Book Clubs

More than sixty years after one of four friends in a reputedly haunted boarding school goes missing, journalist Fiona Sheridan resolves to learn her sister's fate before a harrowing discovery is made.

Her father was the town detective. Her mother its most notorious criminal. Now the secrets of Mirror Lake are coming to the surface...and changing everything.

Three sisters, two murders, and too many secrets to count.

Returning to her hometown after an eight-year absence to investigate the murders of two girls, reporter Camille Preaker is reunited with her neurotic mother and enigmatic, thirteen-year-old half-sister as she works to uncover the truth about the killings.

A thrilling, addictive novel about marriage, betrayal, and the secrets that push us to the edge...

A novel that gives voice to millions of Americans as it tells the story of the love between a Panamanian boy and a Mexican girl: teenagers living in an apartment block of immigrant families like their own.

A cast of characters, both real and fictional, remind us the stories of our lives are never truly finished, even at the end.

A stunning and magisterial epic of love, faith, and medicine, set in Kerala, South India, following three generations of a family seeking the answers to a strange secret.

A mysterious discovery reveals the story of Chicken Hill, the neighborhood where immigrant Jews and African Americans lived side by side, sharing ambitions and sorrows.

Overlapping narratives reconstruct the often-fractured stories of the Indigenous experience, drawing attention to the struggles of a marginalized community united by their heritage and historical resistance.

A family of estranged Vietnamese women experiences mishaps and unexpected joy after a psychic makes a startling prediction about their lives.

A psychic travel agent and a Seattle PD detective solve a murder in this quirky mystery.

When every person, all over the globe, receives a small wooden box bearing the same inscription and a single piece of string inside predicting the length of their life, the world is thrown into a collective frenzy.

An uplifting, slightly magical story about a retiring fortune teller who discovers that it's never too late to find out who you really are.

Could ten days at a health resort really change you forever? Nine perfect strangers are about to find out...

Reimagining of The Great Gatsby with echoes of Big Little Lies, told in three women's alternating voices.

Pocket, King Lear's fool, sets out to straighten out the mess the mad king has made of the kingdom and the royal family, only to discover the truth about his own heritage.

From Louisa May Alcott's beloved classic Little Women, Geraldine Brooks has taken the character of the absent father, March, who has gone off to war, leaving his wife and daughters to make do in mean times.

Tells the story of Eliza Schuyler Hamilton, a revolutionary woman who, like her new nation, struggled to define herself in the wake of war, betrayal, and tragedy.

The Iliad, as experienced by the captured women living in the Greek camp in the final weeks of the Trojan War.

A sweeping story of three generations of boys in the same Iranian family.

A graphic memoir of growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution.

Short story collection about the author’s childhood experiences in Tehran during the reign of the Shah, her exile in Paris, and her subsequent visits to Tehran after the revolution.

A portrait of the Iran-Iraq war viewed from Tehran and gives us a rare glimpse, from the inside, of women’s lives in revolutionary Iran.

A novel set in 1953 Tehran, against the backdrop of the Iranian Coup, about a young couple in love who are separated on the eve of their marriage, and who are reunited sixty years later.

Banned from selling anything written this century, bookstore manager Maggie Banks, to keep the business afloat, starts an underground book club that unexpectedly unearths a town secret that could upend everything, forcing her to choose between the books that formed a small town's history or the stories poised to change it all.

June Jones emerges from her shell to fight for her beloved local library, and through the efforts and support of an eclectic group of library patrons, she discovers life-changing friendships along the way.

A heartwarming literary-themed novel about a woman who turns an ordinary red phone box into the littlest library in England and brings together a struggling town.

Loveday Cardew prefers books to people. If you look carefully, you might glimpse the first lines of the novels she loves most tattooed on her skin. But there are some things Loveday will never, ever show you.

Working at the local library, Aleisha reads every book on a secret list she found, which transports her from the painful realities she's facing at home, and decides to pass the list on to a lonely widower desperate to connect with his bookworm granddaughter.

A stunning re-creation of the great West Virginia uprising of 1921, when some 10,000 armed miners confronted coal operators and their hired guns in an attempt to unionize.

The transcript of the March 1913 trial by a military court of famed labor agitator Mother Jones and 47 other civilians on charges of murder and conspiracy to murder charges stemming from violence that erupted during the long coal miners' strike in West Virginia.

This history of Alabama's coal miners documents the struggle not only between labor and management but also between interracial unionism and white supremacy.

Tells the story of Mary "Mother" Jones, a leading labor union and child labor activist in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Written in graphic-novel format.

Detailing the dimensions of unionization and the balance of power spawned by New Deal labor policy after government intervention, Which Side Are You On? is the definitive analysis of Harlan's bloody decade and a seminal contribution to American labor history.

A modern-day Muslim Pride and Prejudice for a new generation of love.

This YA retelling of Pride and Prejudice balances cultural identity, class, and gentrification against the heady magic of first love.

A clever, deeply layered, and heartwarming romantic comedy that follows in the Jane Austen tradition—this time, with a twist on Persuasion.

Two sisters roll up their sleeves to run a dilapidated, beach town inn but must learn to work with the locals in this deliciously spicy Sense and Sensibility inspired rom-com.

An incisive and exhilarating debut novel following three Anglo-Nigerian best friends and the lethally glamorous fourth woman who infiltrates their group--the most unforgettable girls since Carrie, Miranda, Charlotte, and Samantha.

A riveting account of women's lives on the margins of the Vietnam War.

A desperate family seeks a new beginning in the near-isolated wilderness of Alaska only to find that their unpredictable environment is less threatening than the erratic behavior found in human nature.

The unforgettable story of a daredevil female aviator determined to chart her own course in life, at any cost.

The story of two sisters, one raised in the United States, the other in South Korea, and the family that bound them together even as the Korean War kept them apart.

A heart-stopping World War II story of three female code breakers at Bletchley Park and the spy they must root out after the war is over.