The Summer Book Choice 2019 was Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss by Margaret Renkl

Margaret Renkl is a former Harpeth Hall English teacher and current New York Times writer. Margaret came to Harpeth Hall's campus on August 7, 2019 for a book talk and signing as the official launch of HHConnectHER.

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The Fall Book Choice 2019 was The Testaments by Margaret Atwood. This novel is the sequel to the popular The Handmaid's Tale.

“A fast, immersive narrative that’s as propulsive as it is melodramatic.”
—Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

The book club met twice. An evening event occurred on November 12, 2019 with current Harpeth Hall English teachers Denise Croker and Scottie Girgus leading the conversation. The daytime gathering happened on November 20, 2019 at the home of Meredith McDonald Stewart '96 with Jennifer Puryear, author of the literary blog Bacon on the Bookshelf, as the moderator.

The Winter Book Choice 2019/2020 was The Woman's Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote by Elaine Weiss. 

“Stirring, definitive, and engrossing….Weiss brings a lucid, lively, journalistic tone to the story…The Woman’s Hour is compulsory reading.”—NPR.org

The book club met for a Winterim for Adults class offered by Dr. Mary Ellen Pethel on Wednesday, February 12, 2020. 

Course Description:
Soon to be a major television event, the nail-biting climax of one of the greatest political battles in American history: the ratification of the constitutional amendment that granted women the right to vote.

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 The Woman’s Hour is the gripping story of how America’s women won their own freedom, and the opening campaign in the great twentieth-century battles for civil rights.

The 2020 Spring Book Choice was The Dutch House by Ann Patchett. Because of COVID-19, we could not have a book club gathering. Instead, click here for a list of podcasts, videos, and articles about The Dutch House.

#1 New York Times Bestseller, A Read with Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick, A New York Times Book Review Notable Book, TIME Magazine's 100 Must-Read Books of 2019

"You won’t want to put down this engrossing, warmhearted book even after you’ve read the last page.”
— NPR