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Southpaw Book Club

Read
something
true

Down with capitalism!

A leftist, non-fiction book club in Athens, Georgia

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat Oliver Sacks

We are reading

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat

Oliver Sacks · 1985

Dr Sacks shows the awesome powers of our mind and just how delicately balanced they have to be.

Science

Reading next

  1. The Vampire's Cult: The Untold Story of Obsession, Control, and a Shocking Small-Town Murder Chet Hardin History
Every book
we've read

16 books and counting

How the club works

Down with capitalism like how 1984 is down with big brother.

All books we pick fall under one of the topics we decided on when we created the club: history, nature, politics, science, or sociology. Nominations come from members on a rotating basis and then we all vote.

Then we meet to discuss somewhere with some eatin’ and maybe some drinken. Maybe trivia if we’re feeling wild.

At the end of the cycle, we pick a book to add to the queue, and a charity that might do some fixin’ of some of the problems in what we just finished. Then we do it all again.

Sociology
Politics
Nature
Science
History

Just finished

Where we eat

All the spots

Cielito Lindo

Downtown

Hot or Not Chicken Co.

Downtown

What we get Hot chicken fingers, cornbread, pudding of the month

Nighthawks Lounge

Barber