Book Club on Zoom!
Our theme is literary non-fiction by women, though we have been known to read a novel or something by a man. Our meetings are informal and you are welcome even if you did not finish the book!
Books for 2024:
Jan 16: The Age of Dignity, Preparing for the Elder Boom in a Changing America, by Al-Jen Poo. Sociology.
Feb 20: Unfollow: A Memoir of Loving and Leaving the Westboro Baptist Church by Megan Phelps-Roper. Memoir, Religion.
Mar 19: We are not here to be bystanders: a memoir of love and resistance, by Linda Sarsour (2020). Memoir, Islam and Feminism.
Apr. 16: Root Shock: How Tearing Up City Neighborhoods Hurts America, and What We Can Do About It, by Mindy Fullilove.
May 21: Untold Power: The Fascinating Rise and Complex Legacy of First Lady Edith Wilson, by Rebecca Boggs Roberts. 320 pages
June 18: Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands, by Kate Beaton. Illustrated memoir by Canadian cartoonist. 436 pages.
July 16: Damnation Island: Poor, Sick, Mad, and Criminal in 19th-Century New York, by Stacy Horn. 320 pages
Sept 17: How to Say Babylon: A Memoir, by Safiya Sinclair. Rastafarian. 349 pages.
Oct 15: The rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks by Jeanne Theoharis. 336 pages.
Nov 19: The Great Stewardess Rebellion: How Women Launched a Workplace Revolution at 30,000 Feet, by Nell McShane Wulfhart. 320 pages.
Books for 2023:
JAN 17: Help, Thanks, Wow: The Three Essential Prayers, by Anne Lamott
FEB 21: A Long Walk to Water: Based on a True Story, by Linda Sue Park
MARCH 21: The Child Is the Teacher: A Life of Maria Montessori, by Cristina De Stefano
APRIL 18: Conditional Citizens: On Belonging in America, by Laila Lalami
MAY 16: The Man Who Could Move Clouds: A Memoir, by Ingrid Rojas Contreras
JUNE 20: Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the wisdom of the forest, by Suzanne Simard
JULY 18: The neuroscience of you: how every brain is different and how to understand yours, by Chantel Spring Prat
AUGUST 15: Did I Say That Out Loud?: Midlife Indignities and How to Survive Them, by Kristin van Ogtrop
SEPT 19: The Moor’s Account, by Laila Lalami
Oct 17: House of Glass: The Story and Secrets of a Twentieth-Century Jewish Family, by Hadley Freeman. Jewish History.
Nov 21: All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake, By Tiya Miles. African-American History.
Dec 19: Origin: A Genetic History of the America, by Jennifer Raff. Anthropology.
Books for 2022:
Jan 18: Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America, by Eliza Griswold. 2019 Pulitzer for General Nonfiction.
Feb 15: Lady Bird Johnson: Hiding in Plain Sight, by Julia Sweig.
March 15. Crying in H Mart: A Memoir, by Michelle Zauner. 256 pages.
April 19. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants, by Robin Wall Kimmerer. 408 pages.
May 17. Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age, by Annalee Newitz. 320 pages.
June 21. Susan, Linda, Nina & Cokie: The Extraordinary Story of the Founding Mothers of NPR, by Lisa Napoli. 352 pages.
July 19. Mudlark: In Search of London’s Past Along the River Thames, by Lara Maiklem. 336 pages.
August 16. The Boston Massacre: a family history, by Serena R. Zabin. 323 pages.
Sept. 20. The Daughters of Kobani, A Story of Rebellion, Courage, and Justice, by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon. 288 pages.
Oct. 18. The Haunting of Alma Fielding: A True Ghost Story, by Kate Summerscale. 368 pages.
Nov. 15. Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets, by Svetlana Alexievich. 496 pages.
Dec. 20. Without You, There Is No Us: Undercover Among the Sons of North Korea’s Elite, by Suki Kim. 322 pages.
Books for 2021:
Jan 19 : The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt’s Darkest Journey, by Candice Millard.
Feb 16: The Yellow House, A Memoir, by Sarah M. Broom.
Mar 16: The Other Madisons: the lost history of a president’s Black family, by Bettye Kearse (2020) 272 pp
April 20: Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, by Isabel Wilkerson. 496 pp
May 18: The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine, by Janice P. Nimura 331 pp.
June 15: Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art, by Rebecca Wragg Sykes. 400 pages
July 20: In the Country of Women; A Memoir, by Susan Straight. 384 pp
Aug 17: Zora Neale Hurston: Folklore, Memoirs, & Other Writings. 1001 pages
Sept 21: You’ll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey: Crazy Stories about Racism, by Amber Ruffin and Lacey Lamar.
Oct 19: What the Eyes Don’t See: A Story of Crisis, Resistance, and Hope in an American City, by Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha. Maryland First Year Book 2021.
Nov 16: The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations, by Toni Morrison.
Dec 21: Old In Art School: A Memoir of Starting Over, by Nell Irvin Painter.
