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Faculty Have Been Members Catherine Clinton The Fig Eater Birds of Paradise Pearl: A Novel Jody Shields Diana Abu-Jaber Mary Gordon The Way Forward is With a Broken Heart State of Wonder *The Last Samurai Alice Walker Ann Patchett Helen DeWitt Vindication: A Life of Mary Wollstonecraft Pavilion of Women Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and Lyndall Gordon Pearl Buck the Women Who Created Her The Bastard of Istanbul Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China Melanie Rehak Elif Shafak Jung Chang CO-FOUNDERS 2006 *The House at Sugar Beach: 2012 Judith Hicks Stiehm The Crimson Petal and the White In Search of a Lost African Childhood *Magpies Marilyn Hoder-Salmon Michel Faber Helene Cooper Lynne Barrett *Small Island *Home How It All Began Andrea Levy Marilynne Robinson Penelope Lively Begums, Thugs and White Mughals: 2009 Malintzin’s Choices: An Indian Woman The Journals of Fanny Parkes *A Mercy in the Conquest of Mexico Ed. William Dalrymple Toni Morrison Camilla Townsend Since 1991, over 40 women North and South The Elegance of the Hedgehog Believing the Lie faculty have been members. Elizabeth Gaskell Muriel Barbery Elizabeth George We see all of them as part of Memories of Marbacka Desert Queen: NW our continuing conversation. Selma Lagerlof The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell Zadie Smith Cosima Janet Wallach *The Round House Grazia Deledda Gertrude Bell: Queen of the Desert, Louise Erdrich Kristin Lavransdatter Shaper of Nations I’m Down: A Memoir For current readings visit: Sigrid Undset Georgina Howell Mishna Wolff womenstudies.fiu.edu/ Burger’s Daughter Goldengrove This Child Will be Great: intl-programs/book-club Nadine Gordimer Francine Prose Memoir of a Remarkable Life Wonderful, Wonderful Times A Gate at the Stairs Ellen Johnson Sirleaf WOMEN Elfriede Jelinek Lorrie Moore 2013 Center for Women and Intuition *The Madonnas of Leningrad *Flight Behavior Gender Studies Allegra Goodman Debra Dean Barbara Kingsolver womenstudies.fiu.edu FACULTY March There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Gone Girl Geraldine Brooks Her Neighbor’s Baby: Scary Fairy Tales Gillian Flynn • 2007 Ludmilla Petrushevskaya Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and BOOK CLUB *The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit: My The Daughter of Time Hope in a Mumbai Undercity FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY Family’s Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World Josephine Tey Katherine Boo Lucette Lagnado 2010 Kind of Kin The Grass is Singing and The Golden Notebook Half Broke Horses Rilla Askew OUR BooKS Doris Lessing Jeannette Walls Claire of the Sea Light RD DITION Special Topics in Calamity Physics A Short History of Women Edwidge Danticat 3 E Marisha Pessl Kate Walbert *The Lowland The Heart is A Lonely Hunter and Elizabeth Cady Stanton: An American Life Jhumpa Lahiri Jane Austen’s character, Emma, The Ballad of the Sad Café Lori D. Ginzberg *Life After Life memorably remarked, Carson McCullers The Help Kate Atkinson “It is such happiness when Sisters: the Lives of America’s Suffragists Kathryn Stockett *Anne of Green Gables Jean H. Baker What I Loved L. M. Montgomery good people get together *Champions for Peace: Women Winners Siri Hustvedt 2014 —and they always do.” of the Nobel Peace Prize *Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand *The Goldfinch Judith Hicks Stiehm Helen Simonson Donna Tartt We have been getting *Middlemarch and Daniel Deronda *The Children’s Book The Custom of the Country together since 1991. George Eliot A. S. Byatt Edith Wharton Gabriela Mistral: Selected Poems *Wolf Hall Eighty Days: Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland Ed. Ursula K. LeGuin Hilary Mantel Matthew Goodman Nelly Sachs: Collected Poems 11 2 011 Still Life with Bread Crumbs Nelly Sachs Great House Anna Quindlen Monologue of a Dog Nicole Krauss Women Travelers: A Century of Wislawa Szymborska The Cookbook Collector Trailblazing Adventures 2008 Allegra Goodman Alexandra Lapierre *Persepolis *Cleopatra: A Life Stacy Schiff Marjane Satrapi *Favorites Away Amy Bloom ur women’s book club, like so many others, meets to affirm our membership in Brown Girl, Brownstones The Orchid Thief a community of book lovers. With each work we discuss, we deepen our shared Paule Marshall Susan Orlean 2003 Oexperience, learn more about each other and ourselves, and honor the heritage of The Country of the Pointed Firs Daughter of Earth Sacred Rage: The Wrath of Militant Islam women’s creativity across eras and cultures. Sarah Orne Jewett Agnes Smedley Robin Wright We’ve read fiction, biography, memoir and history. We’ve read prize winners, bestsellers, Out of Africa Iola Leroy Mona in the Promised Land Isak Dinesen Frances Watkins Harper Gish Jen underrated and classic books. Now, in commemoration of