Book club
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Current pick
by Rebecca Skloot · Nonfiction
A nonfiction pick that reliably produces a real argument — about consent, family and who science is for.
Rebecca Skloot follows the cells taken from Henrietta Lacks in 1951 and the family who learned decades later what had been done with them. The book runs two stories at once: a scientific history and a family's reckoning with it.
Host resources
Practical guidance for choosing books, organising discussions and keeping everyone involved.
The choice matters less than the method. A predictable, fair process keeps a group together far longer than any single great title.
Ninety minutes is enough. Structure the first twenty and the rest usually looks after itself.
Most quiet members are not disengaged — they are waiting for a gap that never comes.
Vary the shape of the meeting a few times a year so it does not become a routine.
Club recommendations
Shelves put together for groups — short, arguable, and easy to get hold of.
Titles that work with four to six readers, where every voice has room.
Books that leave an open question rather than a tidy ending.
Ethics, memory, power and belief — for groups that like to argue.
Under 300 pages, finishable in a fortnight.
Books that ask something of the reader, and reward the asking.
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