Interest Groups

AAUW Medford Branch 2024-2025

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These small groups provide opportunities for members to meet others who share a similar interest. All groups are free of charge. For more information, members may contact one of the group contacts or Kathy Swarts, Interest Group Coordinator, 541-500-1004, jandkswarts@charter.net.

Interest groups include but are not limited to:

  • Murder Most Literary Book Group
  • Needleworkers
  • Great Decisions
  • Happy Bookers
  • Morning Book Group
  • First Wednesday Bridge
  • Lunch Bunch
  • Whine and Wine
  • DINE (Dinner is Never Enough)
  • Bunco
  • Coffee and Conversation

Please refer to the Sept/Oct 2025 Musings for detailed information about each group.

Happy Bookers has happily provided their book choices for the past 4 years.

2024-2025

  • Bag Man, Rachel Maddow 
  • West with Giraffes, Lynda Rutledge 
  • The Hearts of Horses, Molly Gloss 
  • Two Old Women,Velma Wallis 
  • The Women, Kristin Hannah 
  • The Golden Gate,Amy Chua 
  • Demon Copperhead, Barbara Kingsolver 
  • We Begin at the End, Chris Whitaker 
2023-2024
  • The Alice Network, Kate Quinn 
  • The Last House on the Street, Diane Chamberlain 
  • Foster, Claire Keegan 
  • Remarkably Bright Creatures, Shelby Van Pelt 
  • The Keeper of Lost Things, Ruth Hogan 
  • Sophie Go’s Lonely Hearts Club, Roselle Lim 
  • A Fever in the Heartland, Timothy Egan 
  • Horse, Geraldine Brooks 

2022-2023

  • Northern Spy, Flynn Berry
  • Never Have I Ever, Joshilyn Jackson
  • Aviator’s Wife, Melanie Benjamin
  • Wish You Were Here, Jodi Picoult
  • Elizabeth, The First Wife, Lian Dolan
  • The Good Sister, Sally Hepworth
  • Apples Never Fall, Liane Moriarty
  • Braiding Sweetgrass, Robin Kimmerer 

2021-2022

  • Lab Girl, Hope Jahren
  • Anxious People, Fredrik Backman
  • Caste, Isabel Wilkerson
  • Next Year in Havana, Chanel Clifton
  • Hamnet, Maggie O’Farrell
  • This Tender Land, William Kent Kruger
  • Susan, Linda, Nina & Cokie: The Extraordinary Story of the Founding Mothers of NPR, Lisa Napoli
  • The Paris Library, Janet Skeslien Charles 

The Morning Book Group‘s 2025-2026 reading list is:

  • 9/?/25 The Lost & Found Bookshop, Susan Wiggins
  • 10/6/25 The Hazelbourne Ladies Motorcycle & Flying Club, Helen Simonsen
  • 11/3/25 The Signature of All Things, Elizabeth Gilbert
  • 12/1/25 No book–Holiday gathering
  • 1/5/26 The Kingmaker, Sonia Purcell
  • 2/2/26 The Husbands, Holly Gramazio
  • 3/2/26 All the Broken Places, John Boyle
  • 4/6/26 The Oregon Trail, Rinker Buck
  • 5/4/26 Tell Me Everything, Elizabeth Strout
  • 6/1/26 The Henna Artist, Alma Josh