Blog
Do you belong to more than one book club? If so, you have something in common with Julie Buxbaum, author of The Opposite of Love. Her debut novel is the story of a Manhattan attorney whose life unravels after she ends her happy relationship just as her boyfriend is on the verge of proposing.
Swedish author Ninni Holmqvist's debut novel, The Unit, is the story of Dorrit Weger, who checks into the Second Reserve Bank Unit for biological material. In pleasant surroundings, women over the age of fifty and men over sixty --- single, childless and without jobs in progressive industries --- are sequestered for their final few years.
"The Last Prince of the Mexican Empire is not about a Mexico you'll see on the news, in tourist brochures, travel memoirs, nor in almost any other work of fiction," C. M. Mayo has said of her historical novel. It's based on the true --- but never before completely told --- story of the short, turbulent reign of the archduke of Austria, Maximilian von Hapsburg, who was made emperor of Mexico in 1864.
Rooftops of Tehran by Mahbod Seraji was a recent Bookreporter.com Bets On… selection. Set in Iran in the 1970s, as the country is on the verge of revolution, it's a story about growing up, discovering love and awakening to the reality of a new way of life.
In East of the Sun, Julia Gregson unfolds the story of Viva, Rose and Victoria, part of the "Fishing Fleet," the name given to the legions of Englishwomen who sailed to India in search of husbands and new lives.
David Ebershoff's novel The 19th Wife weaves together two storylines. One is set in 1875, and is about Ana Eliza Young, separated from her powerful husband, Brigham Young, the leader of the Mormon Church. Expelled from the religious sect, she embarks on a crusade to end polygamy in the Unites States. A second narrative unfolds a tale of murder involving a polygamist family in present-day Utah.
In her memoir Apples & Oranges, Marie Brenner shares the story of reconnecting with her brother, Carl, after years of living opposite lifestyles and finding very little common ground. It’s a story that many of you with siblings may understand.
Today's guest blogger is Dori Carter, the author of We Are Rich, an interwoven collection of stories about a fictional California town where the nature of status is turned on its head over the course of six decades. She shares some insight into the book and explains a connection with Edith Wharton's mother.
Do you want to visit the island in the English Channel where The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society is set?
Novelist and creative writing professor Joshua Henkin regularly shares behind-the-scenes stories with us about his meetings with reading groups to discuss his novel Matrimony. He often shares popular questions that book club members like to ask him, and this month he turns the tables and reveals a question that he likes to ask groups.
