🔵 Book Club Recommendations

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4		This is a space to share and explore books that inspire, challenge, and bring us joy. Whether it’s a novel with a strong female lead, a story rooted in social justice, or simply a great escape, all genres are welcome. Let’s build a collection that sparks conversation and connection.
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7		Remarkably Bright Creatures	Shelby Van Pelt	Up-lit	Maria	We all need some joy!	Yes
8		The Small and the Mighty	Sharon McMahon	American history	Leslie	Short, sweet and a great insight into ordinary Americans who positively impacted the country	Yes		Civil Rights, Feminism, Social History, Human Interest	Finished
9		The Ministry of Time	Kaliane Bradley	Time Travel, Romantic Fantasy	Leslie	A really fun read.	Yes		Time travel, history, romance, escape.	Finished
10		The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks	Rebecca Skloot	Biography/Science	Lauren M.		Yes		History, science, social justice, ethics.	Finished
11	2	The Kingdom, The Power and the Glory	Tim Alberta	History	Maria D.	Evangelical movement in America	Yes
12	3	Once There Were Wolves	Charlotte McConaghy	Fiction	Jenny C	Just an excellent read	Yes		Environmentalism, women, science	Finished
13		The education of an idealist	Samantha power	Memoir politics	Jenny C	Have been meaning to read	Yes		Activism, human rights, memoir	To Read
14	1	All Fours	Miranda July	Fiction	Jenny C	Funny and relatable	Yes			To Read
15		Master Slave Husband Wife	Ilyon Woo	Biography	Meg P	Incredible read about a couple who pose as master/slave to escape slavery in Macon, GA. It is truly an epic read.	Yes		Civil Rights, history, devotion, human rights, and love.
16		Go as a River	Shelley Read	Historical Fiction	Melissa C	A good story about finding your way forward even when things are difficult	Yes		Love, loss, resilience
17		The Berry Pickers	Amanda Peters	Fiction	Melissa C	Mystery about a young Mi' kmaq girl that goes missing	Yes		The lengths people will go for family
18		Black Angels	Maria Smilios	History	Helenka	Untold story of the nurses who helped cure tuberculosis			Public health	To read
19	1	The Forgotten Girls	Monica Potts	Memoir	Katie W	Really interesting true story of Appalachia, poverty, addiction, and family/friendships
20		Project Hail Mary	Andy Weir	Sci-fi	Helenka	Escapism, author of the Martian				To read
21	2	Shark Heart A love story	Emily Habek
22		St Lucy's Home for Girls Who Have Been Raised By Wolves	Karen Russell	Fiction	Aerin	Vintage Contemporary			Alienation, Identity, transformations	To read
23		When Women Were Dragons	Kelly Barnhill	Fiction	Aerin					To read
24		Demon Copperhead	Barbara Kingsolver	Fiction	Katy	What Hillbilly Elegy should have been if JD Vance wasn't the WORST	Yes
25		Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted A Faith And Fractured A Nation	Kristin Kobes Du Mez	Non-fiction	Katy
26		Fever in the Heartland	Timothy Eagan
27	4	Money Men	Dan McCrum	Non-Fiction	Maria	A book about moneylaundering	Yes
28		My Brilliant Friend			Maria
29		The Lying Life of Adults			Maria
30		Damascus Station	David McCloskey		Aerin
31		Calling In	Loretta Ross	Non-fiction	Lauren Miller	Could be useful to the work we are doing			How to have conversations with people you disagree with	To read
32		Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956	Anne Applebaum	Non-fiction	Maria	Profound, everyone should read it.	No
33	3	The Address Book: What Street Addresses Identify about Race, Wealth and Power	Deirdre Mask	Non-fiction	Maria
34		On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century	Timothy Snyder	Non-fiction	Katy
35		The Lying Lives of Adults			Maria
36		House Rules	Jodi Picoult	Fiction	Aubrie	A son with autism, his challenges and triumphs	Yes
37		My Sister's Keeper	Jodi Picoult	Fiction	Aubrie	Twin girl sues for the rights to her own body	Yes
38		Educated	Tara Westover	Memoir	Aubrie	Life inside a survivalist family with no education or medical care, and the journey toward independence	Yes		Memoir, survivalist anti-govt. family
39		The Woman They Could Not Silence	Kate Moore	Non Fiction	Aubrie	Woman institutionalized by her husband	Yes		Women's rights, mental health	To read
40		The Astronaut Wives Club	Lily Koppel	Non Fiction	Ashleigh F	About the wives of the Mercury 7 and their stories while their husbands trained for/completed missions
41	4	Come Fly With Me		Fiction
42		Momfluenced		Non Fiction
43		Original Sin		Non Fiction
44		Moneyland		Non Fiction
45		The Emperor of Gladness	Ocean Vuong		Kellie
46		The Wedding People			Kellie
47		James	Percival Everett
48		Everything is Tuberculosis
49		Stamped from the Beginning	Ibram Kendi
50		The Color of Law
51		Shadow Network
52		Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland	Christopher Browning	Non-fiction	Lauren	Dr. Browning was my college professional. Great book examining human behavior during Nazi Germany	Yes
53		They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-1945	Milton Mayer	Non-fiction	Lauren	Interesting interviews with Germans by an American Jewish professor directly after the end of WWII	Yes
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