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Want to read great books with a community of engaged book lovers? Join one of our monthly book clubs, hosted online and free to attend. We kindly ask that you purchase books through shopthehangout.com, Bookshop.org, or Libro.fm to help support our work.
Book Club Guidelines
Learn about each of our book clubs and sign up to become a member below.
Graphic novel fan or graphic novel curious? Join the Graphic Novel Book Club hosted by Bel Canto Books as we read and discuss a new graphic novel or memoir each month. Past book club favorites include: GOOD TALK by Mira Jacob, IN WAVES by AJ Dungo, and WAKE: THE HIDDEN HISTORY OF WOMEN-LED SLAVE REVOLTS by Rebecca Hall and illustrated by Hugo Martínez.
January 2023
A Career in Books by Kate Gavino
February 2023
The High Desert by James Spooner
**special time** 2/18 at 9AM PT / 12PM ET
March 2023
What Is Home, Mum? by Saaba Khan
**CANCELLED DUE TO FAMILY EMERGENCY**
April 2023
The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Cartoonist by Adrian Tomine
May 2023
In Limbo by Deb JJ Lee
**5/20, 8AM PT discussion time**
June 2023
Gay Giant by Gabriel Ebensperger
Online Zoom Discussion on 3rd Saturday of the month at 10am PT (unless otherwise noted).
Click the button below to learn more and register to receive the Zoom meeting link. Find all our 2023 book club picks here.
Burning Issues Book Club (BIBC) is an online and local book club that gathers to read and discuss non-fiction works related to climate change, environmental degradation, environmental and social justice, and implementation of social change movements. Past book club favorites include: BRAIDING SWEETGRASS by Robin Wall Kimmerer and MEDIOCRE: THE DANGEROUS LEGACY OF WHITE MALE AMERICA BY Ijeoma Oluo.
January 2023
The Intersectional Environmentalist: How to Dismantle Systems of Oppression to Protect People + Planet by Leah Thomas
February 2023
Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty by Dorothy Roberts
March 2023
Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change by Angela Garbes
April 2023
Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses by Robin Wall Kimmerer
May 2023
Consumed: The Need for Collective Change: Colonialism, Climate Change, and Consumerism by Aja Barber
June 2023
Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex, Second Edition, edited by Eric A. Stanley and Nat Smith, with a Foreward by Cece McDonald
Online Zoom Discussion on last Sunday of the month at 12pm PT (unless otherwise noted).
Click the button below to learn more and register to receive the Zoom meeting link. Find all our 2023 book club picks here.
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