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
Fall Book Selection: 1984 by George Orwell
Sunday, November 2, 2025
7:00 pm to 8:30 pm
Private Home
Please RSVP using the form below to let us know you will be participating. The address for the 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:
Published in 1949 to great acclaim, the novel depicts a dystopian society, Oceania, where the totalitarian party controls every aspect of life under the watchful eye of Big Brother. The story follows Winston Smith, a low-ranking Party member who rebels by keeping a diary and engaging in a forbidden love affair with Julia. Many of the book’s themes, including government censorship, mass surveillance, alternative facts, and the manipulation of truth, remain relevant today.
Spring Book Selection: TBD
Friday, April 24, 2026
12:00 pm to 1:30 pm
Private Home
PAST LWVS BOOK SELECTIONS
- Spring 2025 – Master Slave Husband Wife (2023) by Ilyon Woo
- Fall 2024 – James (2024) by Percival Everett
- Spring 2024 – North Woods (2023) by Daniel Mason
- Fall 2023 – Small Things Like These (2021) by Claire Keegan
- 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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