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December 2021: Poetry Night
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September 2021: Exit West (Hamid)
June 2021: Drive Your Plow Over The Bones Of The Dead (Tokarczuk)
May 2021: Lincoln in the Bardo (Saunders)
April 2021: A Woman of No Importance (Purnell)
March 2021: When No One Is Watching (Cole)
February 2021: Little Fires Everywhere (Ng)
January 2021: Born A Crime (Noah)
December 2020: Poetry Night
2020 Roundup
October 2020: Black is the Body (Bernard)
September 2020: Educated (Westover)
August 2020: A Gentleman in Moscow (Towles)
July 2020: Commencement (Sullivan)
June 2020: The Power (Alderman)
May 2020: The Overstory (Powers)
February 2020: Beloved (Morrison)
October 2019: Circe (Miller)
September 2019: How Culture Shapes the Climate Change Debate (Hoffman)
August 2019: Milkman (Burns)
July 2019: The Left Hand of Darkness (Le Guin)
March 2019: Sing, Unburied, Sing (Ward)
February 2019: A Pearl In The Storm (Murden McClure)
January 2019: Being Mortal (Gawande)
December 2018: Poetry Night!
September 2018: From Krakow to Berkeley (Rabkin)
June 2018: Killers of the Flower Moon (Grann)
April 2018: The Women In The Castle (Shattuck)
February 2018: Embers (Marai)
January 2018: Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy (Abbott)
November 2017: Lab Girl (Jahren)
October 2017: Homegoing (Gyasi)
September 2017: The Book of Unknown Americans (Henriquez)
June 2017: The Handmaid's Tale (Atwood)
May 2017: The Door (Szabo)
April 2017: The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum (Böll)
March 2017: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (Loos)
February 2017: Why I Wake Early (Oliver)
January 2017: Hillbilly Elegy (Vance)
December 2016: The Arab of the Future (Sattouf)
November, 2016: Burial Rites (Kent)
October 2016: The Lady in Gold (O'Connor)
September 2016: The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold in the 1936 Olympics (Brown)
August 2016: Between the World and Me (Coates) plus DOJ report on Ferguson PD
July 2016: A Secret History of Wonder Woman (Lepore)
May 2016: Chasing Che (Symmes)
April 2016: Heading South, Looking North (Dorfman)
March 2016: Season of Migration to the North (Salih)
February 2016: River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze River (Hessler)
January 2016: The Righteous Mind (Haidt)
December 2015: All Our Yesterdays (Tarloff)
November 2015: In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin (Larson)
October 2015: Coconut Latitudes: Secrets, Storms and Survival in the Caribbean (Gardner)
September 2015: The Collapse of Western Civilization: A View from the Future (Oreskes & Conway)
August 2015: My Brilliant Friend (Ferrante)
July 2015: Detroit (Summer Theater Outing)
June 2015: The Warmth of Other Suns (Wilkerson)
May 2015: The Invention of Wings (Kidd)
March and April 2015: Anna Karenina (Tolstoy)
February 2015: You Got to Dance with Them What Brung You (Ivins)
January 2015: The Heart of the Matter (Greene)
November 2014: Whistling Vivaldi (Steele)
October 2014: Americanah (Adichie)
September 2014: A Midsummer Night's Dream at CalShakes
August 2014: Men Explain Things to Me (Solnit)
July 2014: A Time of Gifts (Fermor)
June 2014: Thinking, Fast and Slow (Kahneman)
May 2014: Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (Gladwell)
April 2014: The Moon Is Down (Steinbeck)
March 2014: Chrysalis: Maria Sibylla Merian and the Secrets of Metamorphosis (Todd)
Jan & Feb 2014: Far from the Tree (Solomon)
December 2013: The Mysterious Death of Miss Jane Austen (Ashford)
November, 2013: Orange is the New Black (Kerman)
October 2013: My Beloved World (Sotomayor)
September 2013: The Unruly Passions of Eugenie R. (DeSanti)
July 2013: Ishi in Two Worlds: A Biography of the Last Wild Indian in North America (Kroeber)
June 2013: Rez Life: An Indian's Journey Through Reservation Life (Treuer)
May 2013: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (Alexie)
April 2013: Death Comes to Pemberley (James)
March 2013: The Midwife: A Memoir of Birth, Joy, and Hard Times (Worth)
February 2013: State of Wonder (Patchett)
January 2013: Madam Secretary : A Memoir (Albright)
December 2012: Nothing Daunted (Wickenden)
November 2012: Hedy's Folly (Rhodes)
October 2012: Pearl S. Buck: A Cultural Biography (Conn)
September 2012: A Singular Woman: The Untold Story of Barack Obama's Mother (Scott)
August 2012: Dreams of Trespass: Tales of a Harem Girlhood (Mernissi)
July 2012: Kabul Beauty School (Rodriguez, Ohlson)
June 2012: Living Islam Out Loud (Abdul-Ghafur, ed.)
