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A Book Discussion with an Author to Kick Off Fall!
Last week, my book group had a brilliant discussion about THE LION WOMEN OF TEHRAN with Marjan Kamali. We all loved the book, and having Marjan as part of the discussion answering questions was special. If you would like to have her join your group's discussion about the book, please write her to check her availability.
We also talked about the recipe booklet available on the book group discussion page of Marjan's website that includes some of the dishes described in the book, including a Persian Ice Cream that just sounds fabulous. I regret not preparing it for our meeting. There also was talk of her previous book, THE STATIONERY SHOP, which some of us had read.
I will be interviewing Marjan at the Morristown Festival of Books in Morristown, New Jersey, on Saturday, October 19th. If you are there, please come up and say hi.
For next month, we decided we wanted something light, so we are reading HUSBANDS & LOVERS by Beatriz Williams. Beyond that, as everyone in my book group except me has at least one young child, we also are talking about reading THE ANXIOUS GENERATION: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness by Jonathan Haidt. At every meeting, we seem to have a discussion about children and electronics. I confess that I am glad my youngest son is almost 30!
"Bookaccino Live" Book Group is Back!
I am thrilled to announce that Shelley Read will be our next “Bookaccino Live” Book Group guest. The event will be held next Tuesday, September 24th at 8pm ET, and you can sign up here for it. We will talk about her internationally bestselling debut novel, GO AS A RIVER, which was a Bookreporter.com Bets On pick when it released last year. Set amid Colorado’s wild beauty, this heartbreaking coming-of-age story is about a resilient young woman whose life is changed forever by one chance encounter.
There will be a two-part Q&A session after I talk to Shelley. For the first part, those who are asking a question on camera will be featured. This includes spending time with Shelley backstage in our virtual green room before the show starts. If you would like to ask your question "live on screen" this way, please email me with the subject line "Shelley" by noon ET on September 24th. Be sure to include your name, city and state, as well as your question. If you do not want to appear on camera but still would like to ask a question, please note that you want to be off camera, and share your question --- adding your name, city and state.
We are featuring the discussion guide for GO AS A RIVER this month, and be sure to take a look at our Bookreporter review if you missed it last year. When I saw Shelley in Colorado last month, we talked about doing this program. I am so happy that the timing worked out!
This is your last Reading Group Guides newsletter reminder to sign up for our special Fall Preview evening event TOMORROW, Wednesday, September 18th at 8pm ET.
I will be presenting a number of books releasing this fall that we think you will enjoy reading over the next few months. You can register for the program by clicking here. We have a fabulous lineup of titles, and I look forward to sharing them with you!
It was announced last week that TELL ME EVERYTHING is the latest Oprah’s Book Club selection. Elizabeth Strout returns to the town of Crosby, Maine, and to her beloved cast of characters ---- Lucy Barton, Olive Kitteridge, Bob Burgess and more --- as they deal with a shocking crime in their midst, fall in love yet choose to be apart, and grapple with the question, as Lucy puts it, “What does anyone’s life mean?”
Oprah says, “Elizabeth Strout welcomes us home again, back to the small town where we witness the interconnection of all the characters we’ve ever loved in her previous novels. It’s a beautiful read reminding us that there is extraordinary love in ordinary actions.” And she points out, “You don’t need to read Strout’s previous work because everything you’ll need to know is contained within the pages of this marvelous book.”
Strout recently appeared on “CBS Mornings” with Oprah to talk about the book. Click here to watch the segment. If you would like to read along with Oprah’s Book Club, you can do so by following the schedule on this page. Also, the publisher has provided these questions to help guide your discussion of the book, and our review on Bookreporter is here.
If you knew your future, would you try to fight fate? This intriguing question lies at the heart of Liane Moriarty’s latest novel, HERE ONE MOMENT.
