The Women's Commission Book Club focuses on reading interesting stories of strong, resilient women both actual and fictional. It's a great opportunity to meet members of our University Community from all campuses.
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Below is our current schedule of books and discussions. To view a list of past books, click on the "Book Club Reading Archive" page on the left.
Meetings are held Fridays from noon to 12:45 p.m. in a hybrid format, either in-person in the Coral Gables Campus or via Zoom (link sent prior to each meeting).
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Women's Commission Book Group 2024-2025 Selected Books and Meeting Dates
Meeting Dates/Venue | Title/Author | Genre/Pages | Blurbs |
March 21, 2025 Hybrid meeting Zoom:
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Someone Else's Shoes by Jojo Moyes |
Fiction/Romance 438 pages
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From Goodreads: Nisha Cantor lives the globetrotting life of the seriously wealthy, until her husband announces a divorce and cuts her off. Nisha is determined to hang onto her glamorous life. But in the meantime, she must scramble to cope--she doesn’t even have the shoes she was, until a moment ago, standing in.
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February 21, 2025 Hybrid meeting Zoom:
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The Kissing Bug by Daisy Hernandez |
Memoir/308 pages
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This Book Club meeting will be in addition to our participation in the Keynote Event with author Daisy Hernández on February 13th at 6:30 pm and a UMWC hosted event to be publicized in January. Free copies of the book are available at the Richter Library’s Access Services desk. https://www.library.miami.edu/one-book/index.html From the One Book One U webpage: A top 10 best nonfiction book of 2021 – Time Magazine and selected for the National Book Foundation’s Science & Literature. Hernández’s own family story inspired the book. After watching her aunt endure a painful yet unnamed disease for decades, Daisy spent seven years researching and uncovering the facts of the invisible Chagas disease.
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January 24, 2025 Hybrid meeting Zoom:
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Evvie Drake Starts Over by Linda Holmes |
Fiction/Romance 289 pages
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From Goodreads: In a sleepy seaside town in Maine, recently widowed Eveleth “Evvie” Drake rarely leaves her large, painfully empty house nearly a year after her husband’s death in a car crash. Everyone in town, even her best friend, Andy, thinks grief keeps her locked inside, and Evvie doesn’t correct them.
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November 15, 2024 Hybrid meeting Zoom:
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The Museum of Ordinary People by Mike Gayle
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Fiction/Romance 336 pages
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From Goodreads: Still reeling from the sudden death of her mother, Jess is about to do the hardest thing she's ever done: empty her childhood home so that it can be sold. As she sorts through a lifetime of memories, everything comes to a halt when she comes across something she just can’t part with: an old set of encyclopedias. To the world, the books are outdated and ready to be recycled. To Jess, they represent love and the future that her mother always wanted her to have.
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October 18, 2024 Hybrid meeting Zoom:
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No Two Persons by Erica Bauermeister
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Fiction 314 pages
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From Goodreads: One book. Nine readers. Ten changed lives. New York Times bestselling author Erica Bauermeister’s No Two Persons is “a gloriously original celebration of fiction, and the ways it deepens our lives.”
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September 20, 2024 Hybrid meeting Zoom:
Tip: This is a popular book! We suggest request your copy from the library as soon as possible. Wait for the audibook is now 7 weeks and eBook 8 weeks (July 11).
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The Paris Novel by Ruth Reichl
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Historical Fiction/
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From Goodreads: Stella reached for an oyster, tipped her head and tossed it back. It was cool and slippery, the flavor so briny it was like diving into the ocean... Oysters, she thought, where have they been all my life?
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August 23, 2024 Hybrid meeting Zoom:
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Where'd You Go Bernadette? by Maria Semple
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Fiction/Humor/Mystery 330 pages
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From Goodreads: When her daughter Bee claims a family trip to Antarctica as a reward for perfect grades, Bernadette, a fiercely intelligent shut-in, throws herself into preparations for the trip. But worn down by years of trying to live the Seattle life she never wanted, Ms. Fox is on the brink of a meltdown. And after a school fundraiser goes disastrously awry at her hands, she disappears, leaving her family to pick up the pieces--which is exactly what Bee does, weaving together an elaborate web of emails, invoices, and school memos that reveals a secret past Bernadette has been hiding for decades. Where'd You Go Bernadette is an ingenious and unabashedly entertaining novel about a family coming to terms with who they are and the power of a daughter's love for her mother.
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July 19, 2024 Hybrid meeting Zoom:
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The Villa by Rachel Hawkins
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Mystery/Thriller 279 pages
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From Goodreads: As kids, Emily and Chess were inseparable. But by their 30s, their bond has been strained by the demands of their adult lives. So when Chess suggests a girls trip to Italy, Emily jumps at the chance to reconnect with her best friend.
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June 14, 2024 Hybrid meeting Zoom:
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The Woman in the Library by Sulari Gentill
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Mystery/Thriller 292 pages
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From Goodreads: In every person's story, there is something to hide...
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Check our Reading Archive for book lists from the last two years |