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Women's Book Club - 1 meeting a month.  American Authors.  

Usually meeting on a Thursday evening at 18:00

Everyone reads in English on their own and comes ready to discuss in English. 


2023/24 Titles to decided by the group.

October 13, 2023, 6 pm - MEET the AUTHOR - When the Church Burns Down Cancel the Wedding - Sara Braca

Thursday, November 9, 2023 - Call Us What We Carry, Amanda Gorman. Poetry collection . 240 pages.

December 14, 2023 - In One Person by John Irving - Fiction  Novel of desire, secrecy, and sexual identity, a story of unfulfilled love. 448 pages

January 18, 2024 - The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store by James McBride.  Fiction. Solidarity between the Black and Jewish Communities in Pennsylvania. 400 pages  

February 22, 2024- Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead.  The alternate history novel tells the story of Cora, a slave in the Antebellum South during the 19th century, who makes a bid for freedom from her Georgia plantation by following the Underground Railroad, which the novel depicts as a rail transport system with safe houses and secret routes.

March 13, 2024 - The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath - Autobiographical Fiction - 60th Anniversary. A young female writer in the 1950s. Humor, depression, mental illness. 244 pages.  Exceptionally on a Wednesday.  

April 11, 2024 -  The Passenger by Cormac McCarthy - Fiction - The story of a salvage diver, haunted by loss, afraid of the watery deep, pursued for a conspiracy beyond his understanding, and longing for a death he cannot reconcile with God.

May 16, 2024 - Overture: a Novel by Yael Goldstein.  Fiction.  Love, music, and the complex relationship between mothers and daughters — lives lived passionately and a subtle exploration of the nature of genius.  304 pages.

 June 6, 2024 - If l Survive You by Jonathan Escoffery. Fiction. Jamaican American Family trying to survive in Florida.  272 pages.

Books we read in 2022/23

Whereabouts by Jhumpa Lahiri
I Will Die in a Foreign Land by Kalani Pickhart
The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh
New York Trilogy by Paul Auster
Mom & Me & Mom by Maya Angelou
The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields
Jazz by Toni Morrison
Inheritance: Genealogy, Paternity, Love by Dani Shapiro
Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin


20/30 Something Co-ed Book Club - 1 meeting a month.  American Authors.  

Usually meeting on a Friday evening.  Men and Women.  between ages 20 and 40.

Everyone reads in English on their own and comes ready to discuss in English. 

*October 13, 2023 - Meet the Author - When the Church Burns Down Cancel the Wedding - Sara Braca

2023/24 Titles and dates decided by the group, month by month.

November 24, 19:30 - Under the Whispering Door by TJ Klune

ACTIVITY SUSPENDED in 2024.  No Meetings are planned for this group.

Books read by the group in 2023

The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
The Help by Kathryn Stockett (chapters 1-17)
The Winter People by Jennifer McMahon
The Haunted Hill House by Shirley Jackson