LWVS COMMUNITY BOOK GROUPS
The League seasonally chooses a book that is interesting, timely, and thought-provoking as the subject of a community book discussion. Open to all and typically held at a member’s home, these discussions are casual and collegial, honest and lively. Leave with new knowledge and insight, and maybe a few new friends!
UPCOMING BOOK DISCUSSIONS
Spring Book Selection: North Woods (2023) by Daniel Mason Sunday, April 14, 2024 7 pm to 8:30 pm
RESCHEDULED TO TUESDAY, MAY 14, 2024
7:30 PM to 9:00 PM
Private Home
Please RSVP using the form below. The address for meeting location will be sent via email. Those who RSVP will be notified of the new date once it has been rescheduled.
Bronx River Books in Scarsdale Village is offering a 10% discount on the purchase of the book when you mention you are participating in the League of Women Voters of Scarsdale Book Club.
Optional Book Exchange: Bring a book or two to swap with other readers!
About the book:
Named by The New York Times as one of the ten best books of 2023, this novel follows the inhabitants of a single house in western Massachusetts over the course of several centuries, beginning with a runaway Puritan couple all the way up to inhabitants from the present day. The novel “is a time-spanning, genre-blurring work of storytelling magic.” (Washington Post book review, 9/13/23). According to Goodreads, the book “shows the myriad, magical ways in which we’re connected to our environment and to one another, across time, language and space.”
Fall Book Selection: Small Things Like These (2021) by Claire Keegan
Sunday, October 22, 2023
7 pm to 8:30 pm
Private Home
Please RSVP using the form below. The address for meeting location will be sent via email.
Bronx River Books in Scarsdale Village is offering a 10% discount on the purchase of the book when you mention you are participating in the League of Women Voters of Scarsdale Book Club.
About the book:
Shortlisted for 2022 Booker Prize, Small Things Like These tells the tale of an Irish coal merchant living in a small Irish town, who is forced to confront the horror of Ireland’s Magdalene laundries. “From the elements of this simple existence in an inconsequential town, Keegan has carved out a profoundly moving and universal story. There’s nothing preachy here, just the strange joy and anxiety of firmly resisting cruelty.” Washington Post Review, 12/7/21. Although short (128 pages!), this beautifully told story presents numerous opportunities for discussion both about an individual’s conscience and the responsibility of an entire community.
PAST LWVS BOOK SELECTIONS
- Spring 2023 – Dinners with Ruth: A Memoir on the Power of Friendships (2022) by Nina Totenberg
- Spring 2021 – Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson; joining the discussion was Richard Westmoreland, retired Marine Corps Lieutenant Colonel and former F/A-18 pilot, mentioned in the book for his participation in the Confederate monument debate in New Orleans from 2015 to 2017 as a vocal proponent of removal
- Winter 2020 – Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions by Valeria Luiselli and Melting Pot or Civil War: A Son of Immigrants Makes the Case Against Open Borders by Reihan Salam
- Spring 2019 – How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them by Jason Stanley
- Fall 2018 – One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Democracy by Carol Anderson
- Spring 2018 – Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond
- Fall 2017 – Sisters in Law: How Sandra Day O’Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsberg Went to the Supreme Court and Changed the World by Linda Hirschman
- Fall 2016 – Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of Family and Culture in Crisis by J.D. Vance
- Spring 2016 – Dark Money, The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right by Jane Mayer
- Fall 2015 – The Prize: Who’s In Charge of America’s Schools by Dale Russakoff
- Spring 2015 – The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace by Jeff Hobbs
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