May 24th on Zoom (7p.m.) Our Town by Thornton Wilder
June 25 – at Cindy’s (socializing @ 7; discussion @ 7:30p.m.) The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah
July 30 – at Nancy’s What the Wind Knows by Amy Harmon
August 27 – at Nina’s The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
December 18 on Zoom The Redhead by the Side of the Road by Anne Tyler
January 22 on Zoom Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann
February 26 on Zoom The Girl They Left Behind by Roxanne Veletzos
March 19 on Zoom How Much of These Hills is Gold by C. Pam Zhang
April 23 on Zoom Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
August 21 on Zoom – Know My Name: A Memoir by Chanel Miller
September 25 on Zoom – The Elephant Company by Vicki Croke
October 23 on Zoom – Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots by Deborah Feldman
November 20 on Zoom – The Girl Who Fell From the Sky by Heidi Darrow
Also considered:
Fiction
Circe by Madeline Miller
Cognition by Jacques St-MaloCorrespondents by Tim Murphy
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
Where the Green Star Falls by William Jack Stephens
1984 by George Orwell
Non-fiction
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies of a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou
A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II by Sonia Purnell
March – postponed due to Covid-19
April 24th on Zoom —In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez
May 29th on Zoom — Gateway to the Moon: A Novel by Mary Morris
June 19th on Zoom — American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins
July 24 on Zoom — Calypso by David Sedaris
October 25 at Laurie’s – Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century by George Packer
November 22 at Cindy’s – The Blink of an Eye by Rikke Schmidt Kjaergaard
January 24 at Jane’s – The Testaments by Margaret Atwood
February 28 at Nina’s – The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
Also Considered
For your individual reading pleasure, these other books were also considered:
Fiction
Circe by Madeline Miller
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
The House of Broken Angels by Luis Alberto Urrea
The Master by Colm Tóibín
The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
What She Left Behind by Ellen Marie Wiseman
Nonfiction
The Education of an Idealist by Samantha Power
The Elephant Company by Vicki Croke
The Woman Who Smashed Codes by Jason Fagone
June 21 at Janet’s–The Other Americans by Laila Lalami
July 19 at Marija’s The Library Book by Susan Orlean
August 23 at Bonnie’s. Runaway by Alice Munro
September 20 at Nancy’s. The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey
February 22 at Cindy’s – Washington Black by Esi Edugyan
March 29 at Nancy’s – Behold the Dreamers by
April 26 at Patty’s – The Immortal Irishman by Timothy Egan
May 17 at Jaime’s – Milkman by Anna Burns
Friday, September 21 at Nancy’s house — Hum if You Don’t Know the Words by Bianca Marais
Friday, October 26 at Kris’s house — The Idiot by Elif Batuman
Friday, November 30 at Marija’s house — Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively
Friday, January 25, 2019 at Jane’s house — Brat Farrar by Josephine Tey