Book Group

Literacy Volunteers offers a monthly book group to provide tutors a chance to socialize, make new friends, and of course read great books!

The tutor book group meets on the third Saturday of every month (typically). Meetings are held at 12:30 p.m. in LVCA's first-floor classroom, Room 133, at the Jefferson School.

Upcoming Meetings & Books:

Saturday, June 20 - Where the Light Falls by Allison and Owen Pataki (Zoom Meeting)
Saturday, July 25* - The Submission by Amy Waldman
Saturday, August 15 - The Girl with Seven Names: A North Korean Defector's Story by Hyeonseo Lee
*Date change due to Tutor Mini-Conference scheduled for 7/18

Past Reads:

2020

January: The Lost Girls of Paris by Pam Jenoff
February: Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
March: No Meeting
April: Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
May: Free Read

2019

January: The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
February: Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America by Firoozeh Dumas
March: Confucious Lives Next Door by TR Reid
April: The Woman Upstairs by Claire Messud
May: The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
June: Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat
July: No Meeting
August: The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
September: Go, Went, Gone by Jenny Erpenbeck
October: Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover
November: Becoming by Michelle Obama
December: Astrid & Veronika by Linda Olsson

2018

January: Commonwealth by Ann Patchett
February: An American Family: A Memoir of Hope and Sacrifice by Khizr Khan
March: All Passion Spent by Vita Sackville-West
April: The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey
May: The Woman Next Door by Yewande Omotoso
June: Free Read
July: A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
August: A Piece of the World by Christina Baker Kline
September: Cancelled due to weather
October: The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World by Dalai Lama and Desmond Tutu
November: gods in Alabama by Joshilyn Jackson
December: Midwinter Break by Bernard MacLaverty

2017

January: The Wright Brothers by David McCullough
February: In the Country We Love: My Family Divided by Diane Guerrero
March: Free Read
April: The Door by Magda Szabó
May: My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
June: I Know This Much Is True by Wally Lamb
July: A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
September: A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
October: A Long Way Home by Saroo Brierley
November: I'm a Stranger Here Myself by Bill Bryson
December: Marlene by C.W. Gortner

2016

January: Quartet in Autumn by Barbara Pym
February: My Year Inside Radical Islam by Daveed Gartenstein-Ross
March: The Plot Against America by Philip Roth
April: H is for Hawk by Helen MacDonald
May: Euphoria by Lily King
June: The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen
July: Free Read
August: Circling the Sun by Paula McLain
September: On My Own by Diane Rehm
October: The Known World by Edward P. Jones
November: Light Years by James Salter
December: Leaving Before the Rains Come by Alexandra Fuller

2015

January: Two Lives by William Trevor
February: Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
March: Sister Golden Hair by Darcey Steinke
April: Ways of Going Home by Alejandro Zambra
May: The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion
June: Boy, Snow, Bird by Helen Oyeyemi
July: Free read
August: All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
September: Dear Life by Alice Munro
October: The Republic of Imagination by Aznar Afisi
November: Our Man in Charleston by Christopher Dickey
December: Free Read

2014

January: The Space Between Us by Thrity Umrigar
February: The Beet Queen by Louise Erdich
March: The Madonnas of Leningrad by Debra Dean
April: Pearl of China by Anchee Min
May: Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
June: The Glassblower of Murano by Marina Fiorato
July: The Tiger’s Wife by Tea Obreht
August: The Storyteller’s Daughter by Saira Shah
September: Burger’s Daughter by Nadine Gordimer
October: The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
November: Geography of Bliss by Eric Weiner