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Brian Kenney, Director of the White Plains Public Library, with Carol
Upcoming Facebook Live chat for Simon & Schuster's Book Club Favorites program
I had such fun last Sunday at the event that I did at the White Plains Public Library. I presented 51(!) books to a terrific audience of 60 readers. You can see a photo of me above with Brian Kenney, who is the library’s Director. Before and after the event, he took me on a tour of their fabulous space. There are terrific kids and teen areas, as well as a community area with a café; they also sell books that have been donated there. New fiction and nonfiction are all shelved face front, so you quickly can see the covers of the books. I love this; it is so inviting!
The program gave me a wonderful opportunity to meet some of our readers, as well as new ones. I love introducing an engaged audience to new authors and books. What a perfect way to spend my extra hour as the clocks changed.
This Tuesday is my last event of the year. I am going to be at [words] Bookstore in Maplewood, New Jersey, at 7:30pm interviewing Jonathan Santlofer about his brilliant memoir, THE WIDOWER'S NOTEBOOK, which is a Bookreporter.com Bets On selection. Jonathan and I have wanted to do an event together for a while, and I always have wanted to visit [words] Bookstore, so I am looking forward to this evening.
As we accelerate to the end of the year, this is a great time for your book group to do a Book Group Checkup. This is an idea that we came up with a few years ago; it's a set of questions that gives your group a chance to evaluate yourselves --- and how your group is working, or not. Think of it as book group therapy. Here’s a link to the questions that we think you can use to get started. We recommend sharing them in advance of a meeting, so you all have time to think about how you feel. If things are tense in your group, think about people sharing their answers in writing anonymously. We think that by doing this checkup, you can emerge as a stronger group!
Sue wrote with a fun idea and can use suggestions from you: “My book group has an annual Christmas party where we each bring a dish to share. It must have appeared as a food in any book of our choice. Always fun to see the creative array! Would be so interested in learning what recipe choices others might make. Brought Mississippi Mud Bars from KITCHENS OF THE GREAT MIDWEST by J. Ryan Stradal in the past. They were yummy! My immediate first idea was to do Green Eggs and Ham, but another enterprising soul beat me to the punch! Have not decided what to bring yet for this feast.” So to our readers, please chime in with ideas. Send them to me at [email protected] with the subject line “Book-Inspired Food.” We will share your responses in December.
If a book group was brand new, what book would you suggest that they start with? We posed this question to you in the October newsletters, and you came up with some terrific ideas, which you can check out here. Many thanks to all who shared their recommendations with us; as always, your feedback is much appreciated!
Jodi Picoult’s newest release, A SPARK OF LIGHT, is a #1 New York Times bestseller, and we have 12 copies to give away to three groups in our special contest. The book is set in a women’s reproductive health services clinic in Mississippi where a gunman has entered the building and fired shots. Among those on the scene that day is a crisis management police officer, who chillingly learns that his 15-year-old daughter and his sister are inside. He should recuse himself, but does not trust anyone to handle the negotiations, so he keeps this information to himself. Why is the gunman in there? The closing chapters will make you want to re-read it, just to see how to look at the characters again with what you learn as the story concludes.
To enter the contest, all you have to do is fill out this form by Wednesday, December 5th at noon ET. As you probably can tell from my plot summary, there will be no shortage of topics to talk about with your book group. In the meantime, click here for the discussion questions and here for our Bookreporter.com review.
Our latest “What’s Your Book Group Reading This Month?” contest book is THE EXTRAORDINARY LIFE OF SAM HELL by Robert Dugoni. This coming-of-age story is about a boy named Sam Hill, who was born with red pupils and was called “Devil Boy” or Sam “Hell” by his classmates. He believed it was God who sent Ernie Cantwell, the only African American kid in his class, to be the friend he so desperately needed. And that it was God’s idea for Mickie Kennedy to storm into Our Lady of Mercy, uprooting every rule Sam had been taught about boys and girls. Forty years later, Sam, now a small-town eye doctor, is no longer certain that anything was by design --- especially not the tragedy that caused him to turn his back on his friends, his hometown and the life he had always known.
