Get Ready for Our Summer Of Sisterhood Book Club
Every Mother Counts is curling up with a good book.
After we turn the last page, we’re gathering our sisters and friends, pouring the wine and coffee and talking until we’re all talked out. We’ll ask questions, share our opinions and wonder what we’d do if this were our story. It’s our second annual Summer of Sisterhood and like last year, our book club is one of the items in our Summer Bucket List of activities we’re most excited about.
We’ve created a nice long list of books covering motherhood, sisterhood, and other topics that relate to women’s lives and maternal health experiences. For our younger audiences and parents who want to read with their kids, we’ve created a list of books perfect for mother-daughter (fathers and sons welcome too) book clubs and girl groups of all ages. Our plan is to pick one book from our list per week to read, discuss and share. Yeah, we know a book-a-week is ambitious and we certainly don’t expect you to read every book on our list, but what the heck, even if you’re not spending your entire summer hanging out on the beach or the porch, we think the lazy days of summer are perfect for a mini-challenge of reading, learning and exploring.
Here’s how it works:
We’ll post our entire summer reading list online. Every Wednesday, we’ll announce that week’s book choice. We’ll give you some time to read it, then, we’ll invite you to our book club “meeting” on that book. Some of our meetings will take place via Google chat, hosted by Every Mother Counts’ staff along with the book’s author and EMC supporters and partners. Other meetings will include interactive Q&As, where readers pose their questions and we interview the authors to get their answers. Invite your sisters to join us and stay tuned for opportunities to win autographed copies of some of the books by participating in our book club through social media.
Let’s get started, shall we? Here’s our reading list so far (and here’s last year’s list), but we welcome your suggestions too. Just post your ideas on our Facebook page and we’ll add them to the list. Check back each week to find out what we’ll be reading together.
Adult Books
- Mom&Me&Mom by Maya Angelou
- What My Mother Gave Me by Elizabeth Benedict
- The Secrets of Happy Families by Bruce Feiler
- Keeping Hope Alive: One Woman — 90,000 Lives Changed by Hawa Abdi and Sarah Robbins
- Message From An Unknown Chinese Mother:Stories of Loss and Love by Xinran
- The Birth House by Ami McKay
- However Long The Night: Molly Melching’s Journey to Help MiIlions of African Women and Girls Triumph by Aimee Molloy
- The Still Point of the Turning World by Emily Rapp
- The Promise of Living by George Goens
- A Midwife’s Tale — The Diary of Martha Ballard (1785–1812) By Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
- Midwives By Chris Bojalian
- Sing You Home by Jodi Picoult
- The Orchardist by Amanda Coplin
- Redefining Girly by Melissa Atkins Wardy
- Birth, Breath & Death by Amy Wright Glenn
Kids Books:
- The Mother Daughter Book Club by Heather Vogel Frederick
- Marty McGuire, by Kate Messner
- Stand Tall, Molly Lou Melon by Patty Lovel
- The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate by Jacqueline Kelly
- The Great Cake Mystery:Precious Ramotswe’s Very First Case, by Alexander McCall Smith
- Girls Who Looked Under Rocks, by Jeannine Atkins
- Seeds of Change: Planting a Path to Peace, by Jen Cullerton Johnson
- The Princess Academy, by Shannon Hale
- Tatterhood and Other Tales, by Ethel Johnston Phelps
- Velma Gratch and the Way Cool Butterfly, by Alan Madison
- Daddy Longlegs, by Jean Webster
- A Girl Named Disaster, by Nancy Farmer
- Seven Chinese Sisters, by Kathy Tucker
- The Best Beekeeper of Lalibela, by Cristina Kessler
- Here Come the Girl Scouts, by Shauna Corey
- Just Juice, by Karen Hesse
- All the American Girls books, by Various Authors
- Island of the Blue Dolphins, by Scott O’Dell
- Marisol McDonald Doesn’t Match, by Monica Brown
- El Ratoncito Perez, by Cristina Carrion, Margarita Ruiz
- Me Llamo Gabriela, by Monica Brown
- Me Llamo Cicelia, by Monica Brown
