What Are You Reading?

It seems like readers enjoy talking about the book they’re reading – or like to pass along the title of one they’d recommend.

That’s what we do at meetings of The No Book Club; it began in August 2017 and is our longest-running program.

Now that we’re meeting virtually, participants are joining us from other parts of the city and the country; you’re invited to join us.

Here are what some folks in the group read recently:

• Dewey Defeats Truman The 1948 Election and the Battle for America’s Soul by A.J. Baime

• The Education of an Idealist A Memoir by Samantha Powers

• Infinite Powers How Calculus Reveals the Secrets of the Universe by Steven Strogatz

• How to Make a Slave and Other Essays by Jerald Walker

• A Promised Land by Barack Obama

• The Paris Architect by Charles Belfoure

• Apollo’s Arrow by Nicholas Christakis

• My Name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout

• Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi

• Apeirogon by Colum McCann

• The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett

• Hood Feminism by Mikki Kendall

• The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson

 If you’re looking for other book recommendations, check out these lists:

• Chicago Public Library

• 100 Notable Books of 2020 from The New York Times

• The 100 must-read books of 2020 from Time Magazine

Do you like to listen to authors talk about their books? Here are some upcoming author events at independent bookstores:

• Women and Children First

• Bookends and Beginnings

• Boswell Books

The No Book Club meets via Zoom 1-2 p.m. (Central Time) on the last Monday of each month except during May, November, and December. 

This program is a partnership with the Edgewater branch of the Chicago Public Library, Friends of the Edgewater Library, Edgewater Village Chicago, and Edgewater Reads.