Last updated 2025-10-27
Book Club
The SHL Book Club normally meets on the third Sunday of the month, at 3 pm in Meeting Room B of the Main Branch of the Charleston County Public Library, located at 68 Calhoun St in Charleston.
Upcoming meetings
November 2025: How Minds Change by David McRaney
What made a prominent conspiracy-theorist YouTuber finally see that 9/11 was not a hoax? How do voter opinions shift from neutral to resolute? Can widespread social change only take place when a generation dies out? From one of our greatest thinkers on reasoning, HOW MINDS CHANGE is a book about the science, and the experience, of transformation.
December 2025: The Project by David Graham
When President Donald Trump returned to the White House in January 2025, news spread about his implementation of Project 2025, a nearly 1,000-page document published by the conservative think tank The Heritage Foundation. The debates—and anxiety—surrounding this initiative have only increased as authors of the Project assume positions of power in the second Trump administration.
Book Club is for fun!
“Reading should be fun. It should be enjoyable. It doesn’t mean that you’re going to always be happy, but reading should never be painful, it should never be obligatory. Once you have graduated from whatever program is compelling you to read, everything you do after that should be because you want to…Do not feel guilty about reading. Reading should always be something that brings you joy, even if it doesn’t bring you happiness.”
Candidate Book List
The linked spreadsheet lists books that group members have suggested for possible future meetings:
List of Past Books
The linked spreadsheet lists books the SHL Book Club previously read:
Past meetings
October 2025: Money, Lies, and God by Katherine Stewart
We are reading Money, Lies, and God: Inside the Movement to Destroy American Democracy by Katherine Stewart for our October book club meeting. The meeting will be held at 3 pm on Sunday, October 26th in Meeting Room B of the Main Public Library downtown. Metered...
September 2025: Read Banned Books! 3rd Annual Discussion & Celebration
For our September 28, 2025 meeting we are having our 3rd annual Banned Books Discussion and Celebration. Participants will choose their own banned book to read and report on.
August 2025: The Sirens’ Call by Chris Hayes
For our August 24, 2025 meeting we are reading The Sirens’ Call by Chris Hayes.
EMERGENCY Book Club: Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
We are having an emergency book club meeting on Saturday, August 9th to discuss Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir.
July 2025: Class Clown by Dave Barry
For our July 27, 2025 meeting we are reading Class Clown: The Memoirs of a Professional Wiseass: How I Went 77 Years Without Growing Up by Dave Barry.
June 2025: Inverse Cowgirl by Alicia Roth Weigel
For our June 22, 2025 meeting we are reading Inverse Cowgirl: A Memoir by Alicia Roth Weigel.
May 2025: Erasing History by Jason Stanley
For our May 25, 2025 meeting we are reading Erasing History: How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future by Jason Stanley.
April 2025: An Immense World by Ed Yong
For our April 25, 2025 meeting we are reading An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us by Ed Yong.
March 2025: The Demon of Unrest by Erik Larson
For our March 23, 2025 meeting we are reading The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War by Erik Larson.
February 2025: Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
For our February 23, 2025 meeting we are reading Parable of the Sower by Octavia E Butler.
January 2025: All the Beauty in the World by Patrick Bringley
For our January 26, 2025 meeting we are reading All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me by Patrick Bringley.
December 2024: Lamb by Christopher Moore
For our December 22, 2024 meeting we are reading Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore.