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What Will Be the Next BIG Book Group Books?
Last week, I was in Memphis for the American Booksellers Association’s Winter Institute conference. There was a huge room called the galley room, filled with advance reading copies of books that will be coming out in the months ahead. I found myself wandering the aisles there trying to speculate what would be the next big books that would be sought after by book groups. I brought home dozens to read, and there already are large stacks here at the house. I find myself ruminating on what different groups will select for their discussion as I read.
As for what you migrated towards last year, that we know. As promised, our list of the Most Requested Guides of 2017 is now available! We pulled together the 30 guides that were accessed the most by you last year. Your top pick? SMALL GREAT THINGS by Jodi Picoult, which will be available in paperback on February 20th. Rounding out the top five are COMMONWEALTH by Ann Patchett, THE NIGHTINGALE by Kristin Hannah (Kristin’s highly anticipated new book, THE GREAT ALONE, releases next Tuesday, February 6th), THE HANDMAID’S TALE by Margaret Atwood (it was recently announced that season two of the popular Hulu series will premiere on April 25th), and HIDDEN FIGURES: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race by Margot Lee Shetterly. Click here for all 30 titles; we love seeing the list of these guides that inspired your discussions!
Coming in at #11 on our Most Requested Guides list is BENEATH A SCARLET SKY by Mark Sullivan, which continues to be our “What’s Your Book Group Reading This Month?” contest book. This Bookreporter.com Bets On pick is a #1 Amazon Charts bestseller and will be adapted into a major motion picture starring Tom Holland of Spider-Man: Homecoming fame. It tells the incredible story of Pino Lella, a real-life hero who, during World War II, risked his life guiding Jews across the Alps into neutral Switzerland, then became a spy inside the German High Command. We have 12 copies of the book to give away to three lucky groups; all you have to do is fill out the form on this page by Wednesday, February 7th at noon ET. In the meantime, don’t miss the discussion guide, our Bookreporter.com review, an interview with Mark, and my Bets On commentary.
Also ending on Wednesday, February 7th at noon ET is our special contest for GINNY MOON by debut novelist Benjamin Ludwig, another Bets On title. Ginny Moon is an autistic teenager who has been in foster care for years. Now, for the first time, she has found her “forever home,” with a family who loves, nurtures and protects her. But Ginny isn’t exactly satisfied with this arrangement. She is determined to get back what’s missing in her life, and will do whatever it takes --- including trying to get herself kidnapped --- to achieve this goal. Three groups will win 12 copies of the book, which is now available in paperback; to enter, be sure to fill out this form by next Wednesday’s deadline. Click here for the discussion guide, and check out our review on Bookreporter.com and my Bets On commentary.
Please keep in mind that our special End-of-the-Year contest is wrapping up in a matter of hours: tomorrow, Wednesday, January 31st at noon ET. By sharing your favorite book that you read with your group in 2017 and your favorite book that you read outside your group, you will be eligible to win six titles releasing this year that are perfect for book group discussions: AN AMERICAN MARRIAGE by Tayari Jones, EDUCATED: A Memoir by Tara Westover, EVERY NOTE PLAYED by Lisa Genova, the aforementioned THE GREAT ALONE by Kristin Hannah, THE IMMORTALISTS by Chloe Benjamin, and THE WOMAN IN THE WINDOW by A. J. Finn. We look forward to sharing our reader-compiled "Best Of" list with you in our next newsletter.
THE IMMORTALISTS, yet another Bets On title, is one of three new guides we’re featuring in this newsletter. If you knew the date of your death, how would you live your life? That’s the intriguing tagline to this much-talked-about second novel from Chloe Benjamin, who was one of the Buzz authors at last year’s BookExpo. Click here for the discussion questions, here for our review on Bookreporter.com, and here for my Bets On commentary.
We also are happy to be featuring guides for THE GIRLS IN THE PICTURE, a work of historical fiction from Melanie Benjamin about the friendship and creative partnership between screenwriter Frances Marion and movie star Mary Pickford (click here for our review on Bookreporter.com), and LOVE, HATE AND OTHER FILTERS by debut novelist Samira Ahmed, a YA book that crosses over perfectly to adult audiences, as the protagonist is an Indian-American Muslim teen who copes with Islamophobia, cultural divides among peers and parents, and a reality she can neither explain nor escape.
We’re curious to know how often your book group selects titles. Every month? Every other month? Once a year? Click here to let us know in our latest poll!
Over on Bookreporter.com, we have many opportunities for you to win some fabulous fiction and nonfiction. In addition to our ongoing Word of Mouth and Sounding Off on Audio features, we have our Valentine’s Day contest (where we’re giving away not just books but sweet treats as well!) and our series of 24-hour Winter Reading contests. Scroll further down this newsletter for details on all of these giveaways.
Here's to your next great book group discussion. Enjoy!
Carol Fitzgerald ([email protected])
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Most Requested Guides of 2017
Our Most Requested Guides feature for 2017 has been updated. We took a look at all of the guides that you accessed last year, and from there we pulled together a list of the top 30 titles. Below are the 10 most popular guides, and you can click here for the full list. We love seeing which books resonated the most with you and your group!
Click here for the complete list of the Most Requested Guides of 2017.
"What's Your Book Group Reading This Month?" Contest: Enter to Win 12 Copies of BENEATH A SCARLET SKY
by Mark Sullivan for Your Group
Each month, we ask book groups to share the titles they are reading that month and rate them. From all entries, three winners will be selected, and each will win 12 copies of that month’s prize book for their group. Note: To be eligible to win, let us know the title of the book that YOUR book group is CURRENTLY reading, NOT the title we are giving away.
This month's prize book is the #1 Amazon Charts bestseller BENEATH A SCARLET SKY, which is being made into a major motion picture starring Tom Holland. Based on the true story of World War II hero Pino Lella, Mark Sullivan's novel is the triumphant, epic tale of one young man’s incredible courage and resilience during one of history’s darkest hours. To enter, please fill out the form on this page by Wednesday, February 7th at noon ET.
BENEATH A SCARLET SKY by Mark Sullivan (Historical Fiction)
Pino Lella wants nothing to do with the war or the Nazis. He’s a normal Italian teenager --- obsessed with music, food and girls --- but his days of innocence are numbered. When his family home in Milan is destroyed by Allied bombs, Pino joins an underground railroad helping Jews escape over the Alps, and falls for Anna, a beautiful widow six years his senior.
In an attempt to protect him, Pino’s parents force him to enlist as a German soldier --- a move they think will keep him out of combat. But after Pino is injured, he is recruited at the tender age of 18 to become the personal driver for Adolf Hitler’s left hand in Italy, General Hans Leyers, one of the Third Reich’s most mysterious and powerful commanders.
Now, with the opportunity to spy for the Allies inside the German High Command, Pino endures the horrors of the war and the Nazi occupation by fighting in secret, his courage bolstered by his love for Anna and for the life he dreams they will one day share.
Fans of ALL THE LIGHT WE CANNOT SEE, THE NIGHTINGALE and UNBROKEN will enjoy this riveting saga of history, suspense and love.
- Click here for the discussion guide.
- Click here to read a review on Bookreporter.com.
- Click here to read Carol Fitzgerald's Bookreporter.com Bets On commentary.
- Click here to read an interview with Mark Sullivan.
Click here to enter the contest.
Special Contest: Enter to Win 12 Copies of
GINNY MOON by Benjamin Ludwig for Your Group
GINNY MOON by Benjamin Ludwig is a compulsively readable and touching debut novel about being an outsider trying to find a place to belong and making sense of a world that just doesn't seem to add up. We are celebrating its paperback release with a special contest that will give three readers the chance to win 12 copies of the book for their group. To enter, please fill out this form by Wednesday, February 7th at noon ET.
GINNY MOON by Benjamin Ludwig (Fiction)
Meet Ginny Moon.
She’s mostly your average teenager --- she plays flute in the school band, has weekly basketball practice, and reads Robert Frost poems for English class. But Ginny is autistic. So what’s important to her might seem a bit…different: starting every day with exactly nine grapes for breakfast, Michael Jackson, taking care of her baby doll…and crafting a secret plan of escape.
Ginny has been in foster care for years, and for the first time in her life she has found her “forever home.” After being traumatically taken from her abusive birth mother and moved around to different homes, she is finally in a place where she’ll be safe and protected, with a family who will love and nurture her.
This is exactly what all foster kids are hoping for. But Ginny has other plans. She’ll steal and lie and exploit the good intentions of those who love her --- anything it takes to get back what’s missing in her life. She’ll even try to get herself kidnapped.
- Click here for the discussion guide.
- Click here to read a review on Bookreporter.com.
- Click here to read Carol Fitzgerald's Bookreporter.com Bets On commentary.
- Click here to read our interview with Benjamin Ludwig.
Click here to enter the contest.
New Guide: THE IMMORTALISTS by Chloe Benjamin
A Bookreporter.com Bets On Title
THE IMMORTALISTS by Chloe Benjamin (Fiction)
If you knew the date of your death, how would you live your life?
It's 1969 in New York City's Lower East Side, and word has spread of the arrival of a mystical woman, a traveling psychic who claims to be able to tell anyone the day they will die. The Gold children --- four adolescents on the cusp of self-awareness --- sneak out to hear their fortunes.
Their prophecies inform their next five decades. Golden-boy Simon escapes to the West Coast, searching for love in '80s San Francisco; dreamy Klara becomes a Las Vegas magician, obsessed with blurring reality and fantasy; eldest son Daniel seeks security as an army doctor post-9/11, hoping to control fate; and bookish Varya throws herself into longevity research, where she tests the boundary between science and immortality.
A sweeping novel of remarkable ambition and depth, THE IMMORTALISTS probes the line between destiny and choice, reality and illusion, this world and the next. It is a deeply moving testament to the power of story, the nature of belief, and the unrelenting pull of familial bonds.
- Click here to read a review on Bookreporter.com.
- Click here to read Carol's Bookreporter.com Bets On commentary.
Click here for the discussion guide.
New Guide: THE GIRLS IN THE PICTURE
by Melanie Benjamin
THE GIRLS IN THE PICTURE by Melanie Benjamin (Historical Fiction)
It is 1914, and 25-year-old Frances Marion has left her (second) husband and her Northern California home for the lure of Los Angeles, where she is determined to live independently as an artist. But the word on everyone’s lips these days is “flickers” --- the silent moving pictures enthralling theatergoers. Turn any corner in this burgeoning town and you’ll find made-up actors running around, as a movie camera captures it all.
In this fledgling industry, Frances finds her true calling: writing stories for this wondrous new medium. She also makes the acquaintance of actress Mary Pickford, whose signature golden curls and lively spirit have given her the title of America’s Sweetheart. The two ambitious young women hit it off instantly, their kinship fomented by their mutual fever to create, to move audiences to a frenzy, to start a revolution.
But their ambitions are challenged both by the men around them and the limitations imposed on their gender --- and their astronomical success could come at a price. As Mary, the world’s highest paid and most beloved actress, struggles to live her life under the spotlight, she also wonders if it is possible to find love, even with the dashing actor Douglas Fairbanks. Frances, too, longs to share her life with someone. As in any good Hollywood story, dramas will play out, personalities will clash, and even the deepest friendships might be shattered.
With cameos from such notables as Charlie Chaplin, Louis B. Mayer, Rudolph Valentino and Lillian Gish, THE GIRLS IN THE PICTURE is, at its heart, a story of friendship and forgiveness. Melanie Benjamin perfectly captures the dawn of a glittering new era --- its myths and icons, its possibilities and potential, and its seduction and heartbreak.
- Click here to read a review on Bookreporter.com.
Click here for the discussion guide.
Featured Guide: THE WICKED CITY
by Beatriz Williams
THE WICKED CITY by Beatriz Williams (Fiction)
In the first book of a breathtaking new trilogy by bestselling author Beatriz Williams, two generations of women are brought together inside a Greenwich Village apartment --- a flapper hiding an extraordinary past and a modern-day Manhattanite forced to start her life anew.
When she discovers her banker husband has been harboring a secret life, Ella Gilbert escapes her SoHo loft for a studio in Greenwich Village. Her charismatic musician neighbor, Hector, warns her to stay out of the basement after midnight, when a symphony of mysterious noise strikes up --- laughter, clinking glasses, jazz piano, the occasional bloodcurdling scream --- even though the space has been empty for decades. Back in the Roaring Twenties, the basement was home to one of the city’s most notorious speakeasies.
In 1924, Geneva “Gin” Kelly, a quick-witted flapper from the hills of western Maryland, is a regular at this Village hideaway. Caught up in a raid, Gin lands in the office of Prohibition enforcement agent Oliver Anson, who persuades her to help him catch her stepfather, Duke Kelly, one of the biggest bootleggers in Appalachia.
But Gin is nobody’s fool. She strikes a risky bargain with the taciturn, straight-arrow Revenue agent, and their alliance rattles Manhattan society to its foundations, exposing secrets that shock even this free-spirited redhead.
As Ella unravels the strange history of her new building --- and the family thread that connects her to Geneva Kelly --- she senses the Jazz Age spirit of her exuberant predecessor invading her own shy nature, in ways that will transform her existence in the wicked city.
- Click here to read a review on Bookreporter.com.
Click here for the featured guide.
Featured Guide: A HUNDRED SMALL LESSONS
by Ashley Hay
A HUNDRED SMALL LESSONS by Ashley Hay (Fiction)
From the author of the highly acclaimed THE RAILWAYMAN’S WIFE, called a “literary and literate gem” by Psychology Today, comes an emotionally resonant and profound new novel of two families, interconnected through the house that bears witness to their lives.
When Elsie Gormley leaves the Brisbane house in which she has lived for more than 60 years, Lucy Kiss and her family move in, eager to establish their new life. As they settle in, Lucy and her husband Ben struggle to navigate their transformation from adventurous lovers to new parents, taking comfort in memories of their vibrant past as they begin to unearth who their future selves might be. But the house has secrets of its own, and the rooms seem to share recollections of Elsie’s life with Lucy.
In her nearby nursing home, Elsie traces the span of her life --- the moments she can’t bear to let go and the places to which she dreams of returning. Her beloved former house is at the heart of her memories of marriage, motherhood, love and death and the boundary between present and past becomes increasingly porous for both her and Lucy.
Over the course of one hot Brisbane summer, two families’ stories intersect in sudden and unexpected ways. Through the richly intertwined narratives of two ordinary, extraordinary women, Ashley Hay uses her “lyrical prose, poetic dialogue, and stunning imagery” (RT Magazine) to weave an intricate, bighearted story of what it is to be human.
Click here for the featured guide.
January Releases of Interest to Book Groups
ANATOMY OF A SCANDAL by Sarah Vaughan (Thriller)
Sophie’s husband James is a loving father, a handsome man, a charismatic and successful public figure. And yet he stands accused of a terrible crime. Sophie is convinced he is innocent and desperate to protect her precious family from the lies that threaten to rip them apart. Kate is the lawyer hired to prosecute the case. She is certain James is guilty and is determined he will pay for his crimes.
CARNEGIE'S MAID by Marie Benedict (Historical Fiction)
Clara Kelley is not the experienced Irish maid who was hired to work in one of Pittsburgh's grandest households. She's a poor farmer's daughter with nowhere to go and nothing in her pockets. But the other woman with the same name has vanished, and pretending to be her just might get Clara some money to send back home.
THE GIRLS IN THE PICTURE by Melanie Benjamin (Historical Fiction)
It is 1914, and 25-year-old Frances Marion has left her (second) husband and her Northern California home for the lure of Los Angeles. She makes the acquaintance of actress Mary Pickford, and they hit it off instantly. But their ambitions are challenged by both the men around them and the limitations imposed on their gender.
HERE WE LIE by Paula Treick DeBoard (Fiction)
Megan Mazeros and Lauren Mabrey are complete opposites on paper, but they manage to forge a strong friendship. The summer before senior year, Megan joins Lauren and her family on their private island. But late one night, something unspeakable happens that tears them apart. Many years later, Megan publicly comes forward about what happened that fateful night, revealing a horrible truth and threatening to expose long-buried secrets.
THE IMMORTALISTS by Chloe Benjamin (Fiction)
It's 1969 in New York City's Lower East Side, and word has spread of the arrival of a mystical woman, a traveling psychic who claims to be able to tell anyone the day they will die. The Gold children --- four adolescents on the cusp of self-awareness --- sneak out to hear their fortunes. Their prophecies inform their next five decades.
STILL ME by Jojo Moyes (Romance)
Louisa Clark arrives in New York ready to start a new life, confident that she can embrace this new adventure and keep her relationship with Ambulance Sam alive across several thousand miles. Lou throws herself into her job and New York life within this privileged world. Before she knows what's happening, Lou is mixing in New York high society, where she meets Joshua Ryan, a man who brings with him a whisper of her past.
TELL ME MORE: Stories About the 12 Hardest Things I'm Learning to Say by Kelly Corrigan (Essays/Personal Growth)
It’s a crazy idea: trying to name the phrases that make love and connection possible. But that’s just what Kelly Corrigan has set out to do here. In her bestselling memoirs, Corrigan distilled our core relationships to their essences. Now, in TELL ME MORE, she’s back with a deeply personal and often hilarious examination of the essential phrases that turn the wheel of life.
