Better World Book Club

Better World Book Club selects and discusses socially meaningful non-fiction books that expand hearts and minds. 

The book club meets every other month - six times a year - and welcomes all. Our club includes members from the community who are not members of this church and many who are members of other churches. 

The church has created a special bookshelf of the books read by the Better World Book Club. Anyone is welcome to sign out a book by coming to the church. 

NEXT BOOK CLUB MEETING

Monday, November 9, 2026 @ 3pm for a discussion about

Ikigai by Hector Garcia & Francesc Marilles

 
 

The residents of the Japanese village with the highest percentage of 100-year-olds reveal the secrets to their longevity and happiness: how they eat, how they move, how they work, how they foster collaboration and community, and their best-kept secret—how they find the ikigai that brings satisfaction to their lives. This will help you find your own ikigai.

Join us for a most enjoyable and profound exchange. Everyone is welcome. 

Previous books read by the BWBC include:

  • An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the World Around Us by Ed Yong

  • Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver

  • Autocracy, Inc.: The Dictators Who Want To Run the World by Anne Applebaum

  • A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II by Sonia Purnell

  • The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times by Jane Goodall

  • The Book of Joy by Dalai Lama, Desmond Tutu, & Douglas Abrams

  • Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson

  • The Coming Wave: AI, Power, and Our Future by Mustafa Suleyman

  • The End of Bias: A Beginning by Jessica Nordell

  • Everyday Ubuntu: Living Better Together, the African Way by Mungi Ngomane

  • Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond

  • Fire Weather: A True Story of a Hotter World by John Vaillant

  • The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate - Discoveries from a Secret World by Peter Wohlleben

  • Holy Envy: Finding God in the Faith of Others by Barbara Brown Taylor

  • How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need by Bill Gates

  • Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson

  • Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World by Jason Hickel

  • Mark Twain by Ron Chernow

  • Our Malady: Lessons in Liberty from a Hospital Diary by Timothy D. Snyder

  • Poverty, By America by Matthew Desmond

  • Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism by Rachel Maddow

  • Regeneration: Ending the Climate Crisis in One Generation by Paul Hawken

  • Remember, My Child: A Memoir of Auschwitz by Itka F. Zygmuntowicz

  • Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari

  • Slavery's Descendants: Shared Legacies of Race and Reconciliation by Jill Strauss & Dionne Ford

  • The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmasking of U.S. History by Ned Blackhawk

  • The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life by David Brooks

  • Serviceberry: An Economy of Gifts and Reciprocity in the Natural World by Robin Wall Kimmerer

  • The Soul of Civility: Timeless Principles to Heal Society and Ourselves by Alexandra Hudson

  • The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together by Heather McGhee

  • When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi

  • White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo