Ten Years of UAPA Book Club Books

Audacity of Hope

Barack Obama

July

2008

Outright Barbarous: How the Violent Language of the Right Poisons American Democracy

Jeffrey Feldman

Sept

2011

Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide

Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn

Nov

2011

Conservatives Without Conscience

John Dean

Jan

2012

Winner Take All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer -- and Turned Its Back on the Middle Class

Jacob Hacker and Paul Pierson

Feb

2012

Corporations Are Not People: Why They Have More Rights Than You Do and What You Can Do About It

Jeffrey D. Clementz

Mar

2012

Don't Think of an Elephant

George Lakoff

Apr

2012

Republic, Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress -- and a Plan to Stop It

Lawrence Lessig

May

2012

Drift

Rachel Maddow

July

2012

The Little Blue Book: The Essential Guide to Thinking and Talking Democratic

George Lakoff

Aug

2012

The New New Deal: The Hidden Story of Change in the Obama Era

Michael Grunwald

Jan

2013

40 More Years: How the Democrats Will Rule the Next Generation

James Carville

Feb

2013

End This Depression Now!

Paul Krugman

Mar

2013

My Beloved World

Justice Sonia Sotomayor

Apr

2013

The Seventeen Solutions: Bold Ideas for our American Future

Ralph Nader

May

2013

Infidel

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

June

2013

The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl

Timothy Egan

July

2013

The Center Holds: Obama and His Enemies

Jonathan Alter

Aug

2013

Reducing Gun Violence in America: Informing Policy with Evidence and Analysis

Daniel Webster, ed.

Sept

2013

Citizenville: How to Take the Town Square Digital and Reinvent Government

Gavin Newsom

Nov

2013

Winner-Take-All Politics

Jacob S. Hacker & Paul Pierson

Jan

2014

Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our

Dan Ariely

Feb

2014

In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin

Erik Larson

Mar

2014

Divided: The Perils of Our Growing Inequality

David Cay Johnston

Apr

2014

A Call to Action: Women, Religion, Violence, and Power

Jimmy Carter

June (was May)

2014

A Fighting Chance

Elizabeth Warren

June

2014

Six Amendments: How and Why We Should Change the Constitution

Justice John Paul Stevens

July

2014

Hard Choices

Hillary Clinton

Aug

2014

The Lost Child of Philomena Lee

Martin Sixsmith

Oct

2014

This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs the Climate

Naomi Klein

Nov

2014

The Gardens of Democracy

Eric Liu and Nick Hanauer

Jan

2015

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

Rebecca Sklodt

Mar (was Feb)

2015

Social Security Works! Why Social Security Isn’t Going Broke and How Expanding It Will Help Us All

Nancy Altman & Eric Kingston

Mar

2015

My Forty Years in Politics

David Axelerod

Apr

2015

The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9-11

Lawrence Wright

May

2015

Still Alice

Lisa Genova

June

2015

Worthy Fights: A Memoir of Leadership in War and Peace

Leon Panetta

July

2015

Frank: A Life in Politics from the Great Society to Same-Sex Marriage

Barney Frank

Aug

2015

Some of My Best Friends are Black: The Strange Story of Integration in America

Tanner Colby

Sept

2015

Reason in a Dark Time

Dale Jamieson

Oct

2015

Born on a Blue Day: Inside the Extraordinary Mind of an Autistic Savant

Daniel Tammet

Dec

2015

Outsider in the White House

Bernie Sanders

Jan

`2016

Reign of Error: The Hoax of the Privatization of America's Public Schools

Diane Ravich

Feb

2016

Why the Right Went Wrong

E.J. Dionne

Mar

2016

Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right

Jane Mayer

Apr

2016

First Women: The Grace and Power of America's Modern First Ladies

Kate Anderson Brower

June

2016

Political Animals: How our Stone Age Brain Gets in the Way of Smart Politics

Rick Shenkman

June

2016

Sleeping Giant: How the New Working Class Will Transform America

Tamara Draut

July

2016

Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America

Ari Berman

Sept

2016

Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis

Robert D. Putnam

Oct

2016

Hillbilly Elegy

J.D. Vance

Nov

2016

Bellevue: Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at America's Most Storied Hospital

