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Book Club 2009-2010

The Book Club of Chicago, Illinois Branch, Inc., of the American Association of University Women is free and open to the public.

We meet on the fourth Monday of the month (except December) from
7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. at the Conrad Sulzer Regional Library (4455 North Lincoln Avenue).

For further information, contact us at ChicagoAAUW@hotmail.com.

Date Title Author
August 24, 2009 Easy Innocence
Libby Fischer Hellman
September 21 Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague
Geraldine Brooks
October 26 The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

Mary Ann Shaffer and
Annie Barrows
November 23 Red Leather Diary: Reclaiming a Life Through the Pages of a Lost Journal Lily Koppel
January 25, 2010 Sin in the Second City: Madams, Ministers, Playboys, and the Battle for America’s Soul
Karen Abbot
February 22 If Beale Street Could Talk
James Baldwin
March 22 Finding Iris Chang: Friendship, Ambition, and the Loss of an Extraordinary Mind
Paula Kamen
April 26 Blink: The Power of Thinking without Thinking
Malcolm Gladwell
May 17 The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Stieg Larsson and Reg Keeland
June 28 I Capture the Castle
Dodie Smith
July 26 Five Quarters of the Orange: A Novel
Joanne Harris
August 23 Bitter is the New Black: Confessions of a Condescending, Egomaniacal, Self-Centered Smartass, Or, Why You Should Never Carry A Prada Bag to the Unemployment Office
Jen Lancaster

Click here for a pdf version of the 2009-2010 Reading List.
Click here for directions to the Conrad Sulzer Regional Library.

Barnes and Noble Partnership

AAUW has a new partnership with Barnes & Noble's online sales site, BN.com. Customized for AAUW members, the www.bn.com/aauw website is our own AAUW bookstore. AAUW members automatically receive a 5 percent discount on purchases (10 percent periodically)—and that's on top of other available discounts that apply to the purchase. You will also find information on

* AAUW's ¡Adelante! book club reading list
* Publications by AAUW members
* AAUW award-winning books
* International Affairs Committee reading list
 


Contact ChicagoAAUW@hotmail.com