Book Club Title Choices - Spring 24 (Dr. Worthy) - PSY132: Psychology and Culture - Library Resources at Glendale Community College

Title Choices for Book Club Assignment (Dr. Worthy's class)

The Book Club Assignment is for students in Lisa Worthy's sections of PSY132. The members of your group will decide on a single book to read over the course of the semester. All 3-5 students in the same book group must agree upon one title from the list below. Online discussions will take place throughout the semester as the group progresses through the book and makes connections to material being taught in PSY132.

Locating Your Title Choice

Browse the titles below and read each book summary to help decide which title you might like to choose. To place a hold on a physical copy of the book for pickup at the GCC Library, simply click on the hyperlink. Scroll down further to access the free eBook of a title. This eBook option is also available by clicking on the Library Resources tab within Canvas, then selecting eReserves. 1 user at a time may access an online eBook.

Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
ISBN: 9780399588174
MEMOIR
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The compelling, inspiring, and comically sublime story of one man's coming-of-age, set during the twilight of apartheid and the tumultuous days of freedom that followed NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Michiko Kakutani, New York Times * USA Today * San Francisco Chronicle * NPR * Esquire * Newsday * Booklist, Trevor Noah's unlikely path from apartheid South Africa to the desk of The Daily Show began with a criminal act: his birth.
The Fatal Gift of Beauty by Nina Burleigh
ISBN: 9780307588593
NONFICTION - TRUE CRIME
The sexually violent murder of twenty-one-year-old British student Meredith Kercher in Perugia, Italy, on the night of November 1, 2007, became an international sensation when one of Kercher's housemates, twenty-year-old Seattle native Amanda Knox, as well as her Italian boyfriend and a troubled local man were arrested and charged with the murder. The Fatal Gift of Beauty is award-winning author and journalist Nina Burleigh's mesmerizing literary investigation of the murder, the controversial prosecution, the conviction and twenty-six-year sentence of Knox, the machinations of Italian justice, and the underground depravity and clash of cultures in one of central -Italy's most beloved cities.
Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann
ISBN: 9780385534246
NONFICTION - TRUE CRIME
A twisting, haunting true-life murder mystery about one of the most monstrous crimes in American history. * NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST * SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Nation in Oklahoma. After oil was discovered beneath their land, the Osage rode in chauffeured automobiles, built mansions, and sent their children to study in Europe. Then, one by one, the Osage began to be killed off. The family of an Osage woman, Mollie Burkhart, became a prime target. One of her relatives was shot. Another was poisoned. And it was just the beginning, as more and more Osage were dying under mysterious circumstances, and many of those who dared to investigate the killings were themselves murdered.
My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
ISBN: 9780525564201
Korede's sister Ayoola is many things: the favorite child, the beautiful one, possibly sociopathic. And now Ayoola's third boyfriend in a row is dead, stabbed through the heart with Ayoola's knife. Korede's practicality is the sisters' saving grace. She knows the best solutions for cleaning blood (bleach, bleach, and more bleach), the best way to move a body (wrap it in sheets like a mummy), and she keeps Ayoola from posting pictures to Instagram when she should be mourning her "missing" boyfriend. Not that she gets any credit. Korede has long been in love with a kind, handsome doctor at the hospital where she works. She dreams of the day when he will realize that she's exactly what he needs. But when he asks Korede for Ayoola's phone number, she must reckon with what her sister has become and how far she's willing to go to protect her.