WORLD AFFAIRS BOOKS

Thank you to all our June discussion participants! I believe we discovered why this book is still read 180 years after publication.

Thank you to everyone, including our new friends from the Bonn English Language Book Group, who joined this month's rich discussion of...

Thank you to everyone who joined the conversation on Sunday about Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World by...

Thank you to everyone in the San Francisco Bay Area and Bonn, Germany, who joined us today to discuss The Lonely City: Adventures in the...

We kicked off our 2021 book discussions with Yaa Gyasi's award-winning debut novel Homegoing. In addition to discussing this...

We wrapped up our 2020 discussions by diving into Eduardo Galeano's seminal work, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the...

Our November book pick was particularly timely, coming at a time of post-presidential election reflection in the US and continuing...

Our October discussion centered on Life with Picasso, the 1964 (and still resonant) memoir of artist Francoise Gilot. While most of our...

On August 16, we discussed poet, novelist, and activist Helen Hunt Jackson's 1884 novel Ramona. Set in California in the early days of...

Extra special thanks to everyone who took part in this past Sunday's discussion of The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warning by David...

Thank you to everyone who nominated books for our summer ballot and cast votes for their top selections! We have a diverse selection of...

We set our schedule months in advance, yet sometimes the timing of a book and current events coincide. When this happens, we have the...

Today we held our first shelter-at-home virtual book discussion--and we had quite a book for it! We gathered online and by phone to...

Good news for book festival fans! The Bay Area Book Festival had to cancel its planned in-person festival, yet the organizers have...

How our schedule is changing due to the coronavirus, and some resources for sheltering in place.