May 2012: The Buddha in the Attic (Otsuka)
April 2012: Every Man Dies Alone (Fallada)
March 2012: French Cinema - Faculty Visit with Martine Gantrel-Ford
February 2012: Ghost Map (Johnson)
January 2012: The Distant Land of My Father (Caldwell)
December 2011: A Field Guide to Getting Lost (Solnit)
Nov 2011: The Tiger's Wife (Obreht)
Oct 2011: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (Foer)
Sept 2011: The Map of Love (Soueif)
August 2011: My Fair Lady (at Woodminster Theater)
July 2011: Let the Great World Spin (McCann)
June 2011: Virginia Woolf: A Botanical Perspective
May 2011: Elizabeth and Her German Garden (von Arnim)
April 2011: The Glass Castle (Walls)
March 2011: The Lacuna (Kingsolver)
February 2011: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Skloot)
January 2011 - Moloka'i (Brennert)
December 2010 - Cutting for Stone (Verghese)
November 2010: Olive Kitteridge (Strout)
October 2010: Nervous Conditions (Dangarembga)
August 2010: Half the Sky (Kristoff and WuDunn)
July 2010: Commencement (Sullivan) & The Group (McCarthy)
June 2010: Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood (Fuller)
May 2010: Doubt, A Parable (Shanley)
April 2010: People of the Book (Brooks)
March 2010: Carol Christ Visit
February 2010: West of Kabul, East of New York (Ansary)
January 2010: The Whole World Over (Glass)
December 2009: As I Lay Dying (Faulkner)
November 2009: My Stroke of Insight (Taylor)
October 2009: Phantoms in the Brain (Ramachandran and Blakeslee)
September 2009: Musicophilia (Sacks)
August 2009 Theater Outing: Happy Days (Beckett)
July 2009: Clash of Civilizations Over an Elevator in Piazza Vittorio (Lakhous)
June 2009 Faculty Visit: Looking Like the Enemy (Matsuda Gruenewald)
May 2009: The Crystal Frontier (Fuentes)
April 2009: Liar's Poker: Rising Through the Wreckage on Wall Street (Lewis)
March 2009: Economics (assorted readings)
February 2009: The Two-Income Trap (Warren & Tyagi)
January 2009: A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hosseini)
December 2008: Call Me By Your Name (Aciman)
November 2008: Animal, Vegetable, Miracle (Kingsolver)
October 2008: Letter to a Christian Nation (Harris)
September 2008: Infidel (Hirsi Ali)
August 2008: Sailing Alone Around the Room (Collins) & Native Guard (Trethewey)
July 2008 Theater Outing: An Ideal Husband (Wilde)
June 2008: The Hummingbird's Daughter (Urrea)
May 2008: The Audacity of Hope (Obama)
April 2008: Suite Française (Némirovsky)
March 2008 Faculty Visit: The Year of Magical Thinking (Didion)
February 2008: Under the Banner of Heaven (Krakauer)
January 2008: Water for Elephants (Gruen)
December 2007: Three Cups of Tea (Mortenson & Relin)
November 2007: Emma (Austen)
October 2007: The Omnivore's Dilemma (Pollan)
September 2007: The Gastronomical Me (Fisher)
August 2007 Theater Outing: Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare)
July 2007: Autobiography of a Face (Grealy) & Truth and Beauty (Patchett)
June 2007: The Space Between Us (Umrigar)
May 2007: Flux: Women on Sex, Work, Love, Kids, and Life in a Half-Changed World (Orenstein)
April 2007: Written on the Body (Winterson)
March 2007 Faculty Visit: Stone Diaries (Shield)
February 2007: Persepolis (Satrapi)
January 2007: Female Chauvinist Pigs (Levy)
October 2006: Baghdad Burning: Girl Blog From Iraq (Anonymous)
September 2006: A New Life (Malamud)
August 2006 Theater Outing: Night of the Iguana (Williams)
