Book Club

The Smith Club Book Club generally focuses on fiction and non-fiction books authored by or written about Smith women. Everyone is welcome, whether you’ve read the book or not. The conversations are always illuminating, convivial and wide-ranging. 

The Smith Club Book Club meets at 2:00 pm on the last Sunday of every other month, with some exceptions. Starting in 2020, we’ve begun meeting virtually over Zoom. Contact smithclubco@gmail.com to get on the book club email list.

The next book club meeting will be on Sunday, November 14 at 2:00 pm.  We’ll be discussing Kindred by Octavia Butler. 

About Kindred by Octavia Butler

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Let us know if you’re interested in joining the Smith Club Book Club. 

2021 Smith Club Book Club Dates and Selections

• January 24 – Untamed by Glennon Doyle
• March 28 – America’s First Daughter by Stephanie Dray ’93 & Laura Kamoie
• May 23 – The Body is Not An Apology by Sonya Renee Taylor
• July 25 – The Barbizon: The Hotel That Set Women Free by Paulina Bren
• September 26 – Band of Sisters by Lauren Willig
• November 14 – Kindred by Octavia Butler

2020 Smith Club Book Club Selections

• Nothing Daunted: The Unexpected Education of Two Society Girls in the West by Dorothy Wickenden
• The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern ’00
• Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay
• American Spy by Lauren Wilkinson
• Friends and Strangers by J. Courtney Sullivan ’03
• Julia Child: The Last Interview and Other Conversations by Julia Child ’34,  Introduction by Helen Rosner ’04

2019 Smith Club Book Club Selections

• The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer
• Invisible: The Forgotten Story of the Black Woman Lawyer Who Took Down America’s Most Powerful Mobster by Stephen Carter
• Kickdown: A Novel by Rebecca Clarren ’97
• The Woman’s Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote by Elaine F. Weiss
• Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
• Becoming by Michelle Obama

2018 Smith Club Book Club Selections

• Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
• The Velveteen Daughter by Laurel Davis Huber ’73
• Citizen Scientist: Searching for Heroes and Hope in an Age of Extinction by Mary Ellen Hannibal ’81
• We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler
• The Road from Coorain by Jill Ker Conway
• My Own Words by Ruth Bader Ginsburg

2017 Smith Club Book Club Selections

• A Spoonful of Sugar by Amanda Orr ’90
• Bread, Wine, Chocolate: The Slow Loss of Foods We Love by Simran Sethi ’92
• My Life on the Road by Gloria Steinem ’56
• Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries by Kory Stamper ’96
• Terrible Virtue by Ellen Feldman (Bryn Mawr College ’64, MA ’67).
• The Book of Unknown Americans by Cristina Henríquez