Our reading audience has suggested titles that relate to quilting, its history or the camaraderie of women.

We feature a fiction and non-fiction selection every month. Many of the titles relate to the Civil War in recognition
of the 150th Anniversary and give readers an opportunity to reflect on its relevance to the 21st century.

Find additional non-fiction titles under Read More About It, Create New Quilts and Inspire Young Quilters. 

If you are not in the Greater Lowell area, consider reading these books and sharing them with friends or your own book group.  Let us know your impressions of our selections. 

If you have a favorite book you would like to recommend to our readers, we'd love to hear about it.
Email your suggestions to Rhonda Galpern at outreach@nequiltmuseum.org

NOTE: Occasionally the date of our Book Group meeting changes to accommodate the museum's off-site participation in an area quilt show or other event. Please carefully check the dates below before coming out.

__For 2012, we are featuring selections to help you Create New Quilts and Inspire Young Quilters.
Consider using these titles to design a unique quilt or to share your interest in quilting with the next generations.

To download the list, click here.

During our exhibit Campaigns and Commemoratives: Quilts for Presidents (January 19 – March 24)
    January 19
            Threading the Needle, Marie Bostwick, www.mariebostwick.com
            Betsy Ross and the Making of America, Marla Miller
    February 16 (February is Black History Month)
            Cion, Zakes Mda
            Mrs. Lincoln and Mrs. Keckley, Jennifer Fleischner
    March 15 (March is Women's History Month)
            Murder in the White House, Margaret Truman
            Secret Lives of the First Ladies, Cormac H. O’Brien, www.cormacobrien.com
                    Read More About It
            Secret Lives of the U. S, Presidents, Cormac H. O’Brien, www.cormacobrien.com
            Presidential Campaigns, Paul F. Boller Jr
            Presidential Wives, Paul F. Boller Jr
                    Create New Quilts
            First Ladies of America Quilt, Carol Ann Waugh & Phyllis McAllaster Stewart, www.firstladiesquilt.com
            Presidential Redwork, Michael G. Buckingham, www.michael.g.buckingham.tripod.com
            Voices of the Past, Kaye England, www.kayeengland.com
            Voices of the Past, Volume II, Kaye England
            Women of Influence, Sarah Maxwell & Delores Smith, www.pickledishstore.com
                   Inspire Young Quilters
            “A” is for Abigail: An Almanac of Amazing American Women, Lynne Cheney
            An Unlikely Friendship: A Novel of Mary Todd Lincoln and Elizabeth Keckley, Ann Rinaldi, www.annrinaldi.net

During our exhibit Fenway Park Centennial: Quilts by Rosemary Bawn (March 29 – July 8)
    April 19
            American Patchwork: True Stories from Quilters, Sonja Hakala, www.sonjahakala.com
            Fenway 1912, Glen Stout
    May 17
            The Lover’s Knot, Clare O’Donohue, www.clareodonohue.com
            Fenway Park: The Centennial, Saul Wisnia
    June 21
            A Drunkard’s Path, Clare O’Donohue, www.clareodonohue.com
            Mostly True: A Memoir of Family, Food and Baseball, Molly O’Neill, www.onebigtable.com
                    Read More About It
            A League of My Own, Patricia I. Bowman
            Baseball at War: the Story of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, SB Jeffrey
            No Girls in the Clubhouse, Marilyn Cohen
                    Create New Quilts
            Opening Day, Sonie Ruffin, www.pickledishstore.com
            Sew into Sports, Barbara Brackman, www.pickledishstore.com
                    Inspire Young Quilters
            B is for Baseball, Chronicle Books Staff
            Fenway Park from A to Z, Red Sox Wives
            H is for Homerun, Brad Herzog
            Wally the Green Monster, Jerry Remy