2024 Ohio State Alumni Book Club

Event description

Whether you are already an avid reader or are looking to cultivate new reading habits, this book club has something for everyone! Enjoy regular discussions with fellow alumni, learn from published experts, and share personal and professional insights.

Registration is ongoing. Join at anytime.

Cost

Membership is free. You simply need to borrow or purchase a copy of the book.

Our current selection

May 18 – July 26: We Should Not be Friends: A Story of a Friendship by Will Schwalbe

By the time Will Schwalbe was a junior at college, he had already met everyone he cared to know: the theater people, writers, visual artists and comp lit majors, and various other quirky characters including the handful of students who shared his own major, Latin and Greek. He also knew exactly who he wanted to avoid: the jocks. The jocks wore baseball caps and moved in packs, filling boisterous tables in the dining hall, and on the whole seemed to be another species entirely, one Will might encounter only at his own peril.

Upcoming author talks

Jeff Roberts of Kings of Crypto
Tuesday, July 16 at 2 p.m. ET
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Sheila Williams of Things Past Telling
Wednesday, July 17 at 6 p.m. ET
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William Schwalbe of We Should Not be Friends
Thursday, July 18 at 6 p.m. ET
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Marcus Bridgewater of How to Grow
Tuesday, July 23  at 5 p.m. ET
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Previous selections

• By Her Own Design by Piper Huguley
• Take My Hand by Dolen Perkins-Valdez
• This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger
• The Monk of Mokha by Dave Eggers
• The Lost City of the Monkey God by Douglas Preston
• Dopesick by Beth Macy
• Grit by Angela Duckworth
• The Outsider by Stephen King
• The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg
• The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
• A Long Petal of the Sea by Isabel Allende

Questions

Please contact OSUAA Programs at ADV-OSUAAprograms@osu.edu