Shared Interest Groups

Shared Interest Groups (SIGs) are an opportunity to meet outside of the classroom with those who share a common interest. They are intended to offer a smaller and more hands-on experience than traditional OLLI classes. The size and nature of the groups will vary.

SIGs are free and open to all active OLLI members, which is anyone who registers for a class or event during the academic year from September 1 through August 31. They are led and maintained by OLLI members.

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We meet over Zoom to discuss the latest book we're reading. 

Books in a pile for Afterthoughts: Book Club, a Special Interest Group at OLLI.

If You Join

When: First Monday of each month, with the exception of January and September

2024 Dates: January 8, February 5, March 4, April 1, May 6, June 3, August 5, September 9, October 7, November 4, December 2

Time: 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. CST

Location: Online via Zoom

Email OLLI to Participate

2024 Reads

  • January
    Open Throat by Henry Hoke

  • February
    The Socrates Express by Eric Weiner

  • March
    The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store by James McBride

  • April
    A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy by Nathan Thrall

  • May
    Prophet Song by Paul Lynch

  • June
    The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters

  • July
    The Canceling of the American Mind: How Cancel Culture Undermines Trust, Destroys Institutions, and Threatens Us All by Greg Kukianoff and Rikki Schlott

  • August
    The Fraud by Zadie Smith

  • September
    Iona Iverson’s Rules for Commuting: A Novel by Clare Pooley

  • October
    An Unfinished Love Story by Doris Kearns Goodwin

  • November
    Death at La Fenice by Donna Leon

  • December
    Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Past Book Selections

  • 2024

    January 
    Open Throat by Henry Hoke

    February 
    The Socrates Express by Eric Weiner

    March 
    The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store by James McBride

    April 
    A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy by Nathan Thrall

    May
    Prophet Song by Paul Lynch

    June 
    The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters

    July 
    The Canceling of the American Mind: How Cancel Culture Undermines Trust, Destroys Institutions, and Threatens Us All by Greg Lukianoff and Rikki Schlott

  • 2023

    January
    Benjamin Franklin by Walter Isaacson

    February 
    Autumn Light by Pico Iyer

    March 
    The Feather Thief by Kirk Wallace Johnson

    April 
    Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus

    May 
    On Critical Race Theory: Why It Matters & Why You Should Care by Victor Ray

    June 
    Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt

    July 
    Deacon King Kong by James McBride

    August 
    A Year of Living Dangerously by Helen Russell

    September
    Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

    October
    Small Things Like These by Clare Keegan

    November
    March by Geraldine Brooks

    December
    Being Mortal by Atul Gawande 

  • 2022

    January 
    Wilderness Warrior by Douglas Brinkley

    February 
    The Codebreaker by Walter Isaacson

    March 
    The Sentence by Louise Erdrich

    April 
    Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr

    May 
    Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

    June 
    Violeta by Isabel Allende

    July 
    The Lessons of History by Will and Ariel Durant

    August 
    Happy Go Lucky by David Sedaris

    September 
    Horse by Geraldine Brooks

    October 
    A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle

    November 
    The Diamond Eye by Kate Quinn

  • 2021

    January 
    Why We’re Polarized by Ezra Klein

    February
    Enemies, A Love Story by Isaac Bashevis Singer

    March 
    Caste by Isabel Wilkerson

    April 
    Anxious People by Fredrik Backman

    May 
    American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins

    June 
    The Glass Room by Simon Mawer

    July 
    The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah

    August 
    The Cold Millions by Jess Walter

    September 
    Inland by Tea Obreht

    October 
    A Thousand Moons by Sebastian Barry

    November
    Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro

    December 
    Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell

  • 2020

    January 
    Tidelands by Philippa Gregory

    February 
    The Woman Suffrage Movement in America by Corinne McConnaughy

    March 
    Learning from the Germans: Race and the Memory of Evil by Susan Neiman

    April 
    The Sea Around Us by Rachel Carson

    May 
    The Dutch House by Ann Patchett

    June 
    Dispatches from Pluto by Richard Grant

    July 
    The Splendid and the Vile by Erik Larson

    August 
    The Overstory by Richard Powers

    September 
    Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard

    October
    The Water Dancer by Ta Nehisi Coates

    November 
    Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler

    December 
    A Land More Kind Than Home by Wiley Cash


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