Welcome to Bay Books’ ‘Books and Wine’ book club. Our book club invites new members to join. The more the merrier. Once a month we meet up together to discuss the book of the month. During this time we welcome you to indulge in conversation as well as bring a beverage of your choice. We meet each month on the second Tuesday at 5:30pm here at Bay Books.
February’s Book Club
Our next book pick is Sleeping with the Ancestors. This month we are pushing book club back a little bit and meeting the 25th at 5:30 pm. Come join us and enjoy lively, spirited discussion! RSVP by sending us a message.
Sleeping with the Ancestors by Joseph McGill
In this enlightening personal account, one man tells the story of his groundbreaking project to sleep overnight in former slave dwellings that still stand across the countryârevealing the fascinating history behind these sites and shedding light on larger issues of race in America. Joseph McGill Jr., a historic preservationist and Civil War reenactor, founded the Slave Dwelling Project in 2010 based on an idea that was sparked and first developed in 1999. Since founding the project, McGill has been touring the country, spending the night in former slave dwellingsâthroughout the South, but also the North and the West, where people are often surprised to learn that such structures exist. Events and gatherings are arranged around these overnight stays, and it provides a unique way to understand the often otherwise obscured and distorted history of slavery. The project has inspired difficult conversations about race in communities from South Carolina to Alabama to Texas to Minnesota to New York, and all over the United States.
Sleeping with the Ancestors focuses on all of the key sites McGill has visited in his ongoing project and digs deeper into the actual history of each location, using McGillâs own experience and conversations with the community to enhance those original stories. Altogether, McGill and coauthor Herb Frazier give readers an important unexpected emersion into the history of slavery, and especially the obscured and ignored aspects of that history.
‘Books and Wine’ Book Picks 2025
The following is our book club line up. Get your copy today to and read ahead.
March 25th is Sleeping with the Ancestors by Joseph McGill.
April 8th is Disaster Tourist by Ko-Eu-Yun.
May 13th is Loot by Tania James.
June 10th is The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon.
Help us Pick the Next Six Months
Running up Considerations
Help us pick the rest of the year’s ‘Books and Wine’ book club’s books. We have a fantastic selection of books we are still considering to finish out 2025 strong. Here’s our list. Join our book club and help us decide what we will be reading in the coming months.
- Disaster Tourist by Ko-Eun-Yun
- The Three Lives of Cate Kay by Kate Fagan
- Mothers and Sons by Adam Haslett
- Moon of the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice
- The Memory Library by Kate Storey
- Screwtape Letters by C. S. Lewis
- Benjamin Franklinâs Last Bet by Michael Meyer
- The One-In-A-Million Boy by Monica Wood
- Babylonia by Constanza Casati
