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
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
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October: Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont by Elizabeth Taylor
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November: A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf
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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