HAPS Book Club

HAPS Book Club

The HAPS Book Club, established in the fall of 2020, brings the HAPS community together for shared professional learning and community building.  Participants meet monthly online to discuss popular press books that have relevance for our work as educators and scientists. On occasion we have been joined by the authors of the books we are reading and discussing. Authors such as Luke Dittrich (Patient H.M.), Judi Nath (Sins Against Science), and Alex Bezzerides (Evolution Gone Wrong) have all joined our sessions to add context, perspective, and insights beyond the pages of the book.

Interested in joining the HAPS Book Club Listserv? Contact Jennifer Stokes at jstokes@hapsconnect.org
to be added to the group and stay current with all things HAPS Book Club.

Upcoming Dates

Join us for the Fall 2026 Book Club as we read, discuss, and explore the book “Doctors by Nature: How Ants, Apes, & Other Animals Heal Themselves” by Jaap de Roode.

A picture of a book entitled Replaceable You: Adventures in Human Anatomy by Mary Roach.

Join us for our monthly virtual Book Club sessions. Didn’t read all of the chapters? No worries, still come out to listen, discuss, and share!

  • HAPS Book Club: 10/15/2026 @ 7PM ET
  • HAPS Book Club: 11/12/2026 @ 7PM ET
  • HAPS Book Club: 12/3/2026 @ 7PM ET

The Book Club Bookshelf

Since 2020 the HAPS Book Club has read and discussed a wide range of books. We encourage you to include these titles in your reading list and eventually onto your book shelves as well.

Fall 2020

Superior: The Return to Race Science by Angela Saini

Spring 2021

Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create race in the twenty-first century by Dorothy Roberts

Summer 2021

Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach

Fall 2021

Patient H.M.: A Story of Memory, Madness, and Family Secrets by Luke Dittrich

Spring 2022

The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race by Walter Isaacson

Summer 2022

Sins Against Science: How Misinformation Affects Our Lives and Laws by Judi Nath

Fall 2022

What Inclusive Instructors Do by Addy, Dube, Mitchell, and SoRelle

Spring 2023

Sporting Gender: The History Science, and Stories of Transgender and Intersex Athletes by Joanna Harper

Fall 2023

Evolution Gone Wrong: The Curious Reasons Why Our Bodies Work (or Don’t) by Alex Bezzerides

Fall 2024

I Contain Multitudes by Ed Yong

A picture of a book, entitled Replaceable You: Adventures in Human Anatomy by Mary Roach

Spring 2026

Replaceable You by Mary Roach