Next book club 5/13/26 3 p.m.: "An Immense World..."
BCAS Book Club Selections
The Black Canyon Audubon Book Club will meets every second Wednesday of each month at 3:00 p.m. Meetings will be virtual (usually in the fall and winter) or in-person in Montrose (usually in Spring and Summer). Contact Bruce Ackerman for more details. Please check back with this website, as times, locations and book choices may change to accommodate the participants. Please join us, even if you haven’t read the book yet! Let Bruce Ackerman know if you would like to be on the separate email list specifically for the Book Club.
April 8, 2026. Birding to Change the World: A Memoir by Trish O'Kane (2024). In this uplifting memoir, O'Kane, a natural sciences lecturer at the University of Vermont, elegantly weaves personal and natural history as she details how her fascination with birds compelled her to quit her journalism career, return to school at age 45 to earn a PhD in environmental studies, and become an ardent conservationist.
May 13, 2026. An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us by Ed Yong (2021). A thrilling, dazzling tour of the different ways that animals perceive the world that will fill you with wonder and forever alter your perspective. Yong is a Puliztzer Prize-winning science journalist.
June 10, 2026. Leave It as It Is: A Journey Through Theodore Roosevelt’s American Wilderness by David Gessner (2020) tells the story of a road trip to revisit the wild places Roosevelt envisioned as our National Parks and why his efforts were so critical to our country both then and now.
July 8, 2026. The Wild Dark: Finding the Night Sky in the Age of Light by Craig Childs (2025). Seeking not darkness, but the presence of the universe, this master storyteller sets out to bike from the blinding lights of the Las Vegas Strip to one of the darkest spots in North America.
August 12, 2026. The Ghost Forest by Greg King. (2023). The complete, well-researched history of the lost thousands of acres of California redwood trees and how politicians and wealthy companies gamed the system while fronting as a 'save the redwoods' organization.
September 9, 2026. The Bird Singers: How Two Boys Discovered the Magic of Birdsong by Jean Boucault (2025). This book opened up a whole world of 'bird singing' and bird singer competitions that I knew nothing about. It follows two adolescent boys in France as they enter the world of bird singing competitions.
October 14, 2026. A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon (2024). by Kevin Fedarko. The author, with his best friend, a National Geographic photographer, embark on an end-to-end traverse of the Grand Canyon—a journey that the friend promised, would be “a walk in the park” - NOT!
November 11, 2026. The Feather Detective: Mystery, Mayhem, and the Magnificent Life of Roxie Laybourne by Chris Sweeney (2025). The fascinating and remarkable true story of the world’s first forensic ornithologist—Roxie Laybourne, who broke down barriers, solved murders, and investigated death with a microscope and a few fragments of feathers.
December 9, 2026. Monkey Wrench Gang by Edward Abbey (1975). “A motley crew of saboteurs wreaks havoc on the corporations destroying America's Western wilderness in this 'wildly funny, infinitely wise' classic.” (The Houston Chronicle).