Reading Liberally
Join Reading Liberally Book Club for monthly discussions focused on understanding political and social challenges and developing strategies we can use on personal and local levels to protect Democratic ideals.
When: Reading Liberally meets the 4th Wednesday of every month at 6:30 p.m.
Where: Hempfield recCenter, 1251 Stony Battery Road, Landisville.
All meetings are free, but participants must find their own copies of selected titles.
2026
January 28 – Attack from Within: How Disinformation Is Sabotaging America by Barbara McQuade
February 18 – Separation of Church and Hate by John Fugelsfang
March 25 – The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
April 22 – Who Is Government?: The Untold Story of Public Service by Michael Lewis
May 27 – Why Fascists Fear Teachers: Public Education and the Future of Democracy by Randi Weingarten
June 24 – Gender Queer: A Memoir by Maia Kobabe, one of the most banned books in the U.S.
July 22 – How Books Can Save Democracy by Michael Fischer, a short examination of the importance of reading
August 26 – Bad Law: Ten Popular Laws That are Ruining America by Elie Mystal, a thoughtful, sometimes humorous, look at how laws affect us
September 23 – Turtles All the Way Down by John Green, a book recently banned from a local school curriculum
October 28 – Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut, a controversial classic
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February 26 – Democracy in Retrograde by Emily Amick & Sami Sage
March 26 – Erasing History by Jason Stanley
April 23 – That Librarian by Amanda Jones
May 28 – Democracy Awakening by Heather Cox Richardson
June 25 – The Small and the Mighty by Sharon McMahon
July 23 – Saving Democracy by David Pepper
August 27 – The Violence Project by Jillian Peterson & James Densley
September 24 – Poverty, by America by Matthew Desmond
October 22 – Abundance by Ezra Klein & Derek Thompson
November 19 – On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder
December – No Meeting