November 2016: The Summer of the Great-Grandmother

by Madeleine L'Engle

October 2016: Wild Child & Other Stories

by T. C. Boyle

Suggested read order:

1. "The Lie" (ch 7) 
2. "Thirteen Hundred Rats" (ch 11)
3. "Ash Monday" (ch 10)
4. "Balto" (ch 1)
5. "La Conchita" * (ch 2)
6. "Bulletproof" (ch 5)
7. "Admiral" (ch 9)
8. "Question 62" (ch 3)
9. "The Unlucky Mother of Aquiles Maldonado" (ch 8)
10. "Sin Dolor" (ch 4)
11. "Anacapa" (ch 12)
12. "Hands On" (ch 6)
13. "Three Quarters of the Way to Hell" (ch 13)
14. "Wild Child" (ch 14)

* We read this before

September 2016: Runaway

by Alice Munro

July & August 2016: Master & Commander

by Patrick O'Brian

June 2016: The Last Kingdom

by Bernard Cornwell

May 2016: One Foot in Eden

by Ron Rash

April 2016: Poetry

Leah: "In Blackwater Woods" by Mary Oliver and
"Apology" by Ruby Robinson

Alison: "Messy Room" by Shel Silverstein
"Untitled" by James Baldwin and "The giver (for Berdis)" by James Baldwin

Alisa: "O, California" by Sarah Holland-Batt and
"Black-eyed Susans" by Ron Rash

Abby: "For Women Who Are Difficult to Love" by Warsan Shire

Holly: "La Figlia Che Piange" by T.S. Eliot