Join the HCSF Reading Group to discuss The Warmth of Other Suns By Isabel Wilkerson
In-Person Meeting
Sunday, September 13, 2026
3:30-5:00 pm Pacific
In-Person, Aptos, CA
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HCSF Members: Free, but RSVP required
Non-Members: $10 Not a member? Register here for membership!
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Registration ends Friday, September 11
The Warmth of Other Suns
Isabel Wilkerson
2010, 640 pages
#2 on NYT Best Books of the 21st C
Wilkerson’s intimate, stirring, meticulously researched and myth-dispelling book, which details the Great Migration of Black Americans from South to North and West from 1915 to 1970, is the most vital and compulsively readable work of history in recent memory. This migration, she writes, “would become perhaps the biggest underreported story of the 20th century. It was vast. It was leaderless. It crept along so many thousands of currents over so long a stretch of time as to be difficult for the press truly to capture while it was under way.” Wilkerson blends the stories of individual men and women with a masterful grasp of the big picture, and a great deal of literary finesse. The Warmth of Other Suns reads like a novel. It bears down on the reader like a locomotive. —Dwight Garner
Questions about our meetings or how we choose our books?
Contact Kirsten Miclau
HCSF Reading Group Organizer
readinggroup@harvardclubsf.org