Book Club Reading Recommendations | The American Writers Museum

Check out the lists below for your next reading inspiration. Book club members and voracious readers alike will find something to pique their interest. The best part? You can click on the Amazon or IndieBound links, and start reading right away! Check back regularly as new lists will be added and existing lists updated.

#CaptioningStories
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Visit our exhibit, Capturing Stories: Photographs of Writers by Art Shay, to write your own captions to some of the legendary Art Shay's photos. Your caption might even be featured here! #CaptioningStories #ArtShay

#CaptioningStories * * Visit our exhibit, Capturing Stories: Photographs of Writers by Art Shay, to write your own captions to some of the legendary Art Shay's photos. Your caption might even be featured here! #CaptioningStories #ArtShay

Reality check. #CaptioningStories
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Try your hand at writing your own captions in our exhibit Capturing Stories: Photographs of Writers by Art Shay. Throughout his long career, Art photographed many writers with wit, compassion, and sensitivity. Currently hanging in this temporary exhibit are intimate portraits of writers such as James Baldwin, Gwendolyn Brooks, Carl Sandburg and many more. Visit us and see your favorite writers like you've never seen them before! @artshayarchive #CaptioningStories #ArtShay #realitycheck

Reality check. #CaptioningStories * * Try your hand at writing your own captions in our exhibit Capturing Stories: Photographs of Writers by Art Shay. Throughout his long career, Art photographed many writers with wit, compassion, and sensitivity. Currently hanging in this temporary exhibit are intimate portraits of writers such as James Baldwin, Gwendolyn Brooks, Carl Sandburg and many more. Visit us and see your favorite writers like you've never seen them before! @artshayarchive #CaptioningStories #ArtShay #realitycheck

It's National Book Lovers Day! This, unsurprisingly, is one of our favorite days of the year and we love sharing our love for books. These titles are just some of the many fantastic books that will be featured in our upcoming programs through August and September. Visit our website to see the full list! 📚 📚 📚 *
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#nationalbookloversday #bookloversday #americanwritersmuseum

It's National Book Lovers Day! This, unsurprisingly, is one of our favorite days of the year and we love sharing our love for books. These titles are just some of the many fantastic books that will be featured in our upcoming programs through August and September. Visit our website to see the full list! 📚 📚 📚 * * #nationalbookloversday #bookloversday #americanwritersmuseum

not pictured: GLITTER. lots and lots of glitter. #CaptioningStories
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Everyone at Lollapalooza please stay safe and dance often, just like these superheroes. Stop by the AWM this summer and write your own captions to this photo and others in our exhibit Capturing Stories: Photographs of Writers by Art Shay. Just like Lollapalooza, we're open all weekend. #CaptioningStories #ArtShay #Lollapalooza

not pictured: GLITTER. lots and lots of glitter. #CaptioningStories * * Everyone at Lollapalooza please stay safe and dance often, just like these superheroes. Stop by the AWM this summer and write your own captions to this photo and others in our exhibit Capturing Stories: Photographs of Writers by Art Shay. Just like Lollapalooza, we're open all weekend. #CaptioningStories #ArtShay #Lollapalooza

"It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive." -James Baldwin * * Happy birthday to James Baldwin, born #OTD in 1924. This photo was taken by the incomparable Art Shay, honored in our exhibit "Capturing Stories: Photographs of Writers by Art Shay." Visit us to see more intimate photos of writers such as Gwendolyn Brooks, Ernest Hemingway, Nelson Algren and more. * * #JamesBaldwin #ArtShay #WriterBirthday