Book Discussions/Events

Gene Luen Yang joins us again this year to discuss his latest work and the reclamation (and representation) of the original Shang-Chi character in the Marvel universe. His work is a perennial favorite of Berkeley’s high school students and community teens who have read his graphic novel, American Born Chinese. Attendees of this event will be able to connect this presentation to themes of identity, belonging, racism, xenophobia, and the Chinese immigrant experience.

This online book group will discuss recent literary fiction books, on the last Tuesday of the month. All sessions meet at 2pm

February 22: Liar's Dictionary by Eley Williams

March 29: When She Comes Back by Ronit Plank

April 26: Empty Mansions by Bill Dedman

The discussion will take place over Zoom and include 15 participants with a waitlist.

Register Here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMsd--pqzosHNdOXyjFLelUTsx6Io0fJzPt

This online book group will discuss recent literary fiction books, on the last Tuesday of the month. All sessions meet at 2pm

February 22: Liar's Dictionary by Eley Williams

March 29: When She Comes Back by Ronit Plank 

April 26: Empty Mansions by Bill Dedman

The discussion will take place over Zoom and include 15 participants with a waitlist.

This program is full, we are no longer taking sign ups.

This online book group will discuss recent literary fiction books, on the last Tuesday of the month. All sessions meet at 2pm.

This month's book is:

Notes from a Young Black Chef by Kwame Onwuachi

The discussion will take place over Zoom and include 15 participants with a waitlist.

Registeration: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcrd-CsqjMsE9yG7qEZTFYP-xUe1K_sjLnU

This online book group will discuss recent literary fiction books, on the last Tuesday of the month.

October 26: Berkeley Noir

November 30:The Mistress of Spices: A Novel

December 28:  Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup

All sessions meet at 2pm

The discussion will take place over Zoom and include 15 participants with a waitlist.

Hope Silver (Russian author) and Julia Kosivchuk (Ukrainian illustrator) present, Diary of a Traveling Hedgehog, a story about the humorous and wondrous adventures of a little Hedgehog who decides it's time he saw more of the world.

Please join us for this interactive storytelling experience. Virtual meet & greet with the authors after the program. Hedgehogs of all ages are welcome. Good mood provided for all!

Click {HERE} to register on Zoom.

Please register here for the Zoom discussion. 

Monica Campbell, senior editor and reporter of public radio’s The World, leads a conversation with the authors of the new book, Driving While Brown: Sheriff Joe Arpaio versus the Latino Resistance, Terry Greene Sterling and Jude Joffe-Block.

This event is cosponsored by Eastwind Books of Berkeley.

Registration here. 

We are fully in the swing of springtime, and all the previously dead things are now coming to life. (Stay with me here.) Time to shake off the last of those winter doldrums with some ghosty boys!

Join us for a special meeting of the Berkeley & Portland LGBT+ Book Club where we will be discussing Aiden Thomas' Cemetery Boys.