February 2006: Bel Canto (Patchett)
August 2005: Middlesex (Eugenides)
November 2006: On Beauty (Smith)
July 2006: The Tipping Point (Gladwell)
June 2006: Housekeeping (Robinson)
May 2006: Lies, and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them (Franken)
April 2006: Random Family (LeBlanc)
March 2006: Vineland (Pynchon)
January 2006: Runaway (Munro)
December 2005: Selected "Chick Lit"
October 2005: Mountains Beyond Mountains (Kidder)
September 2005: Kettle Bottom (Fisher)
June 2005: The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World (Pollan)
May 2005: Don't Think of an Elephant (Lakoff)
April 2005: White Teeth (Smith)
March 2005: Anything You Say Can and Will Be Used Against You: Stories (Drummond)
February 2005: Lost in Translation: A Life in a New Language (Hoffman)
January 2005: Live, Laugh and Learn: Tales of Tumultuous Times (McIntosh)
November 2004: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Haddon)
October 2004: 9/11 Commission Report
September 2004: The Gangster We Are All Looking For (Thúy)
August 2004: The Kite Runner (Hosseini)
July 2004: Theater! The Good Body (Ensler)
June 2004: Play it As it Lays (Didion)
May 2004: The Country of the Pointed Firs & Other Stories (Jewett)
April 2004: Lolita (Nabakov)
March 2004: Reading Lolita in Tehran (Nafisi)
February 2004: Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts (Kingston)
January 2004: Some of Us Did Not Die (Jordan)
December 2003: Their Eyes Were Watching God (Hurston) & The Awakening (Chopin)
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2021 Book Club Opportunities
25th Anniversary Book Club Meeting
2nd Annual Volunteer Afternoon at the Alameda County Food Bank: Saturday, December 3, 2005 1-4pm
5/19 RSVP Deadline For Our Theater Outing
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April 23 is Earth Day! Volunteer with the EBSC
Book Club-"ish" Summer Social - August 15
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March 13 Self-Advocacy Event and Networking Opportunity
March 13: Perfecting the Pitch, Draper Business Plan Competition
March 19: Kathleen McCartney in San Francisco
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March 27 Faculty Visit - French Cinema
New Seven Sisters Online Community
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Nov 5, 2017: Save the Date for the Fall Potluck
Oakland Museum of California, February 24, 2013
October 20, 2012: Fall Potluck!
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Our Annual Report is Here!
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President McCartney in SF
Private exhibition tour at SFMOMA
Read our 2018-19 Annual Report!
Red Hot Patriot: The Kick-Ass Wit of Molly Ivins at Berkeley Rep
Resources from Smith: Scholars in Studio Videos
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Save the Date - March 19 2014: Kathleen McCartney in SF
Save the Date for the East Bay Smith Club Fall Potluck: Sunday, November 3!
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September 21: Join the Smith Club at CalShakes
September Smithie Tea
Show Your Love for Smith: January 28 - February 20, 2015
Smith Fall 2017 Alumnae Webinar Series kicks off soon!
Smith in the City: San Francisco March 23, 2013
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Summer Theater 2012: Eve Ensler @ Berkeley Rep June 20
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