The League of Women Voters Aurora Area Book Club chooses books to challenge our thinking about critical issues. The discussion is always friendly, lively, and enlightening. Join us at our next discussion. All are welcome, including non-members.
Upcoming book discussion:
The July 10th, 2024, book club discussion is on the book, Slanted: How the News Media Taught Us to Love Censorship and Hate Journalism by Sharl Attkisson. The discussion will begin at 1:00 p.m. at the Aurora Santori Public Library. For more details, contact Margie at lwvauroraarea [at] gmail.com
Future dates and books:
Wednesday, September 11th at 1:00 p.m.: The Death and Life of the Great Lakes by Dan Egan
Wednesday, November 13th at 1:00 p.m.: Salty: Lessons on Eating, Drinking, and Living from Revolutionary Women by Alissa Wilkinson
Here we are at our December 2020 book discussion group with the author, Maria Hinojosa.
Other books we've read:
- Grace: President Obama and Ten Days in the Battle for America by Cody Keenan
- Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions by Gloria Steinem
- Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond
- Braiding Sweetgrass - Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer
- Once I Was You - A Memoir Of Love And Hate In A Torn America by Maria Hinojosa
- How Democracies Die by Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt
- White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo
- The Broken Ladder: How Inequality Affects the Way We Think, Live, and Die by Keith Payne
- The Woman's Hour - The Great Fight to Win the Vote by Elaine Weiss
- The Women's Suffrage Movement edited by Sally Roesch Wagner with a foreword by Gloria Steinem
- Garbology by Edward Humes
- Climate of Hope by Bloomberg and Pope
- Drawdown edited by Hawken
