Hoping you are enjoying a beautiful 3-day holiday weekend right now with lots of time to read. I’m reading through several non-fiction books this weekend for our weekly prompts. In honor of Labor Day, our reading prompt this week is “labor rights”. I’ve read several great books about the labor rights struggles of the late 1800 and early 1900’s – check out the list below. We are also looking at an event in Oklahoma history I have been very interested in the past few years. The Tulsa Race Riots were never recounted in my history books and I was baffled when I first heard of them a few years ago. What are you reading this week?
Here’s the books I’m looking forward to discussing with you this week. Grab your copies of these books by clicking the images below:
RWL Reading Challenge – Week 36: Labor Rights
The Last Ballad
by Wiley Cash
Posting on Monday, September 2nd
My dad worked in textile mills when I was young – mostly in leadership positions and research & development. I have always been interested in the history of these mills given the Shirtwaist Factory fire in NYC and the way these factories came into the 21st century yet held on to remnants of the past. This novel follows a labor activist and textile worker fighting for better working conditions in southern mills.
Here’s some other great books that would work for this prompt in popular genres:
- Bestseller: The Radium Girls, Kate Moore
- General Fiction: In Dubious Battle, John Steinbeck
- Romance: Sea Glass, Anita Shreve
- Thriller: Out, Natsuo Kirino
- Nonfiction: A History of America in Ten Strikes, Erik Loomis
- Kids: On Our Way to Oyster Bay, Monica Culling
September Theme
Posting on September 4th
This month is all things Fall! We will be looking at some great Fall-themed reads and sharing our September reading playlist.
US States Challenge – Week 36: Oklahoma
Death in a Promised Land
by Scott Ellsworth
Posting on Thursday, September 5th
I first heard about the Tulsa Race Riot on a Wondery podcast a few years ago and was baffled – I had never once heard of this! I have sought out more information about the riot ever since and this is a phenomenal look at what lead up to the riot and the struggles the black citizens of Tulsa had afterwards.
Here’s some other great books that would work for this prompt in popular genres:
- Bestseller: Paradise, Toni Morrison
- General Fiction: The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck
- Romance: Where the Heart Is, Billie Letts
- Thriller: The Outsider, Stephen King
- Nonfiction: Killers of the Flower Moon, David Grann
- Kids: Where the Red Fern Grows, Wilson Rawls
Rotating Posts – Week 36: Nonfiction
Lewis and Clark
by Ralph K Andrist
Posting on Saturday, September 7th
Continuing with my walk through the lives of the American presidents and their contemporaries, I picked this book as my next read because of how close these explorers lives were intertwined with several presidents. Forget everything you learned in elementary school about these men and prepare to learn some very interesting facts about their journey!
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What I’m Reading
- Current print book: Tom Clancy Defense Protocol, Brian Andrews & Jeffrey Wilson
- Current audio book: Next Year in Havana, Chanel Cleeton
- Book I’m most looking forward to: Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing, Matthew Perry
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