie
- Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
- Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang
- Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear
- The Killer Angels: A Novel of the Civil War by Michael Shaara