Thank you to the book lovers who shared recommendations: Jennifer Balistreri, Joyce Tang Boyland, Mimi Czarnik, Steven Dunn, Angela Frey, Elizabeth Gamillo, Lindsey Harness, Leslie Henry ’93, Vanessa Hintz, Steve Janco, Brenda Kilpatrick, Dan Leister, Mary Catherine Nimphius, Bob O’Brien-Hokanson, Sara Shutkin, Dolores Skowronek, Luci Staudacher and Kris Vasquez
Please join us for our first virtual book club on August 18 at 7 p.m. Professor Mimi Czarnk will lead Alverno students and alums in a discussion of Women Talking by Miriam Toews. Alverno Loyal members have first access to register at www.alumnae.alverno.edu/2020bookclub.
The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle, Stuart Turton
All the Ugly and Wonderful Things, Bryan Greenwood
Batman: The Killing Joke Deluxe, Alan Moore
Becoming, Michelle Obama
The Belles, Dhonielle Clayton
Beloved, Toni Morrison
Black Panther, Christopher Priest
Black Panther Psychology: Hidden Kingdoms, Travis Langley
The Book of Delights, Ross Gay
The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek, Kim Michele Richardson
Bone, Yrsa Daley-Ward
Bossypants, Tina Fey
The Broken Earth Trilogy, N.K. Jemisen
Brunelleschi's Dome, Ross King
Building A Life Worth Living, Marsha Linehan
The Butchering Art, Lindsey Fitzharris
City of Girls, Elizabeth Gilbert
Conviction, Denise Mina
Creating Family Archives: A Step-by-Step Guide to Saving Your Memories, Margot Notes
The Dutch House, Ann Prachett
The Fault in Our Stars, John Greene
Finding Dorothy, Elizabeth Letts
Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, Mihaly Csikszentmihali
A Fire Sparkling, Julianne MacLean
A Franciscan View of Creation, Ilia Delio, OSF
The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who you Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are, Brene Brown
Goldfinch, Donna Tartt
The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Guest Book, Sarah Blake
H Is for Hawk, Helen Mcdonald
Heart-Shaped Box, Joe Hill
How to Be An Antiracist, Ibram X. Kendi
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Rebecca Skloot
I Think You're Wrong but I'm Listening, Sarah Stewart Holland & Beth Silvers
Joker Psychology: Evil Clowns and the Women Who Love Them, Travis Langley
Journal of a Solitude, May Sarton
The Last Romantics, Tara Conklin
The Little Book of Hygge: Danish Secrets to Happy Living, Meik Wiking
Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation, Parker Palmer
Lock In, John Scalzi
Lovecraft County, Matt Ruff
The Mindfulness Solution for Intense Emotions, Cedar Koons
Miracle Creek, Angie Kim
Monstress, Marjorie Liu & Sana Takeda
Mr. Penumbra's 24 Hour Book Store, Robin Sloan
My Pocket Mantras: Powerful words to connect, comfort and protect, Tanaaz Chubb
Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain, Oliver Sacks
The Nickel Boys, Colson Whitehead
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, Ocean Vuong
The Only Woman in the Room, Marie Benedict
The Overstory, Richard Powers
Paper Girls, Brian K. Vaughan
Praying the Psalms, Walter Brueggemann
Prodigal Summer, Barbara Kingsolver
Radio Girls, Sarah-Jane Stratford
Rocket Boys, Homer H. Hickam Jr.
Sabbath as Resistance: Saying NO to the Culture of NOW, Walter Brueggemann
Saga, Compendium One, Brian K. Vaughan & Fiona Staples
Saving Fish From Drowning, Amy Tan
Scandalous Women: The Lives and Loves of History's Most Notorious Women, Elizabeth Kerri Mahon
Song of Myself, Walt Whitman
Songs of America: Patriotism, Protest and the Music that Made a Nation, Jon Meacham & Tim McGraw
Soul of An Octopus, Sy Montgomery
Stories of Your Life, Ted Chiang
Strong Towns, Charles Marohn
The Stream & the Sapphire: Selected Poems on Religious Themes, Denise Levertov
Sula, Toni Morrison
Taming the Tiger Within, Thich Nhat Hanh
The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane, Lisa See
This is Your Brain on Music: The Science of Human Obsession, Daniel Levitin
Trauma Stewardship: An Everyday Guide to Caring for Self While Caring for Others, Laura van Dernoot Lipsky
The Unspoken Name, A.K. Larwood
Urban Trauma: A Legacy of Racism, Maysa Akbar
What Every Autistic Girl Wishes Her Parents Knew, Emily Paige Ballou, Kristina Thomas and Sharon daVanport
Where the Crawdads Sing, Delia Owens
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism, Robin DiAngelo
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail, Cheryl Strayed
The Wisdom of Sundays: Life Changing Insights from Super Soul Conversations, Oprah Winfrey
A Woman is No Man, Etaf Rum
Women Talking, Miriam Toews
The World Broke in Two: Virginia Woolf, T.S. Elliot, D.H. Lawrence and the Year that Changed Literature, Bill Goldstein
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