Naples Wellesley Club Book List

UPCOMING BOOKS

• March 6, 2024 - Forty Autumns: A Family's Courage and Survival on Both Sides of the Berlin Wall by Nina Willner
   
• April 3, 2024 - Honor: A Novel by Thrity Umrigar

OUR PREVIOUS BOOK DISCUSSIONS (listed from the most recently discussed)

• Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
  [A book written in 1937 and now banned in Collier Cunty schools!]
• 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 and Foster by Claire Keegan
• Horse: A Novel by Geraldine Brooks
• Women of Chateau Lafayette by Stephanie Dray
• Matrix: A Novel by Lauren Groff
• American Princess: A Novel of First Daughter Alice Roosevelt by Stephanie Marie Thornton
• The Lincoln Highway: A Novel by Amor Towles
• The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray
• The Death of Vivek Oji: A Novel by Awaeke Emezi
• Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell
• A Long Petal of the Sea: A Novel by Isabel Allende
• The Henna Artist by Alka Joshi
• The Vanishing Half: A Novel 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: A Novel by Thrity Umrigar
• Daughter of Moloka'i: A Novel 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: A Novel by Tayari Jones
• Killers of the Flower Moon by David Gann
• We Were the Lucky Ones by Georgia Hunter
• News of the World: A Novel by Paulette Jiles
• Katharine Lee Bates: From Sea to Shining Sea by Melinda Ponder
• Bellevue: Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at America's  Most Storied Hospital by David Oshinsky
• Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
• Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
• The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin
• Everyone Brave Is Forgiven by Chris Cleave
• Commonwealth: A Novel by Ann Patchett
• Lab Girl by Hope Jahren
• Elephant Company by Vicki Croke
• 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: A Novel 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 Wroblewski
• 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: A Novel by Simon Mawer
• The Given Day: A Novel by Dennis Lehane
• Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague by Geraldine Brooks
• The Space between Us: A Novel by Thrity Umrigar
• Run: A Novel 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