Welcome to the Boston Area Swarthmore Alumni Book Group. Our group has been around since 1999 and serves Boston-area alumni of Swarthmore College, as well as parents, friends, spouses, and other assorted folks. As those in the class of 1983 can tell you, you need not have graduated in the Amphitheater in order to attend our meetings.

Books for 2024-25

Our books for the next year come from our friends in The Washington DC Swarthmore Alumni Book Group. We will be reading a combination of titles from their list of Psychological Novels (read in 2006-07) and Novels about Resistance (2025-26).

The Stone Diaries, Carol Shields (1993, 304 pp) Read for December 2nd.

Running in the Family, Michael Ondaatje (1982, 208 pp)

Funny Boy, Shyam Selvadurai (1994, 320 pp)

God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy (1997, 321 pp)

The Moviegoer, Walker Percy (1961, 242 pp)

True Biz, Sarah Nović (2022, 416 pp)

Enter Ghost, Isabel Hammad (2023, 336 pp.)

Beautiful Country, Qian Julie Wang (2021, 320 pp)

Crook Manifesto, Colson Whitehead (2023, 336 pp)

A Yellow Raft in Blue Water Michael Dorris (1987, 384 pp)