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. To join the group, email Heather.

Upcoming Meetings & Books:

• Saturday, January 25 - The Lost Girls of Paris by Pam Jenoff
• Saturday, February 15 - Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
• Saturday, March 21 - Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens 

Past Reads:

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