Meeting information: Come join the discussion
The DPC book group has resumed in-person meetings! Because the group does not meet at the church, please e-mail events@dpchurch.com for information on meetings or to learn more.
The book group meets on the first Thursday of every other month to discuss a shared text. The next meeting and book discussion will be in May. The DPC church family is a diverse group of people with equally diverse interests and hobbies.
Current Text Selection:
We are in the process of selecting our next text. In the meantime, here are the selections from 2022.
Previous Text Selections:
The first title selected for our DPC book group was Religions and Extraterrestrial Life by Vanderbilt astronomer David Weintraub. The titles selected since then have been equally interesting, thought-provoking, and conversation-starting.
The following list shows when the book discussion was held, along with the text and author:
- 11/16 Religions & Extraterrestrial Life, by David Weintraub
- 2/17 March: Book One, by John Lewis
- 3/17 March: Book Two & March: Book Three, both by John Lewis
- 5/17 The Hidden Life of Trees, by Peter Wohlleben
- 6/17 The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated
America, by Richard Rothstein - 8/17 The Sympathizer, by Viet Thanh Nguyen
- 9/17 The Secret History of Wonder Woman, by Jill Lepore
- 12/17 Strangers in Their Own Land, by Arlie Russell Hochschild
- 2/18 The Inner Life of Animals, by Peter Wohlleben
- 4/18 Citizenship Papers, by Wendell Berry
- 4/18 On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century, by Timothy Snyder
- 6/18 The Potlikker Papers: A Food History of the Modern South, by John T. Edge
- 8/18 The Soul of America: The Battle for our Better Angels, by Jon Meacham
- 11/18 The Sun does Shine: How I Found Life & Freedom on Death Row, by Anthony
Ray Hinton
- 1/19 Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder, by Caroline Fraser
- 3/19 The Hemingses of Monticello, by Annette Gordon-Reed
- 5/19 The Library Book, by Susan Orlean
- 7/19 To Shake the Sleeping Self: A Journey from Oregon to Patagonia, and a Quest for
a Life with No Regret, by Jedidiah Jenkins - 9/19 The Triumph of Christianity: How a Forbidden Religion Swept the World, by
Bart Ehrman - 11/19 Great Small Things, by Jodi Picoult
- 2/20 No Stopping us Now: The Adventures of Older Women in American History,
by Gail Collins - 4/20 Pain Killer: An Empire of Deceit and the Origin of America’s Opioid Epidemic,
by Barry Meier - 5/20 The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women, by Kate Moore
- 7/20 White Fragility: Why it’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism,
by Robin DiAngelo - 9/20 Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
- 11/20 Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, by Matthew Desmond
- 1/21 Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
- 3/21 The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win
World War II, by Denise Kiernan - 5/21 Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, by Yuval Noah Harari
- 9/21 Jesus and John Wayne, by Kristin Kobes Du Mez
- 11/21 Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking, by Susan Cain
- 1/22 Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teaching
of Plants, by Robin Wall Kimmerer - 3/22. Murder at the Mission: A Frontier Killing, Its Legacy of Lies, and the Taking of the American West by Blaine Hardin.
- 5/22 The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve: The Story that Created Us by Stephen Greenblatt
- 9/22 Go, Went, Gone by Jenny Erpenbeck
- 12/22 We Need to Build: Field Notes for Diverse Democracy by Eboo Patel
- 3/23 The Last Days of the Dinosaurs by Riley Black
