Book groups

UUCF Book Groups are open to all UUCF members, friends and the larger community.

Second Mondays, 7:30 p.m., Sanctuary Commons and via Zoom. Contact Don Andress for information.

Jan. 9, 2023 – “When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir” by Patrisse Khan-Cullors and Asha Bandele
Feb. 13 – “The Personal Librarian” by Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray
Mar. 13 – “How Civil Wars Start and How to Stop Them” by Barbara F. Walter
Apr. 10 – “This Side of Paradise” by F. Scott Fitzgerald
May 8 – “Together: The Healing Power of Human Connection in a Sometimes Lonely World” by Vivek H. Murthy, MD
Jun. 12 – “Illuminations: A Novel of Hildegard von Bingen” by Mary Sharratt
Jul. 10 – “The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together” by Heather McGhee
Aug. 14 – “Lessons in Chemistry: A Novel” by Bonnie Garmus
Sep. 11 – “The Ways of White Folks” by Langston Hughes
Oct. 9 – “Robert E. Lee and Me: A Southerner’s Reckoning With the Myth of the Lost Cause” by Ty Seidule
Nov. 13 – “Demon Copperhead: A Novel” by Barbara Kingsolver
Dec. 11 – Select books for 2024

First Wednesdays, 10 a.m., via Zoom. Contact Betsy Bicknell for information.

Sep. 7, 2022 – “The Bluest Eye” by Toni Morrison
Oct. 5 – “The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History” by Elizabeth Kolbert
Nov. 2 – “The Midnight Library” by Matt Haig
Dec. 7 – “Barracoon: The Story of the Last ‘Black Cargo'” by Zora Neale Hurston
Jan. 4, 2023 – “Small Things Like These” by Claire Keegan
Feb. 8 – “Making History: The Storytellers Who Shaped the Past” by Richard Cohen
Mar. 1 – “The Daughter of Time” by Josephine Tey
Apr. 5 – “Catch-22” by Joseph Heller
May 3 – “Man’s Search for Meaning” by Viktor E. Frankl
Jun. 7 – “Thirteen Ways of Looking” by Colum McCann
Jul. 5 – “The Ends of the World: Volcanic Apocalypses, Lethal Oceans and Our Quest to Understand Earth’s Past Mass Extinctions” by Peter Brannen
Aug. 2 – “This Side of Paradise” by F. Scott Fitzgerald

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