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
The Shack by William P. Young
The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch
The Longest Trip Home by John Grogan
The Middle Place by Kerry Corrigan
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
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.
Alumnae Book Club Meetings
For more information please contact:
Pat O'Leary Knipper '77, Office of Alumnae Relations
at (248) 644-1946
or via email
Marian High School ~ 7225 Lahser Road Bloomfield Hills, MI 48301
~ (248) 644-1750 ~ fax (248) 644-6107
