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.

From our Famous First Lines interactive exhibit,

From our Famous First Lines interactive exhibit, "Friends and Fellow Citizens: I stand before you tonight under indictment for the alleged crime of having voted at the last presidential election, without having a lawful right to vote." Read on to learn who said this! * * It was Susan B. Anthony! And today we wish a very happy birthday to her. She gave this speech, "Women's Rights to the Suffrage" in 1873. Test your literary knowledge by guessing other lines in our Famous First Lines exhibit. * * #SusanBAnthony #HappyBirthday #FamousFirstLines

Happy birthday to our friend and Caldecott Medal-winning illustrator @paulozelinsky! This photo is from back in 2017 when Zelinsky painted our beloved tree mural full of adorable, book-loving squirrels in our Children's Literature Gallery. Happy birthday Paul! #ThrowbackThursday #SquirrelsWhoRead

Happy birthday to our friend and Caldecott Medal-winning illustrator @paulozelinsky! This photo is from back in 2017 when Zelinsky painted our beloved tree mural full of adorable, book-loving squirrels in our Children's Literature Gallery. Happy birthday Paul! #ThrowbackThursday #SquirrelsWhoRead

Happy birthday @jacqueline_woodson! Here’s to visibility, possibility, and all of the hard work you do to do to advocate for young people’s literacy and respresentation.
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Back in September of 2018 we were honored that Woodson visited us and spoke not only to an adult audience, but also took time during the day to speak with Chicago students about writing and reading as part of our Write In program, which provides free field trip experiences for qualifying schools. Visit our website to learn more!
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#JacquelineWoodson #happybirthday #AWMAuthorTalks #WriteIn #TuesdayThoughts

Happy birthday @jacqueline_woodson! Here’s to visibility, possibility, and all of the hard work you do to do to advocate for young people’s literacy and respresentation. * * Back in September of 2018 we were honored that Woodson visited us and spoke not only to an adult audience, but also took time during the day to speak with Chicago students about writing and reading as part of our Write In program, which provides free field trip experiences for qualifying schools. Visit our website to learn more! * * #JacquelineWoodson #happybirthday #AWMAuthorTalks #WriteIn #TuesdayThoughts

We're already one month into 2019, and with all this cold weather we've been snuggled up with blankets and books! Check out what the AWM staff read in January, and be sure to visit the reading recommendations page on our website for a full list of books and authors. What are you reading these days?
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#AngaliaBianca #OyinkanBraithwaite #KariChapin #AminderDhaliwal #DaveEggers #ShirleyJackson #RachelKhong #DorothyLehmkuhl #DoloresCotterLamping #JoyceCarolOates #NnediOkorafor #TommyOrange #JosieSilver #JoseAntonioVargas

We're already one month into 2019, and with all this cold weather we've been snuggled up with blankets and books! Check out what the AWM staff read in January, and be sure to visit the reading recommendations page on our website for a full list of books and authors. What are you reading these days? * * #AngaliaBianca #OyinkanBraithwaite #KariChapin #AminderDhaliwal #DaveEggers #ShirleyJackson #RachelKhong #DorothyLehmkuhl #DoloresCotterLamping #JoyceCarolOates #NnediOkorafor #TommyOrange #JosieSilver #JoseAntonioVargas

"Sun's a risin', this is gonna be my song. I could be blue, but I been blue all night long." * * Happy birthday Langston Hughes! Born #onthisday in 1902. Visit us to listen to more recordings of Hughes reading his poems aloud. * * #LangstonHughes #HappyBirthday #BlackHistoryMonth #poetry #WorldReadAloudDay