SOTAREADING 2021-2024

The Daylight Gate by Jeanette Winterson (Author)   Moderator: Brad Craddock Date: TBA   The Daylight Gate , an instant bestseller in the UK, is award-winning Jeanette Winterson’s singular vision of a dark period of complicated morality, sex, and tragic plays for power in a time when politics and religion were closely intertwined. After the Gunpowder Plot of 1605, every Catholic conspirator in England fled to a wild, untamed place far from the reach of London law. On Good Friday, 1612, deep in the woods of Pendle Hill, amid bapt

Go Set a Watchman: A Novel Hardcover –  by Harper Lee (Author)   Moderator: Susan Woodhams Date: TBA     From Harper Lee comes a landmark new novel set two decad

Wonder by R. J. Palacio (Author)   Moderator: Marcy Gamzon Date: TBA 'My name is August. I won't describe what I look like. Whatever you're thinking, it's probably worse.' Auggie wants to be an ordinary ten-year-old. He does ordinary things - eating ice cream, playing on his Xbox. He feels ordinary - inside. But ordinary kids don't make other ordinary kids run away screaming in playgrounds. Ordinary kids aren't stared at wherever they go. Born with a terrible facial abnormality, Auggie has been home-schooled by his parents his whole life. Now, for the first time, he's being sent to a real school - and he's dreading it.

All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr (Author)   Moderator: Janice Kriegel Date: TBA   WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE From the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr, the beautiful, stunningly ambitious instant New York Times bestseller about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II. Marie-Laure lives with her father in Paris near the Museum of Natural History, where he works as the maste