You’ll get recommendations for the best books to discuss in your book clubs. From buzzy new releases to brilliant throwbacks, the books highlighted in this newsletter will drive your book club discussions. We’ll also share some book club-friendly recipes and interesting bookish updates from all over. In other words, we’ll keep you well-met, well-read, and well-fed.
The best new mysteries to read with your book club this fall have Black Texas Rangers, dark academia, 1920s Washington, D.C., and more.
The best book club books of September include a dark academia novel, an Indigenous memoir, romance in Vietnam, and more.
The most popular book club books of August include everything from classic retellings to romatasy to historical mysteries.
Get your book clubs ready for books by Ta-Nehisi Coates, Haruki Murakami, Sally Rooney, and others, all out this fall.
"One thing that will become apparent as you read through this list is how rebellious book clubs can be."
The best new nonfiction for your book club includes an Indigenous memoir, compassionate true crime, a Black legend's biography, and more.
August's best book club books include El Salvadorian oracles, a freedom to read memoir/manifesto, and even hoochie mamas in Europe.
Read these sci-fi and fantasy books with your book club, and encounter magic-wielding femmes, time-traveling romance, and more.
The most popular book club books for summer book clubs, according to the Indie Next List, includes debuts, thrillers, sci-fi, and more.
These short story collections — which follow Cambodian Americans in California, and life during Jim Crow — are perfect for book clubs.