You Can't Make This Stuff Up Book Club
Location:
Manuel's Tavern
602 North Highland Avenue, NE
Atlanta, Georgia 30307
This book club exclusively reads nonfiction works with themes so crazy they couldn’t be fiction--like Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI, or The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. We read important works to better understand our place in history as well as current events. We tackle taboo subjects through books including race, income, and religious beliefs. If you want to wrestle with topics you don’t normally get to discuss at home, this is the group for you.
The You Can't Make This Stuff Up Book Club meets on the second Tuesday of each month at 7 p.m.
Book Club Liaison: Chenchu Biradavolu
Unfortunately, this book club is full and not accepting new members.
April Selection
Unworthy Republic: The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory by Claudio Saunt
Previous Selections
American Midnight by Adam Hochschild
Critical Race Theory: The Key Writings That Formed the Movement by Kimberlé Crenshaw, Neil Gotanda, Gary Peller, Kendall Thomas
The Chaos Machine by Max Fisher
Tell Me How it Ends by Valeria Luiselli
Eager by Ben Goldfarb
Memorial Drive by Natasha Trethewey
On Juneteenth by Annette Gordon-Reed
The Trouble with White Women by Kyla Schuller
Charged by Emily Bazelon
Born in Blackness by Howard French
The 1619 Project by Nikole Hannah-Jones
The Genetic Lottery: Why DNA Matters for Social Equality by Kathryn Paige Harden
Wired for Culture by Mark D. Pagel
Healthy at Last by Eric Adams
My Time Will Come by Ian Manuel
We're Not Broken by Eric Garcia
Stuck by Heidi Larson
The Second Coming of the KKK by Linda Gordon
The Premonition by Michael Lewis
The Return by Hisham Matar
Twitter and Tear Gas by Zeynep Tufekc
Why We're Polarized by Ezra Klein
Calling Bullshit: The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven World by Jevin West and Carl Bergstrom
A Libertarian Walks into a Bear by Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling
The Case Against Free Speech by P.E. Moskowitz
Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker
African American Cooking: Meals, Music, and Muses from a Southern Kitchen by Alexander Smalls
How to be an Anti-Racist by Ibram X. Kendi
Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn
That Good Night by Sunita Puri
I Like to Watch by Emily Nussbaum
he Family by Jeff Sharlet
The Woman’s Hour: The Great Fight To Win The Vote by Elaine Weiss
Engines of Liberty: How Citizen Movements Succeed by David Cole
The Loneliness of the Black Republican by Leah Wright Rigueur
The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution by Eric Foner
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson
Rising Out of Hatred: The Awakening of a Former White Nationalist by Eli Saslow
Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World by Anand Giridharadas
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming by David Wallace Wells
The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border by Francisco Cantú
The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy by Michael Lewis
How Democracies Die by Levitsky & Ziblatt
American Prison by Shane Bauer
The New Urban Crisis by Richard Florida
Democracy In Chains by Nancy MacLean
Hillbilly Elegy by J. D. Vance
The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason by Sam Harris
Hidden America: From Coal Miners to Cowboys, an Extraordinary Exploration of the Unseen People Who Make This Country Work by Jeanne Marie Laskas
One Nation Undecided: Clear Thinking about Five Hard Issues That Divide Us by Peter H. Schuck
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nahesi Coates
Strangers in Their Own Land by Arlie Hochschild
Loaded by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann
City on the Verge by Mark Pendergrast
