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DPC Book Group



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:

  1. 11/16   Religions & Extraterrestrial Life, by David Weintraub

  2. 2/17    March: Book One, by John Lewis
  3. 3/17    March: Book Two & March: Book Three, both by John Lewis
  4. 5/17    The Hidden Life of Trees, by Peter Wohlleben
  5. 6/17    The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated
    America, by Richard Rothstein
  6. 8/17    The Sympathizer, by Viet Thanh Nguyen
  7. 9/17    The Secret History of Wonder Woman, by Jill Lepore
  8. 12/17   Strangers in Their Own Land, by Arlie Russell Hochschild

  9. 2/18    The Inner Life of Animals, by Peter Wohlleben
  10. 4/18    Citizenship Papers, by Wendell Berry
  11. 4/18    On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century, by Timothy Snyder
  12. 6/18    The Potlikker Papers: A Food History of the Modern South, by John T. Edge
  13. 8/18    The Soul of America: The Battle for our Better Angels, by Jon Meacham
  14. 11/18   The Sun does Shine: How I Found Life & Freedom on Death Row, by Anthony
    Ray Hinton


  15. 1/19     Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder, by Caroline Fraser
  16. 3/19     The Hemingses of Monticello, by Annette Gordon-Reed
  17. 5/19     The Library Book, by Susan Orlean
  18. 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
  19. 9/19     The Triumph of Christianity: How a Forbidden Religion Swept the World, by
    Bart Ehrman
  20. 11/19    Great Small Things, by Jodi Picoult

  21. 2/20     No Stopping us Now: The Adventures of Older Women in American History,
    by Gail Collins
  22. 4/20    Pain Killer: An Empire of Deceit and the Origin of America’s Opioid Epidemic,
    by Barry Meier
  23. 5/20    The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women, by Kate Moore
  24. 7/20     White Fragility: Why it’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism,
    by Robin DiAngelo
  25. 9/20     Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
  26. 11/20    Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, by Matthew Desmond

  27. 1/21       Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
  28. 3/21      The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win
    World War II, by Denise Kiernan
  29. 5/21      Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, by Yuval Noah Harari
  30. 9/21      Jesus and John Wayne, by Kristin Kobes Du Mez
  31. 11/21     Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking, by Susan Cain

  32. 1/22      Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teaching
    of Plants, by Robin Wall Kimmerer
  33. 3/22.    Murder at the Mission: A Frontier Killing, Its Legacy of Lies, and the Taking of the American West by Blaine Hardin.
  34. 5/22      The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve: The Story that Created Us by Stephen Greenblatt
  35. 9/22      Go, Went, Gone by Jenny Erpenbeck
  36. 12/22    We Need to Build: Field Notes for Diverse Democracy by Eboo Patel

  37. 3/23      The Last Days of the Dinosaurs by Riley Black
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