A book club for adults who want to read in community. We meet one Friday morning a month to chat about a title we read in common.

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Back to School September: Reading the Classics

SULA 
by Toni Morrison (1973)

A modern masterpiece about love and kinship, about living in an America birthed from slavery. Nobel Prize laureate Toni Morrison gives life to characters who struggle with what society tells them to be, and the love they long for and crave as Black women. (from the publisher)

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Reading club participants are also encouraged to read the chapter on Sula (pp 49-70) in:

ON MORRISON
by Namwali Serpell (2026)
**pages 49-70 only

Toni Morrison, Nobel Laureate and one of our most beloved writers, has inspired generations of readers. But her artistic genius is often overshadowed by her monumental public persona, perhaps because, as Namwali Serpell puts it, “she is our only truly canonical black female writer—and her work is highly complex.” In On Morrison, Serpell brings her unique experience as both an award-winning writer and a professor who teaches a course on Morrison to illuminate her masterful experiments with literary form. This is Morrison as you’ve never encountered her before, a journey through her oeuvre...with contextual guidance and original close readings. At once accessible and uncompromisingly rigorous, On Morrison is a primer not only on how to read one of the most significant American authors of all time but also on how to read great works of literature in general. This dialogue on the page between two black women artist-readers is stylish, edifying, and thrilling in its scope and intelligence. (from the publisher)

Copies of both books will be available at the Circulation Desk starting September 1.