OUR BOOK DISCUSSIONS (listed from the most recently discussed)
April 2024: Honor by Thrity Umrigar
March 2024: Forty Autumns: A Family's Story of Courage and Survival on Both Sides of the Berlin Wall by Nina Willner
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
The Maid: A Novel by Nita Prose
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
The Whalebone Theatre: A Novel by Joanna Quinn
The Storyteller's Secret by Sejal Badani
Love Marriage: A Novel by Monica Ali
Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead
Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
Foster by Claire Keegan
Horse: A Novel by Geraldine Brooks
The Women of Chateau Lafayette by Stephanie Dray
Matrix by Lauren Groff
American Princess: A Novel of First Daughter Alice Roosevelt by Stephanie Marie Thornton
The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles
The Death of Vivek Oji by Awaeke Emezi
Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell
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
America 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 Molok'ai 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
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
Bellevue: Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at America's Most Storied Hospital by David Oshinsky
News of the World by Paulette Jiles
We Were the Lucky Ones by Georgia Hunter
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