MBC Book Club is a wonderful perk of membership!
Each month, a book is selected to complement our programming. We meet immediately after breakfast on the 2nd Wednesday of each month.
Past Book Club selections include:
On Freedom, by Timothy Snyder
Hope for Cynics: The Surprising Science of Human Goodness, by Jamil Zaki
Unmasking AI: My Mission to Protect What is Human by Joy Buolamwini
Caste: The Origins of our Discontent by Isabel Wilkerson
The Story of the Human Body by Daniel Lieberman
Mr Texas by Lawrence Wright
Untouchable: How Powerful People Get Away With It by Elie Honig
The Opposite of Hate by Sandy Kohn
Poverty by America by Matthew Desmond
Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs by Kerry Howley
Knowing What We Know by Simon Winchester
Uncivilized Beasts and Shameless Hellions by John Burnett
The Heat will Kill You First by Jeff Goodell
The Shadow Docket by Stephen Vladek
Together by Vivek Murthy
Factfulness by Hans Rosling
Brave Companions by David McCullough
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Jesus and John Wayne by Kristin Kobes du Mez
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My Grandmother's Hands by Resmaa Menakem
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Myth America by Kevin Kruse and Julian Zelizer
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Civil War by Other Means by Jeremi Suri
- Adrift: America in 100 Charts by Scott Galloway
- Setting The Table by Danny Meyer
- Fuzz by Mary Roach
- How We Got to Now by Steven Johnson
- Lessons from Lucy by Dave Barry
- The Power of Moments by Chip Heath and Dan Heath
- Forget the Alamo by Burroughs, Tomlinson and Stanford
- How to Be Perfect by Mike Schur
- The Coddling of The American Mind by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
- Mine by Michael Heller and James Salzman
- Big Wonderful Thing by Stephen Harrigan
- Tomatoland by Barry Estabrook
- Sons and Soldiers by Bruce Henderson
- Walking Tour of Austin by Charles Llewellin
- How to Change by Katy Milkman
- Payoff by Dan Ariely
- Leaving Isn't The Hardest Thing by Lauren Hough
- The Genie in Your Genes by Dawson Church
- How to Avoid a Climate Disaster by Bill Gates
- Brilliant by Jane Brox
- The Color of Water by James McBride
- Seven and a Half Lessons About The Brain by Lisa Feldman Barrett
- Evil Geniuses by Kurt Anderson
- The Imagination House by Lee Walker
- God Save Texas by Lawrence Wright
- The Curse of Bigness by Tim Wu
- The Second Mountain by David Brooks
- In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts by Gabor Mate
- How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
- The Train To Crystal City by Jan Jarboe Russell
- The Chickenshit Club by Jesse Eisinger
- Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker
- Empire of The Summer Moon by S. C. Gwynne
- Talking To Strangers by Malcolm Gladwell
- Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance
- Pigs In Heaven by Barbara Kingsolver
- Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
We hope you'll join us!