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 2025-2026: 

Sep 12, 2025: (fiction) –  Read ANY of the “Hugh de Singleton” historical novels by Mel Starr.

October 10, 2025: (non-fiction) – Bedlam: An Intimate Journey Into America’s Mental Health Crisis by Kenneth Paul Rosenberg (2019).

November 14, 2025: (fiction) – The First Ladies by Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray (2023).

December 12, 2025: (non-fiction) – Holding It Together: How Women Became America’s Safety Net by Jessica Calarco (2024). 

January 9, 2026: (fiction) – The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot by Marianne Cronin (2021). 

February 13, 2026: (non-fiction) – An Unfinished Love Story, A Personal History of the 1960s by Doris Kearns Goodwin (2024). 

March 13, 2026: – Kalamazoo Public Library’s Community Read. 

April 10, 2026: (fiction) – Maya and Natasha by Elyse Durham (2025)

May 8, 2026: (non-fiction) – The Lost Pianos of Siberia by Sophy Roberts (2020)