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Book recommendations via Zoom to the Women’s Political Collaborative
BookManBookWoman Zoom with WPC April 2, 2020
Saralee’s Books (BookWoman – Saralee Terry Woods)
- American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins (A thriller and controversial bestseller about why a mother
risked her life and her child’s to escape to the USA ) - The Splendid and the Vile by Erik Larson (Churchill family 1940)
- My Dark Vanessa by Elizabeth (retelling of Lolita)
- The Authenticity Project by Claire Pooley (blank journal completed and shared by strangers)
- Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid (Single woman who nannies & wealthy privileged blogger)
- My Sister the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite (two sisters, one who nurses & the other does
not) - The Woman’s Hour –The Great Fight to Win the Vote by Elaine Weiss (takes place in Nashville
100 years ago, Suffragettes vs. the establishment) - The Secrets We Kept by Lara Prescott (historical fiction about CIA & Dr. Zhivago & women who
worked in DC) - The Swallows by Lisa Lutz (prep school social hierarchy and the female teacher who exposes the
dark secrets) - Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson (author of The Family Fang has written a fun story of a
powerful political family in Tennessee who will go to any length to hide the special “gifts” of
their children) - Bluebird, Bluebird & Heaven, My Home by Attica Locke (an African American Texas Ranger
exposes racism and crime in Texas) - The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendricks (what appears to be a
book club for suburban Charleston women is not). - Late Migrations – A Natural History of Love and Loss by Margaret Renkl (brilliant essays by
Nashvillian who also authors a column for The New York Times) - Entering the Passion of Jesus – A Beginner’s Guide to Holy Week by Dr. Amy-Jill Levine (an
interpretation that only the University Professor of New Testament and Jewish Studies at
Vanderbilt University Divinity School, could author) - The Hope of Glory – Reflections on the Last Words of Jesus from the Cross by Jon Meacham
(Meacham’s stresses Jesus message of love instead of hate)
Larry’s Books (BookMan – Larry D. Woods)
- 100 Books that Changed the Word by Scott Christianson (Larry agrees with 62 of the 100 titles)
- Losing Power – African Americans and Racial Polarization in Tennessee Politics by Sekou
Franklin and Ray Block, Jr. (African American politics in Nashville and in Tennessee) - The Civil Rights Movement in Tennessee by Dr. Bobby Lovett (a thorough history of the
movement) - How to Survive Anything – From Animal Attacks to the End of the World (And Everything in
Between) by Tim Macwelch and the editors of Outdoor Life (need Larry say more) - The Cartel by Don Winslow (First mystery in his trilogy about Narco-Terrorism & politics)
- The Museum of Desire by Jonathan Kellerman (another great Alex Delaware thriller)
- The Deserter by Nelson DeMille (did the Army captain really desert & what’s he doing in Venezuela)
- Theodora: Empress of Byzantium (the second most powerful person in the world in the Sixth Century)
- Fallen by Karin Slaughter (one of the very best crime novelists, set in Georgia)
- The Bill of the Century – the Epic Battle for The Civil Rights Act by Clay Risen (the drafting and passage of the Civil Rights law in the 1960’s)
- The Crowded Hour – Theodore Roosevelt, The Rough Riders and the Dawn of the American Century by Clay Risen (Life of one of our great President’s)
- Justice for All – Earl Warren and the Nation He Made by Jim Newton ( the life of Earl Warren)
- Chief Justice – A Biography of Earl Warren by Ed Clay (Warren’s greatness as a Supreme Court Justice)
- Thurgood Marshall – Justice for All by Roger Goldman and the David Gallen (the 20 th Century’s greatest lawyer)
- Saint X by Alexis Schaitkin (murder in Caribbean and confronting the suspect in New York)
- Maphead by Ken Jennings (memoir of the all-time Jeopardy champion)
- The Burn by Kathleen Kent (great crime novel featuring a female Dallas police detective)
- Rush to Justice? By Jerry Summers (the 1958 Impeachment of a Chattanooga Judge by the Tennessee General Assembly)
- The Warehouse by Rob Hart (suspense story set in an “Amazon” like warehouse)
- Long Range by C.J. Box (another excellent Wyoming state ranger detective story)
- A Cold Day for Murder by Dana Stabenow (mystery featuring the disappearance of a national park ranger in Alaska)
- This Changes Everything – Capitalism versus the Climate by Naomi Klein (our failing efforts to save our own climate)