Afterwords Book Group

Afterwords Book Club formed in June 2014 and meets on the second Monday of each month. Prior to our meetings, club members nominate a book they'd like to read, and we all vote on our favorite selection. The person whose book is selected leads our discussion for that book. At the moment, our club consists of young professional women in our 20's and 30's, but we are open to members of any age and gender. 

There are two factions of the Afterwords Book Club: The 5:30pm group and the 7pm group.

Both groups are currently at capacity. 

For more information about the 5:30pm group and/or to join the waitlist, email Emily Palmer at afterwordsbookclub@gmail.com.

For more information about the 7pm groupand/or to join the waitlist, please email Katelin and Alex at AfterwordsBookClub7PM@gmail.com.

What we're reading next:

2023

January 9th 5:30 pm: Dear Edward by Ann Napolitano

January 9th 7 pm: Anxious People by Fredrik Backman

February 13th 5:30 pm: The Social Graces by Renee Rosen

February 13th 7 pm: Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

March 13th 5:30 pm: Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann

March 13th 7 pm: Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin

April 10th 5:30 pm: Miracle Creek by Angie Kim

April 10th 7 pm: Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy

May 8th 5:30 pm: The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

May 8th 7 pm: Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr

June 12th 5:30pm: The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell by Robert Dugoni

June 12th 7pm: Young Mungo by Douglas Stuart

July 10th 5:30pm: A Special Place for Women by Laura Hankin

July 10th 7pm: Olga Dies Dreaming by Xochitl Gonzalez

August 14th 5:30pm: The Unfit Heiress: The Tragic Life and Scandalous Sterilization of Ann Cooper Hewitt by Audrey Clare Farley

August 14th 7pm: Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel

September 11th 5:30pm: Yolk by Mary H.K. Choi

September 11th 7pm: Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

October 9th 5:30pm: The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna

October 9th 7pm:  We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson

November 13th 5:30pm: Beneath A Scarlet Sky by Mark Sullivan

November 13th 7pm: Trust by Hernan Diaz 

December 11th 5:30pm: True Biz by Sarah Novic

December 11th 7pm: The Book of Goose by Yiyun Li 

2022

January: Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann

February: Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo

March: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz

April 5:30 pm: Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng
April 7 pm: The Lotus Eaters by Tatjana Soli

May 5:30 pm: Beach Read by Emily Henry
May 7 pm: The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead

June 5:30 pm: The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
June 7 pm: Exhalation by Ted Chiang

July 5:30 pm: People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks 
July 7 pm: Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu

August 5:30 pm: All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
August 7 pm: A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan

September 5:30 pm: Verity by Colleen Hoover 
September 7 pm: Pachinko by Min-jin Lee

October 5:30 pm: Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman
October 7 pm: The Once and Future Witches by Alix E Harrow

November 5:30 pm: Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
November 7 pm: On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong

December 5:30 pm: The Perfect Marriage by Jeneva Rose
December 7 pm: The Infinite Plan by Isabel Allende

2021

January: The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab

February: We Are Never Meeting in Real Life by Samantha Irby

March: The Guest List by Lucy Foley

April: The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman

May: The Midnight Library by Matt Haig

June: The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah

July: The Heart's Invisible Furies by John Boyne

August: Mabibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid

September: The House on the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune

October: Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner

November: Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell

December: Beartown by Fredrik Backman

What We've Read:

Bossypants by Tina Fey, The Shining Girls by Lauren Beukes, The Halloween Tree by Ray Bradbury, The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls, And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini, The Circle by Dave Eggers