good reading and collective discussion, we are pleased to share our choices with other book lovers. Herland Women in Their Beds Hateship, Friendship, Charlotte Perkins Gilman Gina Berriault Courtship, Loveship, Marriage Quicksand and Passing 2000 Alice Munro 1991 Behind a Mask Nella Larsen *Girl With a Pearl Earring The Peppered Moth The Kitchen God’s Wife Louisa May Alcott 1997 Tracy Chevalier Margaret Drabble Amy Tan 1994 Le Divorce Girl in Hyacinth Blue Rubyfruit Jungle July’s People Written on the Body Diane Johnson Susan Vreeland Rita Mae Brown Nadine Gordimer Jeanette Winterson *The God of Small Things The Music Lesson Cold Comfort Farm Their Eyes Were Watching God *In the Time of the Butterflies Arundhati Roy Katharine Weber Stella Gibbons Zora Neale Hurston Julia Alvarez *Alias Grace The Blind Assassin Breathing Lessons An Unsuitable Job for a Woman The House on Mango Street Margaret Atwood Margaret Atwood Anne Tyler P. D. James Sandra Cisneros Marjory Stoneman Douglas: Voice of the River White Teeth In the Family Way Burn Marks The Face of an Angel with John Rothchild Zadie Smith Lynne Sharon Schwartz Sara Paretsky Denise Chavez A Midwife’s Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard Nineteenth-Century American 2004 *Possession: A Romance When I was Puerto Rican Laurel Thatcher Ulrich Women Writers: A Critical Reader Blacklist A. S. Byatt Esmeralda Santiago *The Secret Book of Grazia dei Rossi Karen Kilcup, Ed. Sara Paretsky Anywhere But Here Breath, Eyes, Memory Jacqueline Park Niccoló Rising *Reading Lolita in Tehran Mona Simpson Edwidge Danticat Across New Worlds: Nineteenth-Century Women Dorothy Dunnett Azar Nafisi *A Thousand Acres The Volcano Lover Travellers and Their Writings 2001 Easter Island Jane Smiley Susan Sontag Shirley Foster Test Pattern Jennifer Vanderbes 1992 *The Stone Diaries Mrs. Dalloway Marjorie Klein The Great Fire A Chorus of Stones: The Private Life of War Carol Shields Virginia Woolf The Map of Love Shirley Hazzard Susan Griffin Ségu 1998 Ahdaf Soueif *The Beecher Sisters Women of Sand and Myrrh Maryse Condé Tender at the Bone: Growing Up at the Table The Bonesetter’s Daughter Barbara A. White Hanan Al-Shaykh *A Map of the World Ruth Reichl Amy Tan Brick Lane The Living Jane Hamilton Paradise Caucasia Monica Ali Annie Dillard 1995 Toni Morrison Danzy Senna Moments of Being Turtle Moon Persuasion The Bookshop Daughter of Fortune Virginia Woolf Alice Hoffman Jane Austen Penelope Fitzgerald Isabel Allende Borrowed Finery Dreaming in Cuban *Open Secrets *The Poisonwood Bible *The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Paula Fox Cristina Garcia Alice Munro Barbara Kingsolver Horse Zami: A New Spelling of My Name Sugar Cage The Matisse Stories The Murder of Helen Jewett: The Life and Death Louise Erdrich Audre Lorde Connie May Fowler A.S. Byatt of a Prostitute in Nineteenth-Century New York So Long a Letter Paula Crossing Blood House of Splendid Isolation Patricia Cline Cohen Mariama Ba Isabel Allende Nanci Kincaid Edna O’Brien Charming Billy Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St.Vincent Millay The Namesake Jane Eyre The Left Hand of Darkness Alice McDermott Nancy Milford Jhumpa Lahiri Charlotte Brontë Ursula K. Le Guin My Home is Far Away 2002 Desirable Daughters Wide Sargasso Sea Choices Dawn Powell A Woman’s Education Bharati Mukherjee Jean Rhys Mary Lee Settle New York Mosaic Jill Ker Conway 2005 1993 The Fatigue Artist Isabel Bolton The Gastronomical Me The Jane Austen Book Club Beloved Lynne Sharon Schwartz The Song of the Lark M.F.K. Fisher Karen Joy Fowler Toni Morrison *Stones from the River Willa Cather The Back Room Georgiana: Duchess of Devonshire The Robber Bride Ursula Hegi 1999 Carmen Martín Gaite Amanda Foreman Margaret Atwood Familiar Heat The Secret Names of Women The Last Life *Gilead and Housekeeping The Holder of the World Mary Hood Lynne Barrett Claire Messud Marilynne Robinson Bharati Mukherjee 1996 The Awakening The Mortal Storm The Death of the Heart and Love Medicine Regeneration Kate Chopin Phyllis Bottome The House in Paris Louise Erdrich Pat Barker The Many Lives and Secret Three Guineas Elizabeth Bowen Woman of Valor: Margaret Sanger and the We Were the Mulvaneys Sorrows of Josephine B. Virginia Woolf *The Peabody Sisters: Three Women Who Birth Control Movement in America Joyce Carol Oates Sandra Gulland The Lovely Bones Ignited American Romanticism Ellen Chesler Pearl S. Buck: A Cultural Biography Ahab’s Wife: Or, the Star Gazer Alice Sebold Megan Marshall Fair and Tender Ladies Peter Conn Sena Jeter Naslund Not So Quiet My Heart is My Own: Lee Smith The House of Mirth Eleanor Roosevelt, Vols. 1 and 2 Helen Zenna Smith The Life of Mary Queen of Scots The Shipping News Edith Wharton Blanche Wiesen Cook The Face of War John Guy E. Annie Proulx Martha Gellhorn Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom.
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