VSDC BOOK CLUB
The Veg Society of DC (VSDC) Book Club meets once each month, usually the last Wednesday at 7:30 pm. Since March 2020 the group has primarily been meeting online. Our books alternate between fiction and nonfiction, and can be about any topic. VSDC members and friends who have read at least half the book are welcome.
An RSVP is required to attend. See the DC Area Vegan Meetup site for our upcoming meeting dates and to RSVP! Any questions, send Beth a message via Meetup.
THE VSDC BOOK CLUB
CELEBRATES 30 YEARS IN 2022!
BOOK SELECTIONS
At the end of each Book Club meeting, participants vote on whether they would recommend the book — yes, no, or “other.” We started asking this question at the April 1993 meeting. (Votes before then may not reflect all the participants.)
2022
| RECOMMEND? | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MONTH | TITLE | AUTHOR | YES | NO | OTHER | |
| January | Such a Fun Age | Kiley Reid | 5 | 2 | 1 | |
| February | Healthy at Last: A Plant-Based Approach to Preventing and Reversing Diabetes and Other Chronic Illnesses | Eric Adams | 12 | 0 | 0 | |
| March | The Vanishing Half | Brit Bennett | 8 | 1 | 3 | |
| April | The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind | William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer | 8 | 0 | 2 | |
| May | The Night Watchman | Louise Erdrich | 3 | 1 | 0 | |
| June | Super Fly: The Unexpected Lives of the World’s Most Successful Insects | Jonathan Balcombe | 11 | 0 | 0 | |
| July | Beastly Things: A Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery | Donna Leon | 8 | 0 | 0 | |
| August | Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future | Elizabeth Kolbert | ||||
| September | The Seed Keeper | Diane Wilson | ||||
| October | Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law | Mary Roach | ||||
2021
| RECOMMEND? | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MONTH | TITLE | AUTHOR | YES | NO | OTHER | |
| January | The Woman’s Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote | Elaine Weiss | 5 | 0 | 0 | |
| February | Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead | Olga Tokarczuk | 6 | 0 | 0 | |
| March | How Democracies Die | Steven Levitsky and Daniel Zieblatt | 9 | 0 | 0 | |
| April | Frankenstein | Mary Shelley | 8 | 0 | 0 | |
| May | The Dressmaker of Khair Khana: Five Sisters, One Remarkable Family, and the Woman Who Risked Everything to Keep Them Safe | Gayle Tzemach Lemmon | 9 | 0 | 0 | |
| June | All Creatures Great and Small | James Herriot | 8 | 2 | 1 | |
| July | Our Symphony with Animals: On Health, Empathy, and Our Shared Destinies | Aysha Akhtar | 11 | 0 | 0 | |
| August | Hamnet | Maggie O’Farrell | 3 | 1 | 2 | |
| September | The Structure of Scientific Revolutions | Thomas Kuhn | 0 | 2 | 1 | |
| October | The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek | Kim Michele Richardson | 5 | 0 | 0 | |
| November | Fun Home | Alison Bechdel | 6 | 0 | 1 | |
2020
| RECOMMEND? | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MONTH | TITLE | AUTHOR | YES | NO | OTHER | |
| January | Charlotte’s Web | E.B. White | 8 | 0 | 0 | |
| February | The Year of Living Biblically | A.J. Jacobs | 4 | 1 | 0 | |
| March | It Can’t Happen Here | Sinclair Lewis | 2 | 2 | 0 | |
| April | Bringing Down the Colonel | Patricia Miller | 6 | 0 | 0 | |
| May | The Sun Also Rises | Ernest Hemingway | 5 | 2 | 0 | |
| June | The Vegetarian Crusade | Adam Shprintzen | 7 | 0 | 0 | |
| July | Conversations with Friends | Sally Rooney | 3 | 2 | 2 | |
| August | We Are the Weather | Jonathan Safran Foer | 14 | 1 | 0 | |
| September | The Joy Luck Club | Amy Tan | 8 | 0 | 0 | |
| October | How to Survive a Pandemic | Michael Greger | 11 | 2 | 0 | |
| November | Homegoing | Yaa Gyasi | 8 | 0 | 0 | |
2019
| RECOMMEND? | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MONTH | TITLE | AUTHOR | YES | NO | OTHER | |
| January | Always Too Much and Never Enough | Jasmin Singer | 8 | 0 | 1 | |