In 1991, several members of the Middletown, Ohio, branch of the American Association of University Women began reading books together and meeting once a month to discuss them.

Why do we call our group Joy Luck Club? The first book we read together was Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club. We’ve also read and discussed her books The Kitchen God’s Wife and The Bonesetter’s Daughter.

Click HERE to see the list of fiction that we’ve read over the years. Click HERE for our nonfiction list. For the titles followed by MOVIE, our discussion of that book included watching the movie together.

Current Book

Thursday, March 20, 2025, 7pm, at Mariannes’s:  Intermezzo by Sally Rooney Read More

Upcoming Books

Thursday, April 17, 2025, 7pm, at Mary’s:  How to Read a Book by Monica Wood Read More