December 2025 Reading Club: Popular Titles

Posted by liaison on December 2nd, 2025 Posted in: All Members, Opportunity to Participate

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This December, the NNLM Reading Club is highlighting three award-winning best sellers that were extremely popular this year in book clubs. The books cover a variety of health-related topics. We know that reading can get us thinking about new topics and discussing health can improve health literacy, especially when paired with trustworthy health information.

We are featuring three books and providing supplemental health information on a variety of topics to support the discussion of health in your book group. Promotional resources and book discussion guides for each of the books are available on the linked page for that book.

This month’s selections are:

• Everything is Tuberculosis by John Green has been added to our Infectious Diseases and History of Medicine featured books. The author shares the story of his friendship with Sierra Leonean tuberculosis patient Henry Reider while illuminating the scientific, social, and ethical failures that allow a preventable, curable disease to remain one of the world’s deadliest and what must change to shape a better future.
• The Unexpected Journey by Emma Heming Willis has been added to Caregivers and Caregiving and Memory and Dementia featured books. Heming Willis blends her family’s experience with Bruce Willis’s frontotemporal dementia diagnosis and expert insights to offer caregivers a compassionate, practical guide for navigating the fear, upheaval, and profound transformation of caring for a loved one with dementia.
• Tilt by Emma Pattee has been added to Resiliency and Disasters and Emergencies featured books. In this tense, character-driven story, a nine-months-pregnant Annie journeys on foot across an earthquake-ravaged Portland, confronting danger, unexpected kindness, and her own doubts as she fights to reach home and reclaim the life she wants to build.