The Book Club meets on Zoom. Contact Claudette Richards (c_richards@comcast.net) for more information.
To join the Zoom meeting at 10:00 a.m., click here.
Upcoming Titles and Dates:
August 2026: The Women by Kirstin Hannah
September 2026: Citizenship: Notes on an American Myth by Daisy Hernandez
Previous Titles in 2026:
January: The Water is Wide by Pat Conroy
March: Mother Mary Comes To Me by Arundhati Roy
April:The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels by Jon Meacham
May: An Enemy of the People, a play by Henrik Ibsen
June: Dreams of Darkness and Light by Karen Stockwell
July: The Correspondent by Virginia Evans
Previous Titles in 2025:
January: Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of The Movement by John Lewis
February: Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
March: In the Time of The Butterflies by Julia Alvarez
April: A Council of Dolls by Mona Susan Power
May: Prophet Song by Paul Lynch
June and July: Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom by David W. Blight
This is the longer book which we would read over June and July as part of our consideration of The America 250 Commemoration. Additional suggested reading: “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July.”
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in History
“Extraordinary…a great American biography” (The New Yorker) of the most important African American of the 19th century: Frederick Douglass, the escaped slave who became the greatest orator of his day and one of the leading abolitionists and writers of the era.
September: Aging as a Spiritual Practice by Lewis Richmond
October: The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World by Robin Wall Kimmerer “A bold and inspiring vision for how to orient our lives around gratitude, reciprocity, and community, based on the lessons of the natural world.”
November: Hijab Butch Blues by Lamya H
December: Marjan Kamali’s The Lion Women of Tehran
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