Soft Heart Book Club Reading List
Welcome to the Soft Heart Book Club, your leftist book club with a focus on cultivating care and connection to enable us to better drive change and co-create the world we want to live in.
We're starting up again after a brief hiatus, and I'd be delighted to read, learn, and explore with you!
You can pick up these books at your local library, local indie bookstore, or if you're buying online, I'd recommend getting them at Bookshop.org which is an excellent Amazon alternative for buying books that shares profits with independent bookstores around the country. (All links below go to Bookshop.org and are affiliate links which means your purchase also supports this book club being run 💜) If you're struggling to find a copy, please reach out to me via email or Discord, and I'm sure I can help you out 🤝
Soft Heart Book Club Reading List
Check out all books that have been on the list in this collection here.
2023
For 2023, the book club will meet the last Thursday of each month at 6pm Pacific time (9pm US Eastern, 12pm Friday Australian Eastern)
- April 27 - A Field Guide to Getting Lost by Rebecca Solnit exploring what it means to get lost and be found
- May 25 - Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber exploring the phenomenon of jobs that don't really need doing and why they exist anyway
- June 29 - Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build an Ideal World by Rutger Bregman exploring another pathway to a post-capitalist future
- July 27 - The Future is Degrowth: a Guide to a World Beyond Capitalism by Matthias Schmelzer, Aaron Vansintjan, and Andrea Vetter exploring one possible path toward a post-capitalist future
- August 31 - TBD
- September 28 - TBD
- October 26 - TBD
- November 30 - TBD
- December 28 - TBD (Tentative date, could be rescheduled due to holidays)
2022
- Paused the book club for a bit
- October 8 - Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
- August/September - Summer break off
- July 9 - I Hope We Choose Love by Kai Cheng Thom
- June 18 - How to Do Nothing by Jenny Odell
- May 7 - Disability Visibility: First person stories from the 20th century by Alice Wong
- March 5 - The Care Manifesto: The Politics of Interdependence by the Care Collective
- February 12 - Radical Humility: Essays on Ordinary Acts
- January 8 - Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Davis
2021
- December 4 - The Red Deal: Indigenous Action to Save Our Earth by the Red Nation
- November 6 - Laziness Does Not Exist by Devon Price
- October 2 - Mutual Aid by Dean Spade
- August 26 - Emergent Strategy by adrienne maree brown
- July 29 - How We Show Up by Mia Birdsong
- June 24 - All About Love by bell hooks