Location:
Manuel's Tavern
602 North Highland Avenue Northeast, Atlanta, GA 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 the second Tuesday of each month at 7 p.m.

Book Club Liaison: Chenchu Biradavolu

September Selection

The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border by Francisco Cantú

Next Month's Selection

The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming by David Wallace Wells

Previous Selections

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