Meets monthly on the third Friday at 10:30 a.m. All meetings in person in Sheffield Room at Cathedral Village with the exception of January, February, and March (on Zoom). If you are interested in joining this group, please contact bookgroup@usguu.org so you can receive pertinent updates.

September 19, 2025    
Natural Magic: Emily Dickinson, Charles Darwin, and the Dawn of Modern Science, Renee Bergland   440 pp.  Barbara Dowdall 

2025-2026 Book Group Reading List
The name after each book is the discussion leader.

October 17, 2025                   Slow Horses, Mick Herron 336pp Bonnie Libby

November 21, 2025              Lovely One, Ketanji Brown Jackson 418pp   Jody Smith

December 19, 2025              Three Days in June, Anne Tyler 209pp   Jan Young

January 16, 2026                   Enlightenment, Sarah Perry 384pp   Maddie Nash

February 20, 2026                The Message, Ta-Nehisi Coates 232pp Deborah Coleman

March 20, 2026                     Remarkable Bright Creatures, Shelby Van Pelt 368pp   Peggy Bruton

April 17, 2026                        The Losing Season, Pat Conroy 416pp  Maddie Nash

May 15, 2026                         Black in Blues, Imani Perry 252pp    Deborah Coleman

June 19, 2026                         The Lion Women of Tehran, Marjan Kamali 333pp   Bonnie Libby

July 17, 2026                          No meeting. Read Anything You Would Like 🙂

August 21, 2026                    Pick Books for the Next Year

September 18, 2026              Cloud Cuckoo, Anthony Doerr 637pp

Honorable Mentions:

Founding Mothers, Cokie Roberts

While Justice Sleeps, Stacy Abrams

A Journey With Two Maps, Evean Boland

March, Geraldine Brooks

Horse, Geraldine Brooks

Mink River, Brian Doyle

Book Woman’s Daughter, Kim Michele Richardson

The Three Mothers, Anna Malaika Tubbs

Books for 2024-25
The Truths We Hold: An American Journey Kamala Harris          336 pp.       
The Bird Hotel   Joyce Maynard  288 pp. 
Heaven and Earth Grocery Store   James McBride 381 pp. 
Joan is OK   Weike Wang  240 pp. 
West with Giraffes   Linda Rutledge  346 pp.  
Lemon Tree Sandy Tolan   350 pp.  
True Grit   Charles Portis   267 pp.   
The Violin Conspiracy   Brendan Slocumb 352 pp. 
America Made Me a Black Man   Boyah J. Farah 256 pp. 
When We Were Orphans   Kazuo Ishiguro   320 pp. 

Book Group Selections  for 2023-2024 
Hello Beautiful     Ann Napolitano  400 pp.                   
The Light Pirate Lilly Brooks Dalton    336 pp.            
The Uncommon Reader Alan Bennett  120 pp.         
The Exceptions  Nancy Hopkins 432 pp.                  
The Dictionary of Lost Words  Pip Williams  359 pp.    
Harlem Nocturne: Women Artists and Progressive Politics During World War II   Farah Jasmine Griffin      
While I Was Gone    Sue Miller   304 pp.          
The Measure, Nikki Erlick  359 pp.                
Lucy by the Sea,   Elizabeth Stroud 288 pp.           
Carnegie’s Maid, Marie Benedict 274 pp.           
Avid Reader, Robert Gottlieb

Books for 2022-2023 
Kareem Rosser, Crossing the Line, 304 pp.                                
David McCullough, Johnstown Flood, 300 pp.
JoJo Moyes, The Giver of Stars, 385 pp.
Farah Jasmine Griffin, Read Until You Understand,  271 pp.  
Penelope Fitzgerald, The Book Shop, 156 pp.                          Charmaine Wilkerson, Black Cake, 400 pp.
Edith Wharton, Mother’s Recompense , 272 pp.            
Michelle Huneven, Search, 400 pp.                                                  Geraldine Brooks, Horse, 401 pp.
Lorene Cary, Ladysitting, 254 pp.
Sylvia Beach, Shakespeare and Company, 230 pp.                          
Anne Tyler, The French Braid, 244 pp.