Aside from a delay, there will be no problems. The flight will be smooth and will land safely. Everyone who gets on the plane will get off. But almost all of them will be forever changed. Because on this ordinary, short, domestic flight, something extraordinary happens. People learn how and when they are going to die. If you were told you only had a certain amount of time left to live, would you do things differently? Would you try to dodge your destiny? Click here for the guide and here for our Bookreporter review.
I devoured HERE ONE MOMENT in a day, so naturally it will be a Bets On selection. Don’t miss my commentary in the next newsletter. But in the meantime, you can read some of my initial thoughts about the book in my opening note from the September 6th Bookreporter Weekly Update newsletter. I look forward to seeing Liane in conversation with Ann Napolitano this Saturday at a BookTowne event in Manasquan, NJ. If you are there, please say hi!
Four years after the release of his worldwide bestseller and book club favorite, THE MIDNIGHT LIBRARY, Matt Haig is back with his highly anticipated new novel, THE LIFE IMPOSSIBLE. The book centers on Grace Winters, a retired teacher and widow whose life seems to be shrinking by the day. But when a bequest in the will of a long-lost friend gives her a house on the Mediterranean island of Ibiza, her solitary existence changes in an instant. She embarks on a wild adventure that will put her face-to-face with life’s biggest mysteries and her own past.
Ray Palen raves about the book in his review on Bookreporter: “THE LIFE IMPOSSIBLE by the endlessly talented Matt Haig is not a novel to be read and enjoyed. It is a work of art that readers need to wrap themselves inside of and savor every last delectable piece…. [T]he journey you are about to take by opening the book’s cover…guarantees that the next several hours of your life will be absorbed in an unexplainable glow that attempts to make you understand things just a little better than you do now.” You can access the guide here.
Steeped in rich historical detail, Dr. Eliza Edwards, the ingénue student in THE UNLOCKED PATH, becomes the mature mentor, steadfast in her calling to effect social change by addressing women’s health issues and guiding others to realize their dreams. In 1936, as the Depression ravages careers, Eliza redefines her abilities, traveling to Georgia and Tennessee as she reclaims her purpose and rediscovers her ambitions. Returning to Boston, she endures heartbreak with the eruption of World War II, bringing chaos to the world and sending her sons into battle. Will her unyielding pursuit to limit suffering and save lives sustain her amid the tumultuous landscapes of 1930s and 1940s America?
Be sure to take a look at our Featured Guide page, which has links to discussion questions, a book club kit, an excerpt, critical praise and more.
We also have added guides for these three books:
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BLUE SISTERS: Coco Mellors’ new novel is September’s “Read with Jenna” Today Show Book Club pick. In it, three estranged siblings return to their family home in New York after their beloved sister’s death. Jenna says, “I grew up with a mother and grandmother who read LITTLE WOMEN to me, which is about a strong group of sisters. Not since then has a book about sisterhood stuck with me as much as Coco Mellors’ BLUE SISTERS.”
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THE COMFORT OF CROWS: A Backyard Year: Margaret Renkl’s literary devotional is the 100th Reese’s Book Club pick. Reese calls the book “a beautiful love letter to nature and the world around us. Divided into 52 chapters, it follows the creatures and plants in Margaret’s backyard over the course of a year, capturing both the joy of nature’s ongoing pleasures and the grief of fleeting moments.”
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THE HAUNTING OF MOSCOW HOUSE: Set in post-revolutionary Russia, Olesya Salnikova Gilmore’s latest novel is a gothic horror tale that centers on two formerly aristocratic sisters who race to uncover their family’s long-buried secrets in a house haunted by a past that is dangerous --- and deadly --- to remember.
COLORED TELEVISION, Danzy Senna’s latest novel, is this month’s Barnes & Noble Book Club selection and “Good Morning America” Book Club pick.
