Like no other book, The End of Ice offers a firsthand chronicle of the catastrophic reality of our situation and the incalculable necessity of relishing this vulnerable, fragile planet while we still can.

Join fellow readers to discuss this week’s Chautauqua Literary & Scientific Circle selection, A Nail the Evening Hans On by Monica Sok. Conversation is facilitated by CLSC staff and a member of the Chautauqua community. All readers welcome.

In her debut collection, Monica Sok uses poetry to reshape a family's memory about the Khmer Rouge regime—memory that is both real and imagined—according to a child of refugees.

Join fellow readers to discuss this week’s Chautauqua Literary & Scientific Circle selection, The Source of Self-Regard by Toni Morrison. Conversation is facilitated by CLSC staff and a member of the Chautauqua community. All readers welcome.

Here is Toni Morrison in her own words: a rich gathering of her most important essays and speeches, spanning four decades.

Join fellow readers to discuss this week’s Chautauqua Literary & Scientific Circle selection, Infinite Detail by Tim Maughan. Conversation is facilitated by CLSC staff and a member of the Chautauqua community. All readers welcome.

A timely and uncanny portrait of a world in the wake of fake news, diminished privacy, and a total shutdown of the Internet.

Join fellow readers to discuss this week’s Chautauqua Literary & Scientific Circle selection, In the Country of Women by Susan Straight. Conversation is facilitated by CLSC staff and a member of the Chautauqua community. All readers welcome.

In the Country of Women is a valuable social history and a personal narrative that reads like a love song to America and indomitable women.

Join fellow readers to discuss this week’s Chautauqua Literary & Scientific Circle selection, The Gifted School by Bruce Hoisinger. Conversation is facilitated by CLSC staff and a member of the Chautauqua community. All readers welcome.

Set in the fictional town of Crystal, Colorado, The Gifted School is a keenly entertaining novel that observes the drama within a community of friends and parents as good intentions and high ambitions collide in a pile-up with long-held secrets and lies.

Join fellow readers to discuss this week’s Chautauqua Literary & Scientific Circle selection, We Cast a Shadow by Maurice Carlos Ruffin. Conversation is facilitated by CLSC staff and a member of the Chautauqua community. All readers welcome.

This electrifying, hallucinatory novel is at once a keen satire of surviving racism in America and a profoundly moving family story.

Join fellow readers to discuss this week’s Chautauqua Literary & Scientific Circle selection, The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to Present by David Treuer. Conversation is facilitated by CLSC staff and a member of the Chautauqua community. 

In The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee, Treuer melds history with reportage and memoir. Tracing the tribes' distinctive cultures from first contact, he explores how the depredations of each era spawned new modes of survival.

Join fellow readers to discuss this week’s Chautauqua Literary & Scientific Circle selection, The Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives edited by Viet Thanh Nguyen. Conversation is facilitated by CLSC staff and a member of the Chautauqua community. All readers welcome.

Viet Nguyen brings together writers originally from Mexico, Bosnia, Iran, Afghanistan, Soviet Ukraine, Hungary, Chile, Ethiopia, and others to make their stories heard.