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Marie-Susanne L.

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Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore: A Novel by Robin Sloan

Fun, Interesting, Adventurous

The Children Act by Ian McEwan

Book Club Recommended

Informative, Insightful, Interesting

The Children Act

Lots of moral and legal and medical issues to discuss.

Blindspot: A Novel by Jane Kamensky, Jill Lepore

Book Club Recommended

Gloomy, Slow, Boring

Ragtime: A Novel (Modern Library 100 Best Novels) by E.L. Doctorow

Book Club Recommended

Informative, Difficult, Interesting

Brooklyn: A Novel by Colm Toibin

Book Club Recommended

Beautiful, Insightful, Slow

All the Light We Cannot See: A Novel by Anthony Doerr

Book Club Recommended

Beautiful, Insightful, Dramatic

A long book but worth reading!

Anchor and Flares: A Memoir of Motherhood, Hope, and Service by Kate Braestrup

Book Club Recommended

Inspiring, Insightful, Optimistic

A Man Called Ove: A Novel by Fredrik Backman

Fun, Insightful, Beautiful

A Man Called Ove: A Novel

a bit too predictable...

Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town by Jon Krakauer

Book Club Recommended

Informative, Slow, Dark

Anyone who teaches at a university or college or is a student at a university or college should read this book. Anyone who is a college sports fan should read this book.

Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Book Club Recommended

Informative, Insightful, Life Changing

The Language of Flowers: A Novel by Vanessa Diffenbaugh

Insightful, Beautiful, Interesting

predictable

The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson

Book Club Recommended

Informative, Inspiring, Insightful

This should be required reading in American high schools. We all know about the Depression but do we all know about the Great Migration, which affected many more people over a much longer span of time?

Becoming Nicole: The Transformation of an American Family by Amy Ellis Nutt

Book Club Recommended

Informative, Interesting, Inspiring

My Life on the Road by Gloria Steinem

Book Club Recommended

Informative, Inspiring, Insightful

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander

Book Club Recommended

Informative, Insightful, Interesting

Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria: And Other Conversations About Race by Beverly Daniel Tatum

Book Club Recommended

Life Changing, Optimistic, Persuasive

Best Boy: A Novel by Eli Gottlieb

Inspiring, Insightful, Interesting

Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools by Monique W. Morris

Book Club Recommended

Scary, Persuasive, Life Changing

The Silver Star: A Novel by Jeannette Walls

Interesting, Insightful, Unconvincing

seemed like a YA novel

In the Darkroom by Susan Faludi

Book Club Recommended

Interesting, Informative, Brilliant

In the Darkroom

Susan Faludi's In the Darkroom is not an easy book and it may take readers awhile to get into but it's fascinating. Our club talked about the book for the whole hour - a rarity for us!

The Lazarus Project by Aleksandar Hemon

Book Club Recommended

Informative, Insightful

Glad to know about this author

great use of language, definitely on the literary side; layered, funny

They Can't Kill Us All: The Story of Black Lives Matter by WESLEY LOWERY

Book Club Recommended

Insightful, Informative, Life Changing

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