The University Friends Circle Book Club meets on the first Thursday of the month at 3:30 p.m. in room 170 of the UC Merced Downtown Campus Center ("DCC"), located at the corner of 18th & N Street.
Common Interest Committee Co-Chairs Pauline Cuchna (samnilla@sbcglobal.net) and Beth Kirchhoff (bethkirchhoff72@gmail.com) invite all UFC members to join them for robust discussion each month, beginning the 2024-25 academic year with the summer selection below. Book Club members rotate responsibility for book selection. All members welcome!
The summer book selection is A Fever in the Heartland, by Timothy Egan. We'll discuss this book on Thursday, Sept. 5th.
This is a historical thriller by the Pulitzer and National Book Award-winning author that tells the riveting story of the Klan's rise to power in the 1920s, the cunning con man who drove that rise, and the woman who stopped them. (Amazon.com)
Titles read the past academic year:
- April 2024: The Inheritance of Loss, by Kiran Desai
- March 2024: The Frozen River, by Ariel Lawhon and The Hungry Season, by Lisa M. Hamilton
- February 2024: The Women, by Kristin Hannah
- January 2024: The Edge of Lost, by Kristina McMorris
- December 2023: Malice Aforethought, by Avree Kelly Clark.
- November 2023: The Prospectors, by Ariel Dhanikian
- October 2023: Tom Lake by Ann Patchett
- September 2023: The Immortal Irishman, by Timothy Egan
