AAUW BALTIMORE FIRST MONDAY BOOK GROUP
The Book Group normally meets the first Monday of the month at Barrett’s Grill, Hunt Valley Towne Centre (118 Shawan Rd Ste DD, Hunt Valley, MD 21030) at 5:30 pm. To reserve a spot, contact baltimore-md@aauw.net.
SELECTIONS FOR 2024-2025
- July 1, 2024: The Perfect Predator by Stephanie Strathdee
- August 5, 2024: Fire Weather by John Vaillant
- September 9, 2024: Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
- October 7, 2024: Sounds of Life by Karen Bakker
- November 4, 2024: Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
- December 2, 2024: Golden Boy by John Glatt
- January 6, 2025: West With Giraffes by Lynda Rutledge
- February 3, 2025: The Chancellor by Kati Marton
- March 3, 2025: Table for Two by Amor Towles
- April 7, 2025: Unfinished Love Story by Doris Kearns Goodwin
- May 5, 2025: The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store by James McBride
- June 2, 2024: Book Selection Meeting for 2025-2026
Previous Selections:
SELECTIONS FOR 2023-2024
- July 10, 2023: Fellowship Point: A Novel by Alice Elliott Dark
- August 7, 2023: The Body, A Guide for Occupants by Bill Bryson
- September 11, 2023: Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
- October 2, 2023: Horse by Geraldine Brooks
- November 6, 2023: White Too Long by Robert P. Jones
- December 4, 2023: The Good Life by Robert Waldinger
- January 8, 2024: White Teeth by Zadie Smith
- February 5, 2024: Black Women Will Save the World by April Ryan
- March 4, 2024: The Great Reclamation by Rachel Heng
- April 1, 2024: Apeirogan: A Novel by Colum McCann
- May 6, 2024: The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese
SELECTIONS FOR 2022-2023
July 11, 2022 The Code Breaker by Walter Isaacson
August 1, 2022 Dream Girl by Laura Lippman
September 12 2022 After Cooling by Eric Dean Wilson
October 3, 2022 All the Frequent-Troubles of our Days by Rebecca Donner
November 7, 2022 The Sentence by Louise Erdrich
December 5, 2022 Fuzz by Mary Roach
January 2, 2023 The House of Gucci by Sara Forden
February 6, 2023 The Personal Librarian by Victoria Christopher Murray and Marie Benedict
March 6, 2023 Endurance by Scott Kelly
April 3, 2023 C Crying at H Mart by Michelle Zauner
May 1, 2023 The Last Green Valley by Mark Sullivan
SELECTIONS FOR 2021-2022
July 12, 2021 Caste – Isabel Wilkerson
August 2, 2021 Persepolis The Story of a Childhood I – Marjane Satrapi
September 13, 2021 The Splendid and the Vile – Erik Larson
October 4, 2021 The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek – Kim Michele Richardson
November 1, 2021 The Night Watchman – Louise Erdrich
December 6, 2021 Black Butterfly – Lawrence Brown
January 3, 2022 Klara and the Sun – Kazuo Ishiguro
February 7, 2022 First Principles – Thomas Ricks
March 7, 20 22 Hamnet – Maggie O’Farrell
April 4, 2022 Having and Being Had – Eula Biss
May 2, 2022 Infinite Country – Patricia Engel
June 6, 2022 Book Selection for Next Year
SELECTIONS FOR 2020 – 2021
- July 6, 2020 The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis by Christina Fugueres (2020)
- August 3, 2020 Ordinary Grace by William Kent Kruger (2013)
September 14, 2020 Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions by Brian Christian (2016)
October 5, 2020 Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators by Ronan Farrow (2019)
November 2, 2020 The Paladin: A Spy Novel by David Ignatius (2020)
December 7, 2020 The Dutch House: A Novel by Ann Patchett (2019) - January 4, 2021 When My Time Comes: Conversations about Whether Those Who Are Dying Should Have the Right to Determine When Life Should End by Diane Rehm (2020)
February 1, 2021 The Old Drift: A Novel by Namwali Serpell (2019)
March 1, 2021 Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man’s Fight for Justice by Bill Browder (2015) - April 5, 2021 Water Dancer: A Novel by Ta-Nehisi Coates (2019)
May 3, 2021 American Dirt: A Novel by Jeanine Cummins (2020)
June 7, 2021 Book Selection for Next Year