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The Bookwoman Book Club

Calling all booklovers!

The Bookwoman Book Club (BBC) is a virtual book club that meets once a month to discuss our latest book selection from the WNBA’s Great Group Reads list.

WNBA members are spread across the country, so the book club allows us to meet monthly to discuss books together regardless of chapter or location.

This group gives our members a special place where they can connect with fellow members over our common love of books. And members can participate in exclusive discussions and author interviews. We also have occasional giveaways!

With members from all chapters, from locations across the US, our book club allows new relationships to grow and flourish. It allows our members to be exposed to new books and authors and to grow as readers.

Whether you attend every month or only occasionally or even if you only ever read the books on your own, we invite you to join the Bookwoman Book Club.

The Details

The BBC is a benefit for WNBA members, so it is a members-only book club.

We meet on the last Tuesday of each month at 7 pm EDT/6 pm CDT/4 pm PDT.

Our discussions take place over Zoom.

When we are able, we interview the author on the Thursday following the book club discussion on Zoom and livestreamed to our WNBA Talks Books Facebook group.

To Join

Email: communications [at] wnba-books.org with the subject line “Joining the Bookwoman Book Club.”

You must be a member in good standing to participate.

Our 2022/2023 membership year began on June 1, 2022, so please join or renew now in order to participate in the BBC.

Join the WNBA or renew your membership!

Upcoming Bookwoman Book Club Discussions

July 26: Beautiful Ruins Discussion

The Beautiful Ruins book cover shows a blue sky and colorful Italian city overlooking a blue sea.

Beautiful Ruins

by Jess Walker

7 pm EDT/6 pm CDT/4 pm PDT = new time

On Zoom

Open to all WNBA members

2013 Great Group Reads

Set on the beautiful Italian coast while Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor were filming Cleopatra and also in modern-day Hollywood, Jess Walter enchantingly combines real and imagined characters in a lyrical, funny, and heartbreaking tale of love lost, found, and given away.

Bookshop
Indiebound
Amazon

August 30: Hell of a Book Discussion

The book cover for Hell of a Book, a 2021 Great Group Reads selection, has a yellow background, black font, and black images. The bottom half of the cover has a book torn in half with pages exposed and part of a black cover. On top of the book is a small silhouette of a boy.

Hell of a Book

by Jason Mott

7 pm EDT/6 pm CDT/4 pm PDT

On Zoom

Open to all WNBA members

2021 Great Group Reads

The complex and cleverly crafted story of a celebrated Black author on tour coming face-to-face with the history he cannot avoid or escape, a history of police shootings of unarmed black men, racism, and identity. This is a searing portrait of the America we live in.

Bookshop
Indiebound
Amazon

September 27: The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry Discussion

The book cover for the Storied Life of AJ Fikry shows the front door and window of a bookstore. In the window are books on display. The front door is bright red and has a sign hanging from the door that says A Novel.

The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

by Gabrielle Zevin

7 pm EDT/6 pm CDT/4 pm PDT

On Zoom

Open to all WNBA members

2014 Great Group Reads

Recently widowed A.J. Fikry has problems: his bookstore is failing, he’s drinking too much, and his rare collection of Edgar Allen Poe’s poems has been stolen. The arrival of a mysterious package brings A.J. an opportunity to make his life over and see everything with new eyes. This is a delightful story of transformation, second chances and above all the power of love.

Bookshop
Indiebound
Amazon

Past BBC Choices

  • April 2020: The Book Woman from Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson (2019 GGR)
  • May 2020: The Honey Bus by Meredith May (2019 GGR)
  • June 2020: The Lido, aka Mornings with Rosemary by Libby Page (2018 GGR)
  • July 2020: The Last Year of the War by Susan Meissner (2019 GGR)
  • August 2020: Haben by Haben Girma (2019 GGR)
  • September 2020: The Lotus Eaters by Tajana Soli (2010 GGR)
  • October 2020: A House Among the Trees by Julia Glass (2018 GGR)
  • November/December 2020: The Velveteen Daughter by Laurel Davis Huber (2017 GGR)
  • January 2021: The Exiles by Christina Baker Kline (2020 GGR)
  • February 2021: Tea Beyond the Sea by Donna Hemans (2020 GGR)
  • March 2021: In Our Midst by Nancy Jensen (2020 GGR)
  • April 2021: Miracle Creek by Angie Kim (2020 GGR)
  • May 2021: All You Can Ever Know by Nicole Chung (2019 GGR)
  • June 2021: In Five Years by Rebecca Serle (2020 GGR)
  • July 2021: My Name Is Mary Sutter by Robin Oliveira (2011 GGR)
  • August 2021: Dietland by Sarai Walker (2015 GGR)
  • September 2021: A Hard and Heavy Thing by Matthew J. Hefti (2016 GGR)
  • October 2021: Blackass by A. Igoni Barrett (2016 GGR)
  • November/December 2021: The Seed Keeper by by Diane Wilson (2021 GGR)
  • January 2022: The Son of the House by by Cheluchi Onyemelukwe-Onuobia (2021 GGR)
  • February 2022: All the Young Men by Ruth Coker Burks with Kevin Carr O’Leary (2021 GGR)
  • March 2022: The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot by Marianne Cronin (2021 GGR)
  • April 2022: The Salt Houses by Hala Alyan (2017 GGR)
  • May 2022: The Prince of Mournful Thoughts and Other Stories by Caroline Kim (2021 GGR)
  • June 2022: Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? by Jeanette Winterson (2012 GGR)
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