Book Club
The Beautification Committee is pleased to announce the following Book Club gatherings as a wine and cheese event! Even if you're unable to read the entire book, please come join us for discussion and camaraderie. Please email beautification@elmgrovewi.org for joining instructions.
For our 2025-2026 Book Club, we will be reading:
- October 15th--Walkable City by Jeff Speck
- Dec 10th--The Serviceberry by Robin Wall Kimmerer
- Feb 18th, 2026--Owls of the Eastern Ice by Jonathan Slaught
Prior books read and discussed:
- The Monarch: Saving Our Most Loved Butterfly by Kylee Baumle
- Buzz, Sting, Bite: Why We Need Insects by Anne Sverdup-Thygeson
- Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver
- Bringing Nature Home by Doug Tallamy
- A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold
- Beyond the War on Invasive Species by Tao Orion
- The Nature Fix by Florence Williams
- Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
- The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben
- 7th Generation Earth Ethics by Patty Loew
- Our Native Bees by Paige Embry
- Second Nature by Michael Pollan
- The Lost Art of Reading Nature's Signs by Tristan Gooley
- A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
- Rebugging the Planet by Vicki Hird
- Monarchs and Milkweed by Anurag Agrawal
- The Biophilia Effect by Clemens Arvay
- The Death and Life of the Great Lakes by Dan Egan
- 101 Ways to Go Zero Waste by Kathryn Kellogg
- How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need by Bill Gates
- What The Robin Knows: How Birds Reveal the Secrets of the Natural World by Jon Young
- Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
- The Devil's Element by Dan Egan
- The Botany of Desire: A Plant's Eye View of the World by Michael Pollan
- Kiss the Ground by Josh Tickell
- Last Child in the Woods by Richard Louv
- The Eight Master Lessonsof Nature by Gary Ferguson
- The Comfort of Crows by Margaret Renkl
- Nature's Best Hope by Doug Tallamy