San Diego Theta Alumnae Book Club
Book Club is open to all Dues Paying Members. Evite invitations are sent for each meeting. Contact us at sdthetas@gmail.com to be added to the invitation list.
Our book club meets bimonthly with occasional special meetings added based on attendees. Books are picked every November with members submitting suggestions and voting on the final books.
Book Selection History | |
2025 | |
| January | The Secret Life of Sunflowers by Marta Molina |
2024 | |
| November | Tom Lake by Ann Patchet |
| September | Eternal by Lisa Scottoline |
| July | Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt |
| May | The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese |
| March | Slouching Toward Bethlehem by Joan Dideon |
| January | Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson |
2023 | |
| November | Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams |
| September | Fresh Water for Flowers by Valerie Perrin |
| July | Bloomsbury Girls by Natalie Jenner |
| May | Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus |
| March | Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin |
| January | The Book of Longings by Sue Monk Kidd |
2022 | |
| November | The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave |
| September | The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett |
| July | Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr |
| May | Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson |
| March | Shanghai Girls by Lisa See |
| January | The Midnight Library by Matt Haig |
2021 | |
| November | Genius of Place: The Life of Frederick Law Olmsted by Justin Martin |
| September | Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger |
| July | My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry by Fredrik Backman |
| May | Fifty Words for Rain by Asha Lemmie |
| March | The Beekeeper of Aleppo by Christy Lefteri |
| January | Lab Girl by Hope Jahren |
2020 | |
| November | A Well Behaved Woman: A Novel about the Vanderbilts by Therese Anne Fowler |
| September | The Fountains of Silence by Ruta Sepetys |
| July | The Giver of Stars by JoJo Moyes |
| May | The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World by Melinda Gates (Beta Rho/Duke) |
| March | This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger |
| January | Ritz & Escoffier by Luke Bar |
2019 | |
| November | Love and Other Consolation Prizes by Jamie Ford |
| September | Bleak Harbor by Bryan Gruley |
| July | The Very Principled Maggie Mayfield by Kathy Cooperman |
| May | Unsheltered by Barbara Kingsolver |
| March | Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko |
| January | Lilac Girls: A Novel by Martha Hall Kelly |
2018 | |
| November | Lincoln in the Bardo: A Novel by George Saunders |
| September | Eleanor Olphant is Completely Fine: A Novel by Gail Honeyman |
| July | The Dog Stars by Peter Heller |
| May | A Gentleman in Moscow: A Novel by Amor Towles |
| Apr | Sourdough by Robine Sloan |
| March | Without Warning by Thomas C. Sanger |
| January | Still The Nightingale by Kristen Hannah |
2017 | |
| November | Still Life With Breadcrumbs by Anna Quindlan |
| September | The Wangs vs. the World by Jade Chang |
| July | The Relic Master: A Novel by Christopher Buckley |
| May | The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II by Denise Kiernan |
| March | Big Little Lies by Liane Moriaty |
| January | The Marriage of Opposites by Alice Hoffman |
2016 | |
| November | The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown |
| Sept | The Watchmaker of Filigree Street by Natasha Pulley |
| July | The Little Paris Bookshop by Nina George |
| May | Under the Wide and Starry Sky by Nancy Horan |
| March | Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee |
| January | The Girls of Riyadh by Rajaa Alsanea |
2015 | |
| November | People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks |
| September | Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
| July | Beautiful Ruins: A Novel by Jess Walter |
| May | The Last Runaway by Tracy Chevalier |
| Apr | In Doubt by Drusilla Campbell |
| March | All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr |
| January | The Color of Water: A Black Man’s Tribute to His White Mother by James McBride |
2014 | |
| November | The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery |
| September | The Valley of Amazement by Amy Tan |
| July | Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert |
| May | When She Came Home by Drusilla Campbell |
| March | Russian Winter by Daphne Kalotay |
| January | The Writing On My Forehead by Natisa Haji |
2013 | |
| Nov | Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn |
| September | The Festival of Earthly Delights by Matt Dojny |
| July | The Tiger’s Wife by Tea Obreht |
| May | The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh |
| March | Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie |
| January | A Paris Wife by Paula McLain |
2012 | |
| November | One Thousand White Women: The Journals of MayDodd by Jim Fergus |
| September | The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver |
| July | Ground Swell by Katie Lee |
| May | The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls |
| March | State of Wonder by Ann Padgett |
| January | Elephant’s Journey by Jose Saramago |
2011 | |
| November | Mary Ann in Autumn by Armistad Maupin |
| September | Sarah’s Key by Tatiana de Rosnay |
| July | This is Where I Leave You by Jonathan Tropper |
| May | The Good Sister by Drusilla Campbell |
| March | The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein |
| January | The Beautiful and the Damned by F Scott Fitzgerald |
2010 | |
| November | The Madonnas of Leningrad by Debra Dean |
| September | Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon |
| July | The Vintage Caper by Peter Mayle |
| May | The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows |
| March | The Help by Kathryn Stockett |
| January | The Yiddish Policeman’s Union by Michael Chabon |
2009 | |
| November | American Wife by Curtis Sittenfeld |
| September | The Brief and Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot D’az |
| July | Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert |
| May | The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama |
| March | Bound by a Mighty Vow: Sisterhood and Women’s Fraternities by Diana B Turk |
| January | God’s Behaving Badly by Marie Phillips |
2008 | |
| November | The Space Between Us by Thrity Umrigar |
| September | Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson & David Oliver Relin |
| July | Devils in the Sugar Shop by Timothy Schaffert |
| May | Kabul Beauty School by Deborah Rodriquez |
| March | Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky |
| January | The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde |
2007 | |
| Nov | Dreaming in Cuban by Cristina Garcia |
| September | Beautiful Lies by Lisa Unger |
| July | March by Geraldine Brooks |
| May | Little Women by Louisa MayAlcott |
| March | History of Love by Nicole Krause |