AMUW Book Club

The Association of Marquette University Women Book Club was established in 2007 as a lively forum for Marquette alumnae and friends to read and discuss books. Raynor Library hosts the club’s two Milwaukee meetings in the spring and fall; in addition, a winter meeting of the club takes place each year in Naples, Florida.

Since its inception, the club has read the following books: 

• April 2025: Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
• September 2024: American Mother by Colum McCann and Diane Foley
• April 2024: While You Were Out: An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence by Meg Kissinger
• October 2023: The Book of Nature: The Astonishing Beauty of God's First Sacred Text by Barbara Mahany
• March 2023: Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell
• November 2022: Conversation with new library dean, Dr. Tara Baillargeon
• March 2022: Send for Me by Lauren Fox
• October 2021: A Fall of Marigolds by Susan Meissner
• October 2020: Author talk with Larry Watson
• April 2019: The Optimist's Guide to Letting Go by Amy E. Reichert
• October 2018: Radium Girls by Kate Moore
• May 2018: Old Heart by Peter Ferry
• September 2017: The Perfume Collector by Kathleen Tessaro
• May 2017: The Mutual Admiration Society by Lesley Kagen
• September 2016: The Selector of Souls by Shauna Singh Baldwin
• May 2016: We Are Called to Rise by Laura McBride
• September 2015: North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
• April 2015: All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
• May 2014: Beautiful Fools by Clifton Spargo
• August 2013: One Amazing Thing by Chitra Divakaruni
• May 2013: The Aviator's Wife by Melanie Benjamin
• August 2012: Half a Life by Darin Strauss
• May 2012: Swimming in the Daylight: An American Student, a Soviet-Jewish Dissident, and the Gift of Hope by Lisa C. Paul
• September 2011: The Other Wes Moore by Wes Moore
• May 2011: Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
• August 2010: Peace Like a River by Leif Enger
• May 2010: Brother, I’m Dying by Edwidge Danticat
• October 2009: The Captain's Wife: A Story of the Great Lakes by Mary Eileen Wright
• May 2009: Whistling in the Dark by Lesley Kagen
• August 2008: Run by Ann Patchett
• May 2008: The Syringa Tree by Pamela Gien
• January 2008: Moloka’i by Alan Brennert
• October 2007: Milwaukee’s Jesuit University: Marquette 1881-1981 by Dr. Thomas Jablonsky
• May 2007: Hunger by Lan Samantha Chang

About the Association of Marquette University Women

The AMUW Book Club is just one of the activities of the Association of Marquette University Women. Visit the AMUW homepage for more information about the AMUW’s mission and activities, as well as its upcoming events.