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 Books
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
Thursday, Oct 16th at 6pm ET
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.
Relayed in his own unsparing voice, Demon braves the modern perils of foster care, child labor, derelict schools, athletic success, addiction, disastrous loves, and crushing losses. Through all of it, he reckons with his own invisibility in a popular culture where even the superheroes have abandoned rural people in favor of cities.
Pandora’s Jar by Natalie Haynes
Wednesday, Nov 12th at 6pm ET
In Pandora’s Jar, the broadcaster, writer, stand-up comedian, and passionate classicist Natalie Haynes turns the tables, putting the women of the Greek myths on an equal footing with the men. With wit, humor, and savvy, Haynes revolutionizes our understanding of epic poems, stories, and plays, resurrecting them from a woman’s perspective and tracing the origins of their mythic female characters.
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?
September Book
The Nightingale
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
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.