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35 Questions for Engaging Nonfiction Book Club Conversations

Plus, 7 bonus Memoir-specific questions. How would you re-write the last sentence of the book? How familiar are you with the book’s topic? Have you read anything else about the subject? Do you see yourself reading this book again? What questions do you still have after reading this book? Have you ever been to any …

book with a culinary memoir slant

December 2024 Read

Prompt: Book with a culinary memoir slant 📚🔥 Men-Who-Read Book Club – December Meetup Recap! 🔥📚 This month, we dove into Heat by Bill Buford, a culinary biography packed with kitchen adventures 🍝 and chef drama 🍳. While it’s a bestseller and Buford’s writing has its moments, we found it a bit… slow-cooking. 🤷‍♂️ Some intriguing tidbits? Absolutely. Gripping …

Book with a map on the cover

November 2024 Read

Prompt: Book with a map on the cover Submitted books: Book we selected: Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Explain Everything About the World by Tim Marshall

book of a morbid + macabre nature

October 2024 Read

🎃Thanks guys for getting into the spooky Fall season together. We read “Dark Archives: A Librarian’s Investigation Into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin” by Megan Rosenbloom. 🧐At our meetup we talked about:-the ethics of binding books in human skin and what we do with them now hundreds of years later-how …

September 2024 Read

🥰Thanks men for delving unabashedly into our discussion of author Christopher Hitchens book “Mortality”. 🧐We delved into some weighted topics:-our own experiences watching loved-ones die-of our fears and hopes-of the medical institutions we live with-of our religions and how we view them-and more We all agreed that this was a book worth reading and discussion …

Autumn reads Mortality, Dark Archives, and Prisoners of Geography

Our Autumn Reads – 2024

SeptemberPrompt Book from your To-Be-Read listSelection Mortality by Christopher Hitchens OctoberPrompt Book of a Morbid + Macabre NatureSelection Dark Archives: A Librarian’s Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin by Megan Rosenbloom NovemberPrompt Book with a map on the coverSelection Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps that Explain Everything About the …

Summer Book Club reading

Our Summer Reads – 2024

JunePrompt Book that’s been a LAMBDA Award FinalistSelection The Up Stairs Lounge Arson: Thirty-Two Deaths in a New Orleans Gay Bar Jun 24, 1973 by Clayton Delery-Edwards JulyPrompt Book with Bees in itSelection Honeybee Democracy by Thomas D. Seeley AugustPrompt Book with alcohol as a central themeSelection Proof: The Science of Booze by Adam Rogers

Cozy library with fireplace and dark leather chairs

Reading Challenge (Non-Fiction) – 1st Edition

Here it is. A full 12 months worth of Men-Who-Read non-fiction book prompts. You can easily print our reading challenge or use a PDF reader to display. Men-Who-Read Book Club Reading Challenge (Non-Fiction) PROMPT prompt / 01 Book by an author who uses a wheelchair prompt / 02 Book with the word “Heart” in the title prompt / 03 Book that’s …