We’re giving three groups the chance to win 12 copies of the book; to enter, please fill out the form on this page by Wednesday, January 9th at noon ET. As we know many groups either don’t meet in December or do something special instead of a discussion, we’re running this contest for two months. You can see our discussion guide here and our review on Bookreporter.com here.
In our previous “What’s Your Book Group Reading This Month?” contest, here are the five books mentioned most frequently as titles that our book groups read: EDUCATED: A Memoir by Tara Westover, BEFORE WE WERE YOURS by Lisa Wingate, LITTLE FIRES EVERYWHERE by Celeste Ng, THE GREAT ALONE by Kristin Hannah, and ELEANOR OLIPHANT IS COMPLETELY FINE by Gail Honeyman. Scroll further down the newsletter to see the other titles in our Top 15.
We’ve added four more guides to this update: THE WIFE BETWEEN US by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen, a psychological thriller now available in paperback that exposes the secret complexities of an enviable marriage --- and the dangerous truths we ignore in the name of love (this was a Bookreporter.com Bets On pick when it released in hardcover; click here for my commentary and here for our review on Bookreporter.com); John Jay Osborn’s LISTEN TO THE MARRIAGE, the story of a fractured couple in a moment of crisis and the person who tries to get them to see each other again; ONCE A MIDWIFE by Patricia Harman, a Hope River novel that finds midwife Patience Hester, along with her family and friends, facing the challenges of the home front during World War II; and THE LIBRARY BOOK, in which Susan Orlean chronicles the Los Angeles Public Library fire of 1986 and its aftermath to showcase the larger, crucial role that libraries play in our lives (click here for our review on Bookreporter.com and here for a Q&A with Susan; I now am listening to this on audio).
In our new poll, we’ve listed a number of book group-favorite authors, and we’re asking you if you’ve read any of their books with your group. Click here to let us know!
Our previous poll asked the following: Which of the books that appeared on our Top 15 list of "Most Popular Book Group Selections" for September have you read, or do you plan to read, with your group? Here are your top five picks: BEFORE WE WERE YOURS by Lisa Wingate (63%), A GENTLEMAN IN MOSCOW by Amor Towles (59%), LITTLE FIRES EVERYWHERE by Celeste Ng (55%), THE GREAT ALONE by Kristin Hannah (50%), and A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN by Betty Smith (45%). Click here for all the results. As we mentioned in an earlier newsletter, we think A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN generated much interest among readers and book groups as it was one of PBS’s 100 “Great American Reads” (it ranked 13th among all those who voted).
As many of you know, each month we highlight select titles from indie booksellers (Indie Next), librarians (LibraryReads), Target and Costco (Pennie’s Pick). We’ve been referring to it as “Reading Roundup,” but we realized that a name change was long overdue. It was just not working for us. Thus we now will be calling it “Favorite Monthly Lists & Picks", which we think more accurately reflects the content we are presenting to you. We also plan to expand this feature in the months ahead to include more of our favorite lists from around the web.
While we’re on the subject, we’ve updated “Favorite Monthly Lists & Picks” for November, along with our New in Paperback roundups on Bookreporter.com. Also on Bookreporter, we have our ongoing Word of Mouth and Sounding Off on Audio contests, where we’re giving away some fabulous hardcovers and audiobooks. And our Holiday Cheer contests will be underway very soon. Each 24-hour giveaway gives you the chance to win a book that is perfect for holiday giving and that you may want to include on your “to me/from me” list. You can find more details on these contests and features later in this newsletter.
We are celebrating Kidsreads.com's 20th anniversary with our biggest contest ever, which includes some of our favorite series from the last two decades. There will be 20 winners who will each receive the first three books of one of the series featured on this page. Enter here between now and Thursday, December 6th at noon ET for your chance to win one of our amazing prize packages!
As we mentioned in the last newsletter, THE ROOM ON RUE AMÉLIE by Kristin Harmel is the November pick for Simon & Schuster’s Book Club Favorites program (it’s also this month’s Target Book Club pick). S&S will host a Facebook Live Book Club chat about THE ROOM ON RUE AMÉLIE on Thursday, November 29th at 5pm ET. Be sure to join the conversation with your comments about the book and interact with your fellow readers.
