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Join the Book Club for our Members.
All meetings are 7 PM - 9 PM. Currently, we are meeting via Zoom.
Janet Kufta, Book Club Chair. Email Janice at bookgroup [at] wheatonlwvil.org (subject: LWV%20Book%20Group) if you want to join.
| Date | Host | Book | Author | Discussion Leader |
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2024 |
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Jul 9 |
Virtual? |
The Secret Life of Sunflowers |
Marta Molnar |
Claudia Dunn |
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Sep 10 |
Virtual |
The Book of Lost Names |
Kristin Harmel |
Pam Swayne |
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Nov 12 |
Virtual |
The Woman They Could Not Silence: One Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men Who Tried to Make Her Disappear |
Kate Moore |
Mary Tworek-Tupper |
First Half:
- The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See
- The Gown by Jennifer Robson
- The Nature of Oaks: The Rich Ecology of Our Most Essential Native Trees by Douglas W. Tallamy
- Tinkers by Paul Harding
- My Antonia by Willa Cather
- Perestroika in Paris by Jane Smiley
- The Women by Kristin Hannah
- Everything Sad is Untrue by Daniel Nayeri
- Hester by Laurie Lico Albanese
| Book | Author |
| 2023-24 | |
| The Lost Manuscript |
Cathy Bonidan |
| The Bookshop | Penelope Fitzgerald |
| The Lincoln Highway: A Novel | Amor Towles |
| West With Giraffes | Lynda Rutledge |
| Lessons in Chemistry | Bonnie Garmus |
| Shoe Dog | Phil Knight |
| Book | Author |
| 2022-23 | |
| Virgil Wander |
Leif Enger |
| The Women of the Copper Country | Mary Doria Russell |
| All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, A Black Family Keepsake | Tiya Miles |
| Remarkably Bright Creatures | Shelby Van Pelt |
| Horse | Geraldine Brooks |
| Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years | Sarah L. Delany & A. Elizabeth Delany |
| Book | Author |
| 2021-22 | |
| The Yellow House | Sarah M. Broom |
| The President's Hat |
Antoine Laurain |
| Promise Me, Dad | Joe Biden |
| An American Summer: Love and Death in Chicago |
Alex Kotlowitz |
| The Personal Librarian | Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray |
| American Dirt | Jeanine Cummins |
| Book | Author |
| 2020-21 | |
| The Giver of Stars | Jojo Moyes |
| The Girl With Seven Names: A North Korean Defector's Story | Hyeonseo Lee |
| The Story of More | Hope Jahren |
| Squeeze Me |
Carl Hiaasen |
| The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz | Erik Larson |
| Disappearing Earth | Julia Phillips |
| Book | Author |
| 2019-20 | |
| The Moment of Lift | Melinda Gates |
| Becoming |
Michelle Obama |
| Ghosts in the Schoolyard | Eve L. Ewing |
| The Dutch House | Ann Patchett |
| Courting Mr. Lincoln | Louis Bayard |
| What Rose Forgot | Nevada Barr |
| Book | Author |
| 2018-19 | |
| Russian Roulette | Michael Isikoff & David Corn |
| The Hellfire Club | Jake Tapper |
| Educated | Tara Westover |
| Wedged | Erik Fogg and Nat Greene |
| The Woman Who Smashed Codes | Jason Fagone |
| Behold the Dreamers | Imbolo Mbue |
| Book | Author |
| 2017-18 | |
| Hillbilly Elegy | J.D. Vance |
| All the Light We Cannot See | Anthony Doerr |
| Lab Girl | Hope Jahren |
| Born a Crime | Trevor Noah |
| Just Mercy | Brian Stevenson |
| Boy in the Suitcase | Lene Kaaberbol & Agnete Friis |
| Book | Author |
| 2016-17 | |
| My Life on the Road | Gloria Steinem |
| Angle of Repose | Wallace Stegner |
| Ordinary Grace | William Kent Krueger |
| The Holy Man | Susan Trott |
| The Underground Railroad | Colson Whitehead |
| Our Souls at Night | Kent Haruf |
| Book | Author |
| 2015-16 | |
| The Goldfinch | Donna Tartt |
| The Glass Castle | Jeannette Walls |
| The Book of Unknown Americans | Cristina Henriquez |
| Dreamers of the Day | Mary Doria Russell |
| The Girl on the Train | Paula Hawkins |
| The Sixth Extinction | Elizabeth Kolbert |
| Book | Author |
| 2014-15 | |
| When Bad Things Happen to Good People | Harold S. Kushner |
| The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks | Rebecca Skloot |
| The Invention of Wings | Sue Monk Kidd |
| A Call to Action: Women, Religion, Violence, and Power | Jimmy Carter |
| Orphan Train | Christina Baker Kline |
| The Underground Girls of Kabul: In Search of a Hidden Resistance in Afghanistan | Jenny Nordberg |
Reading preferences: We read any books that we feel will open our minds and generate discussion. They do not have to relate to the mission or actions of LWV. They can be fiction or non-fiction. The person nominating a book must have read it and will be the discussion leader, if the book is chosen for the club.
Selection of the books: Selection is by a simple vote of those present. Each person gets three votes to cast for the books nominated by those present. We will pick 3 books at the meeting, for the following 3 meetings.
Meetings: 2nd Tuesdays, 7-9 PM, odd numbered months: July, September, November, January, March, and May.
Logistics: Currently we are meeting on Zoom. Before the pandemic, we met in member homes, allowing 7-7:15 PM as a time to gather, and get a drink and nibbles. The remainder of the meeting is devoted to discussion of the book for that evening. Every 3rd meeting, we also choose the 3 books and the hosts for the next 3 meetings (6 months). The host changes for each meeting. Generally, the host is not the discussion leader. The host provides light refreshments, such as coffee, tea, cookies, wine & cheese, etc.
Book Exchange: We have a book exchange at least once a year. Generally, if you bring a book, you can take a book; but if there are enough books, even those who have not brought a book to exchange may take one. Several members read electronic books, which unfortunately cannot be part of an exchange. If any books are left over, we donate them to SCARCE.