Alumnae Book Club
| The Marian Alumnae Book Club was formed in April 2002 by Laura Kelleher '80 and Kay Hughes, Marian English teacher. While the original intent of the book club was to read and discuss classic literature, members have been reading contemporary literature and some nonfiction as well. Book Club selections have included: |
- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
- The Red Tent by Anita Diament
- The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
- Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
- Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich
- The Life of Pi by Yann Martel
- The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
- Years of Wonder: A Novel of the Plague by Geraldine Brooks
- Seabiscuit by Laura Hillenbrand
- East of Eden by John Steinbeck
- The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
- Four Spirits by Sena Jeter Naslund
- Girl With a Pearl Earing by Tracy Chevalier
- Usual Rules by Joyce Maynard
- The Dante Club by Matthew Pearl
- Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
- Pope Joan by Donna Woolfolk Cross
- The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
- In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvaez
- Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress: A Novel by Dai Sijie
- The True Story of Hansel and Gretel by Louise Murphy
- A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby
- Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
- One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd: A Novel by Jim Fergus
- Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
- My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult
- Snow by Orhan Pamuk
- Rise and Shine by Anna Quindlen
- Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer
- The Christmas Train by David Baldacci
- Population 485 by Michael Perry
- The Man Without A Country by Kurt Vonnegut
- The DaVinci Code by Dan Brown
- Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Piccoult
- Peace Like A River by Leif Enger
- Watering the Elephants by Sara Gruen
- Flight Lessons by Patricia Gaffney
- How To Be Lost by Amanda Eyre Ward
- Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
- Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
- The Friday Night Knitting Club by Kate Jacobs
- Left to Tell -Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust by Immaculee Ilibagiza with Steve Irwin
- Brookland by Emily Barton
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Marian alumnae are welcome to attend the Book Club and to bring a friend or two to join in the discussion. Please check this website page for upcoming Book Club dates and selections. For location information, please contact Alumnae Relations at
(248) 644-1946 or pknipper@marian-hs.org. |
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Alumnae Book Club Meetings
Thursday, July 17, 2008
7 PM
"Left to Tell -Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust” by Immaculee Ilibagiza with Steve Irwin
2nd book- "Brookland" by Emily Barton
Theresa Maxis Room
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Thursday, September 11, 2008
7 PM
"Across a Hundred Mountains: A Novel" by Reyna Grande
2nd book- "God's in Alabama" by Joshilyn Jackson Theresa Maxis Room |
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