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​Well Read Women of Dallas​

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OUR ARCHIVES

2024:

​* On Our Best Behavior: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Price Women Pay to Be Good Elise Loehnen
​* Tom Lake Ann Patchett
​* Jane Against the World: Roe v. Wade and the Fight for Reproductive Rights Karen Blumenthal
​* Call Us What We Carry Amanda Gorman
​* The Measure Nicki Erlick
​* The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store James McBride
​* Demon Copperhead Barbara Kingsolver
​* King of Diamonds Rena Pederson
​* Walking with Sam Andrew McCarthy
​* Before the Coffee Gets Cold Toshikazu Kawaguchi
​* Hello Beautiful Ann Napolitano

2023:

* The Power of Regret: How Looking Backward Moves Us Forward Daniel Pink
* The Art of Hearing Heartbeats: A Novel Jan-Philipp Sendker
* The Rules of Civility Amor Towles
* Lessons in Chemistry: A Novel Bonnie Garmus
* Crying in H Mart Michelle Zauner
* The Guncle Steven Rowley
* The Husband's Secret Lianne Moriarty
* Excuse Me While I Disappear: Tales of Midlife Mayhem Laurie Notaro
* The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland Jim DeFede
* The Anthropocene Reviewed John Green

* Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know Adam Grant

2022:

* The Midnight Library Matt Haig

* We Should Hang Out Sometime: Embarrassingly, a True Story Josh Sundquist
* Forget the Alamo: The Rise and Fall of an American Myth Bryan Burrough et al
* Lady Bird Johnson: Hiding in Plain Sight Julia Sweig
* A Girl Named Carrie: The Visionary Who Created Neiman Marcus and Set the Standard for Fashion Carrie Marcus Smith
* The Personal Librarian Marie Benedict & Victoria Christopher Murray
* World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments Aimee Nezhukumatathil
* Wayward Dana Spiotta
* The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle Stuart Turton
* The Accommodation: The Politics of Race in an American City Jim Schutze
* Blue Running Lori Ann Stephens

2021:

​* Becoming Duchess Goldblatt (anonymous)
* Lincoln’s Lie: A True Civil War Caper Through Fake News, Wall Street, and the White House Elizabeth Mitchell
* The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue V.E. Schwab
* More Than a Woman Caitlin Moran
* The Swiss Family Robinson Johann Rudolf Wyss
* Kindred Octavia Butler
* The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes Suzanne Collins
* The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek Kim Michelle Richardson
* The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family and Defiance During the Blitz Erik Larson
* Mexican Gothic Silvia Moreno-Garcia
* Songteller by Dolly Parton

2020:

* Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy: The Story of Little Women and Why It Still Matters by Anne Boyd Rioux
* The Moment of Lift by Melinda Gates
* Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Perez
* The Season: A Social History of the Debutante by Kristen Richardson
* Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, HER Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed by Lori Gottlieb
* Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
* Talking to Strangers by Malcolm Gladwell
* The Secrets We Kept by Lara Prescott
* Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann
* V for Vendetta by Alan Moore
* The Huntress by Kate Quinn

2019:
* Where'd You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple
* Becoming by Michelle Obama
* God Save Texas: A Journey into the Soul of the Lone Star State by Lawrence Wright
* Less by Andrew Sean Greer
* The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan
* Southernmost by Silas House
* Heresy by Melissa Lenhardt
* Tangerine by Christine Mangan
* A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
* Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
* Mudbound by Hillary Jordan

2018:

* A Complaint-Free World: How to stop complaining and start enjoying the life you always wanted by Will Bowen

* Sarong Party Girls: A Novel by Cheryl Tan

* The Neon Palm of Madame Melancon by Will Clarke

* Ready Player One by Ernest Cline

* The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

* Futuristica: Volume 1 (Anthology)

* Princess Diarist by Carrie Fisher

* A Field Guide to Getting Lost by Rebecca Solnit

* Bel Canto by Ann Patchett

* Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder by Caroline Fraser

* Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan

2017: 

* Notorious RGB, The life and times of Ruth Bader Ginsberg by Irin Carmon

​* The Midnight Assassin: Panic, Scandal, and the Hunt for America's First Serial Killer by Skip Hollandsworth

​* Another Year Finds Me in Texas: The Civil War Diary of Lucy Pier Stevens by Vicki Tongate (editor)

* The Circle by Dave Eggars

* Girls & Sex: Navigating the Complicated New Landscape by Peggy Orenstein

* Wool (Wool Omnibus, parts 1-5) by Hugh Howey

* Life Moves Pretty Fast: The Lessons We Learned From Eighties Movies by Hadley Freeman

* A Wrinkle In Time by Madeleine L'Engle

​* The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II by Denise Kiernan

* A Man Called Ove by Fredrick Backman

​* Hillbilly Elegy by JD Vance

​2016:

* The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World by Eric Weiner

* Me Before You by JoJo Moyes

* Orphan Train by Christina Baker

* The Martian by Andy Weir

* Emma by Jane Austen

* So You've Been Publicly Shamed by Jon Ronson

* Orange is the New Black by Piper Kerman

* Slaughter-house Five by Kurt Vonnegut

* Being Mortal by Atul Guwande

* The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins

* Modern Romance by Aziz Ansari

2015:
* Think Like a Freak: The Authors of Freakonomics Offer to Retrain Your Brain by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner
* The Secret History of Wonder Woman by Jill LePore
* True Grit by Charles Portis
* Dallas Noir by Multiple Authors
* Billy Lynn's Long Half-Time Walk by Ben Fountain
* The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
* Yes Please by Amy Poehler
* The Maze Runner (Book 1) by James Dashner
* Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
* Miss Peregrine's School for Peculiar Children
* The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie

2014:
​* David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants by Malcolm Gladwell
* The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
* The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
* Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead by Sheryl Sandberg
* Call the Midwife: A Memoir of Birth, Joy and Hard Times by Jennifer Worth
* Unflinching Courage, Pioneering Women Who Shaped Texas by Kay Bailey Hutchinson
* Matilda by Roald Dahl
* Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital by Sheri Fink
* The Maid's Version: A Novel by Daniel Woodrell
* The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
* One Amazing Thing by Chitra Divakaruni

2013:

* The Happiness Project: Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun by Gretchen Rubin

* A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway

* As Texas Goes: How the Lone Star State Hijacked the American Agenda by Gail Collins

* Lionel Asbo: State of England by Martin Amis

* How To Be A Woman by Caitlin Moran

* Let's Pretend This Never Happened: (A Mostly True Memoir) by Jenny Lawson

* The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

* Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

* The Hare With Amber Eyes by Edmund De Waal

* We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver

* Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson

2012:

* Shelf Discovery: The Teen Classics We Never Stopped Reading by Lizzie Skurnick

* The Paris Wife by Paula McLain

* Maus/Maus2 by Art Spiegelman

* To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee

* Mothers & Other Liars by Amy Bourret

* When She Woke by Hillary Jordan

* Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell

* Born Round: The Secret History of a Full-Time Eater by Frank Bruni

* Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

* In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin by Erik Larson

* Truth and Beauty by Ann Patchett

2011:

* Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrick

* The Dallas Myth by Harvey J. Graff

* Cleopatra: A Life by Stacy Schiff

* Freakonomics by Steve D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner

* Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll

* Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn

* The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsson and Reg Keeland

* The Hunger Games and Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins

* Enrique's Journey by Sonia Nazario

* The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

* A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving

2010:

* Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell

* Julie & Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously by Julie Powell

* The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien

* Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time by Greg Mortenson, David Oliver Relin

* Shanghai Girls by Lisa See

* Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

* Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond

* The Omnivore's Dilemna by Michael Pollan

* The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton

* The Girl Who Played With Fire by Stieg Larsson

* How to be Good by Nick Hornby

2009:

