UUCF Book Groups are open to all UUCF members, friends and the larger community.
Monday Night Book Club
Second Mondays, 7:30 p.m., Program Building. Contact Don Andress for information.
- Jan. 11, 2021 – “Everyday Ubuntu: Living Better Together, the African Way” by Mungi Ngomane
- Feb. 8 – “A Long Petal of the Sea” by Isabel Allende
- Mar. 8 – “How to Be an Antiracist” by Ibram X. Kendi
- Apr. 12 – “Those Who Forgot: My Family’s Story in Nazi Europe – A Memoir, a History, a Warning” by Geraldine Schwarz
- May 10 – “American Dirt” by Jeanine Cummins
- Jun. 14 – “Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents” by Isabel Wilkerson
- Jul. 12 – “A Well-Behaved Woman: A Novel of the Vanderbilts” by Therese Anne Fowler
- Aug. 9 – “The Library” by Susan Orlean
- Sep. 13 – “The Weight of Ink” by Rachel Kadish
- Oct. 11 – “Why We’re Polarized” by Ezra Klein
- Nov. 8 – “Sick Souls, Healthy Minds: How William James Can Save Your Life” by John Kaag
- Dec. 13 – Select books for 2022
Wednesday Morning Book Club
Third Wednesdays, 10 a.m., Library. Contact Betsy Bicknell for information.
- Jun. 17, 2020 – “The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt’s New World” by Andrea Wulf
- Jul. 15 – “The Bar Harbor Retirement Home for Famous Writers (and Their Muses): A Novel” by Terri-Lynne DeFino
- Aug. 19 – “Seven Brief Lessons on Physics” by Carlo Rovelli
- Sep. 16 – “The Tattooist of Auschwitz” by Heather Morris
- Oct. 21 – “The Plague” by Albert Camus
- Nov. 18 – “Becoming” by Michelle Obama
- Dec. 16 – “Inherit the Wind” by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee
- Jan. 20, 2021 – “Daughters of the Samurai: A Journey From East to West and Back” by Janice P. Nimura
- Feb. 17 – “A Gentleman in Moscow” by Amor Towles
- Mar. 17 – “Founding Gardeners: The Revolutionary Generation, Nature and the Shaping of the American Nation” by Andrea Wulf.
- Apr. 21 – “Interpreter of Maladies” by Jhumpa Lahiri
- May 19 – “Voyage of the Beagle” by Charles Darwin
- Jun. 16 – “Burr: A Novel” by Gore Vidal
- Jul. 21 – “Pieces of Light: How the New Science of Memory Illuminates the Stories We Tell About Our Pasts” by Charles Fernyhough
- Aug. 18 – “The Awakening and Selected Stories of Kate Chopin” by Kate Chopin