Have a great discussion with your book group this month. Our next newsletter will find its way to you after Thanksgiving. So Happy Thanksgiving from me and the staff of ReadingGroupGuides.com and The Book Report Network. We so appreciate each and every one of you!
Carol Fitzgerald ([email protected])
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New Special Contest: Enter to Win 12 Copies of
A SPARK OF LIGHT by Jodi Picoult for Your Group
We are celebrating the recent release of A SPARK OF LIGHT by Jodi Picoult --- a powerful and provocative novel about ordinary lives that intersect during a heart-stopping crisis --- with a special contest that will give three groups the chance to win 12 copies of the book. To enter, please fill out this form by Wednesday, December 5th at noon ET.
A SPARK OF LIGHT by Jodi Picoult (Fiction)
The warm fall day starts like any other at the Center --- a women’s reproductive health services clinic --- its staff offering care to anyone who passes through its doors. Then, in late morning, a desperate and distraught gunman bursts in and opens fire, taking all inside hostage.
After rushing to the scene, Hugh McElroy, a police hostage negotiator, sets up a perimeter and begins making a plan to communicate with the gunman. As his phone vibrates with incoming text messages, he glances at it and, to his horror, finds out that his 15-year-old daughter, Wren, is inside the clinic.
But Wren is not alone. She will share the next and tensest few hours of her young life with a cast of unforgettable characters: A nurse who calms her own panic in order to save the life of a wounded woman. A doctor who does his work not in spite of his faith but because of it, and who will find that faith tested as never before. A pro-life protester disguised as a patient, who now stands in the crosshairs of the same rage she herself has felt. A young woman who has come to terminate her pregnancy. And the disturbed individual himself, vowing to be heard.
Told in a daring and enthralling narrative structure that counts backward through the hours of the standoff, this is a story that traces its way back to what brought each of these very different individuals to the same place on this fateful day.
Jodi Picoult --- one of the most fearless writers of our time --- tackles a complicated issue in this gripping and nuanced novel. How do we balance the rights of pregnant women with the rights of the unborn they carry? What does it mean to be a good parent? A SPARK OF LIGHT is a story that will inspire debate, conversation…and, hopefully, understanding.
- Click here for the discussion guide.
- Click here to read a review on Bookreporter.com.
Click here to enter the contest.
"What's Your Book Group Reading This Month?" Contest: Enter to Win 12 Copies of THE EXTRAORDINARY LIFE
OF SAM HELL by Robert Dugoni 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.
Our latest prize book is THE EXTRAORDINARY LIFE OF SAM HELL by Robert Dugoni, a coming-of-age story about a boy who was born with red pupils and endured bullying by his classmates. Years later, Sam looks back on his life and embarks on a journey that will bring into clear view what changed him, defined him and made him so afraid --- until he finally sees what truly matters. To enter, please fill out the form on this page by Wednesday, January 9th at noon ET.
THE EXTRAORDINARY LIFE OF SAM HELL by Robert Dugoni (Fiction)
Wall Street Journal and New York Times bestselling author Robert Dugoni’s coming-of-age story is, according to Booklist, “a novel that, if it doesn’t cross entirely over into John Irving territory, certainly nestles in close to the border.”
Sam Hill always saw the world through different eyes. Born with red pupils, he was called “Devil Boy” or Sam “Hell” by his classmates; “God’s will” is what his mother called his ocular albinism. Her words were of little comfort, but Sam persevered, buoyed by his mother’s devout faith, his father’s practical wisdom and his two other misfit friends.
Sam believed it was God who sent Ernie Cantwell, the only African American kid in his class, to be the friend he so desperately needed. And that it was God’s idea for Mickie Kennedy to storm into Our Lady of Mercy like a tornado, uprooting every rule Sam had been taught about boys and girls.
Forty years later, Sam, a small-town eye doctor, is no longer certain anything was by design --- especially not the tragedy that caused him to turn his back on his friends, his hometown and the life he’d always known. Running from the pain, eyes closed, served little purpose. Now, as he looks back on his life, Sam embarks on a journey that will take him halfway around the world. This time, his eyes are wide open --- bringing into clear view what changed him, defined him and made him so afraid, until he can finally see what truly matters.
