Women Who Read | Summer 2025 Book Clubs
Join us as we launch our first book clubs!
Leading up to our Annual Celebration with author and activist Reshma Saujani, we encourage you to host and/or join a shared experience around one of her books or recent speeches.
Please scroll through this entire page to find dates for discussions near you and virtually, Vermont booksellers, and discussion guides and tips to help you host a gathering.
Explore Reshma Saujani's work
To start this reading (or watching) journey, pick a piece by Reshma:
- Brave, Not Perfect: Fear Less, Fail More, and Live Bolder
-
Pay Up: The Future of Women and Work (And Why It’s Different Than You Think)
- Imposter syndrome is a scheme: Smith College 2023 Commencement Address
- Gender relations are broken (here’s how to fix it): Harvey Mudd College 2025 Commencement Address
- Or Something Else: find a podcast or other speech to talk about
Join a Gathering
This page will be updated frequently with new events. Get updates each week by signing up for the book club email list.
- Wednesday, September 3 at 7:00 pm on Zoom
- Video: Imposter syndrome is a scheme: Smith College Commencement Speech
- Hosts: Emily Bush & Sara Munro
- Register to join us virtually
- Tuesday, September 9 at 1:00 pm on Zoom
- Book: Pay Up
- Hosts: Kathleen Burns Kingsbury & Sara Kermenski
- Register to join us virtually
- Monday, September 15 at 12:00 pm on Zoom
- Book: Brave, Not Perfect
- Hosts: Emily Bush & Sara Munro
- Register to join us virtually
Host a Discussion or Watch Party
The principles of hosting a discussion are simple:
- Pick a book or video
- Choose a date, time, and location (in-person or virtual)
- Meet virtually on your favorite platform. If you would like us to add your event to this page, please email Emily.
- Meet at a home or find a community space such as your local library, senior center, park, or municipal building
- Ask a local business to meet in their space, such as a bookstore, coffee shop, restaurant, bakery, or bank (many of them have free, community spaces)
- Invite friends, family, colleagues, neighbors
- Tell us about it: Share photos/videos and reflections on your experience.
Discussion Guides
We compiled short discussion guides to help start conversations about what your group reads or watches. This is not comprehensive nor prescriptive; merely helpful questions to use for your gathering.
Find Books Near You
Check out your local library for hard copies, ebooks, and audiobooks or one of Vermont's local booksellers--many are women-owned businesses. If your favorite isn't on this list, please let us know.
- Arch Bridge Bookshop, Bellows Falls
- Bartleby's Books, Wilmington
- Bear Pond Books, Montpelier & Stowe
- Bennington Bookshop, Bennington
- Bridgeside Books, Waterbury
- Crow Bookshop, Burlington
- Everyone’s Books, Brattleboro
- Flying Pig Bookstore, Shelburne
- Galaxy Bookshop, Hardwick
- Green Mountain Books & Prints, Lyndonville
- Laureate Fine Books, Poultney
- Monroe Street Books, Middlebury
- Next Chapter Bookstore, Barre
- Northshire Books, Manchester Center
- Norwich Bookstore, Norwich
- Otter Creek Used Books, Middlebury
- Phoenix Books, Burlington, Essex, Rutland & Chester.
- The Book Garden, Montpelier
- The Book Nook, Ludlow
- The Bookstore, Brandon
- The Eloquent Page, St. Albans
- The Vermont Book Shop, Middlebury
- Village Square Books, Bellows Falls
- Yankee Bookshop, Woodstock
Thank You to Our Sponsors
We are grateful to these businesses who believe in our work and contributed to making this event possible.
