LWVBCC Book Club

LWVBCC Book Club

BACKGROUND

The LWVBCC Book Group was formed in 2005 and has been meeting regularly ever since. We currently meet six times a year on a Monday morning at 10 A.M. These are the only meetings that are convened in member homes. Please check the League Calendar for the current Book Club Meeting Schedule - Click Here
 

2024 Book Selections

  • "Demon Copperhead" by Barbara Kingsolver.
  • "What You Are Looking for is in the Library" by Michiko Aoyama
  • "Oath & Honor" by Liz Cheney 
  • "The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year" by Margaret Renkl
  •  "Prequel" by Rachel Maddow
  •  "The School That Escaped The Nazis" by Deborah Cadbury
  •  "The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store" by James McBride

2023 Book Selections

  • "Last Bus to Wisdom" by Ivan Doig
  • "And There Was Light" by Jon Meacham
  • "Master Slave Husband Wife" by Ilyon Woo
  • "Horse" by Geraldine Brooks
  • "The Shadow Docket: How the Supreme Court Uses Stealth Rulings to Amass Power and Undermine the Republic"
     by Stephen Vladek
  • Companion reads - "The Nine Robes: Inside the Supreme Court" by Joan Biskupic and "The Super Majority How the Supreme Court Trumped America" by Michael Waldman 
  • "Only What We Could Carry" edited by Lawson Fusao Inada
  • "A Fever in the Heartland" by Timothy Egan
  • "Poverty by America" by Matthew Desmond

2022 Book Selections

"Justice on the Brink: The Death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the Rise of Amy Coney Barrett, and Twelve Months That Transformed the Supreme Court: by Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Linda Greenhouse

  • “No Justice in Germany: The Breslau Diaries, 1933-1941” by Willy Cohn
  • "How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America” by Clint Smith
  • “Unthinkable: Trauma, Truth and the Trials of American Democracy” by Jamie Raskin
  •  “Being Mortal” by Atul Gawande.

2021 Book Selections

  • "The Truths We Hold" by Kamala Harris
  • "Rage" by Bob Woodward 
  • "Children Under Fire" by John Woodrow Cox
  • "How to Be an Antiracist" by Ibram X. Kendi

Books Read in Previous Years

  • Michele Richardson, "The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek"
  • Gail Collins, "No Stopping Us Now: a History of Older Women in America"
  • Sandy and Larry Feldman, "Building Bridges Across the Racial Divide"
  • Alex Kotlowitz, "The Other Side of the River"
  • John Lewis, "Across That Bridge"
  • Alan Alda, "If I Understood You, Would I Have This Look on My Face?"
  • Sarah Holland and Beth Silvers, I Think You're Wrong (But I'm Listening)"
  • James Hoggan, "I'm Right and You're an Idiot: The Toxic State of Public Discourse and How to Clean It Up"
  • Ben Sasse, "THEM: Why We Hate Each Other--And How to Heal"
  • Claude Steele, "Whistling Vivaldi: How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do"
  • Rebecca Traister, "Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger"
  • Michelle Obama, "Becoming"
  • John Meacham, "The Soul of America"
  • Dan Egan, "The Death and Life of the Great Lakes"
  • Elaine Weiss, "The Woman’s Hour"
  • Sam Quinones, "Dreamland"
  • Michael Bloomberg & Carl Pope, "Climate of Hope"
  • Arlie Russell Hochschild, "Strangers in Their Own Land"
  • David Sales & Ghada Alatrash, "Stripped to the Bone: Portraits of Syrian Women"
  • Geoffrey Stone, "Sex and the Constitution"
  • Azar Natisi, "Reading Lolita in Tehran"

PREVIOUS SELECTIONS

We have read some great books!

Occasionally the members are encouraged to select any book they wish in a subject area, so those individual selections are not listed.

