Below is the list of books read by the Book Club during 2023-2024. More information about the Book Club and the books read can be found on the club's home page at Book Club.

WVURA Book Club
Friday, December 1, 2023

The December book was The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey by Candice Millard. The River of Doubt is the true story of Theodore Roosevelt’s harrowing exploration of one of the most dangerous rivers on earth, the River of Doubt, a black, uncharted tributary of the Amazon that snakes through one of the most treacherous jungles in the world. Roosevelt accomplished a feat so great that many at the time refused to believe it. In the process, he changed the map of the western hemisphere forever.

WVURA Book Club
Friday, November 3, 2023

The November book was The China Study by T. Colin Campbell and Thomas M. Campbell. The China Study is called the most comprehensive study of nutrition ever conducted and its findings startling implications for diet, weight loss, and long term health. The China Study is hailed as one of the most important books about diet and health ever written.

WVURA Book Club
Friday, October 6, 2023

The October book was The Professor and the Madman: A Tale or Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester.  As definitions were collected for the dictionary, one man, Dr. W. C. Minor, had submitted more than ten thousand. And more surprising, Dr, Minor, an American Civil War veteran, was also an inmate at an asylum for the criminally insane.

WVURA Book Club
Friday, September 1, 2023

The September book was The Devil and Sherlock Holmes: Tales of Murder, Madness and Obsession by David Grann.  Entertainment Weekly calls the book a
“horrifying, hilarious, and outlandish” collection of gripping true crime mysteries about people whose obsessions propel them into deadly circumstances.

August- Summer Break

July - Summer Break