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 in the Literacy Volunteers classroom on the first floor of the Jefferson School City Center. Please email heather@literacyforall.org for more information.

Upcoming Meetings & Books:

Saturday, February 18: Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
Saturday, March 18: The Book of Delights by Ross Gay (JMRL Same Page Community Read)
Saturday, April 15: The Spectator Bird by Wallace Stegnar
Saturday, May 20: The Bastard of Istanbul by Elif Shafak

Past Reads:

2023

January: Free Read

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
October: Somone by Alice McDermott
November: Charming Billy by Alice McDermott
December: At Weddings and Wakes by Alice McDermott

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