- Click here for the discussion guide.
- Click here to read a review on Bookreporter.com.
Click here to enter the contest.
New Guide: THE WIFE BETWEEN US
by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen
Now Available in Paperback
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.
Twisted and deliciously chilling, Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen's THE WIFE BETWEEN US exposes the secret complexities of an enviable marriage --- and the dangerous truths we ignore in the name of love.
Read between the lies.
- 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: LISTEN TO THE MARRIAGE
by John Jay Osborn
LISTEN TO THE MARRIAGE by John Jay Osborn (Fiction)
Gretchen and Steve have been married for a long time. Living in San Francisco, recently separated, with two children and demanding jobs, they’ve started going to a marriage counselor. Unfolding over the course of 10 months and taking place entirely in the marriage counselor’s office, John Jay Osborn’s LISTEN TO THE MARRIAGE is the story of a fractured couple in a moment of crisis, and of the person who tries to get them to see each other again.
A searing look at the obstacles we put in our own way, as well as the forces that drive us apart (and those that bring us together), LISTEN TO THE MARRIAGE is a poignant exploration of marriage --- heartbreaking and tender.
Click here for the discussion guide.
New Guide: ONCE A MIDWIFE by Patricia Harman
ONCE A MIDWIFE: A Hope River Novel by Patricia Harman (Historical Fiction)
Welcome back to Hope River in New York Times bestselling author Patricia Harman’s newest novel as midwife Patience Hester, along with her family and friends, face the challenges of the home front during World War II.
The women of Hope River trust midwife Patience Hester, whose skill in delivering babies is known for miles around. But though the Great Depression is behind them, troubles are not, for Europe is at war…and it can only be a matter of time before the U.S. enters the fray.
And while some are eager to join the fight, Patience’s husband, Daniel, is not. Daniel is a patriot --- but he saw too much bloodshed during the First World War, and has vowed never to take up arms again.
His stance leaves Patience and their four children vulnerable --- to the neighbors who might judge them, and to the government, who imprison Daniel for his beliefs.
Patience must support their family and fight for her husband’s release despite her own misgivings. And with need greater than ever, she must also keep her practice running during this tumultuous time…relying on generous friends, like Bitsy, who has returned to Hope River, stalwart neighbors and her own indomitable strength to see them all through.
Click here for the discussion guide.
New Guide: THE LIBRARY BOOK by Susan Orlean
THE LIBRARY BOOK by Susan Orlean (Social History)
On the morning of April 29, 1986, a fire alarm sounded in the Los Angeles Public Library. As the moments passed, the patrons and staff who had been cleared out of the building realized this was not the usual fire alarm. As one fireman recounted, “Once that first stack got going, it was ‘Goodbye, Charlie.’” The fire was disastrous: it reached 2,000 degrees and burned for more than seven hours. By the time it was extinguished, it had consumed 400,000 books and damaged 700,000 more. Investigators descended on the scene, but more than 30 years later, the mystery remains: Did someone purposefully set fire to the library --- and if so, who?
Weaving her lifelong love of books and reading into an investigation of the fire, award-winning New Yorker reporter and New York Times bestselling author Susan Orlean delivers a mesmerizing and uniquely compelling book that manages to tell the broader story of libraries and librarians in a way that has never been done before.
In THE LIBRARY BOOK, Orlean chronicles the LAPL fire and its aftermath to showcase the larger, crucial role that libraries play in our lives; delves into the evolution of libraries across the country and around the world, from their humble beginnings as a metropolitan charitable initiative to their current status as a cornerstone of national identity; brings each department of the library to vivid life through on-the-ground reporting; studies arson and attempts to burn a copy of a book herself; reflects on her own experiences in libraries; and reexamines the case of Harry Peak, the blond-haired actor long suspected of setting fire to the LAPL more than 30 years ago.
Along the way, Orlean introduces us to an unforgettable cast of characters from libraries past and present --- from Mary Foy, who in 1880 at 18 years old was named the head of the Los Angeles Public Library at a time when men still dominated the role, to Dr. C.J.K. Jones, a pastor, citrus farmer and polymath known as “The Human Encyclopedia” who roamed the library dispensing information; from Charles Lummis, a wildly eccentric journalist and adventurer who was determined to make the L.A. library one of the best in the world, to the current staff, who do heroic work every day to ensure that their institution remains a vital part of the city it serves.
