Book Club

Evening Book Club

Meets on the 4th Wednesday of the month (except as noted) at 7PM via ZOOM.

September 2025 – February 2026

• September 24, 2025: The Education of Henry Adams: An Autobiography, Henry Adams
• October 22, 2025: Language City: The Fight to Preserve Mother Tongues in New York, Ross Perlin
• December 3, 2025 [MOVED from Nov 26]: Playground: A Novel, Richard Powers
• No December meeting
• January 28, 2026: The Women, Kristen Hannah
• February 25, 2026: The Borrowed Life of Frederick Fife: A Novel, Anna Johnston

September 2024 – August 2025

• September 25, 2024: I Have Some Questions for You, Rebecca Makkai
• October 23, 2024: Taste: My Life Through Food, Stanley Tucci
• November 20, 2024: Eastbound, Maylis de Kerangal
• No December meeting
• January 22, 2025: The Frozen River, Ariel Lawhon
• February 26, 2025: How to Know A Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen, David Brooks
• March 26, 2025: James: A Novel, Percival L. Everett
• April 23, 2025: Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant: A Memoir, Curtis Chin
• May 28, 2025: The Wedding People: A Novel, Alison Espach
• June 25, 2025: An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s, Doris Kearns Goodwin
• July 23, 2025: The Cliffs: A Novel, J. Courtney Sullivan
• No August meeting

BOOKS FROM PAST YEARS

September 2023 – August 2024

• September 27, 2023: The Last Chairlift, John Irving
• October 25, 2023: This Tender Land, William Kent Krueger
• November 29, 2023 [MOVED]: I Swear: Politics is Messier Than My Minivan, Katie Porter
• December 27, 2023: When Women Were Dragons, Kelly Barnhill
• January 24, 2024: All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque
• February 28, 2024: Lessons in Chemistry, Bonnie Garmus
• March 27, 2024, Tom Lake: A Novel, Ann Patchett
• April 24, 2024: The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder, David Grann
• May 22, 2024: North Woods: A Novel, Daniel Mason
• June 26, 2024: The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store, James McBride
• July 24, 2024: Hello Beautiful, Ann Napolitano
• No August meeting

September 2022 – August 2023

• September 28, 2022 Lincoln Highway, Amor Towles
• October 26, 2022: Going There, Katie Couric
• November 30, 2022: Winter Garden, Kristin Hannah
• No December meeting
• January 25, 2023: The Chancellor: The Remarkable Odyssey of Angela Merkel, Kati Marton
• February 22, 2023: American Dirt, Jeanine Cummins
• March 22, 2023:  Volodymyr Zelensky in His Own Words, Lisa Rogat & Daisy Gibbons (editors)
• April 26, 2023: This Other Eden, Paul Harding
• May 24: The Magic Kingdom: A Novel, Russell Banks
• June 28, 2023: Every Life a Story: Natalie Jacobson Reporting, Natalie Jacobson
• July 26, 2023: Horse: A Novel, Geraldine Brooks
• August 23, 2023: The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times, Douglas Abrams and Jane Goodall

September 2021 – August 2022

• September 22, 2021: Margaret Fuller: a new American life, Megan Marshall
• October 27, 2021: The Atomic City Girls, Janet Beard
• November 24, 2021: Voyage of Mercy: the USS Jamestown, the Irish famine, and the remarkable story of America’s first humanitarian mission, Stephen Puleo
• December 22, 2021: The Red Lotus, Chris Bohjalian
• January 26, 2022: The Doctors Blackwell: how two pioneering sisters brought medicine to women – and women to medicine, Janice P. Nimura
• February 23, 2022: The Paris Architect, David Belfoure

December 2020 – August 2021 

• Dec. 16, 2020: The Immortalists, Chloe Benjamin
• Jan. 27, 2021: The Other Einstein, Marie Benedict
• Feb. 24, 2021: Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood, Trevor Noah
• March 24, 2021: The Splendid and the Vile: a saga of Churchill, family, and defiance during the Blitz, Erik Larson
• April 28, 2021: The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek, Kim Michelle Richardson
• May 26, 2021: Stolen: five boys kidnapped into slavery and their astonishing odyssey home, Richard Bell
• June 23, 2021: The Age of Light, Whitney Sharer
• July 28, 2021:  Other Minds: the octopus, the sea, and the deep levels of consciousness, Peter Godfrey-Smith
• August 25, 2021: Shuggie Bain, Douglas Stuart

September 2019 – August 2020

• September 25, 2019 (we will meet at Nancy’s house): Eunice, The Kennedy Who Changed the World, Eileen McNamara
• October 23, 2019: There There, Tommy Orange
• November 20, 2019: Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine: A Novel, Gail Honeyman
• No December meeting
• January 22, 2020: Code Name Lise: The True Story of the Woman Who Became WWII’s Most Highly Decorated Spy, Larry Loftis
• February 26, 2020: The Tattooist of Auschwitz: A Novel, Heather Morris
• March 25, 2020: The Farm, Joanne Ramos
• April 22, 2020: The Shepard’s Life: Modern Dispatches from an Ancient Landscape, James Rebanks
• May 27, 2020:The Immortalists, Chloe Benjamin
• June 24, 2020: The Other Einstein, Marie Benedict
• July 22, 2020: Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood, Trevor Noah
• No August meeting

