Inspiring Non-Fiction Works by Women (Book Club) Online Program

Inspiring Non-Fiction Works by Women (Book Club) Online Program

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Dec/Wed/2022 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM
-Virtual Program-

Wednesday, December 21
6:30-7:30 pm

Registration is required. You can register below or by contacting Donald, our Adult Program Coordinator, at adult@pawlinglibrary.org.

 

 

The book club will be discussing My Remarkable Journey by Katherine Johnson.

 

Are you interested in reading and discussing non-fiction books, mainly autobiographical, by women? Then this is your Book Club! This is an opportunity to read about real life accounts of extraordinary women and most of it first hand through memoirs and autobiographies.

We’ll begin each discussion by offering up some tidbits and questions to get us started and then it’s an open forum. Our hope is that together we will get to know, not only important women in history, but women who are brave, creative, passionate, and original thinkers.

It does not matter how expert you are with the works or the authors. If you love the idea of reading and discussing non-fiction books by women who have powerful and inspiring stories to share this might be the perfect place to begin. Maybe you’ll be inspired to tell your own story.

To quote Malala Yousafzai: “One child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world”.

 

Reading List:

December: My Remarkable Journey by Katherine Johnson (2021)

January: I am Malala by Malala Yousafzai (2013)

February: My Life My Love My Legacy by Coretta Scott King (2017)

March: When Heaven and Earth Changed Places by Le Ly Hayslip (1989)

April: Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank (1947)

May: The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion (2005)

June: The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt (1961)

July: Surpassing Certainty: what my twenties taught me by Janet Mock (2014)

August: Let’s Pretend this Never Happened by Jenny Lawson (2012)

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