* Shattered Dreams: My Life as a Polygamist's Wife by Irene Spencer

* Emma by Jane Austen

* Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

* The Mascot: Unraveling the Mystery of My Jewish Father's Nazi Boyhood by Mark Kurzem

* Richistan: A Journey Through the American Wealth Boom and the Lives of the New Rich by Robert Frank

* The Story of Edgar Sawtelle: A Novel by David Wroblewski

* The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz

* The Nasty Bits: Collected Varietal Cuts, Usable Trim, Scraps, and Bones by Anthony Bourdain

* The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Moshin Hamid

* The Girl with The Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson

* Birdsong: A Novel of Love and War by Sebastian Faulks

2008:

* How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read by Pierre Bayard

* Persuasion by Jane Austen

* Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

* The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

* Nine Parts of Desire by Geraldine Brooks

* Margaret Sanger by Margaret Sanger

* Heat by Bill Buford

* Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See

* The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards

* If I Am Missing or Dead by Janine Lucas

* Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen

2007:

* The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

* The Virgin's Lover by Phillipa Gregory

* The Space Between Us by Thrity Umrigar

* On Beauty by Zadie Smith

* The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield

* Passionate Minds: The Great Love Affair of the Enlightenment, Featuring the Scientist Emile du Chatelet, the Poet Voltaire, Sword Fights, Book Burnings, Assorted Kings by David Bodanis

* Pledged: The Secret Life of Sororities by Alexandra Robbins

* The Edible Woman by Margaret Atwood

* A Confederacy of Dunces by John KennedyToole

* One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd by Jim Fergus

* Geek Love by Katherine Dunn

2006:

* Specimen Days by Michael Cunningham

* Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister by GregoryMaguire

* The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

* The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

* Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stedner

* A Death in Belmont by Sebastian Junger

* Honeymoon with My Brother by Franz Weisner

* Saturday by Ian McEwan

* King Dork by Frank Portman

* When I Was Puerto Rican by Esmeralda Santiago

* Fortune Rocks by Anita Shreve

2005:

* The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon

* The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory

* Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi

* No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith

* Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

* Washington Square by Henry James

* Out by Natsuo Kirino

* Devil in the White City by Erik Larson

* Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

2004:

* Lysistrata by Aristophanes

* Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

* Lullaby by Chuck Palahniuk

* Life of Pi by Yann Martel

* To The Nines by Janet Evanovich

* Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett

* The Emperor of Ocean Park by Stephen L. Carter

* Pattern Recognition by William Gibson

* Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom

* The 5 People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom

* Wicked by Gregory Maguire

2003:

* Standing under the Rainbow by Fanny Flagg

* The Sweet Potato Queens’ Book of Love by Jill Conner Browne

* The Rachel Papers by Martin Amis

* Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang/ Life and Death in Shanghai by Nien Cheng

* Gig: Americans Talk About Their Jobs at the Turn of the Millennium by John Bowe

* Possession: A Romance by A.S. Byatt

* Farenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

* The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown

* The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

2002:

* Band of Brothers by Stephen E. Ambrose

* A Painted House by John Grisham

* The Tale of Muraski by Liza Dalby

* Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier

* The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

* The Eight by Katherine Neville

* Bel Canto by Ann Patchett

2001:

* The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

* Chocolat by Joanne Harris

* Persuasion by Jane Austen

* Moth Smoke by Mohsin Hamid

* Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Ann Burns

* A World Lit Only By Fire by William Manchester

* Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand

* The Professor’s House by Willa Cather

* Emma by Jane Austen

2000:

* Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

* Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald

* Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser

* The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

* A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway

* Foundation by Isaac Asimov

1999:

* Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

* The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields

* Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur S. Golden

* The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

* Human Croquet by Kate Atkinson

* Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells

* Bridget Jones’s Diary by Helen Fielding

* Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez

* Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson

* As You Like It by William Shakespeare

1998:

* The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell