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Manor House Book Club members visting Oak Hill Cemetery, scene of Lincoln in the Bardo, by George Saunders, June 2019 Book.
Manor House Members meeting Steve Inskeep at the National Museum of the American Indian Museum, author of Jacksonland, November 2018 Book.
Join Our Virtual Book Club Each Month
Join Our Virtual Book Club Each Month
July 16, 2024--The President's Wife by Tracey Enerson Wood
August 20, 2024--The Greatest Beer Run Ever by John 'Chick' Donohue and J.T. Molloy
September 17, 2024--The Last Cuentista by Donna Higuera Barbara
October 15, 2024--The New Guys by Meredith Bagby
November 19, 2024--The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters
January 21, 2025--1776 by David McCullough
February 18, 2025--Anatomy: A Love Story by Dana Schwartz
March 18, 2025--Muse of the Revolution by Nancy Rubin Stuart
April 15, 2025--National Poetry Month
May 20, 2025--The Fall of the House of Walworth by Geoffrey O'Brien
July 15, 2025--Bring your favorite historical fiction book to share!
Interested in joining us to discuss one of these books? Email contact@manorhousedar.org to receive the Zoom link!
2023
2023
January 2023--The Cabinet by Lindsay Chervinsky
February 2023--The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray
March 2023--Benjamin Franklin's Last Bet by Michael Meyer
April 2023--National Poetry Month, Bring a Poem to Share
May 2023--O Say Can You Hear by Mark Clague
July 2023--The Fourteenth Colony by Mike Bunn
August 2023--The Diamond Eye by Kate Quinn
September 2023--The Revolutionary Samuel Adams by Stacy Schiff
October 2023--Over My Dead Body by Greg Melville
November 2023--Night of the Living Rez by Morgan Talty
2022
2022
January 2022--Once There Were Wolves by Charlotte McConaghy
February 2022--Never Caught by Erica Armstrong Dunbar
March 2022--Poet Warrior by Joy Harjo
April 2022--National Poetry Month, Bring a Poem to Share
May 2022--Black Birds in the Sky by Brandy Colbert
June 2022--The Prophets by Robert Jones Jr
July & August 2022--The Hero of Two Worlds by Mike Duncan
September 2022--Banned Books Week, Read a Banned Book
October 2022--One Two Three by Laurie Frankel
November 2022--Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann
2021
2021
January 2021--You Never Forget Your First by Alexis Coe
February 2021--Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi
March 2021--The Trials of Phillis Wheatley by Henry Louis Gates Jr *Hosted DCDAR Book Club with Donation Drive for Women's History Month*
April 2021--Celebrated National Poetry Month; Bring Your Favorite Poem
May 2021--Louisa: The Extraordinary Life of Mrs. Adams by Louisa Thomas
June 2021--The Great Believers by Rebecca Makai
July 2021--Ties That Bound: Founding First Ladies and Slaves by Maria Jenkins Schwartz
August 2021--Atomic Love by Jennie Fielders
September 2021--Of Arms and Artists by Paul Staiti
October 2021--Infinite Country by Patricia Engel
November 2021--Covered with Night by Nicole Eustace
2020
2020
November 2020--An Indigenous People’s History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
October 2020--Being Heumann by Judith Heumann
September 2020--When We Left Cuba by Chanel Cleeton
August 2020--Why They Marched by Susan Ware
July 2020--The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society by Mary Ann Shafer and Annie Barrows
June 2020--The Hours by Michael Cunningham
May 2020--Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
April 2020--Beartown by Fredrik Backman
March 2020--The Witches by Stacy Schiff
**February 2020--American Creation by Joseph Ellis **Hosted DCDAR Book Club with visit to National History Museum
January 2020--The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris
2019
2019
November 2019--There, There by Tommy Orange
October 2019--Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
September 2019--Poetry by Women
August 2019--Death by Petticoat by Mary Miley Theobald
July 2019--A Man on the Moon by Andrew Chaikin
June 2019--Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
May 2019--Darwin’s Backyard by James Costa
April 2019--The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert
March 2019--Sisters in Law by Linda Hirshman
February 2019--The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
January 2019--1984 by George Orwell
2018
2018
**November 2018--Jacksonland by Steve Inskeep **Hosted DCDAR Book Club with visit to the American Indian Museum
October 2018--My Dear Hamilton by Stephanie Dray and Laura Kamoie
September 2018--Book of Ages by Jill Lepore
August 2018--George Washington’s Secret Six by Brian Kilmeade
July 2018--1776 by David McCullough
June 2018--The Sound of Freedom: Marian Anderson, the Lincoln Memorial, and the Concert That Awakened America by Raymond Arensault
May 2018--A Perfect Union: Dolley Madison and the Creation of the American Nation, by Catherine Allgor
**April 2018--Of Arms and Artists: The American Revolution through Painters' Eyes, by Paul Staiti **Hosted DCDAR Book Club with visit to National Portrait Gallery
March 2018-- In Her Own Right: The Life of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, by Elisabeth Griffith February 2018-- Feminist Fight Club: An Office Survival Manual for a Sexist Workplace, by Jessica Bennett
January 2018: Hamilton, by Ron Chernow
2017/16
2017/16
November 2017--Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald, by Therese Anne Fowler (meeting at speakeasy)
October 2017--The Muse of the Revolution: The Secret Pen of Mercy Otis Warren and the Founding of a Nation, by Nancy Rubin Stuart
September 2017--Between the World and Me, by Ta-Nehisi Coates
August 2017--Winter's Garden, by Kristin Hannah
July 2017--America's First Daughter, by Stephanie Dray & Laura Kamoie
June 2017--The Turncoat, by Donna Thorland
May 2017--Half the Sky, by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn
**April 2017--John Paul Jones, the DCDAR book club's first book. Author Evan Thomas
March 2017--Valiant Ambition: George Washington, Benedict Arnold, and the Fate of the American Revolution, by Nathaniel Philbrick
February 2017--The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo by Amy Schumer.
January 2017--Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow.
November 2016—Lafayette and the Somewhat United States by Sarah Vowell
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