Jane and her family are living in luxury for a year, house-sitting in the hills above Los Angeles. The gig magically coincides with Jane’s sabbatical, giving her the time and space she needs to finish her second novel --- a centuries-spanning epic that her artist husband, Lenny, dubs her “mulatto WAR AND PEACE.” But things don’t work out quite as hoped. Desperate for a plan B, Jane turns her gaze to Hollywood. When she finagles a meeting with Hampton Ford, a hot producer with a major development deal at a streaming network, he seems excited to work with a “real writer,” and together they begin to develop “the Jackie Robinson of biracial comedies.” Things finally seem to be going right for Jane --- until they go terribly wrong.
On Tuesday, October 1st at 3pm ET, B&N will host a live virtual event with Danzy Senna, which you can sign up for here. In the meantime, don’t miss our review on Bookreporter.
For more September selections, including the Indie Next and LibraryReads lists, see our “Favorite Monthly Lists & Picks” feature here.
Our Most Popular Book Group Selections from August’s Monthly Contest
In our most recent “What’s Your Book Group Reading This Month?” contest, where we gave away copies of TOMORROW, AND TOMORROW, AND TOMORROW by Gabrielle Zevin, here are the five books mentioned most frequently by book groups that they have read: THE WOMEN by Kristin Hannah, THE BERRY PICKERS by Amanda Peters, THE HEAVEN & EARTH GROCERY STORE by James McBride, TOM LAKE by Ann Patchett, and DEMON COPPERHEAD by Barbara Kingsolver. Scroll further down the newsletter to see the Top 15.
We hosted this month’s “Bookaccino Live” book preview afternoon event last Wednesday. I talked about 34 books releasing between now and October 1st, plus nine from November, that we wanted to get on your radar. You can watch the presentation here and see a list of the featured titles here.
Next month's “Bookaccino Live” book preview event will take place on Wednesday, October 9th at 2pm ET. The focus will be on titles releasing between October 8th and November 5th, in addition to a few from December, that we think will appeal to you. Click here to sign up.
Just like we’re doing for attendees of tomorrow evening’s Fall Preview event, those who join us live will be asked to answer a survey about the books from the presentation that they are most interested in reading and will be eligible to win a prize.
Have a fabulous discussion with your group this month!
Carol Fitzgerald ([email protected])
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New Guide: TELL ME EVERYTHING by Elizabeth Strout
Oprah’s Latest Book Club Pick
TELL ME EVERYTHING by Elizabeth Strout (Fiction)
It’s autumn in Maine, and the town lawyer Bob Burgess has become enmeshed in an unfolding murder investigation, defending a lonely, isolated man accused of killing his mother. He also has fallen into a deep and abiding friendship with the acclaimed writer Lucy Barton, who lives down the road in a house by the sea with her ex-husband, William. Together, Lucy and Bob go on walks and talk about their lives, their fears and regrets, and what might have been. Lucy, meanwhile, is finally introduced to the iconic Olive Kitteridge, now living in a retirement community on the edge of town. They spend afternoons together in Olive’s apartment, telling each other stories. Stories about people they have known --- “unrecorded lives,” Olive calls them --- reanimating them, and, in the process, imbuing their lives with meaning.
- Click here to read more about the book.
- Click here to read an excerpt.
- Click here to read our review on Bookreporter.com.
- Click here to see why the book is Oprah's latest Book Club pick.
Click here for the discussion guide.
New Guide: HERE ONE MOMENT by Liane Moriarty
An Upcoming Bookreporter.com Bets On Pick
HERE ONE MOMENT by Liane Moriarty (Fiction)
Aside from a delay, there will be no problems. The flight will be smooth, it will land safely. Everyone who gets on the plane will get off. But almost all of them will be forever changed. Because on this ordinary, short, domestic flight, something extraordinary happens. People learn how and when they are going to die. For some, their death is far in the future --- age 103! --- and they laugh. But for six passengers, their predicted deaths are not far away at all. If you were told you only had a certain amount of time left to live, would you do things differently? Would you try to dodge your destiny?
- Click here to read more about the book.
- Click here to read an excerpt.
- Click here to read our review on Bookreporter.com.
Click here for the discussion guide.
