Books to discuss are recommended during the planning year by members and voted on to establish the year’s list. The books chosen align with the focus areas of the Branch. The list will include a classic and a book by a Minnesota author, a fiction and non-fiction, and others. Book discussions are typically held, preceded by a pot luck dinner at 5:30 pm, in members’ homes.
To find out where the book discussion will be held e-mail aauw.bla.info@gmail.com
2025-2026 Book Selections
Upcoming – 2025 Book Selections
Someone Else’s Shoes by Jojo Moyes – Saturday, July 12, 2025
Upcoming 2025-2026 Book Selections
Most book discussions are held beginning with a potluck dinner at 5:30 unless otherwise noted.
Mon, Oct 13 – Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World by The Dali Lama and Desmond Tutu with Douglas Abrams
Mon, Nov 10 – The Heart of My Soul by Jan Kurtz
Sat, Feb 7 – You Can’t Keep a Good Woman Down by Alice Walker
Mon, Apr 6 – She Changed the Nation: Barbara Jordan’s Life and Legacy in Black Politics by Mary Ellen Curtin
Mon, May 11 – The Women by Kristin Hannah
Mon, Jul 13 – Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
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2024-25 Book Discussions Held
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann
The Woman They Could Not Silence by Kate Moore
Everything You Wanted to Know About Indians But were Afraid to Ask by Anton Treuer
Democracy Awakening by Healther Cox Richardson
2023-24 Book Discussions Held
The Extraordinary Story of the Founding Mothers of NPR, Susan, Linda, Nina & Cokie by Lisa Napoli
The Light We Carry – Overcoming in Uncertain Times by Michelle Obama
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
The View from Split Rock: A Lighthouse Keeper’s Life by Lee Razdak
Poverty by America by Desmond Matthew
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolfe
2022-23 Book Discussions Held
Spirit Car-Jouney to a Dakota Past by Diane Wilson
Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
The Sentence by Louise Erdrich
Neither Wolf Nor Dog by Kent Nerburn
Main Street by Sinclair Lewis
The Dressmakers of Auschwitz by Lucy Adlin
This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger
The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
Notorious RGB: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsberg by Irvin Carmen and Shana Knizhnik,
So You Want to Talk About Race by Illeoma Oluo
An Indigenous Peoples’ History of North America by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz.
2021-22 Book Discussions Held
Biography: The Simple Faith of Mr Rogers by Amy Hollingsworth
The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich
Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover (Virtual Discussion led by Luann)
Northern Shores, Southern Borders: Revelations of a Bilingual Life by Jan Kurtz
The Moment of Lift by Melinda Gates
“Letter from the Birmingham Jail” by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
2020-21 Book Discussions Held
Why Does He Do That? by Lundy Bancroft
The Cider House Rules by John Irving
Saving the Ghost by M W Fuller
Clara and Mr. Tiffany by Susan Vreeland
Becoming by Michelle Obama
The Senator Next Door by Amy Klobuchar
Clara and Mr. Tiffany by Susan Vreeland