I’ve been falling down on the job! I just realized when I went to post the April list of what Silent Book Club was reading that I never posted the March list. So here’s both!

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!

And, for the foreseeable future, you can hang out with us even if you’re not in the area since we’re meeting virtually! We meet on the second Tuesday of every month at 6:30pm via Zoom.

Here’s what everyone was reading in March:

• Work Won't Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone by Sarah Jaffe

• The Great Crash of 1929 by John Kenneth Galbraith

• Caliban's War by James S.A. Corey

• Things Left Behind by Gary A. Braunbeck

• Once Before Time: A Whole Story of the Universe by Martin Bojowald

• The Outsiders by S E Hinton

• Effin' Birds by Aaron Reynolds

• The Fires of Vengeance by Evan Winter 

• The Rubiayat of Omar Khayyam

• The Magus by John Fowles

And here’s what everyone was reading in April:

• Southbound by Anjali Enjeti

• The Doomsday Book by Connie Willis

• The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North

• Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

• Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? by Frans de Waal

• Where’d You Go Bernadette? by Maria Semple

• The Origin and Principles of the American Revolution, Compared With the Origin and Principles of the French Revolution by Friedrich von Gentz

• The Great Manchurian Plague of 1910-1911: The Geopolitics of an Epidemic Disease by William C. Summers

• No Tiger by Mika

• The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

• American Psycho by Brett Easton Ellis

• The Princess Bride by William Goldman

• All New Square Foot Gardening: The Revolutionary Way to Grow More In Less Space by Mel Bartholomew

There are Silent Book Club chapters throughout the 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. And regardless of where you are, we’d love for you to join us virtually. Event info will be posted in the Silent Book Club - Columbus Facebook group.

In the meantime, I hope you’ll connect meaningfully with book nerd communities online, including the Silent Book Club Facebook group. (Note: the general Silent Book Club Facebook group and the Silent Book Club - Columbus Facebook group are two different groups.)