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The Tanner Book Club, facilitated by Scott Black, brings together passionate and thoughtful readers from across the Salt Lake Valley to discuss classic novels. Our monthly conversations are lively and feature a broad range of perspectives from our participants, which include businesspeople, lawyers, University staff, retirees, local teachers, and health professionals.

Tanner Book Club membership for 2026–2027 is $250. Proceeds support our Gateway to Learning workshops for local educators.

Tanner Book Club selections

Available for ordering through The King’s English Bookshop
Naguib Mahfouz, Palace Walk
Naguib Mahfouz, Palace Walk
August 20, 2026
Order
Isabel Allende, The House of Spirits
Isabel Allende, The House of Spirits
September 17 (chapters 1–6) and October 15, 2026
Order
Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children
Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children
November 19 (through “Alpha & Omega”) and December 17, 2026
Order
Han Shaogong, A Dictionary of Maqiao
Han Shaogong, A Dictionary of Maqiao
January 21, 2027
Order
Murakami Haruki, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Murakami Haruki, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
February 18 (books 1–2) and March 18, 2027
Order
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Half a Yellow Sun
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Half a Yellow Sun
April 15 (parts 1–2) and May 13, 2027
Order
Junichiro Tanizaki, The Makioka Sisters
Junichiro Tanizaki, The Makioka Sisters
April–May 2026
Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
March, 2026
Stendhal, The Charterhouse of Parma
Stendhal, The Charterhouse of Parma
January–February 2026
Recommended translation by Richard Howard.
Alessandro Manzoni, The Betrothed
Alessandro Manzoni, The Betrothed
November–December 2025
Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
September–October 2025
George Eliot, Middlemarch
George Eliot, Middlemarch
April–May 2025
E.M. Forster, A Passage to India
E.M. Forster, A Passage to India
February 2025
Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway
Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway
January 2025