Online
Book Club
We have created an online book club exclusively for UBC alumni, focusing on lifelong learning, leadership, harnessing creativity, communication skills and much, much more. The book club will connect through a private forum where alumni can discuss the current book and connect with each other.
The Next Online Book Club Selection
Discover what forests can teach us about resilience, renewal, and relationships in Suzanne Simard’s bestseller When the Forest Breathes.
Understanding how forests are sustained by intricate cycles of regeneration could help us protect them from climate change, human activity, and other threats. Drawing on innovative research, Indigenous knowledge, and her own experiences, renowned forest ecologist Suzanne Simard illuminates what we can learn from the natural world about adaptability, community, and creating the conditions for future generations to thrive.
Explore what we can do for our forests when the alumni UBC Online Book Club begins reading and discussing When the Forest Breathes: Renewal and Resilience in the Natural World on October 9, 2026.
Joining the book club is completely free. You just have to pick up a copy of the book—at your library, UBC Bookstore, or online—to enjoy. When the Forest Breathes by Suzanne Simard is 25% off at the UBC Bookstore throughout September. The group reads one book every two months, so you’ll have plenty of time to read.
Plus, you don’t have to commit to reading every book—we’re not grading you.
Privacy Statement
alumni UBC uses PBC Guru, a third party service provider hosted outside of Canada (specifically in the USA), in order to provide the Online Book Club as a service to our members. In order to confirm your eligibility and provide you access to PBC Guru, we will collect your name, e-mail address, the year you graduated from UBC, and the program of study in which you graduated. UBC collects this information under the authority of section 26(c) of BC’s Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (FIPPA).
Your name, e-mail address, and eligibility to participate in the Online Book Club will be shared with PBC Guru in order to provision your access to these services.
PBC Guru may ask you for additional personal information, such as personal preferences to allow you to customize your user session profile, or to subscribe you to notifications, etc. It is your choice whether or not to provide this additional information, and you are solely responsible for ensuring you have read and understood PBC Guru’s privacy policy in regards to any information you have chosen to provide them. PBC Guru may share some of the information you provide with UBC, such as general categories or topics of books you are interested in.
UBC may use your contact information to update its donor and alumni mailing lists, which are used by alumni UBC and UBC to inform donors and alumni about University news, events, and initiatives, including fundraising.
By using this service, you acknowledge that you have read and understood the above privacy statement and that you consent to the storage and access of your personal information, as described above, outside of Canada solely for those purposes. Should you have any questions or concerns regarding the information collected and used, or the privacy and security of your personal information, please contact us at alumni.ubc@ubc.ca.
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