Book Club

Love books or want to read more? Want to discuss books in a casual, friendly setting? Join the Yale Postdoctoral Association for the next installment of our book club on Wednesday, May 27th at 6:30 pm. In May, we are reading Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid, a book about an aging, reclusive Hollywood icon who recounts her scandalous life and ruthless rise to fame—organize…

Love books or want to read more? Want to discuss books in a casual, friendly setting? Join the Yale Postdoctoral Association for the next installment of our book club on Wednesday, April 29th at 6:30 pm. In April, we are reading Please Look After Mom by Shin Kyung-sook, a novel that tells the story of a family as it grapples with the disappearance of their matriarch, the secrets and memories…

Love books or want to read more? Want to discuss books  in a casual, friendly setting? Join the Yale Postdoctoral Association for the next installment of our book club on Wednesday, March 25th at 6:30 pm. In March we are reading Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë, a passionate yet haunting tale of intense, destructive love and revenge between Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw, set against the…

Love books or want to read more? Want to discuss books  in a casual, friendly setting? Join the Yale Postdoctoral Association for the next installment of our book club on Thursday, January 29th at 6:30 pm. In January we are reading Yellowface by R.F. Kuang, a sharp contemporary satire about authorship, privilege, and cultural appropriation in the publishing industry. Have a suggestion of …

Love books or want to read more? Want to discuss books  in a casual, friendly setting? Join the Yale Postdoctoral Association for the next installment of our book club on Thursday, December 11th at 6:30 pm. In December we are reading Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney, a novel about two college students entangled in a complex relationship with an older couple, examining intimacy, pow…

Love books or want to read more? Want to discuss books  in a casual, friendly setting? Join the Yale Postdoctoral Association for the next installment of our book club on Thursday, November 6th at 6:30 pm. In November we are reading Orbital by Samantha Harvey, a meditative novel capturing one day aboard the International Space Station as astronauts reflect on Earth, time, and human connectio…

Love books or want to read more? Want to discuss books  in a casual, friendly setting? Join the Yale Postdoctoral Association for the next installment of our book club on Thursday, September 25th at 6:30 pm. In September we are reading This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone, a lyrical science fiction novella about two rival agents from warring futures who fall …

Love books or want to read more? Want to discuss books  in a casual, friendly setting? Join the Yale Postdoctoral Association for the next installment of our book club on Thursday, August 28th at 6:30 pm. In August we are reading Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters. This collection of short poems collectively narrate the epitaphs of the residents of Spoon River, a fictional small town…

Love books or want to read more? Want to discuss books  in a casual, friendly setting? Join the Yale Postdoctoral Association for the next installment of our book club on Thursday, July 31st at 6:30 pm. In July we are reading Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari. Sapiens surveys the history of humankind from the evolution of archaic human species in the Stone Age up to …

Love books or want to read more? Want to discuss books  in a casual, friendly setting? Join the Yale Postdoctoral Association for the next installment of our book club on Thursday, May 29th at 6:30 pm. In May we are reading The Abolition of Man by C. S. Lewis. In The Abolition of Man, C.S. Lewis, sets out to persuade his audience of the importance and relevance of universal values such as co…