Monthly Themed Book Selections

The definitive account of the Great Migration — the decades-long movement of Black Americans from the South to the North and West. Wilkerson's narrative journalism reads like a novel and reframes American history through the lives of three unforgettable individuals.

Sethe, a formerly enslaved woman, is haunted — literally — by the trauma of her past. Morrison's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece confronts the psychological legacy of slavery with language that is simultaneously brutal and transcendent.

Four generations of a Korean family navigate discrimination, sacrifice, and survival in Japan. An epic saga centred on women whose choices — constrained by history, culture, and gender — shape everything that follows.

Nine Americans whose lives are changed by trees — and by the fight to save them. Powers' Pulitzer Prize winner is a meditation on time, activism, and what it means to act on behalf of something larger than yourself.

A memoir about grief, Korean identity, and the food that connects us to the people we love and lose. Zauner's writing is precise, funny, and devastating — a portrait of what it means to belong to two cultures and feel fully at home in neither.

An American in Paris falls in love with an Italian bartender while engaged to a woman. Baldwin's 1956 novel remains one of the most honest and heartbreaking explorations of desire, shame, and the cost of self-denial ever written.

Ifemelu leaves Nigeria for America and discovers that she has become Black — a category that didn't exist for her at home. A brilliant, funny, and incisive novel about race, identity, love, and what America looks like from the outside.

Esther Greenwood's breakdown and recovery in 1950s America remains one of the most searingly honest accounts of depression and the pressures placed on women ever written. A novel that has never stopped being necessary.

The Buendía family's multigenerational saga in the fictional town of Macondo is one of the great novels of the 20th century — a meditation on history, memory, solitude, and the cycles that trap and define us.

Written in 1935, Lewis's novel imagines a fascist takeover of the United States through a populist demagogue. Its prescience has made it one of the most-read political novels of the 21st century — a warning that feels perpetually current.

Botanist and member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation Robin Wall Kimmerer weaves Indigenous plant knowledge with Western science into a profound meditation on reciprocity, gratitude, and our obligations to the living world.

Ishmael Beah was twelve when civil war consumed Sierra Leone and thirteen when he became a child soldier. His memoir is a testament to survival, rehabilitation, and the stubborn persistence of humanity in the most brutal circumstances.