Reading

October 7 – Forever by Pete Hamill

November 4 – Daughters of Yalta by Katherine Katz

December 9 – Clara and Mr. Tiffany by Susan Vreeland

January 6 – Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan

February – Horse by Geraldine Brooks

March 3 – In the Woods by Tana French

April 7 – When Women Ran Fifth Avenue by Julie Satow

May 5 – Theo of Golden by Alan Levi

October 15, 2025 – An Unfinished Love Story, A Personal History of the 1960’s by Doris Kearns Goodwin

November 5, 2025 – Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer

December 3, 2025 – The Color of Water by James McBride

January 7, 2026 – Persuasion by Jane Austen

February 4, 2026 – People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks

March 4, 2026 – A Passage to India by E. M. Forster

April 8, 2026 – Plum Island by Nelson DeMille

May 6, 2026 – West with Giraffes by Lynda Rutledge

October 9, 2024 – The Women by Kristin Hannah
November 6, 2024 – No Ordinary Time by Doris Kearns Goodwin
December 4, 2024 – Empress of the Nile by Lynn Olson (Holiday Party)
January 8, 2025 – James by Percival Everett
February 5, 2025 – The Escape Artist by Jonathan Freedland
March 5, 2025 – The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store by James McBride
April 9, 2025 – A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
May 7, 2025 – The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon

October 4, 2023 – Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
November 8, 2023 – The Weight of Ink by Rachel Kadish
December 6, 2023 – Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann (Holiday Party)
January 10, 2024 – Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
February 7, 2024 – My Father’s House by Joseph O’Connor
March 6, 2024 – The Dictionary of Lost Words by P. P. Williams
April 3, 2024 – It Can’t Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis
May 8, 2024 – The Bridal Chair by Gloria Goodrich

October – The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict & Victoria Murray
Black historical fiction. In her twenties, Belle is hired by J. P. Morgan to curate a collection of rare manuscripts, books, and artwork for his newly built library. Belle must hide the fact that she is the daughter of the first Black graduate of Harvard. Inspired by the true story of a woman hired by J. P. Morgan who passes for white as she becomes his trusted employee, moving in the highest circles as librarian and agent of his future museum.

November – Ten Days in a Mad-House by Nellie Bly
The book is based on articles written while Bly was on an undercover assignment for the New York World, feigning insanity at a women’s boarding house to be involuntarily committed to an asylum. She then investigated brutality and neglect at the Women’s Lunatic Asylum on Blackwell’s Island.

December – The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner
Historical mystery. In 18th-century London, a secret apothecary shop caters to an unusual clientele. But the apothecary’s fate is jeopardized when her newest patron, a precocious twelve-year-old, makes a fatal mistake that echoes through the centuries.

January – Telephone Tales by Gianni Rodari
Young adult. Every night, Mr. Bianchi, an accountant who travels for work, calls his daughter and tells her a bedtime story—each as long as a pay-phone coin lasts. Seventy short stories mix reality and fantasy with unconventional characters across time and place.

February – The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
Classic. Archer, an eligible young man from New York high society, is about to announce his engagement to May, a suitable match, when the beautiful Countess Ellen Olenska enters their circle. Wharton’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of 1870s New York explores passion, independence, and the difficulty of truly seeing one another.

March – The Giver of Stars by JoJo Moyes
Women’s friendships; historical fiction. Alice marries a handsome American to escape her stifling English life, only to find small-town Kentucky equally confining. When a call goes out for women to deliver books as part of Eleanor Roosevelt’s traveling library, she joins the Packhorse Librarians of Kentucky—a true story of courage and camaraderie in 1930s Appalachia.

April – The Only Woman in the Room by Marie Benedict
Her beauty saved her from the Nazis and led to marriage with an Austrian arms dealer. Fleeing in disguise, she became Hollywood star Hedy Lamarr—and a scientist whose ideas helped revolutionize communication technology. A powerful novel about women in science overlooked by history.

May – Immigrant Voices: New Lives in America, 1773–2000 by Thomas Dublin
A collection of letters and writings from immigrants spanning over two centuries, from Irish famine refugees to modern border crossers. The updated edition highlights common threads in the U.S. immigrant experience across gender, nation, race, and time.

October 6 – The Lions of Fifth Avenue by Fiona Davis
November 3 – About Schmidt by Louis Begley
December 8 – Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks (Holiday Party)
January 5 – The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett Stuart
February 9 – Caste by Isabel Wilkerson
March 9 – The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
April 6 – The Boys in the Boat by Daniel Brown (Tentative Year-End Trip)
May 4 – Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell

October 7 – Apeirogon by Colum McCann
November 4 – I’m Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter by Erika L. Sánchez
December 9 – The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris (Book & Party)
January 6 – Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
February 3 – Founding Mothers by Cokie Roberts
March 3 – Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid
April 7 – Trip
May 5 – Empire of the Summer Moon by S. C. Gwynne
Bonus – Pachinko by Min Jin Lee

October 9 – Becoming by Michelle Obama
November 6 – A Place for Us by Fatima Farheen Mirza
December 4 – Homeless Bird by Gloria Whelan (Holiday Party)
January 8 – The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
February 5 – Educated by Tara Westover
March 4 – Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
April 8 – Madame Fourcade’s Secret War: The Daring Young Woman Who Led France’s Largest Spy Network Against Hitler by Lynn Olson
May 6 – Year-end Trip