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:
- January 13: We Are Not Free by Traci Chee
- February 10: Bright Red Fruit by Safia Elhillo
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.
Generations for Justice Book Club
2024 Selections
July
Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson
August
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi
September
This Is How It Always Is by Laurie Frankel
October
This Is How It Always Is by Laurie Frankel
2025 Selections
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Hope & Humanity
Book Club
2025 Selections
January
The Bones of the World by Betsy L. Ross
February
Decent Exposure by Edna Shochat
March
The Children of Willesden Lane by Mona Golabek
April
The Book of Delights by Ross Gay
May
Black Butterflies by Priscilla Morris
June
The Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
July
By the Fire We Carry by Rebecca Nagle
August
After Auschwitz by Eva Schlooss
September
Memories in Focus by Pinchas Gutter
October
I Still See Her Haunting Eyes by Aaron Elster
November
Inherit the Truth by Anita Lasker-Wallfisch
2026 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