Book Club
Reading and Riesling
Reading and Riesling is our monthly book discussion series held at the CLE Urban Winery. Each month we’ll pick a book to discuss based on community suggestions.
Unlike traditional book clubs, there is no set membership or expected attendance. Choose when you want to join us and the price you want to pay. Your payment(s) supports our community engagement and outreach events.
Reading and Riesling is open to all (21+ to drink wine). Refreshments are served and wine is available for purchase.
The books are suggested and led by you! Not feeling a certain book? Super busy next month? No worries just come for another session.
Our current schedule for books:
Saturday, February 2024- Sula by Toni Morrison
Book Host: Marie Kirskey
New Location for February: Good Shepard Outreach Center 18615 Harvard Ave, Cleveland, OH
JUST ANNOUNCED
Saturday, March 9th- My Why and I by Destiny Burns
Book Host: Shana Black w/ Destiny Burns \
Thursday, March 28th- I’m Not Yelling: A Black Woman’s Guide to Navigating the Workplace by Elizabeth Leiba
Book Host: Traci Hollimon
April 2024: TBD have a suggestion or want to host click here
Other books we’ve discussed
- Ikigai: The Japanese secret to a long and happy life by Héctor García & Francesc Miralles (Jan. 2024)
- My Grandmothers: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies by Resmaa Menakem (Dec. 2023)
- You Are A Badass by Jen Sincero
- We Can All Be Millionaires by Rachel Rodgers
- The 1619 Project by Nikole Hannah Jones
- I Almost Forgot About You by Terry McMillian
- Mother of Black Hollywood by Jennifer Lewis
- She Begat This: 20 Years of the Miseducation of Lauryn Hill by Joan Morgan
- Becoming by Michelle Obama
- LeapFrog: The New Revolution for Women Entrepreneurs by Nathalie Molina Niño and Sara Grace
- Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Brittany Cooper
- You Can’t Touch My Hair: And Other Things I Still Have to Explain– by Pheobe Robinson
- Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Check out some of our podcast interviews with local and Black authors
The Podcast
Redefining home with Robin Wilson
Is Shaker a Dream Town? A conversation with Laura Meckler
The Blaq Print w/ Gina Tucker and Wesley Wood
