The Bookwoman Book Club
Calling all booklovers!
The Bookwoman Book Club (BBC) is a virtual book club that meets once a month to discuss our latest book selection from the WNBA’s Great Group Reads list.
WNBA members are spread across the country, so the book club allows us to meet monthly to discuss books together regardless of chapter or location.
This group gives our members a special place where they can connect with fellow members over our common love of books. And members can participate in exclusive discussions and author interviews. We also have occasional giveaways!
With members from all chapters, from locations across the US, our book club allows new relationships to grow and flourish. It allows our members to be exposed to new books and authors and to grow as readers.
Whether you attend every month or only occasionally, we invite you to join the Bookwoman Book Club.
The Details
The BBC is a benefit for WNBA members, so it is a members-only book club.
We meet on the last Tuesday of each month at 9 pm EDT/8 pm CDT/6 pm PDT.
Our discussions take place over Zoom.
When we are able, we interview the author on the Thursday following the book club discussion on Zoom and livestreamed to our WNBA Talks Books Facebook group.
To Join
Email communications [at] wnba-books.org to join the Bookwoman Book Club.
You must be a member in good standing to participate.
Our 2021/2022 membership year began on June 1, 2021, so please renew now in order to participate in the BBC.
Upcoming Bookwoman Book Club Discussions
August 31: Dietland Discussion
2015 Great Group Reads
This witty, subversive story follows Plum, the 300-pound main character, as she struggles with her weight, joins a cult-like group aimed at helping her lose weight, and comes to an understanding of herself and her body. This is a multi-layered send-up of the diet industry and a close look at society’s obsession with appearance.
September 28: A Hard and Heavy Thing Discussion
2016 Great Group Reads
After 9/11, Levi and Nick go off to war together to fight, eventually coming home irreversibly changed. A difficult and important look at the emotional impact of war on the men who fight and the suffering they continue to face at home, this novel of shifting perspectives is a sensitive depiction of war, friendship, patriotism, PTSD, and guilt.
October 26: Blackass Discussion (pushed back from September)
2016 Great Group Reads
When Furo wakes up white, he is plunged into a different world than the one he inhabited as a black man. Set in Nigeria, this interesting and original examination of racism, identity, and white privilege has echoes of Kafka’s Metamorphosis.
Past BBC Choices (Discussions can be found in the Members’ Only section of the website)
- April 2020: The Book Woman from Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson (2019 GGR)
- May 2020: The Honey Bus by Meredith May (2019 GGR)
- June 2020: The Lido, aka Mornings with Rosemary by Libby Page (2018 GGR)
- July 2020: The Last Year of the War by Susan Meissner (2019 GGR)
- August 2020: Haben by Haben Girma (2019 GGR)
- September 2020: The Lotus Eaters by Tajana Soli (2010 GGR)
- October 2020: A House Among the Trees by Julia Glass (2018 GGR)
- November/December 2020: The Velveteen Daughter by Laurel Davis Huber (2017 GGR)
- January 2021: The Exiles by Christina Baker Kline (2020 GGR)
- February 2021: Tea Beyond the Sea by Donna Hemans (2020 GGR)
- March 2021: In Our Midst by Nancy Jensen (2020 GGR)
- April 2021: Miracle Creek by Angie Kim (2020 GGR)
- May 2021: All You Can Ever Know by Nicole Chung (2019 GGR)
- June 2021: In Five Years by Rebecca Serle (2020 GGR)
- July 2021: My Name Is Mary Sutter by Robin Oliveira (2011 GGR)
