Book Groups are open to all UUCF members, friends, and the larger community.
Accotink UU Banned Book Club
Second Tuesdays, 7 p.m., via Zoom. All are welcome. The group, hosted by members of Accotink Unitarian Universalist Church in Burke, VA, discusses a different banned book each month and the reasons for its banning. They also discuss ways to fight book banning. Book list here.
Monday Night Book Club
Second Mondays, 7:30 p.m., Music & Arts Room and via Zoom. Contact Joy Hatfield for information.
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January 12: Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand by Helen Simonson.
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February 9: The Briar Club by Kate Quinn
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March 9: The Return: Fathers, Sons &the Land In-Between by Hisham Matar.
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April 13: The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan.
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May 11: Absolution by Alice McDermott
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June 8: Look Closer by David Ellis
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July 13: The Light Eaters by Zoe Schlanger
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August 10: I Contain Multitudes by Ed Yong
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September 14: Lessons by Ian McEwan
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October 12: Isola by Allegra Goodman
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November 9: The Razor’s Edge by W. Somerset Maugham
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December 14: Books Selection night for 2027
Wednesday Morning Book Club
First Wednesdays, 10 a.m., via Zoom. Send an email for more information.
2026
- July: On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the 20th Century by Timothy Snyder
- August: Table for Two by Amor Toles
2027
- September: Rules of Civility by Amor Towles
- October: Unfinished Love Story: a Personal History of the ’60s by Doris Kearns Goodwin
- November: The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
- December: Emotional: How Feelings Shape Our Thinking by Leonard Mlodinow
- January: The Buddha in the Attic by Julia Otsuka
- February: Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution by Cat Bohannon
- March: A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
- April: Leaving Home: A Memoir in Full Color by Mark Haddon
- May: Flannery O’Connor: The Complete Stories by Flannery O’Connor
- June: Raising Hare by Chloe Dalton
- July: Broken Country by Clare Leslie Hall
- August: The Things We Never Say by Elizabeth Strout