September 2018 – August 2019

• September 19, 2018 (note date & location change): A Gentleman in Moscow, Amor Towles (moved from September 26; we will meet at Nancy’s this month)
• October 24, 2018: Being Mortal, Atul Gawande
• November 28, 2018: Just Mercy, Bryan Stephenson
• No December meeting
• January 23, 2019: Pachinko, Min Jin Lee
• February 27, 2019: Little Fires Everywhere, Celeste Ng
• March 27, 2019: Educated: A Memoir, Tara Westover
• April 24, 2019: Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in A Silicon Valley Startup, John Carreyrou
• May 22, 2019: A Terrible Country, Keith Gessen
• June 26, 2019: The Red Coat – A Novel of Boston, Dolley Carlson
• July 24, 2019: The Woman Next Door: A Novel, Yewande Omotoso
• No August meeting

September 2017 – August 2018

• September 27 (2 books):
  • Amy and Isabelle, Elizabeth Strout (carried over from July)
  • Americanah, Chimananda Ngoze Adichie
• October 25: The Quartet: Orchestrating the 2nd American Revolution, 1783-1789, Joseph Ellis
• November 29 (moved from November 22): My Only Story, Monica Wood
• No December meeting
• January 24: Beneath A Scarlet Sky, Mark Sullivan
• No February meeting; too many members away
• March 28 (two books this month):
  • Sisters in Law: How Sandra Day O’Connor & Ruth Bader Ginsburg Went to the Supreme Court and Changed the World, Linda Hirshman
  • Dodgers, Bill Beverly
• April 25: Ice Ghosts: The Epic Hunt for the Lost Franklin Expedition, Paul Watson
• May 23: Behold the Dreamers, Imbolo Mbue
• June 27: Thunderstruck, Eric Larson
• July 25: The All-True Travels & Adventures of Lidie Newton, Jane Smiley
• No August meeting

September 2016 – August 2017

• September 28: The Boys in the Boat, Daniel James Brown
• October 26: My Brilliant Friend (The Neapolitan Novels, Book #1), Elena Ferrante (transl. A. Goldstein)
• November 30 (moved from November 23): H is for Hawk, Helen Macdonald
• No December meeting
• January 25: The Makioka Sisters, Junichiro Tanazaki (transl. E. Seidensticker)
• February 22:  The Big House: A Century in the Life of an American Summer Home, George Howe Colt
• March 22:  The One-in-a-Million Boy, Monica Wood
• April 26: LaRose, Louise Erdrich
• May 24: Behind the Beautiful Forevers, Katherine Boo
• June 28: The Invention of Wings, Sue Monk Kidd
• July 26: MEETING CANCELED
• No August meeting

September 2015 – August 2016

• September 23: Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy 
• October 28: All the Light We Cannot See, Anthony Doerr
• December 2 (moved from November 25): Maisie Dobbs, Jacqueline Winspear
• No December meeting
• January 27: Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania, Erik Larson
• February 24: MEETING CANCELED
• March 22 (2 books):
  • Nothing Daunted, Dorothy Wickenden
  • The Signature of All Things, Elizabeth Gilbert
• April 27: Blood, Bones & Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef, Gabrielle Hamilton
• May 25: The Boston Girl, Anita Diamant
• June 22: Hissing Cousins: The Untold Story of Eleanor Roosevelt and Alice Roosevelt Longworth, Mark Peyser
• July 27: Flight: A Novel, Sherman Alexie
• No August meeting

September 2014 – August 2015

• September 24: Pillars of the Earth, Ken Follett 
• October 22: The Widower’s Tale, Julia Glass
• November 19 (3rd Wednesday): Bunker Hill, Nathaniel Philbrick
• No December meeting
• January 28: And the Mountains Echoed, Khaled Hosseini
• February 25: Orphan Train, Christina Baker Kline
• March 25: Desert Queen, Janet Wallach
• April 22: Schmidt Steps Back, Louis Begley
• May 27: The Light Between Oceans, M.L. Stedman
• June 24: The Orchardist, Amanda Coplin
• July 22: The Sandcastle Girls, Chris Bohjalian
• No August meeting

September 2013 – August 2014

• September 25: Fall of Giants, Ken Follett
• October 24 (moved to Thursday): Rules of Civility, Amor Towles 
• November 20 (3rd Wednesday): Year of Wonders, Geraldine Brooks 
• No December meeting
• January 22: Middlemarch, George Elliott 
• February 26: The Poisoner’s Handbook, Deborah Blum (CANCELED)
• March 26: Brick Lane, Monica Ali  (CANCELED)
• April 23: 
  • The Poisoner’s Handbook, Deborah Blum
  • Brick Lane, Monica Ali
• May 28: The Caning, Stephen Puleo
• June 25: Father’s Day, Buzz Bissinger
• July 23: The Burgess Boys, Elizabeth Strout
• No August meeting

September 2012 – August 2013

• September 19: Caleb’s Crossing, Geraldine Brooks
• October 24: Unbroken, Laura Hillenbrand
• November 28: The Dovekeepers, Alice Hoffman
• No December meeting
• January 23: The Hare With Amber Eyes, Edmund DeWaal
• February 27: The Buddha in the Attic, Julie Otsuka
• March 27: The Paris Wife, Paula McLain
• April 24: Zeitoun, Dave Eggers
• May 22: The Reliable Wife, Robert Goolrich
• June 26: State of Wonder, Ann Patchett
• July 23: Gone Girl, Gillian Flynn
• No August meeting