The public is invited to join our
LWVLC Community Book Discussions 

The League of Women Voters Book Club is dedicated to reading and discussing works of nonfiction pertinent to the pressing issues of our day.   The book discussions are open to the public and are scheduled on a rotating basis at libraries across Livingston County, alternating daytime and evening hours  in an effort to be accessible to a range of county residents. 

Topics we explore include race, class, gender, debt, work, the environment, politics, technology and media, imperialism, post-colonialism, activism, culture, and aesthetics. We want to become more informed, engaged, and connected to both each other and society at large. We want this Book Club to be a safe space to discuss complex topics.

Please be mindful of the following:

• Respect other’s opinions: all opinions are welcome. You can disagree with someone, but always do so respectfully.
• Ask questions.
• Avoid personal attacks.
• And keep an open mind.
• Don’t interrupt or dominate the discussion. Please allow everyone to participate; we want to hear your opinion, and everyone else’s.

Please refrain from disclosing your political party affiliation; this is a nonpartisan discussion group.

What we are reading in 2025:

What we have read in the past:

League of Women Voters Livingston County

Book Club Readings

Pre-Dec 2023

1. Things we lost to the Water, by Eric Nguyen

2. Caste, by Isabel Wilkerson

3. While Justice Sleeps, by Stacey Abrams

4. The Barbizon, by Paulina Bren

5. The Widow of the South, by Robert Hocks

6. Braiding Sweetgrass, by Robin Kimmerer

7. The Firekeepers Daughter, by Angeline Boulez

8. The Only Woman in the Room, by Marie Benedict

9. Jesus and John Wayne, by Kristin Du Mez

10. The Death and Life of the Great Lakes, by Dan Egan

11. The Secret History of Wonder Woman, by Jill Lepore

12. The Soul of America, by John Meacham

13. Becoming, by Michelle Obama

14. The Sum of Us, by Heather McGhee 

15. 12 Bytes, by Jean Winterson

16. Children Under Fire: An American Crisis by John Woodrow Cox

17. Killer of the Flower Moon: the Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Gann

2024 

1. The Supermajority: How the Supreme Court Divided America by Michael Waldman

2. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Color Blindness by Michelle Alexander

3. The Shortest History of Israel and Palestine from Zionism to Intifadas and the Struggle for Peace by Michael Scott-Baumann

4. The Beast: Riding the Rails and Dodging Narcos on the Migrant Trail by Oscar Martinez

5. Kill Switch: The Rise of the Modern Senye and the Crippling of American Democracy

6. The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism by Tim Alberta. Pub. 9/26/2023

7. Attack from Within by Barb McQuaid. Pub. 2/27/2024

8. Barons: Money, Power, and the Corruption of America’s Food Industry by Austin Frerick.

Pub. 3/26/2024

2025

1. Fentanyl Nation:  Toxic Politics and America’s Failed War on Drugs by Ryan Hampton

2. Let the People Pick the President: The Case for Abolishing the Electoral College by Jesse Wegman (about NPV Interstate Compact). Pub. 11/2/2021

3. Asian American is Not a Color: Conversations on Race, Affirmative Action and Family by Oiyan A. Poon

4. The Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed and Fail  by Ray Dalio

5. Overruled: The Human Toll of Too Much Law by Neil Gorsuch

Suggestions for future reading

1. A Fever in the Heartland: The Klu Klux Klan’s Plot to Take Over America and the Woman Who Stopped Them by Timothy Egan. Pub. 6/4/2024

2. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz.

Pub. 8/11/2015

1. The Faith Club by Ranya Idliby, Suzanne Oliver, Pricillia Warner. Pub. 6/5/200

American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins. Pub. 2/1/2022.

1. The Lemon Tree by Sandy Tolan. Pub 5/4/2007

2. The Undocumented Americans by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio. Pub. 4/26/2021

3. Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America by Heather Cox Richardson.   Pub 9/26/2023

4. One Person, No*Vote: How Not All Voters are Treated Equally by Carol Anderson (voter suppression). Pub. 9/17/2019

5. The Power Worshippers by Katherine Stewart. Pub.  4/26/2022

6. Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks by Patrick Raden Keefe.

Pub.  6/6/2023