The Book Club on PBC Guru
Searching for your next great read? Looking to engage with fellow Sagehen readers? Join the Â鶹´«Ã½ Book Club on PBC Guru. The book club connects Pomona alumni, professors, students, parents and staff to the intellectual vitality of campus. Every two months will bring a new selection to book club members. Then, participants can join their fellow Sagehens in the online forum for prompts and discussion, hosted by our PBC Guru moderator. Members can also look forward to author talks, faculty discussions and more!
Current Book Selection: Glorious Exploits by Ferdia Lennon
According to Goodreads it is "an utterly original celebration of that which binds humanity across battle lines and history." Set on the island of Sicily during the Peloponnesian War, Syracusans decide to work with Athenian prisoners of war to put on a production of "Medea," in honor of their great playwright Euripides. This novel, told in a modern Irish voice, is both comedic and poignant. It delves into the importance of art during war times and people's ability to preserve and find common threads that hold them together, even in the most trying circumstances.
Have a suggestion for the next book club selection? Let us know!
Past Selections
- Broken Code: Inside Facebook and the Fight to Expose Its Harmful Secrets by Jeff Horwitz
- Afterparties: Stories by Anthony Veasna So
- Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
- By Her Own Design: The Story of Ann Lowe, Society's Best-Kept Secret by Piper Huguley
- A Tattoo on my Brain: A Neurologist's Personal Battle against Alzheimer's Disease by Dr. Daniel Gibbs ’73 P’05 P’11
- The Secret Life of Groceries: The Dark Miracle of the American Supermarket by Benjamin Lorr
- Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng
- The Lost City of the Monkey God by Douglas Preston ’78 H’11
- 1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows by Ai Weiwei and translated by Â鶹´«Ã½ Professor of Chinese, Allan H. Barr
- The Fog Seller by Don Daglow ’74
- The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu by Tom Lin ’18
- Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience by Brené Brown
- The Henna Artist by Alka Joshi
- The Ground Breaking: An American City and Its Search for Justice by Scott Ellsworth P’24
- Humble Pi: When Math Goes Wrong in the Real World by Matt Parker
- The Leavers by Lisa Ko
- The Beauty in Breaking: A Memoir by Michele Harper
- If Beale Street Cold Talk by James Baldwin
- Circe by Madeline Miller
- Less by Andrew Sean Greer
- The Lost City of the Monkey God: A True Story by Douglas Preston '78
- Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem
- The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen
- The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
Â鶹´«Ã½ Magazine Bookshelf
Would you like to know more about books authored by Pomona alumni and faculty? Â鶹´«Ã½ Magazine has featured books written by members of the Â鶹´«Ã½ community through its "Bookshelf" feature.