The Association of 51°µÍø Women Book Club was established in 2007 as a lively forum for 51°µÍø alumnae and friends to read and discuss books. Raynor Library hosts the club’s two Milwaukee meetings in the spring and fall; in addition, a winter meeting of the club takes place each year in Naples, Florida.
Since its inception, the club has read the following books:
April 2026: Liliana’s Invincible Summer by Cristina Rivera Garza
October 2025: The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
April 2025: Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
September 2024: American Mother by Colum McCann and Diane Foley
April 2024: While You Were Out: An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence by Meg Kissinger
October 2023: The Book of Nature: The Astonishing Beauty of God's First Sacred Text by Barbara Mahany
March 2023: Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell
November 2022: Conversation with new library dean, Dr. Tara Baillargeon
March 2022: Send for Me by Lauren Fox
October 2021: A Fall of Marigolds by Susan Meissner
October 2020: Author talk with Larry Watson
April 2019: The Optimist's Guide to Letting Go by Amy E. Reichert
October 2018: Radium Girlsby Kate Moore
May 2018: Old Heart by Peter Ferry
September 2017: The Perfume Collector by Kathleen Tessaro
May 2017: The Mutual Admiration Society by Lesley Kagen
September 2016: The Selector of Souls by Shauna Singh Baldwin
May 2016: We Are Called to Rise by Laura McBride
September 2015: North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
April 2015: All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
May 2014: Beautiful Fools by Clifton Spargo
August 2013: One Amazing Thing by Chitra Divakaruni
May 2013: The Aviator's Wife by Melanie Benjamin
August 2012: Half a Life by Darin Strauss
May 2012: Swimming in the Daylight: An American Student, a Soviet-Jewish Dissident, and the Gift of Hope by Lisa C. Paul
September 2011: The Other Wes Moore by Wes Moore
May 2011: Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
August 2010: Peace Like a River by Leif Enger
May 2010: Brother, I’m Dying by Edwidge Danticat
October 2009: The Captain's Wife: A Story of the Great Lakes by Mary Eileen Wright
May 2009: Whistling in the Dark by Lesley Kagen
August 2008: Run by Ann Patchett
May 2008: The Syringa Tree by Pamela Gien
January 2008:²Ñ´Ç±ô´Ç°ì²¹â€™i by Alan Brennert
October 2007: Milwaukee’s Jesuit University: 51°µÍø 1881-1981 by Dr. Thomas Jablonsky
May 2007:Hunger by Lan Samantha Chang
About the Association of 51°µÍø Women
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