September 2020

Book Chat Titles

Stacey’s Recommendations

Soon the Light Will Be Perfect by Dave Patterson
The Red Tent by Anita Diamant and The Book of Longings by Sue Monk Kidd
The Refugees by Viet Thanh Nguyen
On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong (debut novel by a a Vietnamese-American poet)
The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit by Michael Finkel
When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi (memoir/ nonfiction)

Rebecca’s Recommendations

The Last Kashmiri Rose by Barbara Cleverly (first in a historical mystery series)
Agent Sonya: Lover, Mother, Soldier, Spy by Ben Macintyre (biography/ nonfiction)
Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate (historical fiction)
Before and After: The Incredible Real-Life Stories of Orphans Who Survived the Tennessee Children’s Home Society by Judy Christie and Lisa Wingate
Longbourn by Jo Baker (novel with an alternative view of the events in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice)
Less by Andrew Sean Greer (Winner of the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction)
Saving Grace (2000 comedy/ crime film)

Other Participants’ Recommendations

Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
The Testaments by Margaret Atwood
The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian’s Art Changed Science by Joyce Sidman
Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore by Elizabeth Rush
Beartown and My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry by Fredrik Backman
Transcendent Kingdom and Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
The Pull of the Stars by Emma Donoghue