2024-2025 AAUW BOOK GROUP
Meetings are held 10:00 a.m. – Noon
At the STILLWATER PUBLIC LIBRARY
Conference Room A (Upper Level)
224 North Fourth Street
Stillwater, MN
AAUW Book List for 2024-2025
November 20, 2024 – Democracy Awakening by Heather Cox Richardson (2023)
Leader – Beth Burns
January 15, 2025 – Two Old Women by Velma Wallis (1993)
Leader – Margaret Boettcher
March 19, 2025 – Into the Beautiful North by Luis Alberto Urrea (2009)
Leader – Ann Caturia – (Library Book kit available)
May 21, 2025 – The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin (1963)
Leader – Ann Bucheck – (Library Book kit available)
July 16, 2025 – The Secret Life of Sunflowers by Marta Molnar (2022)
Leader – Marjorie Williams
ALL branch members are invited to participate!
If you have questions about the book group, please contact
Jean Morse (651-439-5136, jgm1319@icloud.com
2023-2024 AAUW BOOK GROUP
WHERE: STILLWATER PUBLIC LIBRARY Conference Room A (Upper Level) 224 North Fourth Street Stillwater, MN
WHEN:
10:00 – 12:00 the third Wednesday of every other month starting in November
AAUW BOOK LIST for 2023-2024
November 15, 2023 – Still Alice** by Genova Leader – Margaret Welshons
January 17, 2024 – Braiding Sweetgrass by Kimmerer Leader – Jan Wolden
March 20, 2024 – Toms River by Fagin Leader – Marjorie Williams
May 15, 2024 – Vanderbilt: The Rise & Fall of an American Dynasty by Cooper & Howe
Astor: The Rise & Fall of an American Fortune
by Cooper & Howe
Leaders – Pat Anderson & Sue Fletcher
July 17, 2024 – The Woman They Could Not Silence by Kate Moore. Leader – Ann Caturia
AAUW St. Croix Valley (MN) Book Group
Please join us for our book group! All AAUW members are invited to join the group! The group will meet the 3rd Wednesday every other month beginning in November at the Stillwater Library from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00. a.m.
* The AAUW BOOK GROUP meets from 10:00 – 12:00
Meetings will be held at the STILLWATER PUBLIC LIBRARY Conference Room A (Upper Level) 224 North Fourth Street Stillwater, MN
AAUW Book Group 2022-2023
EXPLORING BANNED BOOKS DISCUSSION SCHEDULE:
Nov. 16, 2022 – The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian by Sherman Alexie Discussion
Jan.18, 2023 – All Boys Aren‘t Blue by George M. Johnson
March 15, 2023 – Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich
May 17, 2023 – A People‘s History of the United States
by Howard Zinn
Wed. – July 19, 2023 – Members‘ Choices of Banned Children‘s Books Discussion Leaders – Group Members
Wed. – Sept. 21, 2023 – Planning for 2023-2024
AAUW BOOK GROUP – 2021-2022
MEETING DAYS: The 3rd Wednesday every other month TIME 10:00 to 12:00 (note new time)
MEETINGS WILL BE HELD AT THE STILLWATER PUBLIC LIBRARY CONFERENCE ROOM A – UPPER LEVEL 224 N. 4th St.
Discussion Schedule
Wed. Nov. 17, 2021 – Sea Smoke and Mirrors by Jenifer LeClair, Discussion leader – Beth Burns,
Wed. – Jan. 19, 2022 – KA Woman of No Importance by Sonia Purnell, Discussion Leader, Margaret Boettcher
Wed. – March 16, 2022 – The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson, Discussion Leader—Sue Fletcher
Wed. – May 18, 2022 – Get Well Soon by Jennifer Wright, Discussion leader – Ann Bucheck
Wed. – July 20 2022 – How to Raise an Elephant by Alexander McCall Smith, Discussion leader: Nancy Langness
Wed. – Sept. 21, 2022– Planning for 2022-2023
AAUW BOOK GROUP – 2019-2020
Wed. Nov. 20, 2019 – Beloved by Toni Morrison.
Wed. – Jan. 15, 2020 – Kindred by Octavia Butler
Wed. – March 18, 2020 – Heartburn by Nora Ephron
Wed. – May 20, 2020 – Educated by Tara Westover
Wed. – July 15, 2020 – Chronicles of a Radical Hag (with Recipes) by Lorna Landvik
Wed. – Sept. 16, 2020 – Planning for next year
Books read in 2018-19
The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton
Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka
The Gilded Years by Karin Tanabe
Stolen Beauty by Laurie Lico Albanese
The Cailiffs of Baghdad, Georgia: A Novel by Mary Helen Stefaniak
Click here to see our favorite books we identified in 2019!