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The book club is free for all library members.

Choose a LIBRARY MEMBER ticket when you register at the link below.

https://bravespacebookclub.eventbrite.com

We meet via Zoom once a month pick a session:

Mon, 7 - 8:30 pm • Wed, 8 - 9:30 pm • Thurs, 8 - 9:30 pm • Sun, 4 - 5:30 pm EST

The Brave Space Book Club (BSBC) is an intimate and inclusive forum to discuss fiction and nonfiction books we’re curious about reading—a space to have open and frank conversations about books that broaden our knowledge of Diversity, Equity, Accessibility, and Inclusion (DEAI). Contact us for more info at titilayo.ngwenya@gmail.com Reading list is voted in by book clubbers. Here is the 2022 list:

Monday or Wednesday

1. Nov 29 & Dec 1 Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde

2. Jan 24 & 26 #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

3. Feb 21 & 23 Kindred by Octavia Butler

4. March 28 & 30 The Making of Asian American a History by Erika Lee

5. April 25 & 27 Unbound by Tarana Burke

6. May 23 & 25 Women, Race, and Class by Angela Davis

7. June 27 & 29 The Hemingses of Monticello by Annette Gordon-Reed

8. July 25 & 27 Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer

9. Aug 29 & 31 Hunger by Roxane Gay

10. Sept 26 & 28 We Too Sing America: South Asian, Arab, Muslim, and Sikh Immigrants Shape Our Multiracial Future by Deepa Iyer

11. Oct 24 & 26 Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Warn

12. Nov 28 & 30 Until I am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer’s Enduring Message to America by Keisha Blaine

13. Jan 23 & 25 I Was Once You by Maria Hinojosa

14. Feb 20 & 22 How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective

Thursday or Sunday

1. Dec 9 & 12 Conjure Women by Afia Atakora

2. Feb 3 & 6 Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson

3. Mar 3 & 6 How To Be an Anti-Racist by Ibram X Kendi

4. Apr 7 & 10 If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin

5. May 5 & 8 Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Brittney Cooper

6. June 2 & 5 Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson

7. July 7 & 10 Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

8. Aug 4 & 7 The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander

9. Sept 8 & 11 “Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the 21st Century” ed. Alice Wong

10. Oct 6 & 9 So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo

11. Nov 3 & 6 The Undocumented Americans by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio

12. Dec 8 & 11 On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong