Books we’ve read & groups we’ve partnered with in the past:
(Our upcoming book clubs are listed on the main ‘Events’ page)
October 1, 2025 – Led by Independence First
Book: Year of the Tiger: An Activist’s Life by Alice Wong
September 3, 2025 – Led by American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP) – Wisconsin Chapter
Book: Hello, Cruel World: 101+ Alternatives to Suicide for Teens, Freaks, and Other Outlaws (Second Edition) by Kate Bornstein
August 6, 2025 – led by Tooth + Nail Studio and Gallery
Book: The Dispossessed (50th Anniversary Edition) by Ursula K. Le Guin
July 2, 2025 – led by Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ) – Milwaukee Chapter
Book: Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care by Kelly Hayes and Mariame Kaba led by SURJ
June 4, 2025 – led by Wisconsin LGBTQ History Project
Book: Candy Darling: Dreamer, Icon, Superstar by Cynthia Carr
May 7, 2025 – led by Water is Life Autonomous Campaign
Book: Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions: The Global Struggle for Palestinian Rights by Omar Barghouti
April 2, 2025 – led by Milwaukee Community Acupuncture
Book: All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women’s Bodies and Why It Matters Today by Elizabeth Comen, MD
March 5, 2025 – led by Milwaukee Freedom Fund
Book: The Jail is Everywhere: Fighting the New Geography of Mass Incarceration by Jack Norton, Judah Schept, and Lydia Pelot-Hobbs.
February 5, 2025 – led by Kinship Community Food Center
Book: The Mighty Red by Louise Erdrich
January 8, 2025 – led by the Crisis Resource Center (CRC)
Book: What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma by Stephanie Foo
December 4, 2024 – led by American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Wisconsin
Book: I Have Nothing to Hide and 20 Other Myths About Surveillance and Privacy by Heidi Boghosian
November 6, 2024 – led by Reproductive Justice Action Milwaukee (RJAM)
Book: Birth Strike: The Hidden Fight Over Women’s Work by Jenny Brown
October 2, 2024 – led by Milwaukee Autonomous Tenants Union (MATU)
Book: The Tenant Class by Ricardo Tranjan
September 4, 2024 – led by Literacy Services of Wisconsin
Book: One Person, No Vote: How Not All Voters Are Treated Equally (YA Edition) by Carol Anderson
August 7, 2024 – led by Milwaukee4Palestine
Book: The Trinity of Fundamentals by Wisam Rafeedie
June 19, 2024 – led by CHOSEN Events
Book: Care Of: Letters, Connections, and Cures by Ivan Coyote
April 3, 2024 – led by Woodland Pattern
Book: The Delicacy of Embracing Spirals by mimi tempestt
March 6, 2024 – led by the Sixteenth Street Community Health Center’s Department of Environmental Health and Community Wellness
Book: Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder by Richard Louv
February 7, 2024 – led by Ping Pong Book Club
Book: Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion by Jia Tolentino
January 3, 2024 – led by FitPOWER
Book: The Antiracist Business Book: An Equity Centered Approach to Work, Wealth, and Leadership by Trudi Lebron
December 6, 2023 – led by Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin
Book: Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot by Mikki Kendall
November 1, 2023 – led by Food Not Bombs – Milwaukee
Book: Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next) by Dean Spade
October 4, 2023 – led by Rethinking Schools in celebration of Banned Books Week
Book: Gender Queer: A Memoir by Maia Kobabe
September 6, 2023 – led by the Riverwest Co-op & Cafe
Book: Grocery Story: the Promise of Food Co-ops in the Age of Grocery Giants by Jon Steinman
August 2, 2023 – led by Girls Rock MKE
Book: Trust Kids! Stories on Youth Autonomy and Confronting Adult Supremacy edited by carla joy bergman
July 5, 2023 – led by the Milwaukee Riverkeepers
Book: The Death and Life of the Great Lakes by Dan Egan
June 7, 2023 – led by Queer Zine Archive Project (QZAP)
Book: A History of Milwaukee Drag: Seven Generations of Glamor by Michail Takach and B.J. Daniels
May 3, 2023 – led by the Milwaukee Newspaper Guild
Book: News for All the People: the Epic Story of Race and the American Media by Juan Gonzalez and Joseph Torres
April 5, 2023 – led by the Hmong American Women’s Association (HAWA)
Book: dejsiab: from my liver to yours by Mai Neng Vang
March 1, 2023 – led by the Wisconsin Humane Society
Book: Animals Make Us Human: Creating the Best Life for Animals by Temple Grandin and Catherine Johnson
February 1, 2023 – led by the Cathedral Center emergency shelter
Book: Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond
January 4, 2023 – led by the Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL), Milwaukee chapter
Book: Socialist Reconstruction: A Better Future for the United States (authored collectively)
December 7, 2022 – led by BESTD Sexual Health Clinic in (belated) honor of World AIDS Day
Book: My Government Means to Kill Me: A Novel by Rasheed Newson
November 2, 2022 – led by African American Roundtable
Book: No More Police: A Case for Abolition by Andrea Ritchie and Mariame Kaba
October 5, 2022 – led by the Women’s Medical Fund (WMF)
Book: Handbook for a Post-Roe America: The Complete Guide to Abortion Legality, Access, & Practical Support (2021 edition) by Robin Marty
September 7, 2022 – led by the Milwaukee Public Library in celebration of Banned Books Week
Book: Saga: Book One by Brian K Vaughan (writer) & Fiona Staples (illustrator)
August 3, 2022 – led by The Daily Bird & Milwaukee Overdose Prevention
Book: Undoing Drugs: The Untold Story of Harm Reduction and the Future of Addiction by Maia Szalavitz. CBC included an opioid overdose prevention training. Free Narcan nasal spray was given to all attendees.
July 6, 2022 – led by Autumn Farm Sanctuary
Book: Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows by Melanie Joy
June 1, 2022 – led by Tool Shed
Book: Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science That Will Transform Your Sex Life by Emily Nagoski
May 4, 2022 – led by Hope Praxis Collective
Book: I Hope We Chose Love: A Trans Girls Notes from the End of the World by Kai Cheng Thom
April 6, 2022 – led by La Revo Books
Book: Too Happy to be Sad Girl: Surviving Sadness, Ditching Anxiety, & Learning to Thrive by Angel Aviles
March 2, 2022 – led by Milwaukee Freedom Fund
Book: Carceral Con: The Deceptive Terrain of Criminal Justice Reform by Kay Whitlock & Nancy Heitzeg
December 1, 2021 – led by Lion’s Tooth
Book: We Will Not Cancel Us: And Other Dreams of Transformative Justice by Adrienne Maree Brown