HERE ONE MOMENT will be a Bookreporter.com Bets On pick.
Don't miss Carol's commentary in the next newsletter.
New Guide: THE LIFE IMPOSSIBLE by Matt Haig
THE LIFE IMPOSSIBLE by Matt Haig (Fiction)
When retired math teacher Grace Winters is left a run-down house on a Mediterranean island by a long-lost friend, curiosity gets the better of her. She arrives in Ibiza with a one-way ticket, no guidebook and no plan. Among the rugged hills and golden beaches of the island, Grace searches for answers about her friend’s life and how it ended. What she uncovers is stranger than she ever could have dreamed. But to dive into this impossible truth, Grace must first come to terms with her past.
- Click here to read more about the book.
- Click here to read our review on Bookreporter.com.
Click here for the discussion guide.
New Featured Guide: THE PATH BENEATH HER FEET
by Janis Robinson Daly
THE PATH BENEATH HER FEET by Janis Robinson Daly (Historical Fiction)
In 1936, as the Depression ravages careers, Eliza redefines her abilities. When a position calls her to Warm Springs, Georgia, to tend to a polio patient, Eliza faces the harsh realities of a society plagued by prejudice. Mirroring the packhorse librarians’ mission to bring books to the illiterate communities of Appalachia, the American Women's Hospitals delivers essential medical care.
Eliza joins the AWH, reclaiming her purpose and rediscovering her ambitions against the backdrop of the Tennessee mountains. As family responsibilities call her home to Boston, the heartbreak of losing those dearest to her amplifies with the eruption of World War II, bringing chaos to the world and sending her sons into battle.
In this emotionally charged sequel to THE UNLOCKED PATH, Dr. Eliza Edwards marks her journey through sacrifice, love and an unyielding pursuit of justice in an era marked by adversity. The ingénue student becomes the mature mentor, steadfast in her calling to effect social change by addressing women’s health issues and guiding others to realize their dreams.
» A book club kit, which includes recipes for dishes mentioned in the book, can be found here on Janis Robinson Daly’s website. Janis is also available to join book clubs for an author chat, in-person or over Zoom. Contact her through her website.
Click here for the featured guide, which includes
discussion questions, an excerpt, critical praise and more.
New Guide: GO AS A RIVER by Shelley Read
September's "Bookaccino Live" Book Group Title
and a Bookreporter.com Bets On Pick
GO AS A RIVER by Shelley Read (Fiction)
Seventeen-year-old Victoria Nash runs the household on her family’s peach farm in the small ranch town of Iola, Colorado. Wilson Moon is a young drifter with a mysterious past, displaced from his tribal land. Victoria encounters Wil by chance on a street corner, a meeting that profoundly alters both of their young lives, unknowingly igniting as much passion as danger. When tragedy strikes, Victoria leaves the only life she has ever known. She flees into the surrounding mountains where she struggles to survive in the wilderness with no clear notion of what her future will bring. As the seasons change, she also charts the changes in herself, finding in the beautiful but harsh landscape the meaning and strength to move forward and rebuild all that she has lost, even as the Gunnison River threatens to submerge her homeland.
- Click here to read more about the book.
- Click here to read an excerpt.
- Click here to read our review on Bookreporter.com.
- Click here to read Carol's Bookreporter.com Bets On commentary.
- Click here to watch our "Bookreporter Talks To" interview with Shelley Read.
- Click here to listen to a podcast of the interview.
Click here to sign up for our "Bookaccino Live" Book Group event
with Shelley Read on Tuesday, September 24th at 8pm ET.
Click here for the discussion guide.
