The group meets for a couple of hours for drinks & snacks while they discuss a chosen book.

The next meeting of the reading group will take place on Sunday, June 23 from 6 to 8 pm.

We will meet at the home of Mary and Jacques Fossourier
75001 Paris
Metro: Chatelet

The book is: The Attack by Yasmina Khadre

Please let me know if you plan to attend so I can forward the address and codes. And please let me know what you will bring.

Contact Diana Crane Hervé at craneher@sas.upenn.edu for venue details.


The Reading Group began in January, 2003. It meets once a month. At each meeting, we pick a date for the next meeting. We take turns hosting the group.

In 2013 we read:
  • Philip Roth Nemesis
  • Mohsin Hamid The Reluctant Fundamentalist
  • Jaimy Gordon Lord of Misrule
  • P.D.James Death come to Pemberley
  • Anne Korkeakivi An Unexpected Guest
In 2012
  • Lucy Moore Anything Goes: A Biography of the Roaring Twenties
  • Ahdaf Souief Map of Love
  • David Benioff City of Thieves
  • Michael Lewis, Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World
  • Robert M. Edsel and Bret Witter The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History
In 2011
  • Edmund De Waal The hare with amber eyes: A Hidden Inheritance
  • Helen Simonson Major Pettigrew's Last Stand: A Novel
  • André Albert Aciman Out of Egypt: A Memoir
  • E. L. Doctorow Homer and Langley
  • Tom Rachman The Imperfectionists
  • Anne Marsella The Baby of Belleville
  • Janet Skeslien Charles Moonlight in Odessa
  • Annette Gordon-Reed The Hemings of Monticello: An American Family

We try to alternate fiction and non-fiction. We do not meet during the summer months. Our activities resume in September.