DWCC Book Club – September, 2026

SEPTEMBER SELECTION

Our September read is Who Is Gov­ernment? The Untold Story of Public Service. This book is a series of profiles written by well-known authors about amazing public servants in our federal government. It is edited by acclaimed author Michael Lewis. This collection of stories provides fascinating insights into what and who makes our government tick.

We hope you’ll participate in what is sure to be an enlightening discussion.

LOOKING AHEAD

Our October book will be Reading Lolita in Tehran.

FROM AMAZON.COM:

Every Thursday morning for two years in the Islamic Republic of Iran, Azar Nafisi, a bold and inspired teacher, secretly gathered seven of her most committed female students to read forbidden Western classics.

Some of the women came from conservative and religious families, others were progressive and secular; some had spent time in jail. They were shy and uncomfortable at first, unaccustomed to being asked to speak their minds, but soon they removed their veils and began to speak more freely—their stories intertwining with the novels they were reading by Jane Austen, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Henry James, and Vladimir Nabokov.

As Islamic morality squads staged arbitrary raids in Tehran, as fundamentalists seized hold of the universities and a blind censor stifled artistic expression, the women in Nafisi’s living room spoke not only of the books they were reading but also about themselves, their dreams, and disappointments.

Azar Nafisi’s luminous masterwork gives us a rare glimpse, from the inside, of women’s lives in revolutionary Iran. Reading Lolita in Tehran is a work of great passion and poetic beauty, a remarkable exploration of resilience in the face of tyranny, and a celebration of the liberating power of literature.

We hope you’ll join us and participate in what is sure to be an interesting discussion.