Below is the list of books read by the Book Club during 2024-2025. 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 5, 2025

The December book was The Cruelest Miles: The Heroic Story of Dogs and Men in a Race Against an Epidemic by Gay Salisbury and Laney Salisbury.  When a deadly diphtheria epidemic swept through Nome, Alaska, in 1925, the local doctor knew that without a fresh batch of antitoxin, his patients would die. The lifesaving serum was a thousand miles away, the port was icebound, and planes couldn't fly in blizzard conditions―only the dogs could make it. The heroic dash of dog teams inspired the annual Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race and immortalized Balto, the lead dog . This is the greatest dog story, never fully told until now. (Amazon blurb)

WVURA Book Club
Friday, November 7, 2025

The November book was Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI by Ethan Mollick.  Mollick has become one of the most prominent and provocative explainers of AI. Co-Intelligence shows what it means to think and work together with smart machines and why it's imperative that we master that skill.

WVURA Book Club
Friday, October 10, 2025

The October book was The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert.  This book is the winner of the Pulitzer Prize.  A major book about the future of the world and the mass extinction unfolding before our eyes.  Scientists around the world are currently monitoring the sixth extinction, predicted to be the most devastating extinction event since the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs. This time around, the cataclysm is us. (blurb from Amazon)

WVURA Book Club
Friday, September 5, 2025

The September book was The Demon of Unrest by Erik Larson. This book is about the five months between the election of Abraham Lincoln and the start of the Civil War, a period marked by tragic errors and miscommunications, inflamed egos and craven ambitions, personal tragedies and betrayals. Lincoln himself wrote that the trials of these five months were “so great that, could I have anticipated them, I would not have believed it possible to survive them.”  (blurb from Amazon)