Seven Opinionated Women

2010

March, 2021
August 23, 2021
Dec 3, 2021
March 23, 2022

Dec 13, 2022

The books 


1.    Chimamanda Adichie, Americanah. (Sally) 
2.   Renata Adler, Speedboat.  (Susan not-ret)
3.   Isabelle Allende, A Long Petal of the Sea (Jamie, 5/11/20)
4.   Alaa Al Aswany, The Yacoubian Building. (Kelly)
5.   Paul Beatty, The Sellout.  (Susan ret)
6.   Lucia Berlin, Manual for a Cleaning Woman. (Kelly)
7.   Kathryn Boo, Beyond the Beautiful Forevers. (Joby)  7/26/2012
8.   Michael Bulgakov, The Master and Margherita. (Joan) 4/9, 2019)
9.   Albert Camus, Le Peste (Joan, 4/20 zoom)
10.  Albert Camus, Le premier homme (Susan ret2, 5/20, zoom)
11.   Eileen Chang, Love in a Fallen City. (Susan ret)
12.  Joseph Conrad, The Secret Agent (Sally, 2018).
13.   Edmund De Waal, Hare with the Amber Eyes. (Sally)
14.  Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities. (Joby, 10/26/21)
15.   Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See. ​(Joby Oct 2015)
16. Anthony Doerr, Cloud Cuckoo Land (Sally, Jan 4, 2022)
17..   Marguerite Duras, The Lover. 
18.   Tan Twan Eng, The Gift of Rain. (Susan ret)
19.   J.G. Farrel, The Siege of Krishnapur. (Kelly)
20.   Elena Ferrante, My Brilliant Friend. (Sally)
21.   Karen Joy Fowler, We're All Completely Beside Ourselves. 
(Susan ret, Dec 2015)
22.  Jane Gardam, Old Filth (Kelly, 9/28/20, zoom).
23.   Amitav Ghosh, The Glass Palace. (Susan ret)
24. Amitav Ghosh, The Nutmeg's Curse. (Jamie, 5/17/22)
25.  Mark Haddon, A Spot of Bother. (Kelly)
26.  Sara Hendren, What a Body Can Do (Susan ret, Jan '21)
27.  Robert Hughes, Goya. (Sally, Oct 2011)
28. Keri Hulme, The Bone People. (Jamies, Apr, 2016)
29.  Zora Neal Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God (Susan 1st ret).
30. Gayle Jones, The Birdcatcher (Joby, Dec 13, 2022).
31. Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These (Sally, Feb 28, 2023).
32. Paul Kildea, Chopin's Piano (Sally, Feb 2019)  
33.  Lily King, Euphoria. 
34.  Dezso Kosztolanyi, Skylark.
35.  Nicole Krauss, The History of Love. (Sally)
36.   John Lanchester, Capital. (Sally)
37.  Andrea Levy, The Long Song. 
38.  Carlo Levi, Christ Stopped at Eboli. (Susan non-ret, March, 2017)
39.  Sinclair Lewis, It Can't Happen here. (Sally, 1/2017)
40.  Hilary Mantel, The Giant O'Brien. (Joan, Feb 2017)
41.  Gabriel Garcia Marquez, No One Writes to the Colonel. (Kelly)
42.  Steve Martin, An Object of Beauty. (Sally, 8/11/11)
43.  James McBride, Deacon King Kong (Joby, 10/29/20, zoom)
44.  Colum McCann, Let the Great World Spin. (Sally)
45.  Fatima Mernissi, Dreams of Trespass. (Susan non-ret)
46.   Madeline Miller, Circe (Jamie, 5/13/2019).
47. Susan G. Miller: Years of Glory: Nelly Benatar and the Pursuit of Justice in Wartime Morocco (Susan now-ret, 3/23/22
48. Charles Mills, The Racial Contract (Susan 1 ret, Dec 2, 2021)
48.  Patrick Modiano, Dora Bruder. (Susan non-ret)
50. Jan Morris, Allegorizings (Kelly, 8/23/21)
51.  Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye. (Susan ret)  1/20/20
52.  Alice Munro, Dear Life. (Joan, Feb, 2016)
53.  Neil Nakadate, Looking for Minidoka. (Joan, 2018)
54.  Gloria Naylor, The Women of Brewster Place. (Susan ret, 2017)
55.  Flannery O'Connor, A Good Man is Hard to Find.
56.  Tea Obreht, The Tiger's Wife. (Susan ret)
57.  Michael Ondaatje, Running in the Family. (Kelly)
58. George Packer, Our Man: Richard Holbrook and the End of te American Century (Susan ret2, 9/2019).
59.   Samantha Power, The Education of an Idealist.
60.  Marcel Proust, Stéphane Heuet, In Search of Lost Time: Swann's Way (Sally, March, 2020).
61. Homeira Qaderi, Dancing in the Mosque (Joan, Mar 2021, first in-person meeting after pandemic).
62.  James Robertson, And the Land Lay Still. (Joby, 2015)
63.  Mark Sakamoto, Forgiveness: A Gift from My Grandparents (Joby, 2018).
64. Julie Schumacher, Dear Committee Members. (Joan, Feb 2022)
65.  Salvatore Scibona, The End.
66. Mary Ann Shaffer; Annie Barrows, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Mann, 1/31/23)
67.  Mary Shelley, Frankenstein. (Joan, 2018)
68.  Leila Slimani, The Perfect Nanny. (Susan non-ret, 2018)
69.  Tracy K. Smith, Ordinary Light.
70.  Edward St. Aubyn, The Melrose Novels. (Kelly)
71.   Wallace Stegner, Crossing to Safety. (Sally)
72. Tom Stoppard, Rock 'n' Roll (Kelly, 10/11/22)
73.  Leo Tolstoy, War & Peace. NUMBER 50! (Jamie)
74.  Leonid Tsypkin, Summer in Baden-Baden.
75.  Robert Verghese, Cutting for Stone. (Joby)
76,  Anya Von Bremzen, Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking.
77.  Isabel Wilkerson, The Warmth of Other Suns. (Sally)
78.   Yu Miri, Tokyo Ueno Station (Sally, 2/15/21).
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2017

May 18, 2021
May 18, 2021
Feb 23, 2022

Oct 11, 2022