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What makes a great book club book? First,  it should be one that your members are excited to read. Second, it should ignite an engaging discussion. The books listed below are fiction and nonfiction stories that we’ve found inspire lively conversations. If you’re interested in a title not listed, please feel free to inquire.

Fiction (listed first alphabetically by title, then alphabetically by author)

By Title:

  • Absolution by Alice McDermott
  • All Adults Here by Emma Straub
  • All the Broken Places by John Boyne
  • All We Shall Know by Donal Ryan
  • Amy and Isabelle by Elizabeth Strout
  • Asymmetry by Lisa Halliday
  • Beartown by Fredrick Backman
  • The Bee Sting by Paul Murray
  • Bewilderment by Richard Powers
  • Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton
  • The Book of Essie by Meghan MacLean Weir
  • The Book of Lost Friends by Lisa Wingate
  • The Caretaker by Ron Rash
  • Cher Ami and Major Whittlesey by Kathleen Rooney
  • Circe by Madeline Miller
  • Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr
  • Commonwealth by Ann Patchett
  • Count the Ways by Joyce Maynard
  • The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese
  • Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner
  • Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
  • Deacon King Kong by James McBride
  • Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
  • The Dutch House by Ann Patchett
  • The Elephant of Belfast by S. Kirk Walsh
  • The Enchanted by Rene Denfeld
  • Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows by Balli Kaur Jawas
  • Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
  • Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff
  • Feast Your Eyes by Myla Goldberg
  • Forest Dark by Nicole Krauss
  • Fortune Smiles by Adam Johnson
  • Fountains of Silence by Ruta Sepetys
  • French Braid by Anne Tyler
  • The Friend by Sigrid Nunez
  • From Dust to Stardust by Kathleen Rooney
  • The Frozen River by Ariel Lawson
  • The Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twan Eng
  • A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
  • The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel
  • Go as a River by Shelley Read
  • The God of the Woods by Liz Moore
  • The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai
  • Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead
  • The Half Moon by Mary Beth Keane
  • Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell
  • The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
  • Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano
  • The Hero of This Book by Elizabeth McCracken
  • The Heart’s Invisible Furies by John Boyne
  • The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store by James McBride
  • The History of Sound by Ben Shattuck
  • Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie
  • Horse by Geraldine Brooks
  • Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
  • Hum If You Don’t Know the Words by Bianca Marais
  • The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin
  • Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu
  • Jackie & Me by Louis Bayard
  • James by Percival Everett
  • Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
  • Lady Tan’s Circle of Women by Lisa See
  • The Latecomer by Jean Hanff Korelitz
  • The Leavers by Lisa Ko
  • Leaving by Roxana Robinson
  • Leonard and Hungry Paul by Ronan Hession
  • Less by Andrew Sean Greer
  • Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
  • Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk by Kathleen Rooney
  • The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles
  • Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
  • Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
  • Long Bright River by Liz Moore
  • A Long Petal of the Sea by Isabel Allende
  • Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli
  • Lucy by the Sea by Elizabeth Strout
  • Maame by Jessica George
  • The Magician by Colm Toibin
  • Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan
  • The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O’Farrell
  • Matrix by Lauren Groff
  • The Mercies by Kiran Millwood Hargrave
  • The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
  • Miracle Creek by Angie Kim
  • Morningside Heights by Joshua Henkin
  • Mothering Sunday by Graham Swift
  • News of the World by Paulette Jiles
  • The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
  • The NIght Watchman by Louise Erdrich
  • The Nix by Nathan Hill
  • Normal People by Sally Rooney
  • North Woods by Daniel Mason
  • Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson
  • Nutshell by Ian McEwan
  • Oh William! by Elizabeth Strout
  • Old Filth by Jane Gardam
  • Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng
  • The Overstory by Richard Powers
  • The Paper Palace by Miranda Cowley Heller
  • Paris Never Leaves You by Ellen Feldman
  • Perfect by Rachel Joyce
  • The Promise by Damon Galgut
  • The Pull of the Stars by Emma Donoghue
  • The Push by Ashley Audrain
  • The Reading List by Sara Nisha Adams
  • Real Americans by Rachel Khong
  • The Rent Collector by Camron Wright
  • Sadie by Courtney Summers
  • Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel
  • Send for Me by Lauren Fox
  • Should We Stay or Should We Go? by Lionel Shriver
  • Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart
  • Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult
  • Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
  • Small Mercies by Dennis Leanne
  • Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
  • Songbirds by Christy Lefteri
  • Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
  • The Stationery Shop by Marjan Kamali
  • Stay With Me by Ayobami Adebayo
  • Still Life by Sarah Winman
  • Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid
  • Take My Hand by Dolen Perkins-Valdez
  • The Talented Miss Farwell by Emily Gray Tedrowe
  • There, There by Tommy Orange
  • This Is How It Always Is by Laurie Frankel
  • Three by Valerie Perrin
  • Tom Lake by Ann Patchett
  • Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
  • True Biz by Sara Novic
  • Trust by Hernan Diaz
  • The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
  • Unlikely Animals by Annie Hartnett
  • Unsheltered by Barbara Kingsolver
  • Us by David Nicholls
  • Valentine by Elizabeth Wetmore
  • The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
  • The Vegetarian by Han Kan
  • Washington Black by Esi Edugyan
  • We Are the Brennans by Tracy Lange
  • We Run the Tides by Vendela Vida
  • Wellness by Nathan Hill
  • West with Giraffes by Lynda Rutledge
  • When the Stars Go Dark by Paula McClain
  • Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
  • Who Is Maud Dixon? by Alexandra Andrews
  • The Woman in the Window by A.J. Finn
  • The Women in the Castle by Jessica Shattuck
  • The Wonder by Emma Donoghue
  • The World of Tomorrow by Brendan Mathews
  • Writers and Lovers by Lily King

By Author:

  • The Reading List by Sara Nisha Adams
  • Stay With Me by Ayobami Adebayo
  • A Long Petal of the Sea by Isabel Allende
  • Who Is Maud Dixon? by Alexandra Andrews
  • The Push by Ashley Audrain
  • Beartown by Fredrick Backman
  • Jackie & Me by Louis Bayard
  • The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin
  • The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
  • The Heart’s Invisible Furies by John Boyne
  • All the Broken Places by John Boyne
  • Horse by Geraldine Brooks
  • Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton
  • The Enchanted by Rene Denfeld
  • Trust by Hernan Diaz
  • Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr
  • The Wonder by Emma Donoghue
  • The Pull of the Stars by Emma Donoghue
  • Washington Black by Esi Edugyan
  • Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan
  • The Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twan Eng
  • James by Percival Everett
  • Paris Never Leaves You by Ellen Feldman
  • The Woman in the Window by A.J. Finn
  • Send for Me by Lauren Fox
  • This Is How It Always Is by Laurie Frankel
  • The Promise by Damon Galgut
  • Old Filth by Jane Gardam
  • Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
  • Maame by Jessica George
  • Feast Your Eyes by Myla Goldberg
  • Less by Andrew Sean Greer
  • Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff
  • Matrix by Lauren Groff
  • Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
  • The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
  • Asymmetry by Lisa Halliday
  • Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
  • The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
  • The Mercies by Kiran Millwood Hargrave
  • Unlikely Animals by Annie Hartnett
  • The Paper Palace by Miranda Cowley Heller
  • Morningside Heights by Joshua Henkin
  • The Nix by Nathan Hill
  • Wellness by Nathan Hill
  • Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
  • Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows by Balli Kaur Jawal
  • News of the World by Paulette Jiles
  • Fortune Smiles by Adam Johnson
  • Perfect by Rachel Joyce
  • The Stationery Shop by Marjan Kamali
  • The Vegetarian by Han Kan
  • The Half Moon by Mary Beth Keane
  • Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
  • Real Americans by Rachel Khong
  • Miracle Creek by Angie Kim
  • Writers and Lovers by Lily King
  • Unsheltered by Barbara Kingsolver
  • Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
  • The Exiles by Christina Baker Kline
  • The Leavers by Lisa Ko
  • The Latecomer by Jean Hanff Korelitz
  • Forest Dark by Nicole Krauss
  • We Are the Brennans by Tracy Lange
  • The Frozen River by Ariel Lawson
  • Songbirds by Christy Lefteri
  • Small Mercies by Dennis Lehane
  • Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli
  • The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai
  • Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel
  • Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
  • The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel
  • Hum If You Don’t Know the Words by Bianca Marais
  • North Woods by Daniel Mason
  • The World of Tomorrow by Brendan Mathews
  • Count the Ways by Joyce Maynard
  • Deacon King Kong by James McBride
  • The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store by James McBride
  • When the Stars Go Dark by Paula McClain
  • Absolution by Alice McDermott
  • Nutshell by Ian McEwan
  • Circe by Madeline Miller
  • Monogamy by Sue Miller
  • The God of the Woods by Liz Moore
  • Long Bright River by Liz Moore
  • The Bee Sting by Paul Murray
  • Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano
  • Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
  • Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng
  • Us by David Nicholls
  • True Biz by Sara Novic
  • The Friend by Sigrid Nunez
  • Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell
  • The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O’Farrell
  • There, There by Tommy Orange
  • Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
  • Commonwealth by Ann Patchett
  • The Dutch House by Ann Patchett
  • Tom Lake by Ann Patchett
  • Take My Hand by Dolen Perkins-Valdez
  • Three by Valerie Perrin
  • Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult
  • The Overstory by Richard Powers
  • Bewilderment by Richard Powers
  • The Caretaker by Ron Rash
  • Go as a River by Shelley Read
  • Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid
  • Leaving by Roxana Robinson
  • Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk by Kathleen Rooney
  • Normal People by Sally Rooney
  • West with Giraffes by Lynda Rutledge
  • All We Shall Know by Donal Ryan
  • Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
  • Lady Tan’s Circle of Women by Lisa See
  • Fountains of Silence by Ruta Sepetys
  • Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie
  • The History of Sound by Ben Shattuck
  • The Women in the Castle by Jessica Shattuck
  • Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead
  • Should We Stay or Should We Go? by Lionel Shriver
  • Crossing to Safety by William Stegner
  • Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart
  • All Adults Here by Emma Straub
  • Amy & Isabelle by Elizabeth Strout
  • Lucy by the Sea by Elizabeth Strout
  • Oh William! by Elizabeth Strout
  • Sadie by Courtney Summers
  • Mothering Sunday by Graham Swift
  • The Talented Miss Farwell by Emily Gray Tedrowe
  • The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
  • The Magician by Colm Toibin
  • A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
  • The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles
  • French Braid by Anne Tyler
  • We Run the Tides by Vendela Vida
  • Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
  • The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese
  • Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
  • The Book of Essie by Meghan MacLean Weir
  • The Elephant of Belfast by S. Kirk Walsh
  • Valentine by Elizabeth Wetmore
  • The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
  • Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson
  • The Book of Lost Friends by Lisa Wingate
  • Still Life by Sarah Winman
  • The Rent Collector by Camron Wright
  • Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu
  • Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin

Nonfiction (listed first alphabetically by title, then alphabetically by author)

By title:

  • American Baby by Gabrielle Glaser
  • American Wolf by Nate Blakeslee
  • Beautiful Country by Qian Julie Wang
  • Becoming by Michelle Obama
  • Being Mortal by Atul Gawande
  • Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
  • The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown
  • The Bridge Ladies by Betsy Lerner
  • A Deadly Wandering by Matt Richtel
  • Dopesick by Beth Macy
  • Educated by Tara Westover
  • Facing the Mountain by Daniel James Brown
  • Finding Freedom by Erin French
  • Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance
  • Inheritance by Dani Shapiro
  • Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
  • Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann
  • The Library Book by Susan Orlean
  • Lost and Found by Kathryn Schulz
  • Master Slave Husband Wife by Ilyon Woo
  • Reading With Patrick by Michelle Kuo
  • The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace by Jeff Hobbs
  • This Is All I Got by Lauren Sandler
  • Three Girls from Bronzeville by Dawn Turner
  • When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanathi
  • When I Grow Up by Ken Krimstein
  • When Time Stopped by Arianna Neumann

By author:

  • American Wolf by Nate Blakeslee
  • The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown
  • Facing the Mountain by Daniel James Brown
  • Finding Freedom by Erin French
  • Being Mortal by Atul Gawande
  • Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann
  • American Baby by Gabrielle Glaser
  • The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace by Jeff Hobbs
  • When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanathi
  • When I Grow Up by Ken Krimstein
  • Reading With Patrick by Michelle Kuo
  • The Bridge Ladies by Betsy Lerner
  • Dopesick by Beth Macy
  • When Time Stopped by Arianna Neumann
  • Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
  • Becoming by Michelle Obama
  • The Library Book by Susan Orlean
  • A Deadly Wandering by Matt Richtel
  • This Is All I Got by Lauren Sandler
  • Lost and Found by Kathryn Schulz
  • The End of Your Life Book Club by Will Schwalbe
  • Inheritance by Dani Shapiro
  • Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
  • Three Girls from Bronzeville by Dawn Turner
  • Educated by Tara Westover
  • Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance
  • Beautiful Country by Qian Julie Wang
  • Master Slave Husband Wife by llyon Woo