Category Book Club Picks

A Lesson Before Dying Ernest J. Gaines Historical Fiction A Lesson Before Dying is set in a small Cajun community in the late 1940s. Jefferson, a young black man, is an unwitting party to a liquor store shoot out in…

Mad Honey Jennifer and Finney Boylan  Fiction Olivia McAfee knows what it feels like to start over. Her picture-perfect life—living in Boston, married to a brilliant cardiothoracic surgeon, raising their beautiful son, Asher—was upended when her husband revealed a darker…

The Vanishing Half Brit Bennett Historical Fiction The Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. But after growing up together in a small, southern black community and running away at age sixteen, it’s not just the shape of their daily…

Sister Of My Heart Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Fiction/Historical Fiction Anju is the daughter of an upper-caste Calcutta family of distinction. Her cousin Sudha is the daughter of the black sheep of that same family. Sudha is startlingly beautiful; Anju is…

Blue Sisters 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…

Remarkably Bright Creatures Shelby Van Pelt Fiction/Book Club Books  After Tova Sullivan’s husband died, she began working the night shift at the Sowell Bay Aquarium, mopping floors and tidying up. Keeping busy has always helped her cope, which she’s been…