The Joy of History Book Club convenes once a month via Zoom. Each meeting is limited to 20 people to allow for an intimate, highly interactive, participatory experience. The Fall series is currently scheduled:
Scroll below to take a look at what we’ll be reading. Purchase the books you want to read from the vendors of your choosing. Or check them out at your local library!
This beautifully crafted, award-winning historical novel tells the story of a group of young women brought from Japan to San Francisco as “picture brides” a century ago: from their arduous journeys, to their first nights as new wives; from their experiences raising children who would later reject their culture, to the implications of World War II.
Explore the complexities, passions, and points of view of John Steinbeck in this first full-length biography in a quarter century. His enduring depictions of California's landscapes, seascapes, people, and thorny social problems remain relevant to this day.
In this impeccably researched narrative—a charmed combination of Hollywood history, social history, and family memoir—Margaret Talbot captures the eras of the 1910s and 1920s small-town America and the Hollywood of the 1930s and 1940s while telling the story of mass entertainment across the first half of the twentieth century.
The Fall series runs on the second Saturdays of October, November, and December. If you have to miss a meeting for the day you signed up for, recordings of each meeting will be made available (privately) for one week.
Watch this space for what we'll be reading in 2022!