New Guide: BLUE SISTERS by Coco Mellors
September’s “Read with Jenna”
Today Show Book Club Pick
BLUE SISTERS by Coco Mellors (Fiction)
The three Blue sisters are exceptional --- and exceptionally different. Avery, the eldest and a recovering heroin addict turned strait-laced lawyer, lives with her wife in London; Bonnie, a former boxer, works as a bouncer in Los Angeles following a devastating defeat; and Lucky, the youngest, models in Paris while trying to outrun her hard-partying ways. They also had a fourth sister, Nicky, whose unexpected death left the family reeling. A year later, as they each navigate grief, addiction and ambition, they find they must return to New York to stop the sale of the apartment in which they were raised. As the sisters reckon with the disappointments of their childhood and the loss of the only person who held them together, they realize that the greatest secrets they’ve been keeping might not have been from one another but from themselves.
- Click here to read more about the book.
- Click here to see why the book is this month's "Read with Jenna" pick.
Click here for the discussion guide.
New Guide: THE COMFORT OF CROWS by Margaret Renkl
Reese’s Book Club Pick for September
THE COMFORT OF CROWS: A Backyard Year by Margaret Renkl (Memoir/Essays)
In THE COMFORT OF CROWS, Margaret Renkl presents a literary devotional: 52 chapters that follow the creatures and plants in her backyard over the course of a year. As we move through the seasons --- from a crow spied on New Year’s Day, its resourcefulness and sense of community setting a theme for the year, to the lingering bluebirds of December, revisiting the nest box they used in spring --- what develops is a portrait of joy and grief: joy in the ongoing pleasures of the natural world, and grief over winters that end too soon and songbirds that grow fewer and fewer. Along the way, we also glimpse the changing rhythms of a human life.
- Click here to read more about the book.
- Click here to read our review on Bookreporter.com.
- Click here to visit the Reese's Book Club website.
Click here for the discussion guide.
New Guide: THE HAUNTING OF MOSCOW HOUSE
by Olesya Salnikova Gilmore
THE HAUNTING OF MOSCOW HOUSE by Olesya Salnikova Gilmore
(Gothic Horror/Historical Mystery)
It is the summer of 1921, and a group of Bolsheviks have taken over Irina and Lili Goliteva’s ancestral home in Moscow. The remaining members of their family are ordered to move into the cramped attic, while the officials take over an entire wing of grand rooms downstairs. The sisters know they must forget their noble upbringing to make their way in this new Soviet Russia. But the house begins to whisper of a traumatic past not as dead as they thought. Eager to escape it and their unwelcome new landlords, Irina and Lili find jobs with the recently arrived American Relief Administration. But at home, the spirits of their deceased family awaken, desperate to impart what really happened to them during the Revolution. Soon one of the officials living in the house is found dead. Was his death caused by something supernatural, or by someone all too human?
- Click here to read more about the book.
- Click here to read an excerpt.
- Click here to read our review on Bookreporter.com.
- Click here to visit Olesya Salnikova Gilmore's website.
Click here for the discussion guide.
Favorite Monthly Lists & Picks for September
Each month, we share top book picks from Indie Next and LibraryReads. We also feature a number of other prominent selections, including the Barnes & Noble Book Club, the "Good Morning America" Book Club, Oprah’s Book Club, the PBS Books Readers Club, the "Read with Jenna" Today Show Book Club, Reese's Book Club, and the Target Book Club.
Below is a preview of September's "Favorite Monthly Lists & Picks." For the complete Indie Next and LibraryReads lists, as well as additional links pertaining to this month's selections, please click here.
