Edith Wharton Book Club

Join us every month (Jan - June 2026) as we read novels by the great American author of the gilded age, Edith Wharton. Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist and short story writer known for her sharp social commentary and depictions of upper-class life at the turn of the 20th century.

Updated February 4, 2026
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The house of mirth
Wharton, Edith
Paper Book
A black comedy of manners about vast wealth and a woman who can define herself only through the perceptions of others. The beautiful Lily Bart lives among the nouveaux riches of New York City - people whose millions were made in railroads, shipping, land speculation and banking. In this morally and...

January 28, 2026

The house of mirth
Wharton, Edith
Paper Book
A black comedy of manners about vast wealth and a woman who can define herself only through the perceptions of others. The beautiful Lily Bart lives among the nouveaux riches of New York City - people whose millions were made in railroads, shipping, land speculation and banking. In this morally and...
Ethan Frome
Wharton, Edith
Paper Book
A marked departure from Edith Wharton's usual ironic contemplation of the fashionable New York society to which she herself belonged, Ethan Fromeis a sharply etched portrait of the simple inhabitants of a nineteenth-century New England village. The protagonist, Ethan Frome, is a man tormented...

February 27, 2026

Ethan Frome
Wharton, Edith
Paper Book
A marked departure from Edith Wharton's usual ironic contemplation of the fashionable New York society to which she herself belonged, Ethan Fromeis a sharply etched portrait of the simple inhabitants of a nineteenth-century New England village. The protagonist, Ethan Frome, is a man tormented...
The custom of the country
Wharton, Edith
Paper Book
Wharton's sly and delicious novel about the ambitious social ascent of Undine Spragg, now in a Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition, with a foreword by Sofia Coppola A Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition Considered by many to be her masterpiece, Edith Wharton's second...
The age of innocence
Wharton, Edith
Paper Book
Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time Newland Archer saw little to envy in the marriages of his friends, yet he prided himself that in May Welland he had found the companion of his needs--tender and impressionable, with equal purity of mind and...

April 24, 2026

The age of innocence
Wharton, Edith
Paper Book
Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time Newland Archer saw little to envy in the marriages of his friends, yet he prided himself that in May Welland he had found the companion of his needs--tender and impressionable, with equal purity of mind and...
The age of innocence
Wharton, Edith
Paper Book
Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time Newland Archer saw little to envy in the marriages of his friends, yet he prided himself that in May Welland he had found the companion of his needs--tender and impressionable, with equal purity of mind and...
The age of innocence
Day-Lewis, Daniel.
DVD
A lawyer loves his fiancee's free-thinking cousin in 1870s New York. Directed by Martin Scorsese. From the Edith Wharton novel."
The buccaneers : a novel
Wharton, Edith
Paper Book

May 22, 2026


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