Required Reading
Past Virtual Book Club Selections

These are the past book selections for the Tufts Alumni Virtual Book Club.

 

 Spring 2023 Reading:

 The Sharp Edge of Mercy

  By: Connie Hertzberg Mayo J86

 

 

 

 

 Summer 2022 Reading:

  Anna Karenina

  By: Leo Tolstoy

 

 

 

 

Spring 2022 Reading:

 Salt: A World History

  By: Mark Kurlansky

 

 

 

 

Fall 2021 Reading:

 Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

  By: Isabel Wilkerson

 

 

 

 

Summer 2021 Reading:

 A Room of One's Own

  By: Virginia Woolf

 

 

 

 

Spring 2021 Reading:

 Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family

  By: Robert Kolker

 

 

 

 

 Fall 2020 Reading:

 When Time Stopped: A Memoir of My Father's War and What Remains

  By: Ariana Neumann

 

 

 

 

 Spring 2020 Reading:

 Secondhand: Travels in the New Global Garage Sale

  By: Adam Minter

 

 

 

 

 Fall 2019 Reading:

 Waiting for Eden

  By: Elliot Ackerman, A02, F03 

 

 

 

 

 Summer 2019 Reading:

 Educated: A Memoir

  By: Tara Westover

 

 

 

 

 Spring 2019 Reading:

 These Truths: A History of the United States

  By: Jill Lepore, J87, H14

 

 

 

 

 Spring 2018 Reading:

 Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI

  By: David Grann, F92

 

 

 

 

 Fall 2017 Reading:

 Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis

  By: J.D. Vance

 

 

 

 

 Spring 2017 Reading:

 American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America

  By: Collin Woodward, A91

 

 

 

 

 Fall 2016 Reading:

 The Outrage Industry: Political Opinion Media and the New Incivility

 By: Jeffrey Berry, Tufts Professor of Political Science and

 Sarah Sobieraj, Associate Professor of Sociology