- Click here to read a review on Bookreporter.com.
- Click here to read an interview with Susan Orlean.
Click here for the discussion guide.
Favorite Monthly Lists & Picks
Each month, we share top book picks from Indie Next and LibraryReads, as well as the Target Book Club title and Pennie's Pick for Costco.
This month's Indie Next titles include FRIDAY BLACK, a debut story collection from Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, who takes a treacherously surreal and, at times, heartbreakingly satirical look at what it’s like to be young and black in America; John Boyne’s A LADDER TO THE SKY, a seductive psychodrama following one cunning, ruthless man who will stop at nothing in his pursuit of success; and THOSE WHO KNEW by Idra Novey, a taut, timely novel about what a powerful politician thinks he can get away with and the group of misfits who finally bring him down.
LibraryReads is spotlighting THE COLORS OF ALL THE CATTLE, the latest installment in Alexander McCall Smith’s No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series, in which Precious Ramotswe finds herself running for office --- much to her dismay; MY SISTER, THE SERIAL KILLER, Oyinkan Braithwaite’s debut novel about a Nigerian woman whose younger sister has a very inconvenient habit of killing her boyfriends; and THE KINSHIP OF SECRETS by Eugenia Kim, 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.
November’s Target Book Club title is THE ROOM ON RUE AMÉLIE by Kristin Harmel, and Pennie's Pick for Costco is FAMILY TRUST by Kathy Wang.
Click here for the complete roundup.
Our Most Popular Book Group Selections for October's "What's Your Book Group Reading This Month?" Contest
November’s New in Paperback Roundups
on Bookreporter.com
November's roundup of New in Paperback fiction titles on Bookreporter.com includes ALTERNATE SIDE, a provocative novel from Anna Quindlen that explores what it means to be a mother, a wife and a woman at a moment of reckoning; FUTURE HOME OF THE LIVING GOD by Louise Erdrich, a startling portrait of a young woman fighting for her life and her unborn child against oppressive forces that manifest in the wake of a cataclysmic event; THE REVOLUTION OF MARINA M., Janet Fitch’s sweeping historical saga of the Russian Revolution, as seen through the eyes of one young lady; and HELLBENT, the third installment in Gregg Hurwitz's Orphan X series, featuring government assassin gone rogue Evan Smoak.
Among our nonfiction highlights are PROMISE ME, DAD, Joe Biden’s deeply moving memoir that chronicles the year following his son Beau’s devastating diagnosis of a malignant brain tumor that ultimately took his life in May 2015; Lawrence O'Donnell's PLAYING WITH FIRE, an important and enthralling account of the 1968 presidential election, the race that created American politics as we know it today; and BREAKING FREE, a searing memoir by the daughter of Warren Jeffs, the self-proclaimed Prophet of the FLDS Church, who takes you deep inside the secretive polygamist Mormon fundamentalist cult run by her family and how she escaped it.
Find out what's New in Paperback for the weeks of
November 5th, November 12th, November 19th and November 26th.
Bookreporter.com Bets On:
FAMILY TRUST by Kathy Wang and A CLOUD IN
THE SHAPE OF A GIRL by Jean Thompson
FAMILY TRUST by Kathy Wang (Fiction)
In FAMILY TRUST by Kathy Wang, Stanley Huang is dying of pancreatic cancer. He has an ex-wife, Linda; a new wife, Mary; a son, Fred; and a daughter, Kate. All of them are wondering, What’s in the trust? Stanley has talked about his wealth for years, but these days he is being so vague. The entire family is dancing around the topic, plotting their lives as millionaires, but Stanley is so tight-lipped. Why is he not talking more about his fortune?
- Click here to read a review on Bookreporter.com.
Click here to read more of Carol's commentary on FAMILY TRUST.