Indie Next
#1 Pick: CREATION LAKE by Rachel Kushner
COLORED TELEVISION by Danzy Senna
SOMEWHERE BEYOND THE SEA by TJ Klune
TELL ME EVERYTHING by Elizabeth Strout
BLUE SISTERS by Coco Mellors
LibraryReads
Top Pick: THE NIGHT GUEST written by Hildur Knútsdóttir, translated by Mary Robinette Kowal
THE BOOK SWAP by Tessa Bickers
A KID FROM MARLBORO ROAD by Edward Burns
SKY FULL OF ELEPHANTS by Cebo Campbell
AN ACADEMY FOR LIARS by Alexis Henderson
Barnes & Noble Book Club
COLORED TELEVISION by Danzy Senna
"Good Morning America" Book Club
COLORED TELEVISION by Danzy Senna
Oprah's Book Club
TELL ME EVERYTHING by Elizabeth Strout
PBS Books Readers Club
THE CEMETERY OF UNTOLD STORIES by Julia Alvarez
"Read with Jenna" Today Show Book Club
BLUE SISTERS by Coco Mellors
Reese's Book Club
THE COMFORT OF CROWS: A Backyard Year by Margaret Renkl
Target Book Club
WHERE THEY LAST SAW HER by Marcie R. Rendon
Our Most Popular Book Group Selections from August's
"What's Your Book Group Reading This Month?" Contest
Bookreporter.com Bets On:
SPIRIT CROSSING by William Kent Krueger
SPIRIT CROSSING by William Kent Krueger (Mystery)
While I have not read all 20 titles in the Cork O’Connor series, I have thoroughly enjoyed those that I have read. William Kent Krueger has a knack for delivering a new plot while also bringing in enough backstory that a newcomer does not feel lost. Just as importantly, he does not overwrite the backstory for longtime readers.
SPIRIT CROSSING, the latest installment, takes on an issue that I have so many thoughts on --- the marginalization of Native American women, especially when it comes to kidnapping, sex trafficking and murder. Here, the daughter of a prominent Minnesota politician has gone missing, and there is an active manhunt underway to find her. At the same time, Native American women have been disappearing, but the same tactics are not undertaken to find them.
- Click here to read more about the book.
- Click here to read an excerpt.
- Click here to read our review on Bookreporter.com.
- Click here to visit William Kent Krueger's website.
Click here to read more of Carol's Bets On commentary.
Bookreporter.com’s 14th Annual
Fall Reading Contests and Feature
Fall is known as the biggest season of the year for books. The titles that release during this latter part of the year often become holiday gifts, and many are blockbusters. In Bookreporter.com's Fall Reading Contests and Feature, we are spotlighting a number of outstanding books that we know people will be talking about this fall.
We are hosting a series of 24-hour contests for these titles on select days through October, so you will have to check the site each day to see the featured prize book and enter to win. 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.
From left to right: Shelley Read, Jodi Picoult, Willy Vlautin
Upcoming Virtual Book and Author Events
Here are eight upcoming virtual book and author events that you may be interested in attending. Click on the links for more info and to register.
Tuesday, September 17th at 10pm ET: The Poisoned Pen Bookstore: Willy Vlautin will talk about his latest book, THE HORSE, a poignant novel --- his most personal to date --- that captures the life of a journeyman musician who is unable to escape the tragedies of his past.
Wednesday, September 18th at 7pm ET: "Friends and Fiction": The "Friends and Fiction" authors --- Mary Kay Andrews, Kristin Harmel, Kristy Woodson Harvey and Patti Callahan Henry --- will talk to Jodi Picoult about her new novel, BY ANY OTHER NAME, which is the F&F Pick of the Month.
Wednesday, September 18th at 8pm ET: "Bookaccino Live" Fall Preview Event: Carol Fitzgerald will talk about a number of books releasing this fall that we think you will enjoy reading over the next few months. Included will be fiction; historical fiction; thrillers and mysteries; and memoirs, biographies and other nonfiction.
Monday, September 23rd at 3pm ET: Barnes & Noble: Join Barnes & Noble as they welcome internationally bestselling author Stephanie Wrobel for a live virtual discussion of her suspenseful new novel, THE HITCHCOCK HOTEL, as part of their B&N Midday Mystery Virtual Event series. Stephanie will be in conversation with the author of BLOOD SISTERS, Vanessa Lillie.
Tuesday, September 24th at 8pm ET: "Bookaccino Live" Book Group: Carol Fitzgerald will talk to Shelley Read about her international bestseller, GO AS A RIVER, which is a Bookreporter.com Bets On pick. Shelley also will answer questions from guests who will be "on stage," as well as from other members of the audience.
