The Westridge Alumnae Book Group meets at 7:30 p.m. selected Wednesdays throughout the year in the Leslie Clarke Gray '62 Alumnae Living Room, Pitcairn House. Alumnae attending the book group may park in the State Street Parking lot.

Book group selections are available at Vroman's Bookstore, 695 E. Colorado Blvd., for a 20 percent discount. Books are available at the book information desk. For more information, contact Vroman's at 626.449.5320, or check out their Web site at www.vromansbookstore.com.


Our very own Vroman's Bookstore has earned its distinction as Publishers Weekly's 2008 Bookseller of the Year.

And remember, no matter if you've not started, are still reading, or have completed the book, alumnae are always welcome to the meeting.


Westridge Alumnae Readers - Book Club Selections

2010-2011
9/10 Suite Française | Irene Nemirovsky 
11/10 Olive Kitteridge | Elizabeth Strout 
1/11 To Kill A Mockingbird | Harper Lee  
3/11 The Hemingses of Monticello | Annette Reed
5/11 My Antonia | Willa Cather
7/11 Wolf Hall | Hilary Mantel

2009 - 2010
9/09 Breathing Lessions | Anne Tyler National Book Award/1988; Pulitzer Prize/1989
11/09 The Good Earth | Pearl Buck Pulitzer Prize/1932; Nobel Prize/1938
1/10 Women's Work: the First 20,000 Years. Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times | Elizabeth Wayland Barber '58
3/10 The King Must Die | Mary Renault
5/10 The Awakening and Selected Stories | Kate Chopin
7/10 Vera (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov) | Stacy Schiff Pulitzer Prize bio/2000

2008 - 2009
9/08 Secret Life of Bees | Sue Kidd
11/08 Love in a Cold Climate | Nancy Mitford
1/09 Collected Storied | Grace Paley
Pulitzer Prize/1995; National Book Award/1994
3/09 Isak Dinesen: the Life of a Storyteller | Judith Thurman
National Book Award/1982
5/09 Stone Diaries | Carol Shield Pulitzer Prize/1995; Booker Prize/1993
7/09 House of Mirth | Edith Wharton

2007 - 2008
9/07 Where I was From | Joan Didion
11/07 Distant Land of My Father | Bo Caldwell
1/08 An Awfully Big Adventure | Beryl Bainbridge Booker Prize/1990
3/08 The Moons of Jupiter | Alice Munro
5/08 Easter Island | Jennifer Vanderbees
7/08 Evelina | Fanny Burney

2006 - 2007
9/06  Kindred |Octavia Butler
11/06 Mistress of the Elgin Marbles: A Biography of Mary Nisbet Countess of Elgin | Susan Nagel
1/07 The Middleman and Other Stories  | Bharati Mukherjee
3/07 March Pulitzer Prize/2006 |Geraldine Brooks
5/07  Crazy Horse: The Strange Man of the Oglalas | Mari Sandoz
7/07 The Water Dancers | Terry Gamble Boyer '73

2005 - 2006
9/05 Lazy B: Growing up on a Cattle Ranch in the American Southwest | Sandra Day O' Connor
11/05 Frankenstein | Mary Shelley
1/06 The Collected Stories | K. A. Porter Pulitzer Prize/1966
3/06 Housekeeping | Marilynne Robinson
Pulitzer Prize/1982; National Book Award/1983
5/06 Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books | Azar Nafisi
7/06 Lying Awake | Mark Salzman

2004 - 2005
9/04 The Time Traveler's Wife | Audrey Niffenegger
11/04 Wide Sargasso Sea | Jean Rhys
1/05 The Collected Stories | Eudora Welty National Book Award/1983
3/05 The Three Junes | Julia Glass National Book Award/2002
5/05 Sula | Toni Morrison Nobel Prize/1993; National Book Award/1975
7/05 The Kite Runner | Khaled Hosseini

2003 - 2004
9/03 Pride and Prejudice | Jane Austen
11/03 Possession: A Romance | A. S. Byatt Booker Prize/1990
1/04 The Complete Stories | Flannery O'Connor National Book Award/1972
3/04 Portrait in Sepia: A Novel | Isabel Allende
5/04 Breaking Clean | Judy Blunt
7/04 The Known World | Edward P. Jones

2002 - 2003
9/02 The Blind Assassin | Margaret Atwood Booker Prize/2000; Orange Prize/2001
11/02 The Waves | Virginia Woolf
1/03 Savage Lives-The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay | Nancy Milford
3/03 Washington | Meg Greenfield
(optional) The Soloist | Mark Salzman
5/03 July's People | Nadine Gordimer Nobel Prize/1991
7/03 Seabiscuit | Laura Hillenbrand

For further information about the Westridge Alumnae Book Group, contact Barbara Davis Reynolds '72 at bwdr@pacbell.net or call the Westridge Alumnae Office at 626.799.1053, ext. 244.

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