The Women’s Book Group is open to UUCC members and friends who identify as women or feel most connected in women-specific spaces. At the beginning of each church year, participants offer up their favorite reads, and books are chosen for the coming year along with the schedule and discussion leaders.  Meetings are held via Zoom on the second Friday of the month of September through May.  

The Women’s Book Group selections for 2024-2025: 

Sep 13, 2024: (non fiction) Fire Weather: On the Front Lines of a Burning World by John Vaillant (2023)

Oct 11, 2024: (fiction) Becoming Madam Secretary by Stephanie Dray (2024)

Nov 8, 2024: (non fiction) Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom by Ilyon Woo (2023)

Dec 13, 2024: (fiction) Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus (2022)

Jan 10, 2025: (non fiction) Education for Extinction: American Indians and the Boarding School Experience, 1875-1928 by David Wallace Adams (1995)

Feb 14, 2025: (fiction) The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams (2020)

Mar 14, 2025: The Kalamazoo Public Library Community Read

Apr 11, 2025: (non fiction) Poverty, By America by Matthew Desmond (2023)

May 9, 2025: (fiction) James: A Novel by Percival Everett (2024)

Here is a list of the other books that were recommended this time:

FICTION
Mudbound by Hillary Jordan (2008)

Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver (2022)

The Midnight Library by Matt Haig (2020)

The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon (2023)

NON FICTION
The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Works of Grief by Franics Weller (2016)

The Purpose of Power: How We Come Together When We Fall Apart by Alicia Garza (2020)

Tracers in the Dark: The Global Hunt for the Crime Lords of Cryptocurrency by Andy Greenberg (2022)

New Cold Wars: China’s Rise, Russia’s Invasion, and America’s Struggle to Defend the West by David E. Sanger (2024)