We love reading…interesting, thought-provoking, inspiring books. These books are often about political or social issues we are facing, or historical fiction, but not always. Our discussions are often the best part, and are usually quite lively.
We meet once a month. One of our book club members volunteers to host the meeting and serve lunch. If you host the meeting, you get to choose the book.
See the books we’ve read below!
| Year | Month | Title | Author |
| Tipping Point | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| Neverlands, | |||
| Animal Vegetable Miracle | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| Bayou Farewell | Mike Tidwell | ||
| Three Cups of Tea | Greg Mortenson | ||
| The Conservative Soul | Andrew Sullivan | ||
| Veil of Roses | |||
| Still Alice | |||
| Nickeled and Dimed | Barbara Ehrenreich | ||
| The Omnivores Dilemma | Michael Pollan | ||
| The Help | Kathryn Stockett | ||
| A World Made | James Kunstler | ||
| Game Change | Mark Halperin | ||
| You Can Heal Your Life | Louise Hay | ||
| The Goddess of the Market | Jennifer Burns | ||
| The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power | Jeff Sharlet | ||
| The Imperfectionists | |||
| The Poisonwood Bible | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| The Glass Castle | Jeannette Walls | ||
| Shantaram | David Roberts | ||
| The Big Short | Michael Lewis | ||
| The Sanctuary of Outcast | |||
| The Long Emergency | James Kunstler | ||
| The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks | Henrietta Lacks | ||
| The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society and The Uncommon Reader | |||
| Half the Sky | Nicholas Kristoff and Sheryl Wuidunn | ||
| Idiot America: How Stupidity Became a Virtue in the Land of the Free | Charles P Pierce | ||
| Mercy of Thin Air | |||
| The Conspirator – a movie | |||
| Incognito | |||
| Dr Mary’s Monkey | |||
| We the animals | |||
| Blind Assassin | Margaret Atwood | ||
| The Alienist | |||
| Here Comes Trouble | Michael Moore | ||
| Drift | Rachel Maddow | ||
| When everything Changed | Gail Collins | ||
| I feel bad about my neck (play) | Nora Ephron | ||
| The Accidental City | |||
| The Devil in the White City | |||
| Team of Rivals | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| The Lilly Ledbetter Story | |||
| Subversives: The FBI’s War on Student Radicals, and Reagan’s Rise to Power | Seth Rosenfeld | ||
| 2013 | April | In Harm’s Way: A War Reporter’s Story | Martin Bell |
| 2013 | May | Intimate Enemies: The Two Worlds of the Baroness Pontalba | Christina Vella |
| 2013 | June | Plutocrats; The Rise of the Global Super Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else | Chrystia Freeland |
| 2013 | July | Dead Man Walking | Sister Helen Prejean |
| 2013 | August | Lean In: Women, Work and the Will to Lead | Sheryl Sandberg |
| 2013 | September | Flight Behavior | Barbara Kingsolver |
| 2013 | October | The Mapmakers War: Keeper of the Tales trilogy | Ronlyn Dominque |
| 2013 | November | The Moon in the Mango Tree | Pamela Binnings Ewen |
| 2014 | January | Wounded Knee: Party Politics and the Road to an American Massacre | Heather Cox Richardson |
| 2014 | February | The Kite Runner | Khaled Hosseini |
| 2014 | March | Pearl of China | Anchee Min |
| 2014 | April | The Night Circus | Erin Morganstern |
| 2014 | May | I am Malala: the Girl who Stood Up for Education and was shot by the Taliban | Malala Yousafzai and Christina Lamb |
| 2014 | June | Double Down: Game Change 2012 | Mark Halperin and John Heilemann |
| 2014 | July | Island Beneath the Sea | Isabel Allende |
| 2014 | August | The Goldfinch | Donna Tart |
| 2014 | September | Atheist in the Foxhole: A Liberal Eight Year Quest in the Heart of the Right Wing Media | Joe Muto |
| 2014 | October | A Fighting Chance | Elizabeth Warren |
| 2014 | November | The Sisters: A Saga of the Mitford Family | Mary S Lovell |
| 2015 | January | The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics | Daniel James Brown |
| 2015 | February | Five and Twenty-Fives | Michael Pitre |
| 2015 | March | White Doves at Morning | James Lee Brown |
| 2015 | April | American Nations: A History of Eleven Rival Regional Cultures | Colin Woodard |
| 2015 | May | Losing Our Way: An Intimate Portrait of a Troubled American | Bob Herbert |
| 2015 | June | Gone Girl | Gillian Flynn |
| 2015 | July | All the Light We Cannot See | Antony Doerr |
| 2015 | August | Nine Lives: Death and Life in New Orleans | Dan Baum |
| 2015 | September | Go Set A Watchman | Harper Lee |
| 2015 | October | Orphan Train | Christina Baker Kline |
| 2015 | November | Between the World and Me | Ta-Nehisi Coates |
| 2016 | January | The Martian | Andy Weir |
| 2016 | February | Standing Alone: An American Woman’s Struggle for the Soul of Islam | Asra Q Nomani |
| 2016 | March | Prince of Frogtown | Rick Braggs |
| 2016 | April | Rosemary: The Hidden Kennedy Daugther | Kate Clifford Larson |
| 2016 | May | My Life on the Road | Gloria Steinem |
| 2016 | June | The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness | Michelle Alexander |
| 2016 | August | The Little Blue Book: the Essential Guide to Thinking & Talking Democratic | |
| 2016 | September | Movie: “The Perez Family” | |
| 2016 | October | Chasing the Scream | |
| 2016 | November | Mrs Poe | Lynn Cullen |
| 2017 | January | Listen Liberal: Or What Happened to the Party of the People | Thomas Frank |
| 2017 | February | Small Great Things | Jodi Picoult |
| 2017 | March | Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right | Arlie Hochschild |
| 2017 | April | The Fever of 1721 | Stephen Coss |
| 2017 | May | Hillbilly Elegy | J Vance |
| 2017 | June | My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me | Jennifer Teege |
| 2017 | July | Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City | Mathew Desmond |
| 2017 | August | Trump Revealed: A Definative Biography of the 45th President | Michael Kranish and Mark Fisher |
| 2017 | September | Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder and One Man’s Fight for Justice | Bill Browder |
| 2017 | October | Dreamland: A True Tale of America’s Opiate Epidemic | Sam Quinones |
| 2017 | November | Al Franken: A Giant in the Senate | Al Franken |
| 2018 | January | Churchill and Orwell: The Fight for Freedom | Thomas E Ricks |
| 2018 | February | The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine Who Outwitted America’s Enemies | Jason Fagone |
| 2018 | March | Lilac Girls: A Novel | Martha Hall Kelly |
| 2018 | April | Fire and Fury | Michael Wolff |
| 2018 | May | What Unites Us | Dan Rather |
| 2018 | June | How Democracies Die | Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt |
| 2018 | July | 1984 | George Orwell |
| 2018 | August | Strength in What Remains | Tracy Kidder |
| 2018 | September | A Higher Loyalty | James Comey |
| 2018 | October | Sunflower of the Third Reich | Andrea Ritter |
| 2018 | November | A Gentlemen in Moscow | Amir Towles |
| 2019 | January | The Nightingale | Kristin Hannah |
| 2019 | February | The Invention of Wings | Sue Monk Kidd |
| 2019 | March | The Little Paris Book Shop | Nina George |
| 2019 | April | The Other Einstein | Marie Benedict |
| 2019 | May | The Fish that Ate the Whale | Rich Cohen |
| 2019 | June | March | Geraldine Brooks |
| 2019 | July | The Awakening | Kate Chopin |
| 2019 | August | Movie: “The People Speak” | |
| 2019 | September | Before We Were Yours | Lisa Wingate |
| 2019 | October | Becoming | Michelle Obama |
| 2019 | November | Resistance Women | Jennifer Chiaverini |
| 2020 | January | The Yellow House | Sarah Broom |
| 2020 | February | Where the Crawdads Sing | Delia Owens |
| 2020 | April | The Water Dancer | Ta-Nehisi Coates |
| 2020 | May | American Dirt | Jeanine Cummins |
| 2020 | June | Still Life with Breadcrumbs | Anna Quindlen |
| 2020 | July | The Truth According to Us | Annie Barrows |
| 2020 | August | Too Much and Never Enough | Mary Trump |
| 2020 | September | The Girl Who Lived | Christopher Greyson |
| 2020 | October | The Warmth of Other Suns | Isabel Wilkerson |
| 2020 | November | The Giver of Stars | Jojo Moyes |
| 2020 | December | Black Boy | Richard Wright |
| 2021 | January | River of Fire: My Spiritual Journey | Sr. Helen Prejean |
| 2021 | February | The Underground Railroad | Colson Whitehead |
| 2021 | March | Know My Name | Chanel Miller |
| 2021 | April | Caste: The Origins of our Discontents | Isabel Wilkerson |
| 2021 | May | The Girls with the Louding Voice | Abi Dare’ |
| 2021 | June | Educated | Tara Westover |
| 2021 | July | The Story Keeper | Lisa Wingate |
| 2021 | August | Rescuing Hope | Susan Norris |
| 2021 | October | The Firekeeper’s Daughter | Angeline Boulley |
| 2021 | November | The Bone and Sinew of the Land by Anna Lisa Cox | Anna Lisa Cox |
| 2021 | January | Beautiful Things | Hunter Biden |
| 2022 | February | When Justice Sleeps? | Stacey Abrams |
| 2022 | March | The Burden of Cane | CH Lawler |
| 2022 | April | Cloudstreet | Tim Winton |
| 2022 | May | Last Days of Ptolemy Gray | Walter Mosely |
| 2022 | June | State of Terror | Louise Penny |
| 2022 | July | The Witch Elm | Tana French |
| 2022 | August | Fight Like Hell:The Untold History of American Labor | Kim Kelly |
| 2022 | September | Pachinko | Min Jin Lee |
| 2022 | October | Democracy in Chains | Nancy MacLean |
| 2022 | November | Secrets of the Sprakkar | Eliza Reed |
| 2022 | January | The Lincoln Highway | Amor Towles |
| 2023 | February | Divine Secrets of the YaYa Sisterhood | Rebecca Wells |
| 2023 | March | The Night Circus | Erin Morganstern |
| 2023 | April | The Storyteller | Jodi Picoult |
| 2023 | May | The Maid | Nita Prose |