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
2025 Book Selections
- "The Dictionary of Lost Words", by Pip Williams,
- "Healing the Heart of Democracy", by Parker J. Palmer
- "James", by Percival Everett
- "That Librarian", by Amanda Jones
- "John Lewis: A Life", by David Greenberg
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 McBrid
- "An Unfinished Love Story" by Doris Kearns Goodwin
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
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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
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"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.