Tuesday, September 24th at 9pm ET: Killer Author Club: Kimberly Belle, Heather Gudenkauf and Kaira Rouda will talk to Danielle Trussoni about her new novel, THE PUZZLE BOX, in which the world’s greatest puzzle master has 24 hours to solve the most dangerous mystery of his life...or die trying.
Wednesday, September 25th at 7pm ET: "Friends and Fiction": The "Friends and Fiction" authors will talk to Liane Moriarty about her new novel, HERE ONE MOMENT, a brilliantly constructed tale that looks at free will and destiny, grief and love, and the endless struggle to maintain certainty and control in an uncertain world.
Friday, September 27th at 1pm ET: The Poisoned Pen Bookstore: Joël Dicker will talk to special guest host Hank Phillippi Ryan about his new novel, THE ALASKA SANDERS AFFAIR, which is set both before and after the events of his phenomenal worldwide bestseller, THE TRUTH ABOUT THE HARRY QUEBERT AFFAIR.
"Bookreporter Talks To" Videos & Podcasts
“Bookreporter Talks To” is a video and podcast series that delivers a long-form, in-depth author interview every week. For years, Carol has moderated book festivals and author events around the country. But we know that readers often do not live where they can attend an author event. Our goal is to bring these author interviews to readers, wherever they may be. Watch on video, or listen as a podcast. (The podcasts include audio excerpts.)
Here are our latest interviews:
Other authors we've interviewed this year include:
Upcoming interviews include:
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Laura Dave (THE LAST THING HE TOLD ME)
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Jean Hanff Korelitz (THE SEQUEL)
Click here for a complete list of our
"Bookreporter Talks To" videos and podcasts.
We currently are featuring the following guides on ReadingGroupGuides.com:
BLUE SISTERS by Coco Mellors (Fiction)
Three estranged siblings return to their family home in New York after their beloved sister’s death in this unforgettable story of grief, hope and the complexities of family.
BY ANY OTHER NAME by Jodi Picoult (Historical Fiction)
From the New York Times bestselling co-author of MAD HONEY comes an “inspiring” (Elle) novel about two women, centuries apart --- one of whom is the real author of Shakespeare’s plays --- who are both forced to hide behind another name.
CADENZA by Justin Courter (Fiction)
With brutal honesty and layered storytelling, CADENZA makes Jennifer Coleman’s progress as a pianist and composer read like a mystery novel. Bold characters and personal tragedies emerge as it becomes clear that Jennifer is a force of nature that can be stopped by no one but herself.
THE COMFORT OF CROWS: A Backyard Year by Margaret Renkl (Memoir/Essays)
In THE COMFORT OF CROWS, Margaret Renkl presents a literary devotional: 52 chapters that follow the creatures and plants in her backyard over the course of a year.
THE DAYS I LOVED YOU MOST by Amy Neff (Fiction)
Unforgettable and utterly romantic, THE DAYS I LOVED YOU MOST is a heart-wrenching, life-affirming novel that asks: How much would you sacrifice for the one you love?
GO AS A RIVER by Shelley Read (Fiction)
Set amid Colorado’s wild beauty, GO AS A RIVER is a heartbreaking coming-of-age story of a resilient young woman whose life is changed forever by one chance encounter.
THE HAUNTING OF MOSCOW HOUSE by Olesya Salnikova Gilmore
(Gothic Horror/Historical Mystery)
In this elegant gothic horror tale set in post-revolutionary Russia, two formerly aristocratic sisters race to uncover their family’s long-buried secrets in a house haunted by a past that is dangerous --- and deadly --- to remember.
HERE ONE MOMENT by Liane Moriarty (Fiction)
If you were told you only had a certain amount of time left to live, would you do things differently? Would you try to dodge your destiny?
THE LIFE IMPOSSIBLE by Matt Haig (Fiction)
Filled with wonder and wild adventure, THE LIFE IMPOSSIBLE is a story of hope and the life-changing power of a new beginning.
