If you have questions prior to registering, please reach out to Lindsay Smart, UNM HSC Associate Vice Chancellor for Leadership and Faculty Equity & Inclusion.
Community, Connection and Reflection Book Club meetings will always be held the 3rd week of any given month according to the following schedule, with any changes to the schedule being communicated on the website and the Book Club mailing list.
January/February 2024
On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
March/April 2024
The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness by Meghan O’Rourke
May/June 2024
There There by Tommy Orange
July/August 2024
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J.D. Vance
September/October 2024
My Broken Language: A Memoir by Quiara Alegría Hudes
November/December 2024
Tales of Two Americas: Stories of Inequality in a Divided Nation by John Freeman
January/February 2023
Evicted by Matthew Desmond
March/April 2023
The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich
May/June 2023
The Pain Gap: How Sexism and Racism in Healthcare Kill Women by Anushay Hossain
July/August 2023
The Pearl that Broke Its Shell by Nadia Hashimi
September/October 2023
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson
November/December 2023
We Measure the Earth with Our Bodies by Tsering Yangzom Lama
January 2022
Two Old Women: An Alaskan Legend of Betrayal, Courage & Survival by Velma Wallis
February 2022
My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma & the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies by Resmaa Menakem
March 2022
Everything Here is Beautiful by Mira T. Lee
April 2022
The Scalpel and Silver Bear: The First Navajo Woman Surgeon Combines Western Medicine & Traditional Healing by Lori Alvord & Elizabeth Cohen van Pelt
May 2022
America is Not the Heart by Elaine Castillo
June 2022
The Undocumented Americans by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
July 2022
An American Marriage: A Novel by Tayari Jones
August 2022
Yellow Bird: Oil, Murder, and a Woman's Search for Justice in Indian Country by Sierra Crane Murdoch
September 2022
Girl In Translation by Jean Kwok
October 2022
Crying in H Mart: A Memoir by Michele Zauner
November 2022
The Pull of the Stars by Emma Donoghue
December 2022
Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know by Malcolm Gladwell
March 2021
Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 by Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain (Editors)
April & May 2021
An Indigenous Peoples History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
June 2021
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Perez
July 2021
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
August 2021
Fruit of the Drunken Tree by Ingrid Rojas Contreras
September 2021
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontent by Isabel Wilkerson
October 2021
The Map of Salt & Stars by Zeyn Joukhadar
November 2021
Between the World & Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
December 2021
Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead