Book Club Reading List

The Smith College Club of Cambridge recently read:

The Club also has a list of books they are considering on their Website.

Faculty Books Recommendations available on the Friends of the Smith College Librairies site.

Books about Smith Alumnae:

• Nothing Daunted: The Unexpected Education of Two Society Girls in the West, Dorothy Wickenden
• Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind:A Bestseller’s Odyssey from Atlanta to Hollywood, Ellen F. Brown and John Wiley, Jr.
  
• A Strange Stirring: The Feminine Mystique and American Women at the Dawn of the 1960s, Stephanie Coontz
• Joan Mitchell: Lady Painter , Patricia Albers
• My Mothering Aunt: Otelia Cromwell, Adelaide Cromwell '40
• As Always, Julia: The Letters of Julia Child and Avis DeVoto, Joan Reardon

Books by Alumnae:

• White Heart, Julie Caton Brown '68, 2010, fiction

• Facebook Fairytales: Modern-Day Miracles to Inspire the Human Spirit , Emily Liebert Einhorn '98, 2010, nonfiction
  
• Why I Left the Amish by Saloma Furlong ‘07
• The Sweet Relief of Missing Children by Sarah Braunstein MSW ‘06
• Alcestis by Katharine Beutner, ‘03
• Maine by J. Courtney Sullivan ‘03
• Eleven Scandals to Start to Win a Duke’s Heart by Sarah Trabucchi ’00, under the pseudonym Sarah MacLean
• 32 Candles by Ernessa T. Carter ‘99
• Facebook Fairytales: Modern-Day Miracles to inspire the Human Spirit by Emily Liebert ‘98
• Substitute Me by Lori Tharps ‘94
• Siren Song by Stephanie Dray ’93, under the pseudonym Stephanie Draven
• Leaving L.A. by Jenny VanderWeyden ’93, under the pseudonym Kate Christie
• Good Eggs by Phoebe Potts ‘92
• Orange is the New Black by Piper Kerman ‘92
• Sensible Shoes by Sharon Garlough Brown '91
• Asian Palate by Jeannie Cho ‘90
• The Divorced Girls’ Society co-authored by Jennifer O’Connell ‘90
• American Madonna: Crossing Borders with the Virgin Mary by Deirdre Cornell ‘89
• The Great Hangover: 21 Tales of the New Recession from the Pages of Vanity Fair Magazine by Nina Munk ‘88
• Daughters of the Revolution by Carolyn Cooke ‘80
• Where the God of Love Hangs Out by Amy Bloom, MSW ‘78
• Kasey to the Rescue by Ellen Rogers ‘74
• The Fixer Upper by Judith Arnold (Barbara Keiler ‘74)
• Exploding in Slow Motion by Andrea Hairston ‘74
• Hurricane Season: Living Through a Broken Heart by Jeanette Stokes ‘73
• Too Jewish by Patty Friedmann ‘68
•  Morning Song: Poems for New Parents co-edited by Susan Todd ‘63
• Ten Thousand Joys and Ten Thousand Sorrows: A Couple’s Journey Through Alzheimer’s by Olivia Ames Hoblitzelle ‘59
• The Ice Margin by Marcia Woodruff Dalton ‘58
• The Search: Memoir of an Adopted Woman by Titia Ellis ‘56
• Almost Lost, Nearly Found, A Novel of Sisters and Secrets by Nancy Hammerslough ‘51
• Putt Putt, Bang Bang by Priscilla Buckley ‘43
   

Books by Faculty:

• The Heart of Time: Moral Agency in Twentieth-Century Chinese Fiction, Sabina Knight
• National Pastime: How Americans Play Baseball and the Rest of the World Plays, Andrew Zimbalist
  
• Soccer; May the Best Team Win: Baseball Economics and Public Polic, Andrew Zimbalist
• Yet I Loved Jacob: Reclaiming the Biblical Concept of Election, Joel S. Kaminsky
• Stuff: Compulsive Hoarding and the Meaning of Things, Randy Frost and Gail Steketee
• Buried in Treasures: Help for Compulsive Saving, Acquiring, and Hoarding, Randy Frost, Gail Steketee and David Tolin

• Thus Have I Seen: Visualizing Faith in Early Indian Buddhism; Divine Stories, Translations from the Divyavadana, Part 1, by Andy Rotman

• Wild Unrest: Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the Making of "The Yellow Wall-Paper, Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz
• Tears of the Cheetah and Other Tales from the Genetic Frontier, Stephen J. O'Brien – non fiction
• A Long Day’s Dying: Critical Moments in the Darfur Genocide, Charles Eric Reeves
  
• Exiled in the Homeland: Zionism and the Return to Mandate Palestine,  Donna Robinson Divine
  

Other Suggestions:

Faculty speakers are available to discuss the following books with your group. Click here for a full list of available faculty speakers.

• Summer of Betrayal, Hong Ying
• Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, Dai Sijie

• Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood,  Alexandra Fuller
• Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Persuasion, Jane Austen
• Brideshead Revisited, A Handful of Dust, Decline and Fall, Vile Bodies, Evelyn Waugh
• Victorian Sexuality, Oscar Wilde
• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland,  Lewis Carroll
• A Room of One's Own, Virginia Woolf
• Wuthering Heights,  Emily Brontë

• Kyrie, Ellen Bryant Voigt 
• Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood, Marjane Satrapi
• The Yiddish Policeman’s Union,  Michael Chabon
• The Ten-Year Nap,  Meg Wolitzer
• The Maytrees,  Annie Dillard