Book Club

Join the Bryn Mawr Club of DC Book Club for lively conversation and discussion of the month’s book.

The book club meets via Zoom. Please contact jillcoogan@hotmail.com for details.

Upcoming Meetings:

  • June 10, 2025 — Invisible Man, by Ralph Ellison.
  • July 8, 2025 — How to Hide an Empire, by Daniel Immerwahr.
  • August 12, 2025 — Persuasion, by Jane Austen.
  • Sept. 9, 2025 — Lula Dean’s Little Library of Banned Books, by Kirsten Miller.
  • Oct. 14, 2025 — Sally Ride, by Lynn Sherr.
  • Nov. 12, 2025 — James, by Percival Everett.
  • Dec. 9, 2025 — Orbital, by Samantha Harvey.

Some of our past books include:

  • Mother Tongue: The Surprising History of Women’s Words, by Jenni Nutall.
  • My Friends, by Hisham Matar.
  • The Original Black Elite: Daniel Murray and the Story of a Forgotten Era, by Elizabeth Dowling Taylor.
  • The Last Bookshop in London, by Madeline Martin.
  • Visual Thinking, by Temple Grandin.
  • All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake, by Tiya Miles.  
  • Pandora’s Jar: Women in the Greek Myths, by Natalie Haynes.
  • Black Cake, by Charmaine Wilkerson.