The Story Changes Culture Book Club announces selections every month that exclusively feature women authors.
This month’s Story Changes Culture Book Club selection
Bigger, by Ren Cedar Fuller
Bigger is about growth, empathy, embodiment, and how our understanding about ourselves and others changes over time. Ren explores her relationship with her father, who she comes to understand was likely autistic long before people like him were identified or supported (“Naming My Father”). She tells us beautiful stories about being a mom to a transgender and non-binary child, illustrating both her immediate celebration when Indigo came out and her desire to keep them safe (“Checklist for a Sign-Making Party”). She writes with such warmth and love about her immigrant mother (“Four Words”) and with deep self awareness in her piece about coming of age in Southern California (“The Tar Rocks”). These are just a few examples of the essays in the collection. We believe the themes that Cedar Fuller explores are incredibly timely and can't wait to hear what you think.
Previous Book Club Selections
What Are You Going Through, Sigrid Nunez
A story about empathy and the unusual ways one person can help another through hardship.
The nature of talent, obsession, belonging, and above all, our need to be heard.
Monsters, Claire Dederer
A fan's dilemma.
A rare book collector's quest to find the women writers who shaped a legend.
The Moment of Lift, Melinda Gates
How empowering women changes the world.
Wintering, Katherine May
Nasty Women, Samhita Mukhopadhyay and Kate Harding
Feminism, Resistance, and Revolution in Trump's America.
Story Driven, Bernadette Jiwa
Deep Cuts, Holly Brickley
Jane Austen's Bookshelf, Rebecca Romney
The Art of Gathering, Priya Parker
How we meet and why it matters.
The power of rest and retreat in difficult times.
You don't need to compete when you know who you are.
What Kind of Woman, Kate Baer
And In the Company of Women, by Grace Bonney.
Between Two Kingdoms, Suleika Jaouad
A Memoir of a Life Interrupted.
Broad Band, Claire L. Evans
Men Explain Things to Me, Rebecca Solnit
An essay collection by author Rebecca Solnit.
A whip-smart novel told by a former Wall Street insider.
The Bandit Queens, Parini Shroff
“A darkly irreverent and fresh take on a revenge thriller.”
Grown Woman Talk, Sharon Malone, M.D.
Your guide to getting and staying healthy.
The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet.
Lady Tan's Circle of Women, Lisa See
A historical novel by New York Times bestselling author Lisa See.
Opening Belle, Maureen Sherry
Good for a Girl, Lauren Fleshman
A woman running in a man’s world.
Daisy
By Libby Sternberg
And Then the Flash, A Hunter Sunrise & Marico Fayre
Two artists embark on a 6000-mile journey that delivers beautiful prose and images that remind us to lean into our relationship and creativity.
12 Bytes, Jeannette Winterson
Creative living beyond fear.
Pretty Bitches, Lizzie Skurnick
Girlhood, Melissa Febos
A national best seller.
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow and Tomorrow, Gabrielle Zevin
A New York Times best seller.
How AI will change the way we live and love.
Big Magic, Elizabeth Gilbert
A collection of essays about being called crazy, bitchy, bossy, frumpy, angry, feisty and more.
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