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From wacbookclub Verified Partner

Women and Climate Member-Led Book Club

Books we've read & what we have coming up through the rest of 2026!

Join us here https://luma.com/wacmemberledbookclub

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All We Can Save by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson

What If We Get It Right? by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson

This Changes Everything by Naomi Klein

Feminist City by Leslie Kern

Charged by James Morton Turner

Silent Spring (Anniversary) by Rachel Carson

The Underworld by Susan Casey

Cancel Culture in Climate by Jenny Morgan

Reefs of Time by Lisa S Gardiner

Extraction by Thea Riofrancos

Climate Wayfinding by Katharine K Wilkinson

From pegasusbooks Verified Partner

Pegasus Book Exchange: Staff Picks

When people come to our store, we're often asked "What are you reading?" Here's a list of some of our current favorites.

Save this list as a favorite to read along with us! If you'd like to buy one of our recommendations, you can purchase through one of these links and we'll get a portion of the proceeds.

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The Seeds by Cecily Parks

This Is Not a Book about Benedict Cumberbatch by Tabitha Carvan

Lolly Willowes by Sylvia Townsend Warner

Mudlark by Lara Maiklem

Shroud by Adrian Tchaikovsky

The Housemaid by Freida McFadden

Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner

The Burning Plain by Juan Rulfo

Fish Tales by Nettie Jones

No Body No Crime by Tess Sharpe

Winter's Orbit by Everina Maxwell

I'm Waiting for You by Kim Bo-Young

The Shards by Bret Easton Ellis

On the Calculation of Volume (Book I) by Solvej Balle

What Belongs to You by Garth Greenwell

Penitential Cries by Susan Howe

Oliver Byrne's Elements of Euclid by Art Meets Science

Maidens or Monsters? by Chantry Westwell

True Biz by Sara Novic

The Premonition by Banana Yoshimoto

Shark Heart by Emily Habeck

From wsurbanism Verified Partner

West Seattle Urbanism Book Club

Our reading group meets once/month at Beveridge Place Pub to discuss books on urbanism, transportation, the built environment, and community development. Below is our reading list so far. For more meeting details, please join us on Discord.

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Shade by Sam Bloch

The Valley of Vengeful Ghosts by Kim Fu

A Natural History of Empty Lots by Christopher Brown

Decolonizing Wealth, Second Edition by Edgar Villanueva

How to Kill a City by Pe Moskowitz

The Inside Story of Seattle's First Green, Mixed-income Neighborhood by Tom J Phillips

Prosocial by Paul W B Atkins

Streetfight by Janette Sadik-Khan

Crossings by Ben Goldfarb

Deciding to See by Nathan Vass

Abundance by Ezra Klein

Stuck by Yoni Appelbaum

From addabook_admin

For a Better Tomorrow

Amongst these titles, you'll find:

Inspiring stories of resisting tyrannic governments
Communities coming together in times of need
Persistent, relentless showing up for civil rights and justice
Guidance on what makes for effective, sustainable resistance movements
Hope that a better tomorrow is within reach if we fight for it

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Be a Revolution by Ijeoma Oluo

On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder

The People's Project by Saeed Jones

Pleasure Activism by Adrienne Maree Brown

Utopia for Realists by Rutger Bregman

A Flower Traveled in My Blood by Haley Cohen Gilliland

The Next American Revolution by Grace Lee Boggs

Why Civil Resistance Works by Erica Chenoweth

Protest by Annie Leonard

Nonviolent by James, Jr Lawson

A Paradise Built in Hell by Rebecca Solnit

Blueprint for Revolution by Srdja Popovic

The Activist's Handbook by Randy Shaw

When the Revolution Comes by Chris Smalls

Resisting Nazism by Luke Berryman

There's a Revolution Outside, My Love by Tracy K Smith

What Can We Hope For? by Richard Rorty

History Teaches Us to Resist by Mary Frances Berry

Abolish Silicon Valley by Wendy Liu

From addabook_admin

Books We're Looking Forward To

2026 is here and there are new books to be read! Some of these are still only available for pre-order, but the authors' past work promises that they will be well worth the wait. Order now and they'll be shipped when they're officially released.

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The Beginning Comes After the End by Rebecca Solnit

Where the Wildflowers Grow by Terah Shelton Harris

Kin by Tayari Jones

Crux by Gabriel Tallent

Traversal by Maria Popova

This Is Not about Us by Allegra Goodman

The Last of Earth by Deepa Anappara

A World Appears by Michael Pollan

One Aladdin Two Lamps by Jeanette Winterson

I Give You My Silence by Mario Vargas Llosa

Evelyn in Transit by David Guterson

Departure(s) by Julian Barnes

Brawler by Lauren Groff

Goldfinches by Mary Oliver

Days of Love and Rage by Anand Gopal

Adult Braces by Lindy West

The Complex by Karan Mahajan

Hooked by Asako Yuzuki

Chain of Ideas by Ibram X Kendi

I Love You Don't Die by Jade Song

Light and Thread by Han Kang

Python's Kiss by Louise Erdrich

Son of Nobody by Yann Martel

Go Gentle by Maria Semple

Last Night in Brooklyn by Xochitl Gonzalez

The Things We Never Say by Elizabeth Strout

John of John by Douglas Stuart

The Afterlife of a Threadbare Jester by Khanh Ha

A Siege of Owls by Uchenna Awoke

The Midnight Train by Matt Haig

The Land and Its People by David Sedaris

Palaces of the Crow by Ray Nayler

Ghalen by Walter Mosley

Land by Maggie O'Farrell

Dead But Dreaming of Electric Sheep by Paul Tremblay

Helpless by Jessica Knoll

Cool Machine by Colson Whitehead

Taipei Story (Deluxe Limited Edition) by R F Kuang

American Hagwon by Min Jin Lee

Hollywood, Ending by John Green

Desire Lines by Kristen Millares Young

Partita by Barbara Kingsolver

The Fist of Memory by Wole Talabi

Recent Notes

The Grey Wolf by Louise Penny

The Grey Wolf

By Louise Penny

rainweaver

Louise Penny strikes again. It took a few chapters to get fully into this one, but then it ramped up quickly into a real nail-biter. These terrorism...

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Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

By Gabrielle Zevin

pwrpuffgal

AGH TORE MY HEART OUT! Such a beautiful story about life long friendship and working relationships. Although, I did have to put this down for a...

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Never Flinch by Stephen King

Never Flinch

By Stephen King

mk797

Another fun Holly story, nothing too incredible to remember, but the two villains were quite fun to follow with a multiple identity disorder person...

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When Tomorrow Burns by Tae Keller

When Tomorrow Burns

By Tae Keller

sruchti

How much can I possibly love this book? Tae Keller brings to life three characters with storylines so complex and real that each could carry a novel...

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