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Meetings are held Fridays from noon to 12:45 p.m. in a hybrid format.
In-person: Richter Library, first floor, room 102B Learning Commons Flexible Program Space (unless otherwise noted).
Zoom: Zoom link will be provided to Listserv members prior to the meeting.
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November 14, 2025
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Three Days in June
by Anne Tyler
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Fiction/Romance/Family
165 pages
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From Goodreads:
Gail Baines is having a bad day. To start, she loses her job—or quits, depending on whom you ask. Tomorrow her daughter, Debbie, is getting married, and she hasn’t even been invited to the spa day organized by the mother of the groom. Then, Gail’s ex-husband, Max, arrives unannounced on her doorstep, carrying a cat, without a place to stay, and without even a suit.
But the true crisis lands when Debbie shares with her parents a secret she has just learned about her husband to be. It will not only throw the wedding into question but also stir up Gail and Max’s past.
Told with deep sensitivity and a tart sense of humor, full of the joys and heartbreaks of love and marriage and family life, Three Days in June is a triumph, and gives us the perennially bestselling, Pulitzer Prize–winning writer at the height of her powers.
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December 12, 2025
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Book Club Jingle Till We Mingle
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Join us for our annual mingling and book exchange event!
Time: 12:00 p.m.
Please note location: Frost Institute for Chemistry and Molecular Science, Seminar Room
Click here to register!
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January 30, 2026
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The Vanishing Half
by Brit Bennett
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Historical Fiction/343 pages
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One Book One U selection for 2025-2026!
The University of Miami’s selection for 2025-2026 is Brit Bennett’s “The Vanishing Half,” a New York Times #1 bestseller and “Good Morning America” June Book Club pick. This engrossing page-turner, longlisted for both the 2021 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and the 2020 National Book Award for Fiction, explores the lasting influence of the past as it shapes a person’s decisions, desires, and expectations.
Through various activities and events in the 2025-2026 academic year, we look forward to reaffirming One Book, One U’s mission to use shared reading and engagement to explore the interrelated issues that foster or impede a culture of belonging.
Save the date! Keynote Event with author Brit Bennett
Thursday, February 12, 2026
Doors opent: 6:00 p.m. | Program starts: 6:30 p.m.
Click here for registration info
For more details on One Book, One U, please visit their site:
https://www.library.miami.edu/one-book/
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February 27, 2026
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Finlay Donovan is Killing It
by Elle Cosimano
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Mystery
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From Goodreads:
Finlay Donovan is killing it . . . except, she’s really not. She’s a stressed-out single-mom of two and struggling novelist, Finlay’s life is in chaos: the new book she promised her literary agent isn’t written, her ex-husband fired the nanny without telling her, and this morning she had to send her four-year-old to school with hair duct-taped to her head after an incident with scissors.
When Finlay is overheard discussing the plot of her new suspense novel with her agent over lunch, she’s mistaken for a contract killer, and inadvertently accepts an offer to dispose of a problem husband in order to make ends meet . . . Soon, Finlay discovers that crime in real life is a lot more difficult than its fictional counterpart, as she becomes tangled in a real-life murder investigation.
Fast-paced, deliciously witty, and wholeheartedly authentic in depicting the frustrations and triumphs of motherhood in all its messiness, hilarity, and heartfelt moment, Finlay Donovan Is Killing It is the first in a brilliant new series from YA Edgar Award nominee Elle Cosimano.
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March 20, 2026
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The Book Club for Troublesome Women
Marie Bostwick
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Historical Fiction
372 pages
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From Goodreads:
Four dissatisfied sixties-era housewives form a book club turned sisterhood that will hold fast amid the turmoil of a rapidly changing world and alter the course of each of their lives.
By early 1960s standards, Margaret Ryan, Viv Buschetti, and Bitsy Cobb, suburban housewives in a brand-new "planned community" in Northern Virginia, appear to have it all. The fact that "all" doesn't feel like enough leaves them feeling confused and guilty, certain the fault must lie with them. Things begin to change when they form a book club with Charlotte Gustafson--the eccentric and artsy "new neighbor" from Manhattan--and read Betty Friedan's just-released book, The Feminine Mystique.
Controversial and groundbreaking, the book struck a chord with an entire generation of women, helping them realize that they weren't alone in their dissatisfactions, or their longings, lifting their eyes to new horizons of possibility and achievement. Margaret, Charlotte, Bitsy, and Viv are among them. But is it really the book that alters the lives of these four very different women? Or is it the bond of sisterhood that helps them find courage to confront the past, navigate turmoil in a rapidly changing world, and see themselves in a new and limitless light?
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April 17, 2026
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Rock Paper Scissors
Alice Feeney
 
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Thriller/294 pages
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From Goodreads:
Think you know the person you married? Think again…
Things have been wrong with Mr and Mrs Wright for a long time. When Adam and Amelia win a weekend away to Scotland, it might be just what their marriage needs. Self-confessed workaholic and screenwriter Adam Wright has lived with face blindness his whole life. He can’t recognize friends or family, or even his own wife.
Every anniversary the couple exchange traditional gifts – paper, cotton, pottery, tin – and each year Adam’s wife writes him a letter that she never lets him read. Until now. They both know this weekend will make or break their marriage, but they didn’t randomly win this trip. One of them is lying, and someone doesn’t want them to live happily ever after.
Ten years of marriage. Ten years of secrets. And an anniversary they will never forget.
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