Coordinator: Riley Johnson
Purpose: Our primary purpose is to have a fun and engaging discussion about the book selected for the month.
Responsibilities: Everyone is invited to participate. We select the books for the year by voting at our November meeting. Titles may include fiction and nonfiction. The only condition is that the recommended books must be in print and readily available. The member who makes the recommendation becomes the discussion leader if that book is selected.
Meeting Place and Time: Currently, meetings are held at 6:30 PM on ZOOM on the last Sunday of the month. https://zoom.us/my/emilyuucv
Contact: Riley Johnson riles1806@gmail.com
2021 Book Picks
January 24th – Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
February 28th – As Long as Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice from Colonization to Standing Rock
March 28th – Sigh, Gone: A Misfit’s Memoir of Great Books, Punk Rock, and the Fight to Fit In
April 25th – The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
May 23rd – No Friends But The Mountains: Dispatches from the World’s Violent Highlands
June 27th – Seeking Sound Judgement
July 25th – The Machine Never Blinks: A Graphic History of Spying and Surveillance
August 22nd – Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth
September 26th – Between the World and Me
October 24th – Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America
2020 Book Picks
January 26: “Say Nothing: A
True Story of
Murder and
Memory” in
Northern Ireland
By: Patrick R. Keefe
February 23: “The Invention of Wings”
by Sue Monk Kidd
March 22: “The Nickel Boys”
by Colson Whitehead
April 26: “Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City” by Matthew Desmond
May 17: “The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark” by Carl Sagan
June 28: “The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of American’s Great Migration” by Isabel Wilkerson
July 26: “Accessory to War: The Unspoken
Alliance Between Astrophysics and
the Military” By: Neil deGrasse Tyson
August 23: “The Five: The Untold Lives of the
Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
By: Hallie Rubenhold
September 27: “No Friend But the
Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison”
By: Behrouz Boochani
October 25: “Killers of the Flower Moon: The
Osage Murders and the Birth of
the FBI”
By: David Grann
November 22: The UUCV Book Group will meet to select books for 2021. Everyone is welcome to nominate 2 books. Once the nominations are in, we will
then vote on the 10 books we are most interested in
reading. The person who nominated a book will lead
the discussion if that book is chosen.
2019 Book Picks
Join us Sunday evenings from 6:30 to 8 PM in our Yuuth Room for an engaging and fun discussion.
January 27, 2019
Pythagoras’ Trousers: God, Physics and the Gender War
By Margaret Wertheim
February 24, 2019
Black Reconstruction in America, 1860-1880
By W.E.B. Du Bois
March 24, 2019
Limonov: The Outrageous Adventures of the Radical Soviet Poet Who Became a Bum in New York, a Sensation in France, and a Political Antihero in Russia
By Emmanuel Carrère
April 28, 2019
The Scarlet Sisters: Sex, Suffrage, and Scandal in the Gilded Age
By Myra MacPherson
May 19, 2019
Guyland: The Perilous World Where Boys Become Men
By Michael Kimmel
June 23, 2019
Educated: A Memoir
By Tara Westover
July 28, 2019
The Hate U Give
By Angie Thomas
August 25, 2019
Leonardo Da Vinci
By Walter Isaacson
September 22, 2019
The World in a Grain: The Story of Sand and How It Transformed Civilization
By Vince Beiser
October 22, 2019
Searching for Stars on an Island in Maine
By Alan Lightman
2018 Book Picks
January 28, 2018
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Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
By Trevor Noah |
February 25, 2018
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Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man’s Fight for Justice
By Bill Browder |
March 25, 2018
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The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why it Matters
By Tom Nichols |
April 22, 2018
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Fat Shame: Stigma and the Fat Body in American Culture
By Amy Erdman Farrell |
May 20, 2018
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Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right. A Journey to the Heart of the Political Divide.
By Arlie Russell Hochschild |
June 24, 2018
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Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race
By Margot Lee Shetterly |
July 22, 2018
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The Totally Unscientific Study of the Search for Human Happiness
By Paula Poundstone |
August 26, 2018
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The Round House
By Louise Erdrich |
September 23, 2018
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Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
By Neil DeGrasse Tyson |
October 28, 2018