LONG ISLAND COMPROMISE by Taffy Brodesser-Akner (Fiction)
From the New York Times bestselling author of FLEISHMAN IS IN TROUBLE comes an exhilarating novel about one American family, the dark moment that shatters their suburban paradise, and the wild legacy of trauma and inheritance.
THE PATH BENEATH HER FEET by Janis Robinson Daly (Historical Fiction)
In this emotionally charged sequel to THE UNLOCKED PATH, THE PATH BENEATH HER FEET continues the story of Dr. Eliza Edwards’ commitment to limit suffering and save lives amid the tumultuous landscapes of 1930s and 1940s America.
THE SEVENTH VEIL OF SALOME by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Historical Fiction)
A young woman wins the role of a lifetime in a film about a legendary heroine --- but the real drama is behind the scenes in this sumptuous historical epic from the author of MEXICAN GOTHIC.
SLOW DANCE by Rainbow Rowell (Romance)
SLOW DANCE is the story of two kids who fell in love before they knew enough about love to recognize it. Two friends who lost everything. Two adults who just feel lost.
TELL ME EVERYTHING by Elizabeth Strout (Fiction)
From Pulitzer Prize–winning author Elizabeth Strout comes a hopeful, healing novel about new friendships, old loves, and the very human desire to leave a mark on the world.
THE WEDDING PEOPLE by Alison Espach (Fiction/Humor)
By turns absurdly funny and devastatingly tender, Alison Espach’s THE WEDDING PEOPLE is a propulsive and uncommonly wise novel about one unexpected wedding guest and the surprising people who help her start anew.
Please note that these titles, for which we already had the guides when they appeared in hardcover, are now available in paperback:
AMAZING GRACE ADAMS by Fran Littlewood (Fiction)
Bernadette, Eleanor Oliphant, Rosie, Ove...meet AMAZING GRACE ADAMS, the funny, touching, unforgettable story of an invisible everywoman pushed to the brink --- who finally pushes back.
COLEMAN HILL by Kim Coleman Foote (Historical Fiction)
COLEMAN HILL is the exhilarating story of two American families whose fates become intertwined in the wake of the Great Migration. Braiding fact and fiction, it is a remarkable, character-rich tour de force exploring the ties that bind three generations.
DEMON COPPERHEAD by Barbara Kingsolver (Fiction)
From the New York Times bestselling author of UNSHELTERED and FLIGHT BEHAVIOR comes a brilliant novel that enthralls, compels and captures the heart as it evokes a young hero’s unforgettable journey to maturity.
THE LEFTOVER WOMAN by Jean Kwok (Domestic Thriller/Mystery)
From the New York Times bestselling author of SEARCHING FOR SYLVIE LEE and GIRL IN TRANSLATION comes an evocative family drama and a riveting mystery about the ferocious pull of motherhood for two very different women.
LET US DESCEND by Jesmyn Ward (Historical Fiction)
From Jesmyn Ward --- the two-time National Book Award winner, youngest winner of the Library of Congress Prize for Fiction, and MacArthur Fellow --- comes a haunting masterpiece, sure to be an instant classic, about an enslaved girl in the years before the Civil War.
THE LIST by Yomi Adegoke (Fiction)
In this sensational, page-turning debut novel, a high-profile female journalist’s world is upended when her fiancé’s name turns up in a viral social media post.
MOTHER-DAUGHTER MURDER NIGHT by Nina Simon (Mystery)
Nothing brings a family together like a murder next door. MOTHER-DAUGHTER MURDER NIGHT is a lighthearted whodunit about a grandmother-mother-daughter trio of amateur sleuths. Think "Gilmore Girls" but with murder.
THE MUSEUM OF FAILURES by Thrity Umrigar (Fiction)
From the bestselling author of THE SPACE BETWEEN US comes a powerful story about family secrets, a mother's power and the importance of forgiveness.
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