  • "Climate of Hope" by Michael Bloomberg and Carl Pope
  • "Strangers in Their Own Land" by Arlie Russell Hochschild.
  • "Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic."by Sam Quinones
  • "This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate" by Naomi Klein.
  • "George Washington's Secret Six" by Kilmeade and Yaeger
  • "Hamilton - The Revolution by Miranda and McCarter
  • "Alexander Hamilton" by Chernow
  • "Dark Money" by Mayer
  • "Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS" by Warrick
  • "ISIS: Inside the Army of Terror" by Weiss and Hassan
  • "ISIS: The State of Terror" by Stern and Berger.
  • Sisters in Law: How Sandra Day O'Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsberg Went to the Supreme Court and Changed the World by Linda Hirshman
  • Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsberg by Irin Carmona and Shana Knizhnik
  • "Three Billion New Capitalists: the Great Shift of Wealth and Power to the East" by Clyde Prestowicz.
  • "Critical Condition How Health Care in America Became Big Business and Bad Medicine" by Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele
  • "Politics Lost: How American Democracy Was Trivialized by People who Think You're Stupid" by Joe Klein
  • "The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11" by Lawrence Wright. Won 2006 Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction.
  • "Deep Economy" by Bill McKibben
  • "The Appeal" by John Grisham About judicial elections.
  • "In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto" by Michael Pollan
  • "The Post American World" by Fareed Zakaria
  • "The Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America" by Jonathan Kozol
  • "Cheap: The High Cost of Discount Culture" by Ellen Rupell Shell
  • "Engaging the Muslim World" by Juan Cole
  • "The Brethren: Inside the Supreme Court" by Bob Woodward and Scott Armstrong
  • "Supreme Conflict: The Inside Story of the Struggle for Control of the United States Supreme Court" by Jan Crawford Greenburg
  • "Citizen: Jane Addams and the Struggle for Democracy" by Louise W. Knight
  • "Jane Addams: Spirit in Action" by Louise W. Knight
  • "Twenty Years at Hull House" by Jane Addams
  • "Aftershock: The Next Economy and America's Future" by Robert Reich
  • "The Flat World and Education: How America's Commitment to Equality Will Determine Our Future" by Linda Hammond-Darling
  • "Reclaiming Public Education by Reclaiming Our Democracy" by David Mathews
  • "The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choices Are Undermining Education" by Diane Ravitch
  • "Why School? Reclaiming Education for All of Us" by Mike Rose
  • "What is Good for General Motors? Solving America's Industrial Conundrum" by Thomas Crumm
  • "Confidence Men" by Ron Suskind
  • "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
  • "Republic Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress--and a Plan to Stop It" by Lawrence Lessig
  • "Drift: the Unmooring of American Military Power" by Rachel Maddow
  • "My Beloved World" by Sonia Sotomayor
  • "Catastrophic Health Care: How American Health Care Killed My Father and How We Can Fix It" by David Goldhill.
  • "County: Life, Death and Politics at Chicago's Public Hospital" by David Ansell M.D.
  • "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot
  • "The World According to Monsanto: Pollution, Corruption, and the Control of the World's Food Supply" by Marie-Monique Robin
  • "Foodopoly: the Battle Over the Future of Food and Farming in America" by Wenonah Hauter
  • "Food, Inc.: A Participant Guide: How Industrial Food Is Making Us Sicker, Fatter, and Poorer--and What We Can Do About It" by Karl Weber
  • "Reign of Error" by Diane Ravitch
  • "Surpassing Shanghai: An Agenda for American Education Built on the World's Leading Systems" by Marc Tucker and Linda Darling Hammond.
  • "I am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and was Shot by the Taliban" by Yousafzai, Malala and Lamb, Christina (Oct 8, 2013)
  • "Six Amendments: How and Why We Should Change the Constitution" by Justice John Paul Stevens.
  • "On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City" by Alice Goffman.
  • "Pro: Reclaiming Abortion Rights" by Katha Pollitt
  • Steven Brill, " America's Bitter Pill: Money, Politics, Backroom Deals, and the Fight to Fix Our Broken Healthcare System" 2015
  • Atul Gwande, "Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End " 2014.

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