Community members are invited to join the Department of Humanities and the Harrell Health Sciences Library at Penn State College of Medicine in Hershey one Wednesday a month from September through May to discuss select books by contemporary writers of color in the U.S. The goal of this monthly discussion is to strengthen community ties and expand participants' understanding of one another through reading.

Community members may join if they have read all, part or none of the books. Meetings will be held over Zoom, and registration is required at https://harrell.library.psu.edu/bookclub. For registered attendees, meeting information will be sent by email the day before the event.

The dates and list of reading selections are as follows: Sept. 15, "Brother I Am Dying" by Edwidge Danticat; Oct. 13, "Mexican Gothic" by Silvia Moreno-Garcia; Nov. 10, "The Night Watchman" by Louise Erdrich; Dec. 15, "Call Us What We Carry" by Amanda Gorman; Jan. 12, 2022, "Transcendent Kingdom" by Yaa Gyasi; Feb. 9, "Just Us: An American Conversation" by Claudia Rankine; March 9, "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston; April 13, "Born a Crime" by Trevor Noah; and May 11, "The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories" by Ken Liu.

These events are free and open to all Penn State College of Medicine and Penn State Health faculty, staff, students and trainees as well as community members. Continuing education credits are available for the Penn State Health and College of Medicine community.

For more information, email Sharon Daugherty at sdaugherty@pennstatehealth.psu.edu.