The Smith College Club of Pittsburgh has an active book club which meets on the first Sunday of each month at 2 PM. Members take turns hosting, so locations vary. Please email Leah if you’d like to be added to the mailing list.
Upcoming 2020 book selections:
Jan 5: The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce
Feb 2: The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy by Rachel Joyce
March 1: My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
April 5: Red Mafiya: How the Russian Mob Has Invaded America by Robert Friedman
May 3: Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
June 7: Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators by Ronan Farrow
July 5: Rules of Civility by Amor Towles
August 2: Joyful: The Surprising Power of Ordinary Things to Create Extraordinary Happiness by Ingrid Fetell Lee
September 6: The Testaments by Margaret Atwood
October 4: God: A Human History by Reza Aslan
November 1: Becoming Nicole: The Transformation of an American Family by Amy Ellis Nutt
December 6: Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
Past selections have included:
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Lost Girls of Paris by Pam Jenoff
Smoketown by Mark Whitaker
The Overstory by Richard Powers
How to Change Your Mind by Michael Pollan
A Rogue by Any Other Name by Sarah MacLean (Smith ’00)
Remarkable Creatures by Tracy Chevalier
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
The View From Flyover Country by Sarah Kendzior
Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk by Kathleen Rooney
Georgia by Dawn Tripp
1984 by George Orwell
The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
The Line Becomes a River by Francisco Cantu
Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert
Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively
The Righteous Mind by Jonathan Haidt
Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
On Photography by Susan Sontag
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
Autumn by Ali Smith
Truth and Beauty by Ann Patchett
Upstream by Mary Oliver
The Speechwriter by Barton Swaim
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
Good Poems by Garrison Keillor (selections)
Appetite for Life by Noel Riley Fitch
Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay
A Man Called Ove by Fredrick Backman
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
I Love Dick by Chris Kraus
Being Mortal by Atul Gawande
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania by Erik Larson
Summer House with Swimming Pool by Herman Koch
The Man Who Plated Trees by Jim Robbins
Secrets of the Soil: New Solutions for Restoring Our Planet by Peter Tompkins and Christopher Barks
Too Loud a Solitude by Bohumil Hrabal
Fun Home by Alison Bechdel
Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton, tour and discussion at the Frick House
Life of the Mind by Hannah Ardent
The Ornament of the World: How Muslims, Jews, and Christians Created a Culture of Tolerance in Medieval Spain by Maria Rosa Menocal
Secret History by Donna Tartt
Dear Life by Alice Munro
Daniel Stein, Interpreter by Ludmila Ulitskaya
Be Good: How to Navigate the Ethics of Everything by Randy Cohen
The Submission by Amy Waldman
The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power by Jeff Sharlet
Good Lord Bird by James McBride
Art and Physics: Parallel Visions in Space, Time and Light by Leonard Shlain
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
My Beloved World by Sonia Sotomayor (Smith First Year selection, 2013)
Homeward Bound: Why Women are Embracing the New Domesticity by Emily Matchar
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin by Jill Lepore
An American Childhood by Annie Dillard
The Summer House by Alice Thomas Ellis
The Light Between the Oceans by M.L. Stedman
Gut Symmetries by Jeanette Winterson
Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions by Gloria Steiman
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
Eighty Days: Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland’s History-Making Race Around the World by Matthew Goodman
A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Overnight Float by Clare Munnings
Stoner by John Williams
Hare with the Amber Eyes by Edmund de Waal
Mysteries of Pittsburgh by Michael Chabon
The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
Day of Honey: A Memoir of Food, Love, and War by Anna Ceizaldo
Jasmine and Fire: A Bittersweet Year in Beirut by Salma Abdelnour
Madam, Have You Ever Really Been Happy? by Meg Peterson
Let’s Take the Long Way Home by Gail Caldwell
People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
Dreaming in French: The Paris Years of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, Susan Sontag, and Angela Davis by Alice Yeager Kaplan (Smith first year book, 2012)
The Optimist’s Daughter by Eudora Welty
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Sacks by Rebecca Skloot (Smith first year book, 2011)
A Whole New Mind Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future by Daniel H. Pink
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern by Stephen Greenblatt
Middlesex by Jeffery Eugenides
Maine by J. Courtney Sullivan, Smith College ’03
A Pearl in the Storm: How I Found My Heart in the Middle of the Ocean by Tori Murden McClure, Smith College ’85
The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women’s Prison by Piper Kerman, Smith College ’92
Shanghai Girls by Lisa See
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford
Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
Why I Left the Amish by Saloma Miller Furlong, Smith College ’07
Mennonite in a Little Black Dress: A Memoir of Going Home by Rhoda Janzen
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard
Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
Nothing Daunted: The Unexpected Education of Two Society Girls in the West by Dorothy Wickenden
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
The Snow Leopard by Peter Matthiessen
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