David Oshinsky

Jan

2017

1984

George Orwell

Mar

2017

Glass House: The 1% Economy and the Shattering of All-American Town

Brian Alexander

Mar

2017

Shoot like a girl: One woman's dramatic fight in Afghanistan and on the home front

Mary Jennings Hegar

Apr

2017

The Refugees

Viet Thanh Nguyen

May

2017

This Fight Is Our Fight: the Battle to Save America's Middle Class

Elizabeth Warren

June

2017

The Devil’s Highway

Luis Alberto Urrea

July

2017

The End of Men: And the Rise of Women

Hannah Rosin

Aug

2017

Al Franken, Giant of the Senate

Al Franken

Sept

2017

On Tyranny: Twenty lessons from the Twentieth Century

Timothy D. Snyder

Oct

2017

Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City

Matthew Desmond

Nov

2017

We were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy

Ta-Nehisi Coates

Dec

2017

No is Not Enough: Resisting the New Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need

Naomi Klein

Jan

2018

Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic

Sam Quinones

Mar

2018

An American Sickness: How Health Care Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back

Elizabeth Rosenthal

Apr

2018

The New Urban Crisis: How Our Cities Are Increasing Inequality, Deepening Segregation, and Failing the Middle Class-and What We Can Do About It

Richard Florida

May

2018

Fascism: A Warning

Madeleine Albright

June

2018

Rising From The Rails: Pullman Porters And The Making Of The Black Middle Class

Larry Tye

July

2018

The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America

Richard Rothstein

Aug

2018

Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About The World - And Why Things Are Better Than You Think

Hans Rosling, Ola Rosling, and Anna Rosling Rönnlund

Sept

2018

Fear: Trump in the White House

Bob Woodward

Oct

2018

Leadership in Turbulent Times

Doris Kearns Goodwin

Nov

2018

Becoming

Michelle Obama

Mar

2019

Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth

Sarah Smarsh

Apr

2019

The Impeachers

Brenda Wineapple

July

2019

White Fragility

Robin Di Angelo

August

2019

Depression Hates a Moving Target: How Running With My Dog Brought Me Back from the Brink

Nita Sweeny

Oct

2019

People, Power and Profits

Joseph Stiglitz

Nov

2019

A Warning

‘Anonymous’

Jan

2020

Why We’re Polarized

Ezra Klein

Feb

2020

COVID-19 intervened

Just Mercy (begin Zoom meetings)

Bryan Stevenson

May

2020

Tightrope

Nicholas Kristof & Cheryl WuDunn

June

2020

Why You Should Be a Socialist

Nathan Robinson

July

2020

Desk 88: Eight Progressive Senators Who Changed America

Sherrod Brown

Aug

2020

The Ones We’ve Been Waiting For

Charlotte Alter

Sept

2020

The Daughters of Erietown

Connie Schultz

Oct

2020

The System: Who Rigged It, How We Fix It

Robert Reich

Dec

2020

21 Lessons for the 21^st Century

Yuval Noah Harari

Jan

2021

The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy At Home an Abroad

Fareed Zakaria

Feb

2021

A Promised Land

Barack Obama

Mar

2021

Remembering Rosie: Memories of a Wisconsin Farm Girl (author at Book Club)

Nadine Block

Apr

2021

The Sum of Us

Heather McGhee

May

2021

Caste: The Origin of Our Discontents

Isabel Wilkerson

June

2021

The Hospital: Life, Death, and Dollars in a Small American Town (subjects of book attended meeting)

Brian Alexander

July

2021

Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America: A Recent History

Kurt Andersen

Aug

2021

The Plague Year AND The Premonition (2 pandemic themed books)

Lawrence Wright, Michael Lewis

Sept

2021

Wonderworks: The 25 Most Powerful Inventions in the History of Literature

Angus Fletcher

Oct

2021

Democracy in One Book or Less

David Litt

Nov

2021