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Burgundy & Books

Burgundy & Books
Former SHS English teacher Connie Solari takes book club enthusiasts on a guided odyssey through literary classics, modern novels, and great discussion over wine.
 
Contact Alumni & Past Parent Engagement Manager Shannon Melinauskas for more information.
 
Past featured books include:

Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
All the Light We Cannot See, Anthony Doerr
A Month in the Country, J.L. Carr
My Name is Lucy Barton, Elizabeth Strout
To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
The Underground Railroad,
 Colson Whitehead
The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway
A Gentleman in Moscow, Amor Towles
Song of Solomon by Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison
Lincoln in the Bardo, George Sauders
The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevsky (Author), Richard Pevear (Translator), Larissa Volokhonsky (Translator)
The Creat Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohin Hamid 
A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
Memories of a Catholic Girlhood by Mary McCarthy, Alumna Sacred Heart Forest Ridge Seattle
The Plague by Albert Camus
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively
The Overstory by Richard Powers
Anxious People, Fredrik Backman
Botticelli's Secret: The Lost Drawings and the Rediscovery of the Renaissance by Joseph Luzzi
An Odyssey: A Father, A Son, and an Epic by Daniel Mendelsohn
Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
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Sacred Heart Schools Atherton

Sacred Heart Schools, Atherton

150 Valparaiso Ave
Atherton, CA 94027
650 322 1866
Founded by the Society of the Sacred Heart, SHS is a Catholic, independent, co-ed day school for students in preschool through grade 12