Book Group

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