THE WIFE by Alafair Burke (Psychological Thriller)
When Angela met Jason Powell, a brilliant economics professor, she assumed their romance would be a short-lived fling. To her surprise, they married the following summer. Six years later, Jason has become a cultural lightning rod. But when a college intern makes an accusation against Jason, and another woman comes forward with an even more troubling allegation, their perfect life begins to unravel.
THE WIFE BETWEEN US by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen (Psychological Thriller)
When you read this book, you will make many assumptions. You will assume you are reading about a jealous ex-wife. You will assume she is obsessed with her replacement --- a beautiful, younger woman who is about to marry the man they both love. You will assume you know the anatomy of this tangled love triangle. Assume nothing.
THE WOMAN IN THE WINDOW by A. J. Finn (Psychological Thriller)
Anna Fox lives alone. She spends her day drinking wine, watching old movies, recalling happier times...and spying on her neighbors. Then the Russells move into the house across the way: a father, mother and their teenage son. But when Anna, gazing out her window one night, sees something she shouldn’t, her world begins to crumble --- and its shocking secrets are laid bare. What is real? What is imagined? Who is in danger? Who is in control?
Recent Bookreporter.com Bets On Selections:
CARNEGIE’S MAID and THE WIFE BETWEEN US
CARNEGIE'S MAID by Marie Benedict (Historical Fiction)
Carnegie. It’s a name I know well; after all, Carnegie Hall is just blocks from my office. But I confess that I knew little about Andrew Carnegie, the Scottish businessman who made his fortune in America. Marie Benedict’s CARNEGIE’S MAID drew me into his world through historical fiction. In it, Clara Kelley has made inroads into his family’s Pittsburgh home in the role of an experienced Irish maid. Actually she is a poor farmer’s daughter who sailed to America to help save her family by sending money back home.
I loved the atmosphere and the tiny details that Marie added to her prose. For those who loved "Downton Abbey," you will revel in the descriptions of life in the Carnegie home. Just as she did with THE OTHER EINSTEIN, Marie does a wonderful job of bringing her characters, warts and all, to life and giving one a great sense of the time period.
- Click here to read a review on Bookreporter.com.
Click here for more of Carol's commentary on CARNEGIE'S MAID.
THE WIFE BETWEEN US by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen (Psychological Thriller)
Marriage. There’s a line that one can never know what happens in a marriage. It’s between two people. That’s maybe not quite so in THE WIFE BETWEEN US. Here we have a marriage that unraveled, a marriage that’s about to get started, and a twist I did not see coming.
Vanessa is the ex-wife, who is still licking battle wounds from her divorce. Richard had been her world; he doted on her, gave her everything and sheltered her --- until the day he found another woman. She has learned that he is going to marry again, and she is determined that the marriage to Emma will not happen. What does Vanessa know that she wants to shield Emma from? What lengths will she go to ensure that her plan is a success? And why did Richard and Vanessa’s marriage end?
- Click here to read a review on Bookreporter.com.
Click here for more of Carol's commentary on THE WIFE BETWEEN US.
Bookreporter.com's 12th Annual Valentine's Day Contest: Enter to Win Books and Sweet Treats
for Yourself or Your Valentine!
Valentine's Day is only a few heartbeats away. We can't think of a better way to celebrate this special day than to cuddle up with your loved one...and a good book, of course!
We're giving readers the chance to win one of our five Bookreporter.com Valentine's Day prize packages, which includes one copy of each of our featured titles and some delicious chocolates. Enter between now and Wednesday, February 14th at noon ET for your opportunity to be a lucky (and beloved!) winner.
If you're feeling frisky, share with us your all-time book character crush. Don't be shy, we all got 'em! We'll post the top 10 literary loves and lusts --- along with the five winners --- right after Valentine's Day.
This year's featured titles are:
Click here to enter the contest.
Bookreporter.com's Winter Reading Contests and Feature
Our Winter Reading Contests and Feature have returned for a fourth year! On select days between now and February 23rd at noon ET, we are hosting a series of 24-hour contests spotlighting a book releasing this winter (or a book publishing in the spring that we would like to get on your radar now) and giving five lucky readers a chance to win it. We also are sending a special newsletter to announce the day's title, which you can sign up for here.
This year's featured titles are:
Click here to read all the contest details
and learn more about our featured titles.
Enter Our Ongoing Bookreporter.com Contests:
"Word of Mouth" and "Sounding Off on Audio"
Word of Mouth Contest:
Tell Us What You're Reading --- and You Can Win Two Books!
