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: Ann Chirhart and Peden Two Elk
July Selection
Mother Emanuel by Kevin Sack
Previous Selections
Poor Economics by Abhijit Banerjee
Bird City: Adventures in New York's Urban Wilds by Ryan Goldberg
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad
Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves by Nicola Twilley
Deep Water: The World in the Ocean by James Bradley
Brave the Wild River by Melissa L. Sevigny
Billion Dollar Whale by Bradley Hope and Tom Wright
There Is No Place for Us by Brian Goldstone
Everyone Who is Gone is Here by Jonathan Blitzer
America, América by Greg Grandin
Valley of Forgetting by Jennie Erin Smith
How to Hide an Empire by Daniel Immerwahr
Eight Bears by Gloria Dickie
Original Sins by Eve L. Ewing
Men Who Hate Women by Laura Bates
The Rise and Reign of the Mammals by Steve Brusatte
Whiskey Tender by Deborah Taffa
When the Clock Broke by John Ganz
Time's Echo: Music, Memory, and the Second World War by Jeremy Eichler
The Quiet Damage by Jesselyn Cook
Cue the Sun! by Emily Nussbaum
Narcotopia by Patrick Winn
How Life Works by Philip Ball
Bad Mexicans by Kelly Lytle Hernández
The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine by Serhii Plokhy
The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values by Brian Christian
If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution by Vincent Bevins
Red Memory: The Afterlives of China's Cultural Revolution by Tania Branigan
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond
Realigners: Partisan Hacks, Political Visionaries, and the Struggle to Rule American Democracy by Timothy Shenk
What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World's Most Enigmatic Birds by Jennifer Ackerman
A Peace to End All Peace, 20th Anniversary Edition: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East by David Fromkin
Miseducated: A Memoir by Brandon P. Fleming
Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of the Continent by Eduardo Galeano
God, Human, Animal, Machine: Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning by Meghan O'Gieblyn
The Tyranny of Merit: Can We Find the Common Good? by Michael J. Sandel
Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us by Rachel Aviv
Worn: A People's History of Clothing by Sofi Thanhauser
Unworthy Republic: The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory by Claudio Saunt
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
