Book Club 

We are currently meeting on Zoom pending further notice.   

Join us for lively, stimulating and educational discussions.  We meet on the third Wednesday of the month at 10:30 a.m.  inside the Prudential Center at the tables in the Belvidere Arcarde along the side of the South Garden directly opposite the post office.


Books are chosen by the group a few months in advance. For exact dates, location, and the book, check the Calendar.

Books for 2021

January 20 - Caste by Isabel Wilkerson
February 17 - The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
March 17 - The Storm by Arif Anwar
April 21 - Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
May 19 - The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
June 16 - Dear Edward by Ann Napolitano
September 15 - The Grass is Singing by Doris Lessing
October 20 - Unsheltered by Barbara Kingsolver
November 17 - The Return: Fathers, Sons, and the Land In Between by Hisham Mater
December 15 - The House We Grew Up In by Lisa Jewell

Books for 2020

January 15 - The Girl With Seven Names by Lee Hyeon-seo
February 19 - The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See
May 20 - The Bettencourt Affair by Tom Sancton
June 17 - American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins
July 15 - A Woman is No Man by Efta Rum
August 19 - The Plague by Albert Camus
September 16 - Lilac Girls: A Novel by Martha Hal Kelly
October 21 - The Last Kings of Shanghai by Jonathan Kaufman
November 18 - An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
December 16 - The Beekeeper of Aleppo by Christy Lefteri

Books for Fall 2019

September 18 - To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
October 16 -Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
November 20 - A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
December - No Meeting

Books for Winter/Spring 2019

January 22 - The Storyteller's Secret by Sejal Badani
February 19 - The Baltimore Book of the Dead by Marion Winik
March 18 - Rules of Civility by Amor Towles
April 15 - The Last Mrs. Parrish by Liv Constantine
May 20 - The Secrets Between Us by Thrity Umrigar
June 17 - The Space Between Us by Thrity Umrigar

Books for Fall 2018

January 17 - H is for Hawk  by Helen MacDonald
February 21 - My Name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Stout
March 20 - Tears We Cannot Stop by Michael Eric Dyson
April 17 - A Fine Balance by Mistry
May 15 - The Accusation by Bandi
June 19 - A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman

Books for Fall 2016
September 19 - The Bastard of Istanbul by Elif Shafak
October 17 - Pétronille by Amélie Nothomb
November 21 - Hillbilly Elegy by JD Vance
No meeting in December

Books for Winter/Spring 2016
January 19 - Mr. Gwyn by Allessandro Baricco
February 16 - All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
March 21 - The Witches  by Stacy Schiff
April 18 - Norwegian by Night by Derek B. Miller
May 16 - Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng
June 20 - Suspended Sentences by Patrick Modiano

Books for Fall 2015
September 21 - The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
October 19 - Lila by Marilynne Robinson
November 16 - The Spectator Bird by Wallace Stegner 

Books for Winter/Spring 2015
February 23 – Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand by Helen Simonson
March 16 – Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
April 20 – The Good Women of China: Hidden Voices by Zinran
May 18 – Back Bay by William Martin
June 15 – Gilead by Marilynne Robinson

Books for Fall 2014
The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
The Expats by Chris Pavone

Books for Spring 2014
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
The Girl Who Stole My Holocaust by Noam Chayut
The Seventh Etching by Judith White
The Seagull by Anton Chekhov
I am Malala by Malala Yousafzai

Books for Fall 2013
In the Eye of the Sun by Ahdaf Souief
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
Native Speaker by Chang-rae Lee
Kosher Chinese by Michael Levy