Burning Issues Book Club meeting at Bel Canto Books at The Hangout

monthly book clubs

Love Reading & Talking About Books?

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

We strive for a thoughtful and respectful discussion of the featured book and its related themes.
You do not have to have finished the book to participate, but we ask that you contribute to the discussion in whatever way you feel comfortable.
We ask that you turn your video screen on, so that we can best mimic a "real-life" conversation. If you need to momentarily go off-camera, we understand.
We do not tolerate demeaning, discriminatory, or harassing behavior and speech.

Learn about each of our book clubs and sign up to become a member below.

GRAPHIC NOVEL BOOK CLUB

BURNING ISSUES BOOK CLUB

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

March 2023

What Is Home, Mum? by Saaba Khan

April 2023

The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Cartoonist by Adrian Tomine

May 2023

In Limbo by Deb JJ Lee

June 2023

Giant Gay 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.

Join Graphic Novel Book Club

BURNING ISSUES BOOK CLUB

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.

Click the button below to learn more and register to receive the Zoom meeting link. Find all our 2023 book club picks here.

Join Burning Issues Book Club