Book Group

Our Book Group meets on the 3rd or 4th Friday of each month for a potluck dinner and book discussion. We read books by or about women. We’d love to have you join us!

Interested in attending? Contact Branch President Christine Salmon at aauw.owensboro@gmail.com.

Suggest a book to put on our reading list!

See current read and books coming up below. Scroll down for our past books.

Current Month

Small Island book cover


Friday Feb 26, 2021
 – Book Group
7:00pm via Zoom
(Zoom link will come from Christine)
facilitated by Merry M.

 

Coming Up 

cover of the book caste


Friday March 16 OR 26, 2021
 – Book Group
7:00pm via Zoom
(Zoom link will come from Christine)
facilitated by Mary Lou T.

cover for book feather crowns
Friday April 23, 2021 – Book Group
7:00pm via Zoom
(Zoom link will come from Christine)
Need a facilitator!

cover for book for Sirens of Mars


Friday May 21, 2021
 – Book Group
7:00pm via Zoom
(Zoom link will come from Christine)
facilitated by Mary C.

 


Previous Books Read

Books in 2021

 

Friday Jan 22, 2021
facilitated by Edna

 

Books in 2020


Friday March 27, 2020Book Group – 6:00 pm at the home of Aloma Dew.
See Judy’s email for the address and directions.

 


Friday April 24, 2020
Book Group – 6:00 pm at the home of Mary Cupp.
See Judy’s email for the address and directions.

 

Friday September 18
via Zoom (contact Christine – see Judy’s email)
State of Wonder by Ann  Patchett
Facilitated by Merry Miller


Friday October 17 at 7:00pm
via Zoom (contact Christine – see Judy’s email)
Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe and
The Road to Dawn: Josiah Henson and the Story that Sparked the Civil War by Jared A. Brock

Friday February 21, 2020Little Women
at the home of Janet Howard.


Books in 2019 

October 25, 2019 – Next Year in Havana by
at the home of Patricia Gibson

September 20, 2019 – The Leavers by Lisa Ko 
 at the home of Merry Miller.

July 19, 2019 – Threading My Prayer Rug by Sabeeha Rehman.
at the home of Sandy Hallman

February 22, 2019 – Walking on Fire: Haitian Women’s Stories of Survival and Resistance by Beverly Bell
at the home of Christine Salmon


Books in 2018

September 28, 2018:  RADIUM GIRLS by Kate Moore

MARCH 23:    THE ALICE NETWORK by Kate Quinn

APRIL 27TH, 6:00 P.M.:  THAT SUMMER IN SICILY by Marlena DeBlasi

                                       

 

RECENT SELECTIONS:

THE GIRLS OF ATOMIC CITY by Denise Kiernan

ONE THOUSAND WHITE WOMEN by Jim Fergus

BRITT-MARIE WAS HERE by Fredrik Backman

THE BIRDS OF OPULENCE by Crystal Wilkinson

THE GIRL WITH SEVEN NAMES by Hyeonseo Lee

THE OTHER EINSTEIN by Marie Benedict

LUCKY CHILD by Loung Ling

THE WARMTH OF OTHER SUNS by Isabel Wilkerson