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
The Frozen River
Wednesday, Jan 28th at 6pm ET
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.
Months earlier, Martha documented the details of an alleged rape committed by two of the town’s most respected gentlemen—one of whom has now been found dead in the ice. But when a local physician undermines her conclusion, declaring the death to be an accident, Martha is forced to investigate the shocking murder on her own.
December 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 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 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 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 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.