A CLOUD IN THE SHAPE OF A GIRL by Jean Thompson (Fiction)
A CLOUD IN THE SHAPE OF A GIRL by Jean Thompson follows three generations of women in the Wise family --- Evelyn, Laura and Grace --- who live in a small Midwestern college town. They navigate their lives trailing emotional baggage from generation to generation. I love how the story unwrapped and their messy imperfect lives slid together. There are choices made and not made --- and each has consequences.
- Click here to read a review on Bookreporter.com.
- Click here to read an interview with Jean Thompson.
Click here to read more of Carol's commentary on
A CLOUD IN THE SHAPE OF A GIRL.
Announcing Bookreporter.com’s
Holiday Cheer Contests and Feature
At Bookreporter.com, we kick off the holiday season in style with our Holiday Cheer Contests and Feature. As our gift to you, on select days in November and December, we are spotlighting a book and giving five lucky readers the chance to win it. You have to visit the site each day to see the featured prize book and enter the 24-hour contest. As always, we are sending our special Holiday Cheer newsletter on the days when there are contests. Click here to sign up for these email alerts.
Our first prize book will be announced on Tuesday, November 13th at noon ET.
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"
We currently are featuring the following guides on ReadingGroupGuides.com:
ALASKAN HOLIDAY by Debbie Macomber (Romance)
Debbie Macomber brings us to the Alaskan wilderness for a magical Christmas tale about finding love where it’s least expected.
A CLOUD IN THE SHAPE OF A GIRL by Jean Thompson (Fiction)
From the National Book Award finalist and the New York Times bestselling author of THE YEAR WE LEFT HOME comes a moving family saga about three generations of women who struggle to find freedom and happiness in their small Midwestern college town.
THE EXTRAORDINARY LIFE OF SAM HELL by Robert Dugoni (Fiction)
Wall Street Journal and New York Times bestselling author Robert Dugoni’s coming-of-age story is, according to Booklist, “a novel that, if it doesn’t cross entirely over into John Irving territory, certainly nestles in close to the border.”
THE LIBRARY BOOK by Susan Orlean (Social History)
Susan Orlean, one of our most esteemed journalists and authors, turns her keen powers of observation and narrative gifts to the overlooked, underreported saga of the 1986 fire that ravaged the Los Angeles Public Library.
LISTEN TO THE MARRIAGE by John Jay Osborn (Fiction)
Unfolding over the course of 10 months and taking place entirely in the marriage counselor’s office, LISTEN TO THE MARRIAGE is about a married couple on the brink of divorce and a marriage counselor trying to save their family.
ONCE A MIDWIFE: A Hope River Novel by Patricia Harman (Historical Fiction)
Patricia Harman returns to the Appalachian Mountains of Hope River, West Virginia, in the third novel in her USA Today bestselling Hope River series.
A SPARK OF LIGHT by Jodi Picoult (Fiction)
A SPARK OF LIGHT, the instant #1 New York Times bestseller from the author of SMALL GREAT THINGS, is a powerful and provocative new novel about ordinary lives that intersect during a heart-stopping crisis.
THE WIFE BETWEEN US by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen (Psychological Thriller)
Twisted and deliciously chilling, Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen's THE WIFE BETWEEN US exposes the secret complexities of an enviable marriage --- and the dangerous truths we ignore in the name of love.
THE WITCH ELM by Tana French (Thriller)
From the writer who “inspires cultic devotion in readers” (The New Yorker), and has been called “incandescent” by Stephen King, “absolutely mesmerizing” by Gillian Flynn, and “unputdownable” (People), comes a gripping new novel that turns a crime story inside out.
Our Latest Poll: Which Book-Group Favorite Authors
Have You Read with Your Group?
We have listed a number of authors who have been favorites among book groups. Have you read any of their books with your group? Let us know by checking all that apply.
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Mitch Albom
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Fredrik Backman
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Chris Bohjalian
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Anthony Doerr
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Jennifer Egan
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Louise Erdrich
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Jamie Ford
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Kristin Hannah
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Ann Hood
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Christina Baker Kline
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Min Jin Lee
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Debbie Macomber
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Paula McLain
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Celeste Ng
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Jodi Picoult
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Lisa See
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Elizabeth Strout
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Amor Towles
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Adriana Trigiani
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Lisa Wingate
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None of these
Click here to vote in the poll by Wednesday, January 9th at noon ET.
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