The University Friends Circle Book Club usually 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. The June 2025 meeting will be on Thursday, June 5th.
Book Club leaders Martha and Barbara invite all UFC members to join them for robust discussion each month. Book Club members rotate responsibility for book selection during the academic year. All UFC members are welcome at any time!
For the summer reading selections, each member reads their own choices and shares their choices with the group.
Titles read the past academic year:
- April 2025: State of Wonder by Ann Pratchett
- March 2025: Twelve Patients: Life and Death at Bellevue Hospital by Eric Manheimer, MD
- February 2025: The Briar Club by Kate Quinn
- January 2025: The Secret Life of Sunflowers by Marta Molnar
- December 2024: An American Beauty by Shana Abé
- November 2024: The Secret War of Julia Child by Diana R. Chambers and The Things We Do for Love by Kristin Hannah
- October 2024: Tell Me Everything by Elizabeth Strout
- September 2024: Lies and Weddings by Kevin Kwan
- Summer 2024: A Fever in the Heartland by Timothy Egan
