DMS Partners Group

Book Club meetings will now be posted on the DMS Partners Google Groups site.

Please click the book to access the site.

About the DMS Partners Book Club:The DMS Partners Book Club meets monthly for dinner at the home of a club member. For extra ‘adventure’, dinner is usually prepared with the theme of the book in mind! (the book list below indicates what kind of cuisine we’ve explored in association which each book). The books are chosen together on a monthly basis, and range across all genres. As an example, our list of past books is shown below (after our ‘wish list’)

The “Loose” Guidelines for How We Choose Books

1. No Hardcover
2. 300 pages max length
3. No Russian literature
4. Nothing Oprah recommends
5. No more local authors (don’t ask!)
6. No Pulitzer Prize Winners

If the Amazon reviewers sound too literary, we skip that book…On average each meeting has about 6-8 participants, so we’re a nice, small discussion group.

Potential Reading List

• 13 Reasons Why by Jay Asher
• Loving Frank by Nancy Horan
• Close to Shore by ?
• Mr.Emerson’s Wife by ?
• Saving The World, by Julia Alvarez
• Articles of War, by Nick Arvin
• Harmony Silk Factory, by Tash Aw
• A Fish Full of River, by Janet Bland

PAST READS

2009

• The Last Madam by Christine Wiltz

2007-2008

• The Madonnas of Leningrad by Debra Dean
• The Color of Water by James McBride
• The Big Over Easy by Jasper Fforde
• Garlic & Sapphires by Ruth Reichl
• Tetherballs of Bougainville by Mark Leyner
• Beneath the Marble Sky by John Shors
• Bringing Down the House by Ben Mezrich
• One for the Money by Janet Evonovich

2006-2007

• Crooked House by Agatha Christie
• Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson
• Leaving Mother Lake (Chinese meal)
• The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (Afghan meal)
• Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
• Tales of Passion, Tales of Woe by Sandra Gulland (Egyptian meal)
• The Many Sorrows & Secret Lives of Josephine B. by Sandra Gulland (French meal)
• The Great Stink (English meal)
• Bigfoot
• Gilead

2005-2006

• The Known World
• Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime
• Fluke by Christopher Moore
• Master and Margarita (Russian cuisine)
• Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder
• Welfare Brat
• Vanishing Acts
• The Memory Keeper’s Daughter by Kim Edwards (Kansas cuisine)
• The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri (Indian cuisine)
• Women of the Silk
• Travels through Small Town America by Bill Bryson
• Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women

There is no fee to join the book club. For more information or to inquire about participating, contact dmspartners@dartmouth.edu.