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Books And Brilliance

All* Above All is launching our first-ever virtual book club, Books and Brilliance! This group is for anyone who loves to read, believes in reproductive justice, and wants to connect with others who share those values.

Each month, the group will choose a new book to read together, and then discuss it the following month, led by one of our brilliant staff or partners in this work. Sign up to join! Meeting details will be shared after sign up. Check out some of our favorite books below:

Sign up here for our Books and Brilliance Book Club!

Upcoming

Lessons in Chemistry
Wednesday, Feb 25th at 6pm ET

Chemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact, Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing as an average woman. But it’s the early 1960s and her all-male team at Hastings Research Institute takes a very unscientific view of equality. Except for one: Calvin Evans; the lonely, brilliant, Nobel–prize nominated grudge-holder who falls in love with—of all things—her mind. True chemistry results.

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January 2026 Book

The Frozen River

By Ariel Lawhon

Maine, 1789: When the Kennebec River freezes, entombing a man in the ice, Martha Ballard is summoned to examine the body and determine cause of death. As a midwife and healer, she is privy to much of what goes on behind closed doors in Hallowell. Her diary is a record of every birth and death, crime and debacle that unfolds in the close-knit community.

December 2025 Book

The Child Finder

By Rene Denfeld

Told in the alternating voices of Naomi and a deeply imaginative child, The Child Finder is a breathtaking, exquisitely rendered literary page-turner about redemption, the line between reality and memories and dreams, and the human capacity to survive.

November 2025 Book

Pandora’s Jar

By Natalie Haynes

Pandora’s Jar brings nuance and care to the millennia-old myths and legends and asks the question: Why are we so quick to villainize these women in the first place—and so eager to accept the stories we’ve been told?

October 2025 Book

Demon Copperhead

By Barbara Kingsolver

Set in the mountains of southern Appalachia, Demon Copperhead is the story of a boy born to a teenaged mother in a single-wide trailer, with no assets beyond his dead father’s good looks and copper-colored hair, a caustic wit, and a fierce talent for survival.

September 2025 Book

The Nightingale

By Kristin Hannah

During Nazi occupation in France, two sisters take different paths in WWII – one lives with a German captain to protect her family, while another joins the Resistance, both of them risking everything. This unforgettable novel by Kristin Hannah about love and strength in the face of war has enthralled a generation.

August 2025 Book

Great Big Beautiful Life

By Emily Henry

Two writers compete for the chance to tell the larger-than-life story of a woman with more than a couple of plot twists up her sleeve in this dazzling and sweeping new novel from Emily Henry.