Tell us about the books you’ve finished reading with your comments and a rating of 1 to 5 stars. During the contest period from January 19th to February 2nd at noon ET, three lucky readers each will be randomly chosen to win a copy of NEED TO KNOW by Karen Cleveland and THE WIFE by Alafair Burke.
To make sure other readers will be able to find the books you write about, please include the full title and correct author names (your entry must include these to be eligible to win). For rules and guidelines, click here.
Click here to enter the contest.
Please note: A new Word of Mouth contest will be up
on Friday, February 2nd at noon ET.
Sounding Off on Audio Contest:
Tell Us What You're Listening to --- and You Can Win Two Audiobooks!
Tell us about the audiobooks you’ve finished listening to with your comments and a rating of 1 to 5 stars for both the performance and the content. During the contest period from January 2nd to February 1st at noon ET, two lucky readers each will be randomly chosen to win the audio versions of Lauren Willig's THE ENGLISH WIFE, read by Nicola Barber, and Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen's THE WIFE BETWEEN US, read by Julia Whelan.
To make sure other readers will be able to find the audiobook, please include the full title and correct author names (your entry must include these to be eligible to win). For complete rules and guidelines, click here.
Click here to enter the contest.
Please note: A new Sounding Off on Audio contest will be up
on Thursday, February 1st at noon ET.
We currently are featuring the following guides on ReadingGroupGuides.com:
BENEATH A SCARLET SKY by Mark Sullivan (Historical Fiction)
Based on the true story of a forgotten hero, the #1 Amazon Charts bestseller BENEATH A SCARLET SKY is the triumphant, epic tale of one young man’s incredible courage and resilience during one of history’s darkest hours.
THE GIRLS IN THE PICTURE by Melanie Benjamin (Historical Fiction)
From the bestselling author of THE SWANS OF FIFTH AVENUE and THE AVIATOR'S WIFE comes a fascinating novel of the friendship and creative partnership between two of Hollywood’s earliest female legends --- screenwriter Frances Marion and superstar Mary Pickford.
A HUNDRED SMALL LESSONS by Ashley Hay (Fiction)
A HUNDRED SMALL LESSONS is a journey through the memories of two women from two different generations, who inhabit the same house and each discover what it means to be a mother, a wife and a woman.
THE IMMORTALISTS by Chloe Benjamin (Fiction)
THE IMMORTALISTS probes the line between destiny and choice, reality and illusion, this world and the next. It is a deeply moving testament to the power of story, the nature of belief, and the unrelenting pull of familial bonds.
LOVE, HATE AND OTHER FILTERS by Samira Ahmed (Romance)
In this unforgettable debut novel, an Indian-American Muslim teen copes with Islamophobia, cultural divides among peers and parents, and a reality she can neither explain nor escape.
THE WICKED CITY by Beatriz Williams (Fiction)
In the first book of a breathtaking new trilogy by bestselling author Beatriz Williams, two generations of women are brought together inside a Greenwich Village apartment --- a flapper hiding an extraordinary past and a modern-day Manhattanite forced to start her life anew.
Please note that these titles, for which we already had the guides when they appeared in hardcover, are now available in paperback:
GINNY MOON by Benjamin Ludwig (Fiction)
GINNY MOON is a compulsively readable and touching novel about being an outsider trying to find a place to belong and making sense of a world that just doesn't seem to add up.
KISS CARLO by Adriana Trigiani (Historical Fiction)
From Adriana Trigiani, the beloved New York Times bestselling author of THE SHOEMAKER'S WIFE, comes an exhilarating epic novel of love, loyalty and creativity --- the story of an Italian-American family on the cusp of change.
A PIECE OF THE WORLD by Christina Baker Kline (Historical Fiction)
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the smash bestseller ORPHAN TRAIN comes a stunning and atmospheric novel of friendship, passion and art, inspired by Andrew Wyeth’s mysterious and iconic painting Christina’s World.
THIS IS HOW IT ALWAYS IS by Laurie Frankel (Fiction)
Laurie Frankel's THIS IS HOW IT ALWAYS IS is a novel about revelations, transformations, fairy tales and family. And it’s about the ways this is how it always is.
THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD by Colson Whitehead (Historical Fiction)
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, the #1 New York Times bestseller from Colson Whitehead is a magnificent tour de force chronicling a young slave's adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South.
This Month's Poll:
How Do You Time Your Book Group Selections?
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