Human Rights Book Clubs
Join the Wassmuth Center's Human Rights Book Clubs
Times of rapid change, complexity, and division require space and time for people to gather around a shared human rights-themed book and the opportunity to dive deeply into important topics through reading, discussion, and learning.
Generations for Justice Book Club
meets on the second Tuesday of each month from
6:30 - 8:00 PM
Hope & Humanity Book Club
meets on the fourth Tuesday of each month from
12:00 - 1:00 PM and 6:30 - 8:00 PM
Generations for Justice Book Club
Second Tuesday of each month
Generations for Justice is an intergenerational book club that welcomes community members of all ages to gather on the second Tuesday of each month at 6:30 PM.
Upcoming Selection:
- July 8: Monster: A Fan’s Dilemma by Claire Diderer
- August 12: Apple (Skin to the Core) by Eric Gansworth
- September 9: Finding Eve: Raising a Transgender Teen in Idaho by Michael and Angie Devitt
- October 8: Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, A Man Who Would Cure the World by Tracy Kidder
- November 22: The Collectors: Stories
Generations for Justice Book Club Selections
Hope & Humanity Book Club
Fourth Tuesday of each month
The Hope & Humanity Book Club is a welcoming space for lively conversations about books that explore human rights across all genres—stories that spark empathy, deepen understanding, and inspire meaningful action.
We gather on the fourth Tuesday of each month at both 12:00 PM and 6:30 PM.
**Note, for June and July, we will only meet at 6:30 PM**
Upcoming Selections:
- July 22: Rebecca Nagle’s By the Fire We Carry
- August 26: Eva Schloss’ After Auschwitz
- September 23: Pinchas Gutter’s Memories in Focus
- October 28: Aaron Elster’s I Still See Her Haunting Eyes
- November 25: Anita Wallfisch’s Inherit the Truth
Hope & Humanity Book Club Selections
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“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”
-JAMES BALDWIN, AMERICAN WRITER