Webster University Book Club 2021 Title Selections, Meetings
December 15, 2020
The Webster University Book Club continues its Zoom sessions for the book selections
for 2021. All sessions will be held via Zoom from noon to 1 p.m. on the dates below.
All are welcome. More meeting links and book synopses will be added as dates approach.
Next Meeting: Jan. 11, noon
Monday, Jan. 11 - The Library Book by Susan Orlean (our last book selected for 2020). Click here to register.
From Simon & Schuster: Susan Orlean’s bestseller and New York Times Notable Book is “a sheer delight…as rich in insight and as varied as the treasures contained on the shelves in any local library” (USA TODAY)—a dazzling love letter to a beloved institution and an investigation into one of its greatest mysteries. “Everybody who loves books should check out The Library Book” (The Washington Post). On the morning of April 28, 1986, a fire alarm sounded in the Los Angeles Public Library. The fire was disastrous: it reached two thousand degrees and burned for more than seven hours. By the time it was extinguished, it had consumed four hundred thousand books and damaged seven hundred thousand more. Investigators descended on the scene, but more than thirty years later, the mystery remains: Did someone purposefully set fire to the library—and if so, who? Weaving her lifelong love of books and reading into an investigation of the fire, award-winning New Yorker reporter and New York Times bestselling author Susan Orlean delivers a “delightful…reflection on the past, present, and future of libraries in America” (New York magazine) that manages to tell the broader story of libraries and librarians in a way that has never been done before.
Monday, Feb. 15 (Presidents Day) - His Truth Is Marching On: John Lewis and the Power of Hope by Jon Meacham
Monday, March 22 - The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert
Monday, May 3 - Caste: The Origins of our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
Monday, July 12 - The Good Lord Bird: A Novel by James McBride
Monday, Sept. 13 - The Broken Heart of America: St. Louis and the Violent History of the United States by Walter Johnson
Tuesday, Nov. 9 - Homegoing: A Novel by Yaa Gyasi