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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:

2025

January 13th 5:30pm: Hester by Laure Lico Albanese

January 13th 7pm: I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman

February 10 5:30pm: Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang
February 10 7pm: The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

March 10 5:30pm: Anxious People by Fredrik Backman
March 10 
7pm: One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

April 14 5:30pm: The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams
April 14 
7pm: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami

May 12 5:30pm: The Last Letter by Rebecca Yarros
May 12 
7pm: You Dreamed of Empires by Alvaro Enrigue

June 9 5:30pm: Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
June 9 
7pm: Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel

July 14 5:30pm: Out There by Kate Folk
July 14 
7pm: The Wind Knows My Name by Isabel Allende

August 11 5:30pm: The Woman They Could Not Silence by Kate Moore
August 11 
7pm: Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid

September 8 5:30pm: The Collected Regrets of Clover by Mikki Brammer
September 8 
7pm: Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer

October 13 5:30pm: Killers of a Certain Age by Deanna Raybourn
October 13 
7pm:

November 10 5:30pm: The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker
November 10 
7pm:

December 8 5:30pm: All Fours by Miranda July
December 8 
7pm:

 What We've Read:
 

2024

January 9th 5:30pm: Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory by Caitlin Doughty
January 9th 7pm: God Shot by Chelsea Bieker
 
February 12th 5:30pm: Other Birds by Sarah Addison Allen
February 12th 7pm: Persuasion by Jane Austen (Supplementary reading: The Thornbirds by Colleen McCullough)

March 11th 5:30pm: The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave
March 11th 7pm: This Is How You Lose The Time War by Amal El-Mohtar

April 8th 5:30pm: Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
April 8th 7pm: A Tale For The Time Being by Ruth Ozeki

May 13th 5:30pm: Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt
May 13th 7pm: What You Are Looking For Is In The Library by Michiko Aoyama, trans. Alison Watts

June 10th 5:30pm: Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
June 10th 7pm: Greta & Valdin by Rebecca K. Reilly
 
July 8th 5:30pm: Romantic Comedy by Curtis Sittenfield
July 8th 7pm: Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride
 
August 12th 5:30pm: Beautiful Country by Qian Julie Wang
August 12th 7pm: Wandering Stars by Tommy Orange
 
September 9th 5:30pm: Weyward by Emilia Hart
September 9th 7pm: Writers & Lovers by Lily King
 
October 14th 5:30pm: A Good Girl's Guide To Murder by Holly Jackson
October 14th 7pm: Written In Bone by Sue Black
 
November 11th 5:30pm: The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah
November 11th 7pm: James by Percival Everett
 
December 9th 5:30pm: The Family Upstairs by Lisa Jewell
December 9th 7pm: The True Deceiver by Tove Jansson

 

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 **Not in store - Alternate location**: True Biz by Sarah Novic
December 11th 7pm **Not in store - Alternate location**The Book of Goose by Yiyun Li 

2022

January: Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann

FebruaryGirl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo

MarchThe 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

FebruaryWe Are Never Meeting in Real Life by Samantha Irby

MarchThe Guest List by Lucy Foley

April: The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman

MayThe Midnight Library by Matt Haig

JuneThe Four Winds by Kristin Hannah

JulyThe 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

Others 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 

Paperback Fiction

Buried Deep and Other Stories
By:
Sounds Like Love
By: Poston, Ashley
How to Age Disgracefully
By:
Daughters of Latin America
By: Guzman, Sandra
Bury Your Gays
By: Tingle, Chuck
Parade
By: Cusk, Rachel
Far Better Thing
By: Parry, H G
Craft
By: Lima, Ananda
Seven Days in Tokyo
By: Alvior, José Daniel

Hardcover Non-Fiction

Fate of the Day
By: Atkinson, Rick
Mark Twain
By: Chernow, Ron
Lone Wolf
By: Weymouth, Adam
Hit Girls
By: Princiotti, Nora
How to Lose Your Mother
By: Jong-Fast, Molly
So Many Stars
By: de Robertis, Caro
Notes to John
By: Didion, Joan
Murder in the Dollhouse
By: Cohen, Rich
Can-Do Mindset
By: Parker, Candace

Hardcover Fiction

Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
Author: Schwab, V E
Great Mann
Author: Davis Lurie, Kyra
Hazel Says No
Author: Berger Gross, Jessica
Poppy Fields Deluxe Limited Edition
Author: Erlick, Nikki
So Far Gone
Author: Walter, Jess
Park Avenue
Author: Ahdieh, Renée
King of Ashes
Author: Cosby, S a
Flashlight
Author: Choi, Susan
Mobius Book
Author: Lacey, Catherine