Jun 30, 2025
After Trump’s return to power in January 2025, Gaslit Nation launched a book club not just to inform, but to fortify. Each selection is a lifeline offering strategy, moral clarity, and community in an age of disinformation and despair.
This isn’t just a book club. It’s a survival toolkit for our time.
Read with us. Build with us. Let’s overcome the chaos together.
Join us on the last Monday of every month at 4 PM ET at the Gaslit Nation Salon for a live discussion of that month’s book or film. Recordings are available on Patreon, along with bonus shows, ad-free episodes, and more, at Patreon.com/Gaslit. Discounted annual and gift memberships available.
Check out our schedule below:
February – Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor
E. Frankl and The Stranger by Albert Camus
Survival and absurdity under totalitarianism: one man finds purpose
in a concentration camp, another questions meaning under
occupation.
(Book club recording here).
March – From Dictatorship to Democracy by Gene
Sharp
A handbook of nonviolent action, this foundational text offers
strategic tools for dismantling authoritarian regimes.
(Book club recording here).
April – Parable of the Sower by Octavia E.
Butler
A near-future America unravels. A young Black woman builds a new
belief system—and a movement—amid societal collapse.
(Book club recording here).
May – Stride Toward Freedom by Martin Luther
King Jr.
How the Montgomery Bus Boycott was won. MLK’s essential guide to
grassroots organizing.
(Book club recording here).
June – The Gay Revolution by Lillian
Faderman
The LGBTQ+ rights movement through the stories of those who led it,
showing small groups of people make the difference. Book club this
coming Monday June 30 4pm ET.
July – Le Petit Prince by Antoine de
Saint-Exupéry
A wartime allegory on wonder, loss, and resistance. Book club: July
28 4pm ET
August – The Lives of Others and I’m Still
Here
Two films where art challenges dictatorship—from East Germany to
Brazil. Book club: August 25 4pm ET
September – Harriet, the Moses of Her People
by Sarah Hopkins Bradford
Harriet Tubman’s story, in her own words based on interviews with
The General herself. Book club: September 29 4pm ET
October – Deaf Republic by Ilya Kaminsky +
Total Resistance by H. Von Dach
Poetry and guerrilla strategy: tools for survival and defiance.
Book club: October 27 4pm ET
November – Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall
Kimmerer
Indigenous wisdom and science for reconnection and gratitude. Book
club: November 24 4pm ET
December – The Forest Song by Lesya
Ukrainka
An eco-feminist Ukrainian play that sings of love, rebellion, and
resilience. Book club: January 29