Books by Women

Second Tuesdays from 6:00 to 7:15 p.m.
September through June
Bumpus Activity Room in the Gratz Center

Books by Women has met faithfully for twenty years to discuss classic and contemporary works by women authors. All women are invited to join in the conversations whenever their schedules allow.


Books by Women Reading List

A reading list of books read by Books by Women from December 1991 through the present is available here.


2014 Book Discussion Schedule

April 8, 2014
The Snow Child
   by Eowyn Ivey

In this enchanting story set in Alaska in the 1920s, a husband and wife move to Alaska and struggle to maintain their farm. They are childless. One day they glimpse a young girl running through the trees with a red fox at her side. They begin to see this child as their own. But in this beautiful territory things are seldom as they seem. The Snow Child is a 2013 finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.
Paperback; 386 pages


May 13, 2014
Dreaming in French: The Paris Years of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy,
   Susan Sontag, and Angela Davis

      by Alice Yaeger Kaplan

In this biography, the author traces the paths of three young women, American students, who spent a year studying in Paris and shows how it changed the lives of these extraordinary women as they all became key figures in America. 
Paperback; 304 pages


June 10, 2014 
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Color Blindness
   by Michelle Alexander

Author Michelle Alexander argues that mass incarceration in America today functions as a system of racial control in a similar way to how Jim Crow laws once operated. Ms. Alexander is an associate professor at Ohio State University’s College of Law.
Paperback; 320 pages


For more information about Books by Women, contact Anne Ellis (312.573.3369).
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