MNDC Book Club

Everyone is welcome! This is a free drop-in group that meets every other month on the 4th Wednesday 7-8:30pm to discuss books on death and dying. Feel free to join when you can. Anyone welcome. Questions, feel free to email bookclub@mndeathcollaborative.org.

Mark your calendars for another great year of reading with the 2025 MNDC book group! As always free and open to all and hosted by Bethany Hutchinson. For questions contact Bethany at bookclub@mndeathcollaborative.org.

REGISTER HERE to get the Zoom link for the upcoming MNDC Book Club meeting! After registering, you will receive a confirmation page and an email including the Zoom link. Book club always meets 7-8:30pm.

Here are the upcoming books we’ll be reading:

March 26 Love and Fear: Stories from a Hospice Chaplain by Renshin Bunce

May 28 Sing Unburied Sing by Jesmyn Ward

July 23 The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion

September 24 Warrior Girl Unearthed by Angeline Boulley

November 19 Sacred Dying: Creating Rituals for Embracing the End of Life by Megory Anderson

Curious about what the MNDC Book Club has already read? Here’s the full list of our book choices from past years.

Book Choices 2022

  • Advice for Future Corpses (and Those Who Love Them): A Practical Perspective on Death and Dying by Sallie Tisdale

  • Being with Dying: Cultivating Compassion and Fearlessness in the Presence of Death by Joan Halifax

  • A Beginners Guide to the End: Practical Advice for Living Life and Facing Death by BJ Miller, MD and Shoshana Berger

  • Walking Each Other Home: Conversations on Loving and Dying by Mirabai Bush and Ram Dass

  • The Art of Dying Well: A Practical Guide to a Good End of Life by Katy Butler

  • Die Wise: A Manifesto for Sanity and Soul by Stephen Jenkinson

Book Choices 2023

  • Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande

  • The Afterlife of Billy Fingers: How My Bad-Boy Brother Proved to Me There's Life After Death by Annie Kagan and Dr. Raymond Moody MD PhD

  • The Five Invitations: Discovering What Life Can Teach Us About Living Fully by Frank Ostaseski

  • The Wild Edge of Sorrow: The Sacred Work of Grief by Francis Weller

  • Grieving While Black: An Antiracist Take on Oppression and Sorrow by Breeshia Wade

  • LGBTQ-Inclusive Hospice and Palliative Care: A Practical Guide to Transforming Professional Practice by Kimberly D. Acquaviva

Book Choices 2024

  • From Here to Eternity by Caitlin Doughty

  • Bearing the Unbearable by Joanne Cacciatore

  • When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi and Abraham Verghese

  • Choosing to Die: A Personal Story by Phyllis Shacter

  • Holding Space by Amy Wright Glenn

  • Greening Death by Suzanne Kelly