Book Group

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

The tutor book group meets on the third Saturday of every month (typically). Meetings are held at 12:30 p.m. We will meet outside the Wegman's Market Café, 100 Wegmans Way, Charlottesville, for the remainder of the summer. Please email heather@literacyforall.org for more information.

Upcoming Meetings & Books:

Saturday, October 15: Somone by Alice McDermott
Saturday, November 19: Charming Billy by Alice McDermott
Saturday, December 17: After This by Alice McDermott

Inspired by The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler, the LVCA Book Group chose one author to read over the course of three months.

Past Reads:

2022

January: The Night Watchman by Louse Erdrich
February: Plainsong by Kent Haruf
March: This is Happiness by Niall Williams
April: Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
May: The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
June: Free Read
July: Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
August: Calypso by David Sedaris
September: West with Giraffes by Lynda Rutledge

2021

January: Free Read
February: Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
March: The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson
April: Noah's Compass by Anne Tyler
May: The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid by Bill Bryson
June: The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
July: The Guest Cat by Takashi Hiraide
August: Free Read
September: The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
October: Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont by Elizabeth Taylor
November: A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf
December: The Husband's Secret by Liane Moriarty

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
June: Where the Light Falls by Allison Pataki and Owen Pataki
July: The Submission by Amy Waldman
August: The Girl with Seven Names: A North Korean Defector's Story by Hyeonseo Lee
September: The Story Hour by Thrity N. Umrigar
October: The One in a Million Boy by Monica Wood
November: 142 Ostriches by April Davila
December: The Dutch House by Ann Patchett

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