CSWAC BOOK CLUB
Purpose: A members-only group that explores non-fiction and fiction books relating to current topics of interest and books authored by CSWAC speakers
Eligibility: The CSWAC Book Club membership is currently capped, but a new book club can be started with interested members.
Membership:
- Current Book Club: 15 (optimal size)
- Additional book club(s), appealing to additional members or specific communities of interest, may be formed
Structure: Monthly potluck dinner hosted at the homes of Book Club members
Discussion Leaders: One Book Club member volunteers to moderate the discussion for each book
Next Book: The Guarded Gate: Bigotry, Eugenics and the Law That Kept Two Generations of Jews, Italians, and Other European Immigrants Out of America by Daniel Okrent

Next Meeting: Wednesday, September 30th, 6:30 pm
Next Host(s): via Zoom
Moderator: Kathy Klepfer
Sign-Up: Terry Johnson | tjins@idcomm.com | (719) 219-6710
Previous Book Selections
- Political Tribes – Group Instinct & the Fate of Nations by Amy Chua
- A World in Disarray and The World: A Brief Introduction by Richard Haas
- The System: Who Rigged It, How We Fix It by Robert Reich)
- Factfulness: Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About the World–and Why Things Are Better Than You Think by Hans Rosling
- Blowout by Rachel Maddow
- Imagining a Great Republic – Political Novels and the Idea of America‘ by Professor Thomas Cronin
- How Democracies Die by Steven Levitsky and Jason Ziblatt
- Viewing/discussion of the film The Laundromat
- 21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari
- AI Super-Powers: China, Silicon Valley and the New World Order’ by Kai-Fu Lee.
- Member’s Choice materials on contemporary issues in sub-Saharan Africa
- Your Loyal and Loving Son, by Horst Fuchs Richardson
- The Perfect Weapon, by David E. Sanger
- Americanah, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (international Women’s Day Discussion)
- Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man’s Fight for Justice by Bill Browder
- The Man Who Stayed Behind, by Sidney Rittenberg and Amanda Bennett
- The Orphan Master’s Son: A Novel, by Adam Johnson