What Silent Book Club is Reading This Month: January 2020
One of the things I look forward to every month is the Columbus, Ohio chapter of Silent Book Club meeting. Everyone brings their own book and reads together quietly for an hour, then we all nerd out about books afterward. If you're in the area, you should come hang out with us!
We meet on the second Tuesday of every month and this time we met at the Northern Lights branch of the Columbus Metro Library.
We kick off the meeting with a quick round of introductions where everyone says their name and a little about what they're reading. I always take notes and post the full book list the next day.
It's a great way for everyone to learn about books they might like and I've picked up several books I loved based on what people were reading and recommended to the group.
Here's what the group is reading this month:
Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Y. Davis
Black Panther by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Ibn Khadun: An Intellectual Biography by Robert Irwin
Barnum: An American Life by Robert Wilson
Paper Butterflies by Lisa Heathfield
I Wish You All the Best by Mason Deaver
If These Walls Could Talk: Philadelphia Flyers by Sam Carchidi, Lou Nolan
A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick
Plot It Yourself by Rex Stout
Radicalism at the Crossroads: African American Women Activists in the Cold War by Dayo F. Gore
E. and M.A. Radford mysteries
Star Maker by Olaf Stapledon
The Curse of the Boyfriend Sweater by Alanna Okun
This Is Your Brain on Parasites: How Tiny Creatures Manipulate Our Behavior and Shape Society by Kathleen McAuliffe
Best American Essays 2019, edited by Rebecca Solnit
Virgil Wander by Leif Enger
Juliet Takes a Breath by Gabby Rivera
Mostly Void, Partially Stars by Joseph Fink, Jeffrey Cranor
King of Scars by Leigh Bardugo
One Summer: America, 1927 by Bill Bryson
Supernatural Spy School series
The Woman In the Window by A.J. Finn
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling
The Road to Camelot: Inside JFK's Five-Year Campaign by Thomas Oliphant, Curtis Wilkie
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
There are Silent Book Club chapters throughout and US and several around the world, so if you're not in Columbus, OH, check the events on the SBC website to find one near you!
