The Book Club discussion

The First Ladies by Marie Benedict

The Woman Behind the New Deal: The Life of Frances Perkins, FDR'S Secretary of Labor and His Moral Conscience by Kirstin Downey

Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond

The Cloisters by Katy Hays

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin

The Most Beautiful Girl in Cuba by Chanel Cleeton

All the Knowledge in the World: The Extraordinary History of the Encyclopedia by Simon Garfield

Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano

Power of Women in Science Fiction: Naomi Alderman on Writing Dystopian Worlds
International Bestselling Author of The Power and Creator of Zombies, Run!?
Naomi Alderman

The Right: The Hundred-Year War for American Conservatism by Matthew Continetti

The Road to Serfdom by Friedrich A. Hayek

A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812 by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon

The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride

Prophet Song by Paul Lynch

Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life by Richard Rohr

Henri Nouwen

Barbara Brown Taylor

Independent People by Halldór Laxness

2024 Women's Fiction longlist

• HANGMAN by Maya Binyam, published by ONE (Pushkin Press)

• In Defence of the Act. by Effie Black, published by époque press

• And Then She Fell by Alicia Elliott, published by Allen & Unwin

• The Wren, the Wren. by Anne Enright, published by Jonathan Cape

• The Maiden by Kate Foster, published by Mantle

• Brotherless Night by V.V. Ganeshananthan, published by Viking

• Restless Dolly Maunder. by Kate Grenville, published by Canongate Books

• Enter Ghost by Isabella Hammad, published by Jonathan Cape

• Soldier Sailor by Claire Kilroy, published by Faber & Faber

• 8 Lives of a Century-Old Trickster by Mirinae Lee, published by Virago

• The Blue, Beautiful World by Karen Lord, published by Gollancz

• Western Lane by Chetna Maroo, published by Picador

• Nightbloom by Peace Adzo Medie, published by Oneworld

• Ordinary Human Failings by Megan Nolan., published by Jonathan Cape

• River East, River West by Aube Rey Lescure, published by Duckworth Books

• A Trace of Sun by Pam Williams, published by Legend Press

2023: Demon Copperhead
Barbara Kingsolver

2022: The Book of Form & Emptiness
Ruth Ozeki

2021: Piranesi
Susannah Clarke

2020: Hamnet
Maggie O’ Farrell

July
Table for Two by Amor Towles

August
The Most Beautiful Girl in Cuba by Chanel Cleeton

September
The Hunter by Tana French

November
Absolution by Alice McDermott

December
Mockingbird by Walter Tevis

January 2025
James by Percival Everett