Wytheville AAUW Book Club

January, 2021

Member	Title	Author	Notes
Tess	The Office of Historical Corrections, 2020	Danielle Evans	Short stories from research related to the accuracy, or not, of historical events
Carolyn & Anita   Anita	The Campaign Women’s Suffrage in Virginia   The Woman in Cabin 10	Brent Tarter and others Ruth Ware	Important historical perspective on suffrage but written in painstaking detail. Murder mystery on a small luxury sea cruise.
Janie	The Devil and the White City, 2003	Erik Larson	Mystery, woven into the setting and events of the Chicago World’s Fair
Maureen	The Wonder Boy of Whistle Stop	Fannie Flagg	Latest of a series of her novels about small town America
Anna Ray	I heard the Owl Call My Name, 1973 Shell Seekers   Unsheltered, 2018	Margaret Craven Rosamunde Pilcher Barbara Kingsolver	Story of an Anglican vicar who learns of the meaning of life from a First Nations congregation in Canada. Three generations of a family and their relationship to a painting entitled, Shell Seekers. Story of two families in two centuries in the same house in New Jersey.
Kathy	Deadly Cross	James Patterson	Mystery about a detective named Cross. Setting Washington, DC
Nancy	My Brilliant Friend	Elena Ferrante	Part of a trilogy set in Italy that highlights class differences
Carolyn	Sister Fidelma Mysteries	Peter Tremayne	Historical mystery novel, set in 7th Century Ireland
Julie	Don’t Let’s Us Go to the Dogs Tonight	Alexandra Fuller	A memoir of the author’s life in war torn Africa
Alma	White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Race	Robin DiAngelo	An author’s perspective of the structural nature of racism

Book Club 2020:

League of Wives – Heath Lee

The Mother’s Promise; The Mother In Law – Sally Hepworth

Shepherd’s Abiding – Jan Karon

Educated – Tara Westover

Pioneers – David McCullough

The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane; The Island of Sea Women – Lisa See

The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek – Kim Michele Richardson

The Taster – V.S. Alexander

I Really Need this Today – Hoda Kotb

The Good Neighbor: Life and Work of Fred Rogers – Maxwell King

My Dear Hamilton – Laura Kaye & Stephanie Dray

Janis – Holly George-Warren

The Cuban Affair – Nelson DeMille

Next Year in Havana/When We Left Cuba – Chanel Cleeton

Don’t Lets go to the Dogs Tonight; Cocktails Under the Tree of Forgetfulness – Alexander Fuller