WUC Book Club 2023-2024 Schedule
The WUC Book Club meets on the third Monday of the month at 7:00 PM.
If you are interested in joining the Westminster Unitarian Book Group please contact Alice Cialella (alicecialella@gmail.com).
Here is the list of the Westminster Book Club 2023-2024 Reading Selections:
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2023 – 2024 WUC Book Club Selections
| July 17th | One, Two, Three (novel) | Laurie Frankel | 416 pg 15 hrs |
| August 21st | Braiding Sweetgrass (non fiction) | Robin Wall Kimmerer | 408 pg 16 hrs |
| September 18th | Unaccustomed Earth (short stories) | Jhumpa Lahiri | 352 pg 10 hrs |
| October 16th | The Diamond Eye (fiction) | Kate Quinn | 448 pg 13 hrs |
| November 20th | Our Missing Hearts (fiction) | Celeste Ng | 352 pg 10 hrs (narrated by Lucy Liu!) |
| December 18th | My Sister, the Serial Killer (fiction) | Oyinkan Braithwaite | 240 pg 4 hrs |
| January 15th | A Tale for the Tim(e Being (fiction) | Ruth Ozeki | 448 pg 15 hrs |
| February 19th | The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue (fiction) | V.E. Schwab | 787 pg 17 hrs |
| March 18th | The Radcliffe Ladies’ Reading Club (fiction) | Julia Bryan Thomas | 384 pg 9 hrs |
| April 15th | Life After Life (fiction) | Kate Atkinson | 704 pg 15.5 hrs |
| May 20th | The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store (fiction) | James McBride | 400 pg 15 hrs |
Honorable Mentions that just missed the cut!
| Take What You Need | Idra Novey |
| Demon Copperhead | Barbara Kingslover |
| The Covenant of Water | Abraham Verghese |
| Gender Queer | Maia Kobabe |
| Vagina Obscura | Rachel E. Gross |
| Ireland | Frank Delaney |
| How Lucky | Will Leitch |
| The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time | Mark Haddon |
| A Man Called Ove | Fredrik Backman |
| The Hidden Palace | Helene Wecker (If you haven’t, read The Golem and the Jinni first) |
| Circe | Madeline Miller |
| The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo | Alma Cuervo |
| Let’s Take the Long Way Home | Gail Caldwell |
| The Soul of an Octopus | Sy Montgomery |
| The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society | Mary Ann Shaffer |
| The Orphan Train* | Christina Baker Kline |
| The Great Alone | Kristin Hannah |
| The Little Friend | Donna Tartt |
| The Sympathizer | Viet Thanh Nguyen |
| The Barbizon: The Hotel that Set Women Free | Paulina Bren |
| I’m Possible | Richard Antoine White |
*I referenced an episode of the podcast Criminal connected to this novel. Upon reflection, I don’t know if the subject of episode 110 of Criminal is directly linked to the Orphan Train, however, it is still a very interesting episode about Georgia Tann, an absolutely terrible human being.
Past Book Selection Lists:
2022-2023
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ixNk-zBZKQFjYX631mHZyd3z6CWlj-gPiQn5XU-Mj78/edit?usp=sharing
2021/2022
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CNouY-1h7JxR8Ueiw_-NPUFr8b_XM9MgMq3AhcAFw18/edit
2020/2021
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kmz6n3DvUiSs6qSLF1652WrU5KAaM-RCQzE0tnHgE5o/edit