Category Book Club Picks

Sandwich Catherine Newman Fiction For the past two decades, Rocky has looked forward to her family’s yearly escape to Cape Cod. Their humble beach-town rental has been the site of sweet memories, sunny days, great meals, and messes of all…

Pack Up the Moon Kristan Higgins  Romance They used to joke about her “honey do” lists. He just never realized how much he would need one when she was gone. Being a widower is not something Joshua Park ever expected.…

Magic Hour Kristin Hannah Fiction In the rugged Pacific Northwest lies the Olympic National Forest—nearly a million acres of impenetrable darkness and impossible beauty. From deep within this old growth forest, a six-year-old girl appears. Speechless and alone, she offers…

House Rules Jodi Picoult Autism Spectrum Disorder  When your son can’t look you in the eye . . . does that mean he’s guilty?  Jacob Hunt is a teen with Asperger’s syndrome. He’s hopeless at reading social cues or expressing…

Homegoing Yaa Gyasi Historical Fiction One of Oprah’s Best Books of the Year, Homegoing follows the parallel paths of these sisters and their descendants through eight generations: from the Gold Coast to the plantations of Mississippi, from the American Civil…

Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe Fannie Flag Historical Fiction Folksy and fresh, endearing and affecting, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe is a now-classic novel about two women: Evelyn, who’s in the sad slump of…

Hamnet Maggie O’Farrell Historical Fiction England, 1580: The Black Death creeps across the land, an ever-present threat, infecting the healthy, the sick, the old and the young alike. The end of days is near, but life always goes on.  A…

Everything is Illuminated Safran Foer Historical Fiction With only a yellowing photograph in hand, a young man—also named Jonathan Safran Foer—sets out to find the woman who might or might not have saved his grandfather from the Nazis.  Accompanied by…

A Man Called Ove Fredrik Backman  Fiction Meet Ove. He’s a curmudgeon—the kind of man who points at people he dislikes as if they were burglars caught outside his bedroom window. He has staunch principles, strict routines, and a short…

Everything I Never Told You Celeste Ng Historical Fiction Lydia is dead. But they don’t know this yet. So begins this exquisite novel about a Chinese American family living in 1970s small-town Ohio. Lydia is the favorite child of Marilyn…