The St. Louis JACL annually conducts a book club discussion as a venue to engage in the race and civil rights topics relevant to members of the Japanese American Citizens League.
Book Club Selections:
2023 “Disappear Doppelganger Disappear” by Matthew Salesses
2022 “Beautiful Country” by Qian Julie Wang
2021 “The Vanishing Half” by Brit Bennett
2020 “The Block Manager: A True Story of Love in the Midst of Japanese American Internment Camps” by Judy Mundle
2019 “Born a Crime” by Trevor Noah
2018 “Underground Airlines” by Ben Winters
2017 “Between the World and Me” by Ta-Nehisi Coates
2016 “I Am Malala” by Malala Yousafzai
2015 “Everything I Never Told You” by Celeste Ng
2014 “A Tale for the Time Being” by Ruth Ozeki
2013 “Zeitoun” by David Eggers
2012 “The Help” by Kathryn Stockett
2011 “Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet” by Jamie Ford
2010 “Three Cups of Tea” by Greg Mortenson
2009 “The Book Thief” by Markus Zusak
2008 “When the Emperor was Divine” by Julie Otsuka
2007 “Dreams From My Fathers” by Barack Obama
2006 “The Kite Runner” by Khaled Hosseini
2005 “Untangling my Chopsticks” by Victoria Riccardi
2004 “Yellow” by Frank Wu
2003 “Farewell to Manzanar” by Jeanne Wakatsuki
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