Reading Group books are available from Left Bank Books in St. Louis, MO at a 20% discount.
This is a private group that accepts new members. They meet on the second Monday of the month at 6:00pm at the Ferguson Municipal Library 35 North Florissant Rd, Ferguson, MO. If you are interested in joining, please send Shane an email at shane.m@left-bank.com
2023 Titles:
January 9, 2023, 6pm: Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 (parts 1-5) by Ibram X. Kendi & Keisha N. Blain
February 13, 2023, 6pm: Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 (parts 6-10) by Ibram X. Kendi & Keisha N. Blain
March 13, 2023, 6pm: Climbing the Ladder, Chasing the Dream: The History of Homer G. Phillips Hospital by Candace O’Connor
April 10, 2023, 6pm: Little Brother: Love, Tragedy, and My Search for the Truth by Ben Westhoff
May 8, 2023, 6pm: The Grimkes: The Legacy of Slavery in an American Family by Kerri K. Greenidge
June 12, 2023, 6pm: An Afro-Indigenous History of the United States by Kyle T. Mays
July 10, 2023, 6pm: You’ll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey: Crazy Stories about Racism by Amber Ruffin and Lacey Lamar
August 14, 2023, 6pm: Ebony and Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America’s Universities by Craig Steven Wilder
September 11, 2023, 6pm: Poverty, by America by Matthew Desmond
October 9, 2023, 6pm: My Old Kentucky Home: The Astonishing Life and Reckoning of an Iconic American Song by Emily Bingham
November 13, 2023, 6pm: The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
December 11, 2023, 6pm: Cherish Farrah by Tiffany C. Morrow
2024 Picks
January 8, 2024, 6pm: Just Pursuit: A Black Prosecutor's Fight for Fairness by Laura Coates
February 12, 2024, 6pm: Twigs from the Bush by Margaret Bush Wilson (Unavailable to order; Contact Ferguson Library about obtaining a copy)
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